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Funded PhD Studentship - City Sensing and Data Services
by Dykes, Jason 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

City Sensing and Data Services - EPSRC PhD studentship, Dundee, Scotland http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/programmes/postgraduate/phdmphil/studentships… Applications are invited for a fully funded EPSRC PhD studentship in Interaction Design/Human–Computer Interaction within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. The successful applicant will join a growing interdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in Design, HCI, Computing, Service Design and Art, with a strong international research track record, and will have the opportunity to undertake collaborative research with FutureEverything (futureeverything.org) PROJECT DESCRIPTION Cities are becoming more intelligent with the proliferation of data services and sensor networks. The University of Dundee and FutureEverything are part of an initiative to develop and evaluate a city sensing and data ecosystem in a UK city. This places emphasis on the central place of citizens and local innovation, and of decentralised, open urban infrastructures, in the design and development of future cities. This PhD project will explore city sensing and data services, through participation in the design, implementation and evaluation of novel services, systems and interfaces. The research will be outward facing and engage citizens, city officials, SMEs and large companies. The research project will encompass a number of potential research themes such as: • Services, systems and interfaces which alter the relationship between the city and its citizens. • Enabling citizens and city officials to visualise and tell stories using data. • Supporting the development of innovative applications using data, by businesses, artists and designers. • Analysis and visualisation of various data to enable decision making by city officials and citizens. • Engagement mechanisms such as art and gamification, festivals, bottom up defining of challenges. • Service Localisation and Local Ownership of Data. There will be opportunities for the doctoral researcher to select and develop use cases, communities and challenges. The research will involve some requirement of travel for field trials in Manchester and other cities and publication of work arising from that. CRITERIA AND ELIGIBILITY Applicants should have a first class degree or good 2:1 and/or a masters or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Product Design or Service Design. They shall have expertise in fieldwork techniques and evaluation methods from Design and/or HCI to inform the design of novel interfaces. The ability to develop functional digital prototypes is essential. The award is open to eligible UK/EU nationals and will cover fees and a stipend of approximately £13,863 per annum for 42 months. Full information on eligibility criteria for this scholarship can be found on the RCUK web site: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsT… Following interview the successful applicant will also need to apply and meet the University of Dundee’s entry requirements for PhD study. APPLICATION AND FURTHER DETAILS Application deadline 12th September 2014. PhD expected to commence from November 2014. Applicants should submit a CV and a two-page statement describing their interest in pursuing a PhD and their experience as it relates to the topic to: Fiona Fyffe, Postgraduate Administrator, DJCAD. f.j.fyffe(a)dundee.ac.uk. Informal enquiries to Dr Drew Hemment d.hemment(a)dundee.ac.uk. Further details and information are available on the University of Dundee website: http://uod.ac.uk/djcad-studentships.

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Second Call for Participation: Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) at DL 2014
by Mutschke, Peter 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) Workshop at Digital Libraries 2014 11th September 2014, London, UK Workshop page: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/kmir2014/ Conference page: http://www.dl2014.org<http://www.dl2014.org/> We are pleased to announce the upcoming halfday workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), to be held as part of the International Conference on Digital Libraries 2014 - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014), London, 8th-12th September 2014 (http://www.dl2014.org<http://www.dl2014.org/>/). Abstract: Knowledge maps are promising tools for visualizing the structure of large-scale information spaces, but still far away from being applicable for searching. The workshop aims at bringing together experts in IR and knowledge mapping in order to discuss the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes. We now have a very good program together for the KMIR workshop. Consult the workshop page (see above) for the preliminary program. If you will attend the workshop, don't forget to register for workshops at die DL2014 registration page. In addition, please notify me (CC to my secretary julia.achenbach(a)gesi.org<mailto:julia.achenbach@gesi.org>) about your attendance. Kind regards, Peter Mutschke -- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Mail: peter.mutschke(a)gesis.org<mailto:peter.mutschke@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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Lectureship in HCI/InfoVis, University of St Andrews, Scotland - Apply by October 3rd 2014
by Miguel Nacenta 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

=============================== http://bit.ly/sachi_lectureship =============================== We seek a colleague to join SACHI (http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/) at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. This is a full academic career track position, with research and teaching duties. The School of Computer Science provides a research-supportive environment, excellent facilities, great opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, integration with the larger excellence network of CS research in Scotland (SICSA), and access to the brightest students in the UK and internationally. This year the School was ranked 1st in the UK by the Guardian's University guide. We are interested in top early career researchers in any of the topics below (although we will consider top-researchers in other areas related to HCI and Data Science): - Input and Interaction methods - Information Visualisation or other techniques relevant to Data Science (e.g. machine learning) - Ubiquitous Computing or Systems - Digital Humanities Join one of the top CS departments in the UK, and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. The University is integrated within the town of St Andrews on the East coast of Scotland: home of golf, and rich in history. The town offers a family-friendly environment at just over an hour from Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, and with easy access to all services and good public transport connections. See more information in the official vacancy announcement: http://bit.ly/sachi_lectureship (the Further Particulars document at the bottom will be particularly useful). For informal inquiries and questions, feel free to also e-mail Prof. Aaron Quigley (aquigley(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) or Miguel Nacenta (mans(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Miguel Nacenta Lecturer, University of St Andrews mans(a)st-andrews.ac.uk http://nacenta.com @miguelnacenta

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2nd CFP: AWC 2015 - The Third Australasian Web Conference, Sidney, Australia
by Alessandro Bozzon 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 2nd C A L L F O R P A P E R S AWC 2015 The Third Australasian Web Conference 27-30 January 2015, Parramata, Sydney, Australia Conference Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/acsw2015/australasian_computer_science_week_2015/aust… *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: August 26th, 2014 *NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE*: October 8th, 2014 **************************************************************************** Aims and Scope -------------- As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, the World Wide Web continues to play a transformative role in all walks of life. It also provides a platform for exciting and innovative research on a wide range of themes. AWC 2015 aims to bring together researchers and PhD students who work on topics related to the Web in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art, to discuss critical issues and opportunities, and to explore new research directions. Topics of Interest ------------------ AWC 2015 invites submissions dealing with all areas of Web research, including but not limited to the following topics: * Semantic web * Linked Open Data * Crowdsourcing and Human Computation * Web mining * Deep Web * Emerging Web techniques * Information retrieval * Interfaces and Accessibility * Interoperability and heterogeneous systems * Mobile Web * Performance, scalability and availability * Personalisation and recommender systems * Security and Privacy * Social networks and communities * Social Web and analytics * Mashups * Web of Things * Web search * Service Web, Web services, and service-oriented computing * XML and semi-structured data management All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. AWC is part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW). The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. General Chair ------------- * Joseph G. Davis (University of Sydney) Program Chair ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) Programme Committee ------------- * Helen Ashman, University of South Australia * Ali Babar, University of Adelaide * Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales * Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University * Jia Tina Du, University of South Australia * David Eyers, University of Otago * Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong * David Hawking, Australian National University * Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity * Xiang-Fei Jia, University of Otago * Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China * Jiangang Ma, University of Adelaide * Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne * Hamid Motahari, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Russel Pears, Auckland University of Technology * Yongrui Qin, The University of Adelaide * Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide * Andrew Trotman, Otago University, New Zealand * Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia * Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology * Uwe Roehm, University of Sydney * Weiliang Zhao, University of Wollongong * In-young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea * Wei Chen, Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China * Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong * Luis Olsina, GIDIS_Web, Engineering School, UNLPam, Argentina * Kerry Taylor, CSIRO * Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand Submission Procedure -------------------- We welcome papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web-related research. Its contribution should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms, and authors should make every effort to ensure that its technical content is understandable by a broad audience without taking away from its impact and significance. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. Papers should be *no more than 10 pages* in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) (http://www.acs.org.au/) - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) (http://crpit.com/) Australian Computer Science Communications series. Submission to AWC 2015 will only be accepted electronically using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awc2015) Authors are requested to submit an abstract first, then to upload the full paper using the paper-id assigned by the system. By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) (http://www.core.edu.au/) and the policy listed at CRPIT (http://crpit.com/) In particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship. Best Student Paper -------------------- A prize will be awarded to the best student paper as chosen by the programme committee. The student paper award is given on the conditions that: (1) all other non-student co-authors confirm to the program chair(s) that the nominated author has had a substantial participation into the paper; and (2) the student academic supervisor confirms to the program chair that the contribution reflected in the paper is the result of a major component from progress for a research higher degree Publication -------------------- The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. Please note that it is ACSW conference policy that at least one author of all accepted papers to the conferences and workshops in the series would both register and present at the event concerned. Failure to do so without a reason acceptable to the organisers of the event will result in the paper being retrospectively withdrawn from both the proceedings and all citation sources.

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National Science Foundation Visualization Challenge 2014; submissions deadline Sept. 30, 2014
by Zemankova, Maria 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

The National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov) and Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/) launched their new partnership as co-sponsors of the foundation's long-running Visualization Challenge, now called "The Vizzies". The competition aims to recognize some of the most effective visualizations from the worlds of science and engineering. The 2014 Visualization Challenge, formerly the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, will continue the annual tradition of promoting and publically acknowledging work that visually and successfully communicates science and engineering research and phenomena. "For 11 years, NSF co-sponsored the competition with AAAS' (American Association for the Advancement of Science) journal Science. We were seeking new opportunities to celebrate science visualizations and to expand the competition's reach to broader, public audiences," said NSF's Susan Mason, a key member who helped start the original competition. "We believe the alliance with Popular Science will infuse new energy into the competition and will to take it to the next level." "We are excited about this new partnership. We love showcasing visualizations and featuring them is a major way we've distinguished ourselves from other publications," said Popular Science's executive editor, Jennifer Bogo. "The partnership also allows us to work alongside NSF, and with our 1.3 million print subscribers and 3-4 million unique visitors to popsci.com, we can bring both the participants and the competition greater exposure." Visualization Challenge participants can submit their entries in one or more of five categories: Photography, Video, Illustration, Posters & Graphics and Games & Apps. The Experts' Choice winner in each category will be awarded $2,500, and a People's Choice prize of $1,000 goes to the best overall entry. Submissions deadline: September 30, 2014 Expert judges appointed by NSF and Popular Science will select winners in each of the five categories. Contest results will be publicly announced in Popular Science and on popsci.com in March 2015, and Popular Photography will recognize the winning photo. NSF will also publish the names of the winners on its website. Further information about the Vizzies is available at NSF's Visualization Challenge website: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshop on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in Business
by Jörn Kohlhammer 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation: Workshop on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in Business http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis14/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 2014, Paris, France (half day, part of IEEE VIS 2014) OVERVIEW Enterprises across all industries are inundated by an accelerating tsunami of business data. Converting these data and insights into better business outcomes is a pressing and strategic challenge for many managers, decision makers, and executives. While there is a growing interest in business analytics, advanced information visualization and visual analytic tools have lagged behind. This is in part explained by the plethora and complexity of design and implementation challenges presented by diverse business users, data, and contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in in presenting, exploring, and understanding complex business issues through visualization and visual analytics. We will welcome submissions on a variety of topics, including: - Real-world experiences with designing, building, deploying and evaluating new information visualization and visual analytic systems - Case studies describing success (and failure) of applying visualization to business contexts - Domain-specific enterprise applications of visualization and visual analytics (i.e. healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media, transportation, finance, etc.) - Review and evaluative papers discussing or comparing current tools and toolchains; integration with other enterprise support tools (i.e. modeling, simulation, etc.) WORKSHOP FORMAT We encourage submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and promising (preliminary) results. Papers must conform with a "double-blind review" process, such that authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the names of the authors. Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors. The following templates are meant to aid you in preparing a draft of your submission: LaTeX (TAR) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/ieeetran-fi…>| LaTeX (ZIP) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/ieeetran-fi…>| Word (ZIP) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/Trans_final…> IMPORTANT DATES - Submissions Due: 15 Sep 2014 - Notification: 1 Oct 2014 - Workshop: half day during 9 -- 11 Nov 2014 (TBC) SUBMISSION - Short papers - up to 4 pages - Submission through PCS: https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ <https://precisionconference.com/%7Evgtc/> ORGANIZERS Rahul C. Basole, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research, USA Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Jack van Wijk, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Please contact businessvis14(a)gmail.com for any questions.

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SPIE 2015 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis: Extended Deadline (Aug 15)
by G.Elisabeta Marai 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Call for Papers SPIE 2015 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis February 8-12, 2015 Hilton San Francisco, Union Square San Francisco, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2014 (Extended Deadline) Notification: October 6, 2014 Final Manuscripts: December 1, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2015 covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including: · * biomedical visualization · * case studies and empirical studies · * cyber-security · * data mining · * exploratory data visualization and analysis · * geographic visualization · * high-performance computing and visualization · * image processing · * information visualization · * multivariate time series visualization · * scientific visualization · * sentiment analysis · * social media · * virtual and augmented reality · * human factors · * volume and flow visualization Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization. Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be directed to the conference chairs: * David L. Kao (david.l.kao(a)nasa.gov) NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao(a)hp.com) Hewlett-Packard Labs * Mark A. Livingston ( mark.livingston(a)nrl.navy.mil) U.S. Naval Research Labs * Thomas Wischgoll (thomas.wischgoll(a)wright.edu) Wright State University

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Death of the Desktop Workshop
by G.Elisabeta Marai 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Death of the Desktop Workshop ***************************************************************************************** Death of the Desktop – Envisioning Visualization without Desktop Computing beyond.wallviz.dk ***************************************************************************************** Half-day Workshop, Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 Paris, France, November 10th 2014 Organizers: Yvonne Jansen, Petra Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sriram Subramanian, Daniel Keefe The Desktop computer is dead. Monitors sit on desks, unplugged - hosting layers of Post-It notes or gathering dust as a retro emergency low-light mirror. Visualization is colorful, big, tangible, nosy, interactive, compelling and everywhere. It supports all sorts of creative activity and is key to problem solving in education, science, government and industry. But how? What is your 'imagined future' for visualization? We will be exploring possible visualization scenarios with short but rich scenarios in which designers, practitioners and researchers creatively explore opportunities for 'beyond-the-desktop' visualization. We will be discussing these and using them to develop the community’s perspective on the future of VIS. For the detailed workshop description, submission details, and program please visit the workshop website at: beyond.wallviz.dk In particular, we wish to discuss open questions such as: * how do we envision visualization systems in the next 5, 10, 25+ years? * is it possible that desktop systems will indeed die out and that visualizations will be primarily used through off-desktop technology? * what would be the consequences of a concerted community focus on non-desktop visualization? * which advances would make such a radical change possible? * how and where are the use of beyond-the-desktop displays most appropriate? What datasets are most amenable to different types of displays? Is beyond the desktop right for everyone (e.g., scientists, big data analysts, social networkers, artists, shopping mall users)? * what is the role and interplay of interaction and novel interaction displays in “beyond-the-desktop” settings? Can these two considerations be treated separately as research directions? * what kind of social settings are possible and best supported by “beyond-the-desktop” visualizations? What kind of collaborations are afforded and best supported? * is there a better name for this research theme than “beyond-the-desktop”? What are unifying features of these currently non-standard displays that could lead to a better descriptor for this research direction? * can we develop a vision for visualization that helps to set goals for research to come? How to participate: We want to collect imaginative, creative, (even crazy) ideas and speculations on: * future designs and representations for beyond-the-desktop visualizations serving any of a variety of purposes * interaction techniques that take place in the physical world, or using paradigms outside the “mouse and keyboard” setting * technological solutions that could be utilized for beyond-desktop visualizations in the future * collaboration and social interaction around non-desktop visualizations * comparative experiences of visualizations on desktop and outside the desktop visualizations * authoring methods for beyond-desktop visualizations We encourage submissions in a variety of different formats: ***Scenarios (deadline: Aug 31) Send us your imagined future in the form of scenarios illustrating future uses and forms of visualization - whether desired, delivered, disappointing or dystopian we encourage an imaginative range of scenarios. - 1+ pages in any format (e.g. TVCG or any other) - requirement to be considered for co-authorship of follow-up publications (see workshop outcomes on website) - submission by email to Yvonne Jansen <yvja(a)di.ku.dk> ***Short Statements & Sketches (submission phase: September – November) We invite everybody to engage in a pre-conference idea exchange on this webpage through various means. We will enable a webform to allow submissions such as - an imaginary title and abstract - a short video - graphical mockups, e.g., in the form of sketches or drawings. ***Physical Timeline and STAR Contributions (during the Workshop and After) During the conference: workshop participants work towards the creation of a physical timeline visualizing the variety of proposed futures. Posts from this website will be integrated there as well. After the conference: together with the outcome of the open discussions, the collection of visions will be published in a technical report or summarized in a more prestigious publication (e.g. a visualization viewpoint article) to make it more widely available. We will also explore the opportunity to write a STAR report on beyond-the-desktop visualizations together with interested workshop participants. For further details and contact, see: beyond.wallviz.dk Organizers: Yvonne Jansen, Petra Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sriram Subramanian, Daniel Keefe -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: BusinessVis Workshop
by G.Elisabeta Marai 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org Call For Participation: BusinessVis Workshop ******************************************************************** Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in Business http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis14/ ******************************************************************** Half-day Workshop, Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 Paris, France, November 10th 2014 Organizers: Rahul Basole, Steven Drucker, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jack Van Wijk Enterprises across all industries are inundated by an accelerating tsunami of business data. Converting these data and insights into better business outcomes is a pressing and strategic challenge for many managers, decision makers, and executives. While there is a growing interest in business analytics, advanced information visualization and visual analytic tools have lagged behind. This is in part explained by the plethora and complexity of design and implementation challenges presented by diverse business users, data, and contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in in presenting, exploring, and understanding complex business issues through visualization and visual analytics. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics, including: * Real-world experiences with designing, building, deploying and evaluating new information visualization and visual analytic systems * Case studies describing success (and failure) of applying visualization to business contexts * Domain-specific enterprise applications of visualization and visual analytics (i.e. healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media, transportation, finance, etc.) * Review and evaluative papers discussing or comparing current tools and toolchains; integration with other enterprise support tools (i.e. modeling, simulation, etc.) We encourage submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and promising (preliminary) results. Submissions: September 15, 2014 Notifications: October 1, 2014 Workshop: November 2014 Contact businessvis14(a)gmail.com for any questions. Rahul Basole, Steven Drucker, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jack Van Wijk -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop
by Geoff Ellis 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------ CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This one-day workshop will be held as part of i-KNOW 2014 (14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business),in Graz, Austria, 16-19 September 2014. http://i-know.tugraz.at IMPORTANT DATES - Submission by: 16 April, 2014 - Notifications of acceptance :16 May 2014 - Camera Ready Copy: 5 June 2014 - Workshop day: 16 or 17 September 2014 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss how to reduce the impact of cognitive biases in the systems we build. Work to date has generally focussed on developing user training to mitigate the effect of a small number of cognitive biases with little effort on software solutions. The latter not only requires research to identify situations where help would assist in better decision making, but also in developing novel corrective actions ideally tailored to the user. In the visualisation domain, work has centred around improving hypothesis generation to avoid confirmation bias, where the user unconsciously seeks evidence to confirm what they already believe, rather than seeking disconfirming evidence. There is plenty of scope for investigating whether or not the cognition of visualisation or elements therein are subject to cognitive biases. We invite participants from a wide range of disciplines such as decision science, cognitive psychology, information visualisation, visual analytics, software engineering, business and intelligence to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and promote future research potential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - cognitive biases and information visualisation - new classification schemes for cognitive biases - integrating cognitive bias mitigation into existing software - measuring susceptibility to cognitive bias - cognitive biases in groups/collaborative situations - training/learning tools to overcome particular cognitive biases - business decision making - impact of big data on cognitive biases - evaluation techniques/methodologies The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations and group activities and will provide a forum for participants to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and identify future research potential. We hope to grow this interdisciplinary community to promote future collaboration. SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit original work, as either 2-3 page position papers or 4-6 page research papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the supplementary proceedings of i-KNOW 2014 (either ACM or IEEE). Submissions should be in ACM SIG proceedings format (standard 2-column style) as a PDF file through the workshop website. CONTACT For further details please contact Geoffrey Ellis, ellis(a)dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de Twitter: @ocb_workshop website: http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ORGANISERS Geoffrey Ellis, University of Konstanz Gaëlle Lortal, THALES Research & Technology, Paris Michael Bedek, University of Graz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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