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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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Deadline Extended - VizSec 2014, Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

****************************************************************************** 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) Call for Papers ### UPDATE : VizSec Deadline EXTENDED by 1 week! ### http://www.vizsec.org/ ****************************************************************************** The 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Paris, France on November 10, 2014 in conjunction with IEEE VIS. Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing user assisted attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly interested in visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts so that further processing may be handled by machines, freeing analysts for other tasks. For example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of malicious software that facilitates generating a signature for future machine processing. When appropriate, research that incorporates multiple data sources, such as network packet captures, firewall rule sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs, and/or intrusion detection system logs, is particularly desirable. Technical Papers ================ Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Posters ======= Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Data ==== If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST 2012 Challenge data. VAST 2013 and VAST 2011 also had cyber security data if you are looking for additional data. Submissions =========== Papers ------ Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG Proceedings Templates provides Word and LaTeX templates. (If you are using LaTeX, please use Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style.) Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. ACM invites authors to submit an image representation of their article. The image must be selected from the article body and can be any of the following: art, graphic, table, figures, etc. (Image files are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi and in jpg format.) Authors must supply a caption with the image. The caption length should be no more than 512 characters. Posters ------- Interested authors should submit an extended abstract as PDF of at most 2 pages including figures and references. Accepted abstracts will be made available on this website. Authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Submission ---------- Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2014 Important Dates =============== All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers ------ August 8, 2014 Submission for Papers September 12, 2014 Author Notification for Papers October 03, 2014 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters ------- September 19, 2014 Abstract Submission for Posters September 26, 2014 Author Notification for Poster

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The IEEE International Data-Visualization Contest 2014
by Wong, Pak C 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Call for Participation The IEEE VGTC International Data-Visualization Contest Contest Theme: Visualization-Now I See It! http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-international-data-visualization-contest DEADLINE: Monday, Sept 1, 2014 The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)<http://vgtc.org/> is sponsoring its first International Data-Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2014 contest theme is "Visualization-Now I See It!" 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. The award will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2014<http://ieeevis.org/> conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2014 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. 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 3 submissions to the 2014 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on Monday, September 1, 2014 to qualify for the 2014 contest. Selection Procedure All active IEEE VPG members<http://vgtc.org/content/vis-pioneers-group-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 5-member selection committee will thoroughly review and assess the top contest submissions based on communication effectiveness and design originality. The selection committee will submit their recommendation for best visualization to the IEEE VGTC chair by Monday, Oct 27, 2014. Monetary Award Along with a certificate, the winner of the IEEE/VGTC VIS Pioneers Group Best Data-Visualization Award will receive a check for $500 USD. Only one monetary award will be given in 2014. Submission Details The 2014 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. The contest participant should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:ieeevpg@googlegroups.com>. The package will 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. An up to 200 words 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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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Provenance for Sensemaking Workshop
by G.Elisabeta Marai 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org ************************************************************************* Call for Participation: Provenance for Sensemaking Workshop http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/prov4sense/ ************************************************************************* November 2014, Paris, France (Half Day, Part of IEEE VIS 2014) === 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 === Important Dates === - Submission: 31 Aug 2014 - Notification: 14 Sep 2014 - Workshop: 10 or 11 Nov 2014 (TBC) === Submission === - Extended abstract or position paper - 1 to 2 pages - IEEE TVCG format: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html - Submission through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prov4sense === Organizers === Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK Simon Attfield, Middlesex University, UK T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University, USA -- 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: Workshop on Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Visualizations
by G.Elisabeta Marai 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Visualizations http://decisive-workshop.dbvis.de/ <http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This one-day workshop will be held as part of *IEEE VIS 2014* <http://ieeevis.org/>, in Paris, 9-14 November IMPORTANT DATES - Submission of extended abstract: 19th Sept - Notifications of acceptance: 6th Oct - Workshop day: 9/10th Nov (exact date to be confirmed) SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Our inherent reliance on mental shortcuts, or heuristics, sometimes results in deviations in judgment from what rational decision models would predict. These deviations are known as cognitive biases. Heuristics allow us to make “good enough” decisions without expending all of our cognitive effort on the task, however, in critical decision environments, “good enough” is often NOT good enough. Visualization tools are increasingly adept at making sense of complex data, but researchers who study cognitive biases have come to realize that the quality of decisions made with these tools are often impaired because tool designers fail to address how heuristics and biases operate in a human-computer interactive setting. Despite decades of research on cognitive biases in controlled settings, there is yet no “recipe book” for experimentally-validated tools and techniques to avoid judgment biases when building tools for solving complex problems in the real world. As well as considering software mitigation solutions, we would also like to explore whether the way we visualize data is subject to cognitive biases. We invite participants from a wide range of disciplines such as information visualization, visual analytics, software engineering, cognitive psychology and decision science, as well as those close to end-user groups like intelligence analysts, to explore some of the ways in which biases impact user performance and share ideas and experiences about practical ways to reduce or overcome these potentially harmful effects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - analytic techniques to mitigate cognitive biases - cognitive biases and information visualization - integrating cognitive bias mitigation into existing software - measuring susceptibility to cognitive bias - empirical methods for investigating cognitive biases - cognitive biases in collaborative systems - new classification schemes for cognitive biases - persuasive technology - evaluation techniques/methodologies - survey/SOTA The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations, panel sessions 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 an extended abstract (about 2 pages) of either a position or technical paper. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, and relevance to the workshop. Authors will then be invited to contribute to the workshop through individual presentations and to submit full papers, which will be published in the workshop proceedings. Further details will be given in due course. CONTACT For further details please contact: Geoffrey Ellis, ellis(a)dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de Twitter: @DECISIVe_ws website: http://decisive-workshop.dbvis.de/ <http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/> ORGANIZERS Geoffrey Ellis, University of Konstanz, Germany David Peebles, University of Huddersfield, UK Donald Kretz, Raytheon, USA Gaëlle Lortal, THALES Research & Technology, Paris ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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