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IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2015
by Wong, Pak C 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group (http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group) is collaborating with ACT (http://act.org) this year to host the second IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest. If you are a student, teacher, or parent that cares about the state of today's education, if you think you have what it takes to solve the "perceived vs. actual student interest" mystery, please consider entering the 2015 Data Visualization Contest. The winner of the contest will receive, among other prizes, a chance to see their work being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts. --- Call for Participation, 2015 The IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/2015/index.html Contest Theme: Perceived vs. Actual Student Interest Collaborator and Support: ACT, Inc.<http://www.act.org/> DEADLINE: Friday, August 28, 2015 The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)<http://vgtc.org/> is sponsoring its second International Data-Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2015 contest theme is "Perceived vs. Actual Student Interest." The contest will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG)<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group> under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and in collaboration with ACT<http://www.act.org/>, Inc. (ACT is a non-profit organization in the education readiness assessment sector.) The awards will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2015<http://ieeevis.org/> conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2015 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. Contest Challenge: Perceived vs. Actual Student Interest The importance of selecting and pursuing a major or career that fits a student's interests and passions cannot be overstated. ACT's research has shown that over time, students tend to declare the same or similar majors in their first year of college as their indicated planned major. However, ACT also has data regarding students' measured-rather than self-reported-interests and has developed a "fit index" that can help accurately predict success based on their fit with selected or intended majors. VPG's contest challenge is to develop a visual representation of Interest Perceived vs. Actual data that helps to relate the complexities of how students' measured interests match with their indicated plans, declared majors, or their persistence into their sophomore year. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Which majors are most affected by the influx/outflux of students? * Which majors have had an increase or decrease in measured interest over time? * Which majors have experienced differences in follow-through of students over time? Interested parties can read relevant literature online, such as http://www.act.org/emtrends/12/interestmajor.html and start planning their contest entries. Contest Data * CSV data file<http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/2015/student_flow_aggregated_file.csv> * PDF File Summary<http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/2015/student_flow_aggregated_data_file_summa…> Eligibility All visualization and visual analytics designers, developers, researchers, and practitioners from business, academia, and government sectors around the world are eligible to participate. Submissions cannot promote a commercial product. Submission Limitation Contestants may be lead author on no more than three submissions to the 2015 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Contest packets must be received by 5 p.m. PDT on Friday, August 28, 2015 to qualify for the 2015 contest. Selection Procedure All active IEEE VPG members<http://vgtc.org/content/vpg-members> who do not make a submission to the contest will be invited to participate in the first-round review. The top contest submissions from this first-round review will undergo a second round of reviews conducted by five distinguished IEEE VPG members representing different backgrounds, who will be chosen jointly by the VGTC and VPG chairs. The five-member selection committee will thoroughly review and assess the top contest submissions. The chair of the selection committee will submit his or her recommendation for best visualization to the IEEE VGTC chair by Friday, Oct 16, 2015. Contest Award Along with a certificate, VPG will give a check for $100 USD to the winner in each of the following categories: 1. Most practical 2. Most original 3. One or more surprise categories in areas determined by the committee after reviewing the submissions. Submissions will be considered in all categories and may win more than one award. Perhaps most importantly, winners in all categories will have a chance to see their work being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts. Submission Details The 2015 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. Contest participants should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:ieeevpg@googlegroups.com>. The package must include: 1. A pdf file that contains: a. Title of the data-visualization contest submission b. Name, affiliation, email address, and postal address of the participant c. A 200-300 word description of the visualization written in English 2. A static visualization figure in jpg or png format. The size of the total submission package must be less than 10MB. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>.

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Research Scientist/Postdoctoral positions in Visualization for Healthcare at IBM Research
by Adam Perer 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

IBM Research in New York is currently hiring visualization researchers and post-docs interested in medical and healthcare data exploration. Information about the position and how to apply is available at: http://ibm.co/1tP8Nae Research Scientist and Post-doctoral Positions: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is looking for research scientists and post-docs with interest in the field of data visualization and visual analytics, to design next-generation user interfaces for making sense of big data, particularly in the healthcare domain. This position is based at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. The Research Scientist and Post-doc will be working alongside visualization, machine learning, and medical researchers performing cutting-edge research in data-driven medicine. The ideal candidate should possess or be nearing completion of a doctorate in computer science, human-computer interaction, or medical informatics with demonstrated experience in the use of visualization and visual analytics. In addition to being technically abreast of the literature and progress within the visualization research community, the researcher is expected to generate highly novel ideas and be involved in their execution and implementation. S/he is expected to contribute significantly to the team in developing new visualizations, leveraging big data from longitudinal electronic medical records, patient-controlled devices, and genomic data. The researcher should also have strong system design and development skills and should be able to deploy software services individually and as part of an extended team. Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team across multiple geographies is also important. The researcher is also expected to disseminate, externally and internally, the results of such activities through publications and seminars, and represent IBM at conferences and universities. More information about the position is available at: http://ibm.co/1tP8Nae Feel free to reach out directly for any questions. Adam Perer Healthcare Analytics Research Group IBM TJ Watson Research Center http://perer.org <http://perer.org/>

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Dexis 2015: Workshop on Visualization meets Interactive Surfaces
by Petra Isenberg 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS DEXIS 2015 Workshop on Visual Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces November 15, 2015 - Madeira, Portugal in conjunction with ITS 2015 http://aviz.fr/dexis2015 *** Submission Deadline: September 4, 2015 *** ************************************************************************ We invite you to join DEXIS 2015 - a workshop on Visual Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces, held in conjunction with ITS 2015 on the wonderful island of Madeira in Portugal on November 15, 2015. Objectives ---------- DEXIS 2015 focuses on the use of interactive surfaces for visual data exploration. Interactive tabletops and surfaces provide are more and more commonly used for data visualization and analysis, and hence offer rich opportunities to researchers and practitioners. They provide benefits in various ways, e.g., * data can be accessed and analyzed anywhere, any time (e.g., on tablets or on public displays), * novel visualization designs and interaction experiences contribute to richer user experience, promoting the use of visualization systems even to non-experts, and * data analysis is increasingly turning into a collaborative process, and interactive surfaces offer promising possibilities for computer- supported collaborative analysis. Despite these benefits, much remains to be learned about the effects of providing a visual data exploration experience on interactive surfaces: Interactive surfaces often come in the forms of larger screens, smaller screens, more screens, higher pixel counts, and multiple simultaneous inputs, all of which create demanding challenges for designing visualization and interaction techniques. In addition, we need to learn more about designing surface-based visualization systems for richer user experience, find out about scenarios that are suited for such systems, and unveil the added value of surface-based visualization applications in realistic settings. As the second iteration of the first DEXIS workshop held at ITS 2011, we will discuss & reflect on research dedicated to visualization systems for interactive surfaces, define open research questions in the field, and refine research agendas aiming to shape future research in the field. Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * design of information visualization, scientific visualization, or visual analytics interfaces and environments for interactive surfaces, * design of interactive visual representations for collaborative work on interactive surfaces, * design of multi-display environments for data analysis, * the use of interactive surfaces to visualize and interact with information and data, * guidelines and best practices for visualization and analysis environments on interactive surfaces, * visual analysis and exploration for a wider range of audiences using emerging display technology, * aspects of cognition in interactive visualization and visual analysis environments, * evaluation of interaction in single- or multi-user information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics systems, * collaborative visualization and visual analytics systems with interactive surfaces, * collaborative sensemaking & decision making and its connection to interactive surfaces, and * comparative experiences of visualization on desktop and visualization on interactive surfaces. Submission Instructions ----------------------- We accept position papers of up to 4 pages submitted in the SIGCHI Paper format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) through the CMT submission system (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DEXIS2015) They will be reviewed by the program committee, and accepted papers will be sent back to the authors for finalization. They will be published in the workshop web site prior to the event. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: Sep 4, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: Sep 25, 2015 Camera-ready deadline: Oct 9, 2015 Workshop date: Nov 15, 2015 Workshop Chairs --------------- Petra Isenberg - INRIA, France Bongshin Lee - Microsoft Research, USA Alark Joshi - University of San Francisco, USA Tobias Isenberg - INRIA, France Contact ------- For any questions regarding the workshop, contactdexisws2015(a)gmail.com +33 17 292 5916 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/ -- Petra Isenberg, PhD Research Scientist AVIZ group | INRIA Saclay Île-de-France phone: +33 17 292 5916 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis, at IEEE VIS 2015
by Carlos Scheidegger 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2015) http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ Monday, October 26, Chicago. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2015. *** Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 *** MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND The goal of this workshop is to foster innovative research at the intersection of databases, machine learning, and interactive visualization. Database researchers have developed techniques for storing and querying massive amounts of data, including methods for distributed, streaming and approximate computation. Machine learning techniques provide ways to discover unexpected patterns and to automate and scale well-defined analysis procedures. Recent systems research has looked at how to develop novel database systems architectures to support the iterative, optimization-oriented workloads of machine learning algorithms. Of course, both the inputs and outputs of these systems are ultimately driven by people, in support of analysis tasks. The life-cycle of data involves an iterative, interactive process of determining which questions to ask, the data to analyze, appropriate features and models, and interpreting results. In order to achieve better analysis outcomes, data processing systems require improved interfaces that account for the strengths and limitations of human perception and cognition. Meanwhile, to keep up with the rising tide of data, interactive visualization tools need to integrate more techniques from databases and machine learning. In this workshop, we will explore the idea that the next generation of database, machine learning, and interactive visualization systems should not be designed in isolation. For example, machine learning techniques might recommend improved data transformation and visual encoding decisions. Or, database query optimizers might take advantage of perceptual constraints, while prefetching methods reduce latency by modeling likely interactions. This workshop seeks to jump start cross-pollination between these fields. The program will be split between invited talks from researchers in these communities, and speculative, ongoing work that straddles the areas. LIST OF TOPICS This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to interactively explore and analyze large amounts of data in the back end with little or no latency. We encourage late-breaking work, research in progress, and position papers in interactive analysis, broadly construed. For example, topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to): * design of database architectures for interactive analysis * novel database applications for interactive analysis * novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * evaluation of database systems for interactive analysis * identify unique characteristics of database for supporting vis * communication protocols between front and back ends * techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * techniques for metadata generation * front-end architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities We are interested, more generally, in the questions that arise at the *intersection* of these systems. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2015 * Notification Date: August 15, 2015 * Final Version Due: August 30, 2015 * Workshop Date: Monday, October 26, 2015. 1-5pm WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Remco Chang, Tufts University * Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research * Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona * Jeffrey Heer, University of Washington CONTACT website: http://www.interactive-analysis.org email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org -------- Thank you very much, Carlos, on behalf of the DSIA organizers

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CRp - Deadline July 15 - 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA Call for Papers
by David S. Ebert 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015), 6-10, December 2015/San Diego, CA USA Call for Papers MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Beyond a platform for casual social interaction and for marketing research and broadcasting, social networks are also rapidly becoming a powerful tool for collaboration, innovation, coordination and problem solving. Social networks are now used to report crimes to law enforcement agencies, monitor health epidemics, issue community warnings and, lately, also to connect devices in a social network-based Internet of Things. We refer to the augmented use of social networks for collaboration between people, as well as between machines, as the Social Collaborative Internet. This international workshop on Social Collaborative Internet (SCI-2015) focuses on the crossroads between scientists, researchers, industry practitioners and students from diverse domains in social networking, communications and the Internet of Things. Its purpose is to attract novel contributions on the analysis, design, modeling, implementation and evaluation of technologies that can support the Social Collaborative Internet. The workshop will focus on the following (not limited) issues: - How to effectively utilize and evaluate social network and media data for public safety and emergency response? - Visualization and analytics techniques for social network and collaboration data. - How will the introduction of machine-to-machine communication in social networking affect security and privacy? - Performance, effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration through social networks. - Applications of social networks for supporting personalized information and improvement of quality of life (i.e. e-health, e-gov). - Extension of the social network concept, to include non-human participation (i.e. socially inspired paradigm for machine to machine communication). - Prototyping and standardization of interaction over social networks, (i.e. use of terminology, mapping to standards). - Convergence of Internet of things and Social networks towards a Social Internet of Things. TOPICS OF INTEREST Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, including, but not limited to: - Social network collaboration paradigms - Social network use by Law Enforcement Agencies - Social networks in the Health sector - Volunteerism in social media - Social network analysis and mining - Computational social networks - Security and privacy in social networks - Trust management in social networks - Next generation of social networks - Social Internet of things / Social network of intelligent objects - Machine to machine social networking IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: July 15, 2015 Acceptance/rejection notification: September 1, 2015 Final workshop papers due: October 1, 2015 Website: http://networklab.teipir.gr/sci-2015 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication, not submitted to any other conference/workshop at the same time. All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10 -point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Only timely submissions through EDAS will be accepted for review. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here: http://ieee.org/conferences_event You may also use one of the following templates for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be done through EDAS. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop at the FULL (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the workshop unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non- refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication- ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore(r). ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Charalampos Patrikakis (TEI of Piraeus) * George Loukas (University of Greenwich) * David S. Ebert (Purdue University) * Veronique Pevtschin (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A.) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Pete Burnap (Cardiff University) * Bent Christensen (Cisco Systems, Inc) * Ed De Quincey (Keele University) * Paolo Falcarin (University of East London) * Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis (University of Greenwich) * Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University) * Dimitris Kogias (TEI of Piraeus) * Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University) * Sorin Adam Matei (Purdue University) * Dimitris Metafas (TEI of Piraeus) * Rasmus Nielsen (Cisco systems, Inc) * Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) * William Ribarsky (UNC Charlotte) * Georgia Sakellari (Middlesex University) - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - <http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org> http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <http://www.purvac.org> www.purvac.org - - <mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu> ebertd(a)purdue.edu <http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd> http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------

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IEEE VIS 2015: Student volunteer applications | Digital Compass | Other upcoming deadlines
by Jian Chen 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

*IEEE VIS 2015*: http://ieeevis.org: October 25-30 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… *The student volunteer applications* opened July 1st and will be open until August 1. http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/volunteer/student-volunteers *Digital Compass* (please sign up to meet & chat with colleagues in an informal setting) http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass *Other upcoming VIS 2015 deadlines: * VISSec: http://vizsec.org/: paper due: 8/1/2015 Exploring graphs at scale: http://vacommunity.org/egas2015/index.html: paper due: 8/3/2015 Workshop: Visualization for decision making under uncertainty: http://vda.univie.ac.at/uncertainty2015/: paper due: 8/3/2015 Workshop: Data systems for interactive data analysis: http://www.interactive-analysis.org/: paper due: 7/31/2015 For other workshop deadlines, check out: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops. Best regards, -- Jian ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

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CFP: IEEE VIS 2015: Seven Workshops
by Jian Chen 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Workshops at IEEE VIS 2015 <http://ieeevis.org/> provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization , involve experts in the field, diseeminate work in progres and promote new ideas. This year, IEEE VIS will host 7 workshops. Dates of the workshops: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/conference-glance <http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/conference-glance> *VAHC: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare:* http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/ - Deadline for submission: July 17, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: August 28, 2015 - Camera-ready papers due: September 18, 2015 *1st Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS):* http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/etvis/ - Deadline for submission: July 26, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2015 *Exploring Graphs At Scale (EGAS)*: http://vacommunity.org/egas2015/index.html - Deadline for submission: August 3, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2015 *business|vis|15 -- From Data to Actionable Business Insights:* http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis15/ - Deadline for submission: August 15, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2015 - Camera-ready papers due: September 15, 2015 *Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life:* http://www.vis4me.com/personalvis15 - Deadline for submission: August 31, 2015 - Notifications of acceptance: TBA *Visualization for Decision Making Under Uncertainty* Submission Information: TBA *The 1st Workshop on Novel Backends for Interactive Visualization Systems* Submission information: TBA Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

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Re: [Infovis] Revised Call for Nominations - IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Wong, Pak C 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

IEEE VGTC VPG doctoral dissertation award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award DEADLINE: July 31, 2015 http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)<http://vgtc.org/> sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG)<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group> under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award> is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference<http://ieeevis.org/>. Past recipients of the award are listed here<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-vpg-doctoral-dissertation-award-recipients>. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between July 31 two years before the award and July 31 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between July 31, 2013 and July 31, 2015 are eligible for the 2015 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on July 31, 2015. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1, 2015. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>.

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CFP: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare -- VAHC 2015 -- Chicago, IL, October 2015
by Theresia Gschwandtner 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2015, Oct 25th, Chicago, IL) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org *** Paper Submissions due July 17th, 2015 *** CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2015 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2015) is the sixth annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts, leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets. This year the VAHC 2015 workshop is co-located with the IEEE VIS conference in Chicago, Illinois. To formalize the community, the VAHC workshop and the workshop on Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data -- EHRVis (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/parisehrvis/) have merged and plan on hosting events at IEEE VIS and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, alternating yearly. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We will welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts, and patients. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Visual Analytics of health data (e.g., in surgery, radiology, Electronic Health Records, emergency room and operation room, patient safety, Public Health Data, patient-generated health data, clinical data, drugs) * Visual Analytics for forecasting and tracking of health data (e.g., pandemic forecasting and tracking, outcome forecasting or prediction) * Improving patient understanding and/or physician-patient communication with Visual Analytics * Dashboards for health data (e.g., Public Health Surveillance programs) PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of the topics listed above. Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium presentations, (2) poster presentations, or (3) live & interactive demonstrations. - Paper: Papers are limited to eight pages. Accepted papers will be published on the ACM Digital Library. - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages. - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Note that posters and demos will NOT appear in the ACM Digital Library, they will only be posted on the VAHC website. Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission: July 17th, 2015 Notification of acceptance: August 28th, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: Sept 18th, 2015 VAHC 2015 workshop: October 25th, 2015 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. NEWS: ----- The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Special Issue on Visual Analytics is now available: http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2. ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Theresia Gschwandtner - Vienna University of Technology (gschwandtner at cvast.tuwien.ac.at) Adam Perer - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (adam.perer at us.ibm.com) Jürgen Bernard - Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Darmstadt (juergen.bernard at igd.fraunhofer.de)

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IEEE VIS 2015: VAST challenge: Grant challenge deadline extended / optional two-page papers
by Jian Chen 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Updated Due Dates! MC1 and MC2 due July 7; Grand Challenge due July 9! For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-challenge. *VAST Challenge 2015 Call for Participation* VAST Challenge 2015 is underway. See http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2015 for details. This year’s VAST Challenge presents two related mini-challenges and an overall Grand Challenge for your consideration. The challenges are open to teams and individuals in academia, industry, and government. This year, we would like to encourage participants create innovative visualizations to support their analyses of the data. There will be many different features within the data sets that could use creative approaches, so even if your particular approach doesn’t address the entire Challenge problem set, please enter and show us your new ways of working with this data. *Background* *Note: This scenario and all the people, places, groups, technologies, contained therein are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, places, groups, or technologies is purely coincidental.* DinoFun World is a modest-sized park amusement park, sitting on about 215 hectares and hosting thousands of visitors each day. It has a small town feel, but it is well known for its exciting rides and events. One event last year was a weekend tribute to Scott Jones, internationally renowned football (“soccer,” in US terminology) star. Scott is from a town nearby DinoFun World. DinoFun World declared “Scott Jones Weekend” where he was scheduled to appear in two stage shows each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to talk about his life and career. In addition, a show of memorabilia from his career would be displayed in the park’s Pavilion. However, the event did not go as planned. Scott’s weekend was marred by crime and mayhem perpetrated by a poor, misguided and disgruntled figure from Scott’s past. While the crimes were rapidly solved, park officials and law enforcement figures are interested in understanding what happened during that weekend to better prepare themselves for future events. They are interested in understanding how people move and communicate in the park, as well as how patterns change and evolve over time, and what can be understood about the motivations for changing patterns. *The Challenges* *Mini-Challenge 1 * Mini-Challenge 1 focuses on movement of people around the park. You are asked to characterize the movement of groups and individuals, with a special emphasis on what might be relevant to better understanding the incident that occurred in June 2014. Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Mini-Challenge 1 <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+MC1> for more information and to download the data. *Mini-Challenge 2 * Mini-Challenge 2 asks you to dive into the communications over time that took place among the park visitors using the park app. Linkages between visitors and among park patrons and park staff could reveal behaviors of interest. Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Mini-Challenge 2 <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+MC2> for more information and to download the data. *The Grand Challenge * The Grand Challenge requires you to blend your knowledge obtained from the two mini-challenges to answer questions of interest to law enforcement officials. How was the crime executed and who was responsible? Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Grand Challenge <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+Grand+Challenge> for more information. *For Further Information* For more information, please see http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2015 or contactvast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org. The submission deadlines are as follows: · Mini-Challenge 1 and Mini-Challenge 2 submissions: July 7, 2015, 11:59 pm PDT · Grand Challenge submissions: must be initiated in Precision Conference by July 7; must be completed by July 9, 2015, 11:59 pm PDT · Optional 2-page paper due August 19, 2015 We look forward to seeing your creative solutions! *VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs* Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting Best regards, -- Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

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