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Postdoctoral research positions in Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, and 3D User Interfaces
by Wolfgang Stuerzlinger 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, and 3D User Interfaces Dr. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger and his lab are looking for a several people to join our group in Vancouver, Canada at Simon Fraser University (SFU), School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT). Positions are highly competitive, so only the best candidates will be considered. Open positions • Postdoctoral researcher in Visual Analytics • Postdoctoral researcher in Human-Computer Interaction or 3D User Interfaces Wolfgang Stuerzlinger’s research group specializes in a range of topics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Virtual Reality (VR). The general aim is user interfaces fit for everyday use. In Human-Computer Interaction, we study and design basic user interaction technologies, such as pointing, object group selection and text entry. In the face of increasing popularity of user interfaces that are not 100% reliable, such as speech and gesture recognition, we also study how humans deal with such technologies, and what can be done to ameliorate their limitations. For screens ranging from watches to walls, we work on better methods for user interface creation, with a focus on GUI layout. Additionally, we study how people analyze big data with human-in-the-loop systems and create new tools to make working with multiple alternate hypotheses in Visual Analytics easier. In Virtual Reality, we study and design 3D pointing, object manipulation, and navigation methods across many VR input and output technologies. We also work on 3D user interfaces that combine the best of the 2D and 3D worlds. Moreover, we work on new 3D tracking and immersive display systems, including CAVEs, towards improved VR experiences. We have a strong research record, with publications in the top venues in Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. For more information about past work, please visit http://ws.iat.sfu.ca. Our research group prides itself on a strong collaborative culture with a friendly and engaging atmosphere. Candidates are expected to work well with others. Your skill set must match the requirements for the above projects. To be considered you must have: • a PhD in Computer Science, HCI, VR, or related fields • scientific publications in relevant areas • strong programming skills (C# or C++ preferred) • strong English writing and oral communication skills • good user interface design skills • a demonstration of strong interest in the projects you have engaged with • a sense of humor SFU has consistently been ranked as one of the top universities in Canada. SIAT, http://siat.sfu.ca is a young, vibrant department at SFU with research and teaching in human-computer interaction, interaction design, and media arts. SIAT is located at the SFU Surrey campus in Greater Vancouver, Canada. Greater Vancouver lies along the west coast of Canada where the Pacific Ocean meets the Coast Mountain range. With a population of over 2 million people, Greater Vancouver is known as one of the most ethnically diverse cities in Canada and has been ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world based on quality of life. Vancouver is a great destination for those who love the outdoors (e.g., skiing, hiking, water sports) as well as the indoors (e.g., museums, art, theatre, hockey). Funding will be provided at levels commensurate with other Canadian universities. Lab members receive full funding to attend international conferences (e.g., ACM CHI, UIST, IEEE VIS, VR) to present papers about their work at SIAT. Applicants should email Wolfgang at w.s(a)sfu.ca as soon as possible, but prior to Dec 15, 2014. Emails should include: • a description of research interests related to my lab’s research • a curriculum vitae • contact information of three referees • three sample publications Candidates who are close to completing their PhD should document their completion timeline.

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Wed and Thu Meetups
by G.Elisabeta Marai 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France CFP: Wed and Thu Meetups @ VIS 2014 Wednesday, Nov 12th 2014 Thursday, Nov 13th 2014 Please join us for the following meetups (formerly known as "birds of a feather" meetings), scheduled for this Wed and Thu at VIS 2014: *************************** Wednesday * Tableau for Teaching and Research 12:15 – 13:45, Studio H (Org: R. Kosara) * Data stories 18:15-19:45, Studio H (Org: E. Bertini, M. Stefaner) **************************** Thursday * Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Visualization and Visual Analytics 12:15 – 13:45, Studio H (Org: D. Keim, S. Miksch, T. von Landesberger) * Toward Visualization-Specific Heuristic Evaluation 18:15 – 19:45, Studio A (Org: A. Tarell) * Velo Club de VIS 18:15 -19:45, Studio H (Org: J. Dykes, D. Fisher, M. Meyer, R. Whittaker, W. Willet, Jo Wood) ****************************** -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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IEEE VIS 2014: Claudio Silva (NYU Poly) receives Visualization Technical Achievement Award
by G.Elisabeta Marai 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France Nov 10th-15th 2014 The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) is pleased to award Claudio T. Silva the 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award. The 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to Claudio T. Silva, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system. Claudio has made seminal contributions to many areas of visualization and graphics, including point-based modeling, surface reconstruction, isosurface generation, out-of-core and streaming visualization techniques, and unstructured volume rendering. Having participated in interdisciplinary projects, his contributions have had impact in multiple scientific domains. He has also developed widely-used visualization and analysis tools, including the open-source VisTrails system. The IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award was established in 2004. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in visualization. VGTC members may nominate individuals for the Visualization Technical Achievement Award by contacting the awards chair, Larry Rosenblum, at vgtc-vis-awards@ vgtc.org. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6935102 -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Three Meetups this Tue
by G.Elisabeta Marai 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France CFP: Tuesday Meetups @ VIS 2014 Tuesday, Nov 11th 2014 Please join us for the following three meetups (formerly known as "birds of a feather" meetings), scheduled for this Tue at VIS 2014: ******************************************* Representation of relational data 12:15 – 13:45, Studio A (Org: M. Rumpf) Visual Literacy for Techies 18:15 – 19:45, Studio H (Org: A. Cairo, N. Gershon) Vis lies 19:30-20:30, Studio F (Org. B. Rogowitz , G. Grinstein) ******************************************** -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: BioVis Meetup @ VIS 2014
by G.Elisabeta Marai 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Paris, France CFP: BioVis Meetup @ VIS 2014 Monday, Nov 10th 2014 6:15pm - 7:45pm, Studio A Building the Biological Visualization Community This meetup is aimed at past and future participants in the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis, http://www.biovis.net) and everyone else interested in applications of visualization to biological data. BioVis brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. BioVis has been held both at the IEEE VIS conference (2011, 2012, 2013) and at the ISCB ISMB Conference (2014). We are keen to maintain a presence with at the VIS conference and this meetup will serve as a focus for researchers in BioVis to meet up at VIS to discuss ideas for further development of the Biological Visualization Community, both through in person meetings and a new web-based community resource (http://www.bivi.co) This event will allow us to discuss the new resource with the community, encourage people to contribute and look forward in planning its evolution. The meetup will also provide an opportunity to plan for future BioVis events including a planned return to IEEE VIS in future years. Organizers (on behalf of the BioVis Steering Committee): Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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Call For Participation: VIS 2014 Workshop on Provenance for Sensemaking (details are now online)
by Kai Xu 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Call for Participation: VIS 2014 Workshop on Provenance for Sensemaking http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/prov4sense/ 10 November 2014, Paris, France === Update === The following information is now on the workshop webpage - Agenda - Keynote - Discussion - Accepted papers (full PDF version) Hope to see you next week, Regards, Kai === Introduction === During complex analysis tasks, it can be valuable to maintain a history of the data and reasoning involved - referred to as ‘provenance’ information. Provenance information can be a resource for "reﬂection-in-action" during analysis, supporting collaboration between analysts, and reporting to decision makers. It can also act as a resource after the event, supporting the interpretation of claims, audit, accountability and training. There has been considerable work on capturing and visualizing of ‘data provenance’, which focuses on data collection and computation, and ‘analytic provenance’, which captures the interactive data exploration and reasoning process. However, there is limited work of utilizing such provenance information to support sensemaking, in terms of improving efficacy and avoiding pitfalls such as issues of data quality and human bias. This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in visual analytics and various aspects of sensemaking to consider emerging positions, questions, and ﬁndings related to the capture, processing, representation and use of provenance information to support complex sensemaking tasks. The emphasis is on discussion and collaboration, with a goal of collaboratively producing a paper describing the state-of-the-art of provenance for sensemaking following the workshop. Email prov4sense(a)easychair.org for any enquiry. === Workshop Format (Half Day) === We solicit extended abstracts (statements of position or current work). Accepted authors will be asked to be present these as posters at the workshop. The abstracts will be used to stimulate discussion topics. This will form the basis of parallel breakout groups intended to explore and develop the thinking. We aim to collaboratively produce a paper covering these topics following the workshop. === Example Topics === - Data/analytic/sensemaking provenance capture and visualization. - Inferring sensemaking provenance from interaction data - User studies related to provenance recording and use - Using provenance to support reasoning/argumentation/reporting - Narrative construction and story telling - Distributed sensemaking - Uncertain and data quality provenance during sensemaking - Cognitive bias and sensemaking - Application of sensemaking and provenance in application domains === Organizers === Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK Simon Attfield, Middlesex University, UK T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University, USA

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[NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES SCENOCOSME
by Image Science 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES SCENOCOSME Check it out: www.digitalartarchive.at The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) features the artist duo SCENOCOSME (Gregory LASSERRE & Anais MET DEN ANCXT), known for their inimitable poetic language of visualization and sonification of interrelations between humans and nature. The collective explores (invisible) energy flows between living beings and/or between humans and their environments by means of technology and make them perceptible for spectators. Their interactive artworks and choreographic collective performances make attendees share extraordinary sensory experiences. “Lights Contacts” (2010), “Akousmaflore” (2007), “Alsos*” (2006) or “SphèrAléas” (2004) are remarkable immersive environments and acousmatic soundscapes reflecting on connectivity and alternative ways of communication. At the intersection of art and science the artists explore sensor technologies and develop complex software transforming “natural energy” like static, heat or breath into sound and light installations. Evelyn TSITAS: “Lights Contacts invites people to touch another to create sound and light according to the intensity of their electrostatic energy. The work perfectly illustrates […] connectivity in the age of technology.” Peter WEIBEL: “Technology is nature made by humans. Scenocosme makes the man-made voice of nature visible and audible.” [Technik ist vom Menschen gemachte Natur. Scenocosme macht sichtbar und hörbar, wie die vom Menschen gemachte Stimme der Natur klingt.] Catherine MASON: “Scenocosme have been exploring ‘energetic coherence between living beings and their environment’ in their art for the last few years. By contrasting the relationship between the natural world and the man-made Scenocosme’s art highlights the challenges facing our planet and our human responses to it” COLLABORTIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART The large assortment of information on SCENOCOSME and hundreds of other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The new ADA web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the documentation and analysis of digital art. EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes account of the specific conditions of digital art. THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART – PIONEER IN THE FIELD Since its foundation in 1999, the Archive of Digital Art (former Database of Virtual Art) has become the most important scholarly online archive for media art. In cooperation with established media artists, researchers, and institutions, it has been documenting the rapidly evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the intersection of art, science, and technology. ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER, Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO, Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG, Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY, Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS,SOMMERER & MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL, et al. Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al. ADA team: Prof. Dr. habil. Oliver GRAU Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin) Sebastian HALLER, Viola RÜHSE, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN (Editorial Team) digitalart.editor(a)donau-uni.ac.at www.digitalartarchive.at

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Campus Visualization Partnership: A model for academic transformation
by Ben Shneiderman 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Dear Info-Vis colleagues, This article reports on our successful Campus Visualization Partnership Lecture Series. I hope others can use this as a model for transformation on your campuses or organizations... Best wishes.. Ben Shneiderman LoPresti, F., Elvove, J., Shneiderman, B., and Varshney, A., Campus Visualization Partnership: A model for academic transformation, EDUCAUSE Review Online (October 13, 2014). https://www.educause.edu/ero/article/campus-visualization-partnership-model… Key Takeaways * To harness visualization's increasing utility in new disciplines and departments, the University of Maryland launched a Campus Visualization Partnership between researchers and its central IT division. * The CVP's initial projects included both a lecture series and an electronic presence to publicize projects, events, and campus experts. * CVP also started a popular matching seed-grant program that offered up to $7,500 in matching funds to purchase new hardware. * The positive response to these early projects has shown the power of collaboration and a modest budget to raise visualization's profile across an institution.

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Program Now Available Online
by G.Elisabeta Marai 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Nov 9th-14th 2014, Paris, France The final VIS'14 program is now available online: 28 pages of amazing content and venues, at http://ieeevis.org/attachments/vis14-finalprogram.pdf -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science (adj) Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://visualizlab.org/people/marai Currently on sabbatical at: Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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Joining IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group
by Wong, Pak C 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

Joining IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) has never been easier-you can now join online at https://www.payitsquare.com/collect-page/51638. If you plan to attend the next VPG member exclusive VPG reception at VIS 2014, we highly encourage you to join VPG now so that we can have a more accurate head count for the reception. See also: 1. IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group: http://www.vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group 2. IEEE VPG reception at IEEE VIS 2014: http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/overview-amp-topics/visualization-pioneer…

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