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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 Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference.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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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Practitioner Experiences Track
by G.Elisabeta Marai 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR POSTERS - PRACTITIONER EXPERIENCES TRACK http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/practitioner-experienc… We invite the submission of posters describing state-of-the-art, real world experiences in industry, government, NGOs, social agencies, etc. with designing, building, deploying and evaluating new information visualization and visual analytic systems. Posters should present case studies of success, failure, experimentation, design, development, methodology, best practice lessons and other topics relevant to a commercial, government or operational context. Discussion could include one or more of what were the business or service objectives, who were the users, what were their needs, what were the design objectives, what technology was developed, what was the result, how did it perform, what were the lessons learned and what are the next steps? No need to name specific clients, customers or programs, you can use indicators such as 'a large investment bank' or 'a top 10 pharmaceutical company' or 'health services'. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss your results, get feedback from the VIS community, and brainstorm new ideas relevant to your situation. Poster presentations will be an integral part of the conference, with a session for interactive discussion between presenters and attendees, plus a fast-forward presentation track where authors can orally present a brief summary of their work to all conference attendees. Note that, in order to maintain interactive and exciting poster presentations, we require at least one presenter per accepted poster to attend the conference. The most important publication criteria are originality, quality of presentation and relevance. Poster submissions must be in English. The submission must include a 2-page abstract, plus a draft of the final poster. A one paragraph summary may be in another language of your choice. Please be aware that the poster draft is mandatory. All submitted materials must be in PDF format with embedded fonts. Two-page abstracts will be included in the proceedings, and therefore must be formatted using the IEEE VIS (USB only) format described at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Track/vis-menu.html SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All poster submissions for the IEEE VIS Practitioner Experiences Track should be submitted via email to industry(a)ieeevis.org. Email submissions must be received on or before July 3, 2014 to be considered. Questions about this track or requests for help with submission problems can also be sent to industry(a)ieeevis.org. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES Submission Deadline: July 3, 2014 (5pm PDT) Notification: July 25, 2014 Final Submission of Camera Ready Summaries: August 8, 2014 Submission of Fast Forward Materials: September 30, 2014 The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, Andrew Vande Moere, Adam Perer, Arita Dasgupta, Liz Marai -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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CFP: CrowdUI 2014 - 1st International Workshop on User Interfaces for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
by Alessandro Bozzon 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '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!] *************************************************************************** 1st C A L L F O R P A P E R S CrowdUI 2014 1st International Workshop on User Interfaces for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/crowdui2014/ **************************************************************************** *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: March 7th, 2014 Aims and Scope -------------- Crowdsourcing and Human Computation raises a variety of new challenges for user interfaces and user interaction designers. How to efficiently and effectively support implicit and/or explicit Crowdsourcing and Human Computation tasks is still an open research question. The goal of the CrowdUI workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse fields related to the integration, interaction and visualization of data to explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to create effective user interfaces and usage experience for applications relying on, or producing crowdsourced data. Recent years witnessed an explosion in the number and variety of data crowdsourcing initiatives. From OpenStreetMap to Amazon Mechanical Turk, developers and practitioners have been striving to create user interfaces able to effectively and efficiently support the creation, exploration, and analysis of crowdsourced information. A representative example comes from the fields of Smart Cities and Human Mobility: there, new breeds of (mobile) human computation applications and games-with-a-purpose employ new interaction paradigms for the collection and retrieval of urban-related data. On the other hand, analysts and other urban stakeholders are provided with application that fused multiple datasources together in order to support sensemaking and knowledge-extraction processes for decision- making. The extensive usage of crowdsourcing techniques brings a major change of paradigm with respect to traditional user interface for data collection and exploration, as effectiveness, speed, and interaction quality concerns play a central role in supporting very demanding incentives, including monetary ones. At this purpose, cross fertilization between different disciplines is mandatory: existing approaches for visual interfaces design and implementation, data visualization and interaction methodologies, crowdsourced data management, and human computation task design should be merged with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and visualization paradigms for crowd-driven data collection, analysis, and exploration applications. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Interfaces for human computation tasks * Studies on quality, usability and effectiveness of human computation and crowdsourcing user interfaces * Innovative user interaction paradigms for task execution * Human computation interaction design tools * Game interfaces for crowdsourcing and human computation * Tools for human computation task design and deployment * Tools for visual analytics of crowdsourced data * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces for human computation tasks * Spam detection for crowdsourced data collection and analysis * Human factors in human computation task interface design * Work modelling for user interface adaptation * Performer /Task and Task/Performer recommendation Workshop Organizers ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano) EMAIL: crowduiworkshop(a)gmail.com Submission Procedure -------------------- *The 2 best submissions of the workshop will be included in the ACM proceedings of the AVI 2014 conference.* We welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and application visions originating from requirements for, and efforts aimed at, supporting crowdsourced and human computation tasks. We encourage the following submission types: * demos and posters not exceeding 2 pages * position and technical papers not exceeding 4 pages The CrowdUI workshop also aims at providing visibility and a discussion forum to universities, companies, and developers for presenting software tools related to the field of Web Engineering. We plan to provide you an exciting and highly interactive way of demonstrating your tool, systems, and research, and it is an excellent way of advertising the applicability of your results. Submissions about commercial tools, prototypes, open source software, and ongoing development are welcome. Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the CrowdUI Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. All submission must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI format. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the CrowdUI 2014 web submission system. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main AVI conference to be found on their website (http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/)

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2nd Call for Papers: Workshop on Immersive Volumetric Interaction (WIVI 2014) at IEEE VR 2014
by Bireswar Laha 12 Feb '14

12 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 16, 2014 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: February 27, 2014 CAMERA READY: March 15, 2014 EVENT DATE: Saturday March 29, 2014, 1:30pm - 5:00pm. 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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UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers
by Ben Steichen 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

=================================================== UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers =================================================== 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization - Aalborg, Denmark, 7-11 July, 2014 um.org/umap2014 ABOUT THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM =================================================== The UMAP 2014 Conference, following a tradition started in 1994, will include a Doctoral Consortium Session, which provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to scholars and researchers in the field who will provide constructive comments about their work. The doctoral consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers in the relevant fields. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see SUBMISSION INFORMATION for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected to be presented at a dedicated workshop as part of the conference. Promising, but less well-developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted application will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student's work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. TOPICS =================================================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the areas listed on the UMAP 2014 website: - User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the social era - User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the era of big data - User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the era of pervasive computing - Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies - Human factors and Models - Personal and Societal issues SUBMISSION INFORMATION =================================================== To apply for the UMAP 2014 doctoral consortium, students are asked to submit an abstract of their doctoral research that describes: - the problem being addressed - the motivation for addressing the problem - the main contributions that the dissertation aims to achieve - the progress made to date (including a clear description of the proposed approach) and the plan of further research - related work. Students should also include the stage they are in the PhD program, and a brief description of their background in order to enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. Papers must be submitted via the DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM EASYCHAIR INSTANCE: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2014dc Submissions should be pdf documents formatted according to the Springer LNCS style specified in the UMAP 2014 Call for Papers: Style files, templates, and details about the format can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The length of the abstract is limited to 6 pages. PROCEEDINGS =================================================== Accepted abstracts will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published as a book by Springer. FINANCIAL SUPPORT =================================================== Funding for selected students with accepted contributions may be available to cover some travel and accommodation expenses. More details will be provided on the conference web site as soon as funds will be available. IMPORTANT DATES =================================================== Submission deadline: March 7, 2014. Acceptance notifications: March 28, 2014. Camera-ready version: April 14, 2014. PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================================================== Liliana Ardissono, University of Turin, Italy Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy Fabio Gasparetti, Third University of Rome, Italy Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy Kathleen Mccoy, University of Delaware, USA Melike Sah, Trinity College, Ireland Olga C. Santos, aDeNu Research Group (UNED), Spain Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Marko Tkalcic, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS: =================================================== For more information, please contact the DC chairs: Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (email to: fricci(a)unibz.it) David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, USA (email to: chin(a)hawaii.edu) -- Dr. Ben Steichen Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T14Z, Canada www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/

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