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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Panels
by G.Elisabeta Marai 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR PANELS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/panels IEEE VIS 2014 Panels should address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels including potential users of visualization technology (e.g. practitioners and industry professionals) or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g. perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) would also be welcome. Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a stimulating, interactive debate. Panel proposals should describe the topic to be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of which should be limited to 500 words for each panelist, up to a maximum of four pages for the whole panel. Panels are scheduled for the duration of an entire paper session; panel proposals should thus target one hour and 40 minutes total duration, including question and discussion periods. We strongly recommend that in order to keep to time, the chair of the panel is not one of the panel speakers. Panel organizers should also submit a short description of the panel format and schedule (max. 1 page). This should be in a separate document from the proposal itself, and should describe the order of topics to be discussed, time to be spent on panelist presentations, and mechanisms for encouraging audience participation. Based on audience feedback, the duration of panelist presentations should allow ample time for intra-panel discussion and discussions between the panel and the audience. We also note that submitting similar topics to multiple venues (e.g. panels and workshops) is likely to result in at most one accepted proposal so that a broad range of topics can be presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Submit via email to: panels(a)ieeevis.org For more information contact: Jo Wood, Jing Yang, and Daniel Keefe at panels(a)ieeevis.org. The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 2, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org.

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giCentre - PhD Scholarships at City University London
by Dykes, Jason 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

We welcome applications to undertake PhD research in Visualization & Visual Analytics from those wanting to join our group at City University London. The Department of Computer Science, is offering three Doctoral Scholarships each valued at around £50,000 over three years. These will be awarded to the best proposals for research in priority areas: SoftwareSystems Engineering ; Human Centric Systems ; Information Analysis and Visualisation http://www.city.ac.uk/citygraduateschool/fees-and-funding/university-docto ral-studentships We encourage high calibre candidates to apply to undertake research in *Information Analysis and Visualization* through a research proposal that clearly identifies the area of research, articulating *the challenge*, *why this is a challenge* and *how this challenge will be tackled*. Application Closing Date: March 14 2014 Please contact us to discuss our research and your proposal before the end of February - gicentre(a)soi.city.ac.uk Details on giCentre research and information are at http://gicentre.org Criteria for assessment of applications are as follows : 50% Academic Qualifications - we expect a first class undergraduate degree (or 2.1 at high ranking institution), distinction at Masters level or equivalent academic qualifications 25% Proposal & References - we expect an outstanding proposal describing work likely to make a valuable contribution to the field & unequivocal support from referees 25% Academic record - we anticipate successful candidates having high quality publications or relevant professional roles and experience -- Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay, Jo Wood giCentre, City University London http://gicentre.org

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WSCG 2014 - Reminder Call for Papers - March 5, 2014 Graphics, Visualization, Vision - CfP
by Vaclav Skala 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Dear friends, Please, be so kind and distribute the Call for Papers according to your mailing list Many thanks Vaclav Skala sent to: infovis(a)infovis.org ---------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------- >>> REMINDER <<< >>> Call for Papers WSCG 2014 <<< >>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> in Eurographics cooperation, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< WSCG 2014 - 22nd International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 (http://www.wscg.eu - all WSCG events) http://www.wscg.cz will be held at Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (Plzen - the European City of Culture 2015) close to Prague, Czech Republic in June 2-5, 2014. Keynote speakers: -------------------- Manuel M. Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tino Wienkauf, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany Important Dates: ------------------- Paper submission: March 5, 2014 Acceptance notification: April 14, 2014 Venue: June 2 - 5, 2014 Accepted and Presented papers will be published in WSCG proceedings with ISBN and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and others. The best papers will be selected for publication in the Journal of WSCG ISSN 1213-6972 (http://wscg.zcu.cz/JWSCG/) ALL WSCG proceedings and Journal of WSCG since 1992 are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm, access free. The Pilsen City is close to Prague (Praha) - the Golden European city approx. 80km from the Plzen city (60 mins. by a coach). To reach the Pilsen city from the Prague airport is approx. 75 mins. by public transport - actually faster than to reach the Prague central parts. Main topics: -------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modelling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modelling, shape analysis & modelling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and related topics. Call for new reviewers: -------------------------- If you or colleague of yours would like to act as a reviewer for WSCG events, please, send: - First Name, Last Name, @mail, URL personal page by @mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subj. WSCG - Reviewing Feel free to contact me if you would have any question Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz - SUBJ.: WSCG 2014

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops<http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/tutorials> We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 2, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org. The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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Funded PhD student opportunity
by Sheelagh Carpendale 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

The Innovations in Visualization research group (innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/) in the Interactions Lab (ilab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/) at the University of Calgary is offering a PhD position starting either September 2014 or January 2015 for an exceptional student. This is a fully funded position (comfortably covering living expenses and health insurance) for at least 4 years. In particular, I am looking for an outstanding PhD student who has information visualization, visual analytics, and/or human computer interaction background, and who is interested in creating new visualizations and interfaces to help empower people with their own health-related information. Traditionally visualization and visual analytics have been applied to data arising from science and industry. In fact, previously data was not often thought about as being part of people's personal lives. However, in the last few years, this has been rapidly changing. Much of the often discussed "big data" is generated by individuals and their activities on social networks, as consumers, etc. Additionally, people are becoming more aware of data in their lives and are actively starting to collect it.This type of activity, perhaps typified by the Quantified Self movement, has triggered an industry response and now all kinds of self-monitoring devices are proliferating. However, while methods of gathering personal data are becoming ubiquitous, little has yet been done to make this data understandable and usable. One significant area in this regard is health. People are often collecting their own health data, to empower themselves, and to gain better control of their health.Sometimes they are collecting data because of their doctors instructions, sometimes they feel that if they monitored their activities they could better understand what factors trigger chronic conditions such as migraines and seizures. I would like to conduct research to discover how to help people work with this data, to find ways of presenting this data so that people can understand it and can make decisions and take actions based on it. The University of Calgary iLab is one of the leading information visualization and human computer interaction research labs. It is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is known for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. It is composed of four faculty members (Drs. Carpendale, Greenberg, Sharlin, Tang) and approximately 30 to 40 graduate students and Post Doctoral Fellows. You will be supervised by Sheelagh Carpendale in collaboration with doctors, researchers and medical personal at Ward of the 21^st Century (www.w21c.org/) at the Foothills Hospital. Please send your application, including CV, academic record and references, to sheelagh(a)ucalgary.ca. Please include a one-page statement of your research motivation and interests. The for best consideration, send your application by March 10, 2014. ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale Innovation in Visualization (InnoVis), Interactions Lab (iLab) Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada Telephone : +1 403 220 6055 E-Mail: sheelagh(a)ucalgary.ca Web: http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP
by G.Elisabeta Marai 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 (formerly VisWeek) http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION 9 - 14 NOVEMBER, 2014 PARIS, FRANCE 9TH IEEE VISUAL ANALYTICS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 20TH IEEE INFORMATION VISUALIZATION CONFERENCE 25th IEEE SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION CONFERENCE Co-located Symposia and Workshops: LARGE-SCALE DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION (LDAV) SYMPOSIUM VISUALIZATION FOR CYBER SECURITY (VizSec) WORKSHOP NOVEL EVALUATION METHODS FOR VISUALIZATION (Beliv) WORKSHOP (others to be announced soon) IEEE VIS 2014 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology, IEEE Information Visualization, and IEEE Scientific Visualization by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm. CO-LOCATED SYMPOSIA The 5th IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) aims at bringing together domain scientists, data analytics and visualization researchers, and users, and fostering the needed exchange to develop the next-generation data-intensive analysis and visualization technology. Visit ldav.org for more information. Other symposia will be announced soon! PRE-APPROVED WORKSHOPS The 11th IEEE Visualization for Cyber Security Symposium (VizSec) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in information visualization and security to address the specific needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. Visit www.vizsec.org for more information. The BELIV workshop series (http://www.beliv.org) is a bi-annual event focusing on the challenges of evaluation in visualization. The commonly used evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors appear insufficient to quantify the quality of a visualization system; BELIV 2014 aims at gathering researchers in all fields of visualization to continue the exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the knowledge on evaluation in visualization around a schema, where researchers can easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps. The VAST Contest will provide realistic problems and datasets to showcase the effectiveness of tools and methods in the domain of visual analytics. The contest collects several entries of varying complexity, aimed at allowing students, researchers, practitioners, and industry to benchmark their tools in a replicated way. LOCATION To celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2014, IEEE VIS comes for the first time in its history to Europe and the city of Paris, acknowledging the growing role of European research on visualization. Paris is a spectacular setting, combining the dynamic character of multicultural modern Europe with historical relics and monuments spanning over 2000 years. Curious visitors can explore the city's countless museums, galleries, and public spaces, while gastronomes will delight in Paris's extraordinary selection of restaurants. Located at the center of Western Europe, Paris is reachable from all major international airports. The conference venue is also conveniently located next to public transportation and accessible from all of the city's main airports and train stations. The conference will be located at the downtown Marriott Rive-Gauche, close to the main train line connecting the two airports of Paris. IMPORTANT DATES *VIS 2014 Deadlines* March 21, 2014 (Paper Abstracts) March 31, 2014 (Full Papers) May 2, 2014 (Workshops) June 15, 2014 (Tutorials & Panels) June 15, 2014 (Arts Program) June 21, 2014 (Doctoral Colloquium) June 27, 2014 (Posters) July 3, 2014 (Practitioner Experiences Posters) July 8, 2014 (VAST Challenge) July 31, 2014 (SciVis Contest) Check http://www.ieeevis.org/ for other deadlines and information. *LDAV Deadlines* May 8, 2014 (Paper Abstracts) May 15, 2014 (Full Papers) Check http://www.ldav.org/ for Poster deadlines and information. *VIS 2014 General Chair* Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA *VIS 2014 Conference Chairs* Giuseppe Santucci, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (VAST) Jason Dykes, City University London (InfoVis) David Laidlaw, Brown University (SciVis) *VIS 2014 Paper Chairs* Min Chen, University of Oxford (VAST) Chris North, Virginia Tech (VAST) Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen (InfoVis) Jeff Heer, University of Washington (InfoVis) Melanie Tory, University of Victoria (InfoVis) Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (SciVis) Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University (SciVis) Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University (SciVis) -- To keep up with conference activities and announcements: Twitter: @ieeevis and #ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis Questions? Email info(a)ieeevis.org The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Tutorials
by G.Elisabeta Marai 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR TUTORIALS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/tutorials Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to IEEE VIS 2014 and provide background on new tools and application domains necessary for research in data and information visualization and visual analytics. Tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including volume visualization and rendering, information visualization and data analytics, high performance computing, and scientific application communities. We are soliciting half-day tutorial proposals in the areas of visualization systems, mathematical foundations, methods, and application areas. We welcome course proposals that introduce emerging technologies to the visualization community, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. Topics can include--but are not limited to--any of those listed in the calls for papers for VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis. Tutorials with an application focus are also encouraged. TUTORIAL DETAILS Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the tutorial's importance and suitability for presentation in a tutorial format, the past experience and qualifications of the instructors, the overall balance in the tutorial program, and the likely attendance of the tutorial. All tutorial proposals should include: * The level of the tutorial (beginning, intermediate, or advanced) * An abstract of the tutorial topic * A description of the tutorial's organization including time allocation and outline for major course topics (500 word minimum) * The background and contact information for each instructor. Proposals should not exceeed two (maximum three) pages, and should be submitted via PCS. Please note the formatting guidelines when preparing your submission. Feel free to address any questions concerning submission, format, and content to tutorials(a)ieeevis.org. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: June 15, 2014 CHAIRS Tim Dwyer, Monash University Derek Xiaoyu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte T. J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University For more information, email tutorials(a)ieeevis.org The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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CFP: GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale
by Gennady Andrienko 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale Workshop @ GIScience (23 September 2014, Vienna, AT) & Special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2015) Call for papers The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at GIScience’2006 - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008 - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008 - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at AGILE'2010 - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at GIScience'2012 Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2007, v.21(8) - Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4) - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2009, v.36 (3) - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, v.24(10) - forthcoming special issues of Information Visualization (2014) and IJGIS (2014) The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from relevant fields to address research issues of geospatial visual analytics in the multidisciplinary context of GI Science. Geospatial visual analytics has a tendency to emphasize the spatial components of geographic information. At this workshop we encourage approaches that utilize and emphasize the temporal characteristics of geographic information, consider geographic and temporal information at multiple scales, use interactive and dynamic displays in visual analytics. The theme for the workshop is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with spatial and/or temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area with innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing particularly encouraged. A special issue of CaGIS is planned as a consequence. The workshop will give participants the chance to present ongoing and developing work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will provide selected participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Papers will be selected for consideration for the special issue according to the quality, maturity and likely impact of the work in addition to its fit with the workshop theme and established research agenda published in "Space, Time, and Visual Analytics" http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2010.508043 Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing: - individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces dynamics of geo-localised sensor data - spatio-temporal events - remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data - volunteered geographic information as well as - models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: Gennady and Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS and City University London), Jason Dykes (City University London), Menno-Jan Kraak (University of Twente), Anthony Robinson (Penn State University), Heidrun Schumann (University of Rostock) ICA Commission on GeoVisualization: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Supported by: SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program) Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA2014 Submission and selection procedure & deadlines February 14, 2014 CFP announced May 1, 2014 Authors should submit extended abstracts (PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE TVCG format, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html for formatting details) via the conference management system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVA2014/ AND send a message to Gennady Andrienko. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome, they should be included to the PDF. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue June 1, 2014 Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors. Short abstracts of accepted presentations will be published online at the workshop web site. September 1, 2014 Full papers for the special issue(s) are submitted September 23, 2014 Authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop Vienna, AT for feedback and discussion November 1, 2014 Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue December 1, 2014 Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments. January 1, 2015 Final notifications 2015 CaGIS special issue published Last updated: February 14, 2014 ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ... VA research: http://visual-analytics.info ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R370BREAAAAJ *** new book: Visual Analytics of Movement (Springer, 2013): ... http://www.springer.com/book/978-3-642-37582-8 ... book's web site: http://geoanalytics.net/vam ____________________________________________________________

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Final Call for Papers: WIVI 2014 - Papers due Wednesday Feb 19th
by Bireswar Laha 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

[Apologies for cross-posting] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Immersive Volumetric Interaction (WIVI 2014) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:30pm-5:00pm There is a growing interest in interaction research of volumes for immersive virtual environments and immersive visualizations. Traditional interaction modalities may not be sufficient to select and manipulate multiple objects or data points or have the potential to interfere with users' sense of immersion or workflow. Additionally, there is a strong interest in scaling interfaces from the desktop display to higher immersive display systems. As a result, cost, availability, and familiarity all play a role in designing interaction. Solutions tend to be focused on separately in these communities, however this will serve as a common forum to openly discuss these issues and ideas for solutions. The IEEE VR 2014 Workshop on Immersive Volumetric Interaction is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and users from multiple communities in Virtual Environments, 3D User Interfaces, and Immersive Visualizations to discuss issues and share ideas that relate to the process, interaction modalities, hardware, software, interface constraints, and users' goals and workflow as they relate to the problem of interacting with volumetric data in immersive visualizations and/or multiple objects defined as a volume in virtual environments. This half-day workshop will provide a forum for presentations and energized discussions to initial new and exciting developments in this area as well as connections for collaborations among multiple research disciplines. The program will consist of planned presentations of accepted papers and focused lively discussions. Possible issues for discussion, but not limited to, are natural user interfaces, interaction modalities, selection, manipulation, quality of immersion, physical and cognitive fatigue, low-cost immersive systems (input and output), user goals and workflow, and analysis tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite novel submissions (papers up to 6 pages, minimum of 2 pages) describing positions, preliminary research or evaluation results, prototypes, design work, works-in-progress or applications focus on interaction with volumetric data in immersive visualizations and/or multiple objects representing a volume in virtual environments. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE Computer Society format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and authors of accepted papers will be invited to present at the workshop. Demonstrations of prototype interfaces, interaction modalities, and interactive immersive systems are highly encouraged. Participants providing a demonstration will be asked to submit a brief abstract and short video. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 19, 2014 (midnight PST) NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: February 27, 2014 CAMERA READY: March 15, 2014 EVENT DATE: Saturday March 29, 2014, 1:30pm - 5:00pm. Submissions should be submitted in PDF format by emailing your submission to wivi2014(a)googlegroups.com. You may contact the organizers for any questions. Please include authors, affiliation, and contact information when submitting. Further details regarding submissions and other information can be found at: http://www.w-ivi.org/ Submission for review: position statement papers or works-in-progress 2 to 4 pages, research papers of 4 to 6 pages length. All submitted materials must be in PDF format with embedded fonts. Camera-ready documents will be included in the proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library, and therefore must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format described at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html. (Templates provided) We ask that you prepare your initial submission as close to camera-ready as possible. At least one author must give an oral presentation of about 15-20 min of their work at the workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amy Banic, University of Wyoming and Idaho National Laboratory Patrick O'Leary, Kitware, Inc. Bireswar Laha, Virginia Tech If you have any questions about this workshop please contact the organizers: wivi2014 "at" googlegroups.com -- Bireswar Laha PhD Candidate Computer Science Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/blaha/

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