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CfP: VLC 2012 deadline extended: submissions due April 15th
by J.Burton＠brighton.ac.uk 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.) ===================================================== The paper submission deadline for VLC2012 is extended to Midnight EST, April 15, 2012. However in exceptional cases, we may provide short extensions to authors who may need a few more days to finalize their work. VLC 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing in conjunction with The 18th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach, USA August 9 - August 11, 2012 (URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms12.html) Theme: Effectiveness of Visual Languages Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A. SCOPE Visual languages mediate human and computer interaction. For some visual languages this mediation is straightforward; using a mouse to access a drop-down menu is well-known to computer users. For others, this mediation can be enriched via sketch and gesture recognition. This is made possible by advances in commodity hardware. More formal visual languages allow experts to accurately specify complex systems, such as software architecture or chemical molecules. A visual language can also encompass complex human-computer interaction such as navigating a set of semantically linked videos. Indeed, precision of semantics underlies visual languages and computation. Aspects of visual computing are multi-faceted in goals that are to be achieved during information or language design. The following represents a short list of qualities that are of importance to the study within visual computing: efficiency, aesthetics, pleasure, emotion, engagement, immersion, collaboration, and culture. Aspects of art, engineering, and science play key roles where certain practitioners focus on design and engineering of visual interactions whereas others analyze and study these interactions (i.e., science). The International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing will explore these issues, and will be held in conjunction with the 2012 International Conference of Distributed Multimedia Systems (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms12.html) For this year's special theme we request high-quality submissions on visual languages that increase the efficacy of various tasks, or on the effectiveness of visual languages themselves. In addition to the special theme, we continue to solicit papers on all aspects and approaches to visual languages and computing, including interactive visual computing, computer-empowered visual computing, human-empowered visual computing, transformation algorithms for visual computing, and visual languages for visual computing. TOPICS The following topics are of special interest: Aesthetic Computing Ambient Information Interaction Automated Generation and Layout of Visualisations Biomedical Imagery Computer-Assisted Visual Art and Design Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities Gestural Computing Human-Machine Interface Design Human Vision Systems and Models Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and Representations for Visual Information Pictorial Databases and Information Systems Scientific Visualization Sketch and Gesture based design Sketch and Gesture based interaction with data Sketch Recognition Software to Support the use of Visual Languages Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning Visual Computing for Expert Communities Visual Computing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Visual Computing on Sensed Data Visual Languages Visual Programming Visualization of Computational Processes SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by the international Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of DMS 2012. A selection of the best papers will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. Papers of up to six (6) IEEE double-column pages should be submitted electronically via the VLC 2012 paper submission page: http://conf.ksi.edu/vlc2012/submit/SubmitPaper.php (submission site will be open Jan 1, 2012). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: April 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2012 Camera-ready copy: June 10, 2012 Early conference registration due: June 10, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Levent Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS A. J. Delaney, University of Brighton, UK; PC co-chair Metin Sezgin, Koc University, Turkey; PC co-chair PUBLICITY CHAIR J. Burton, University of Brighton, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dorothea Blostein, Queen's University, Canada Jeff Browne, UC Santa Barbara, USA Alfonso F. Cardenas, University of California, USA Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy Philip Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, USA Aidan Delaney, University of Brighton, UK Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno, Italy Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy Manuel J. Fonseca, INESC-ID, Portugal Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy Joaquim A Jorge, Instituto Suoerior Tecnico, Portugal Levent Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Robert Laurini, University of Lyon, France Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland Joseph J. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, USA Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tevfik Metin Sezgin, Koc University, Turkey Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Stefano Valtolina, University of Milan, Italy Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy CONFERENCE LISTED BY DBLP INSPEC Compendex AllConferences.com WikiCFP ====================================== Dr Jim Burton Lecturer in Computing University of Brighton ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________

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CFP AVI 2012 Workshop: Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration in Visual Analytics Systems (submission March 23)
by Nathalie Riche 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

(Apologies for multiple emails) (Please feel free to forward this to colleagues or to other relevant lists) Last call for papers Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration in Visual Analytics Systems, AVI 2012 workshop (21 may 2012) Submission deadline: March 23, 2012 *** Topic *** Visual analytics involves complex analytical processes that can often benefit from collaboration. Many researchers have explored co-located synchronous systems to help support collaborative visual analytics; however, the process can often be long and require a series of sessions. Providing support for asynchronous collaboration in visual analytics systems can help divide the problem between several analysts across many sessions to ensure that they can effectively work together toward a solution. Currently, visual analytics systems offer limited support for asynchronous, multi-session work. In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers from both the CSCW and Visual Analytics communities to discuss avenues for supporting asynchronous collaboration in visual analytics system. *** Submissions *** We invite authors to submit 2-4 page papers reporting contributions in the areas of collaborative visual analytics, or asynchronous collaboration or 2-page position statements motivating their interest in the workshop topic. Papers should be formatted according to the AVI 2012 (ACM SIG Proceedings) format. The selection of workshop participants and presentations will be based on refereed submissions. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to give short presentations. We will interweave presentation sessions with longer periods of discussions. Presentations will be grouped by key topics to foster spontaneous discussions. Please send submissions to nath(a)microsoft.com *** Important dates *** Submission deadline: 23 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 29 March 2012 Final submission: 2 April 2012 Workshop date: 21 May 2012 *** Organizers *** Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research, USA Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research, USA Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tom Gross, University of Bamberg, Germany

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OzCHI 2012 is calling for papers
by whua5569＠gmail.com 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues OzCHI 2012 is calling for papers. Topics include visualziation. OzCHI will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 26-30 November 2012. Melbourne is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and November is the best season to visit. Best regards Tony Huang ************ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********** OzCHI 2012 - Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia 26-30 Nov 2012 http://www.ozchi.org/ *********************************************** *Important Dates - Long papers: Submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: August 27th, 2012 Camera ready: October 15th, 2012 - Short papers Submission deadline: August 31st, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 28th, 2012 Camera ready: October 15th, 2012 --------------------------------- *Introduction OzCHI is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. It attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference also welcomes perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines. OZCHI is the annual conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia (HFESA). OzCHI 2012 is being held In cooperation with the ACM and accepted long and short papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. The conference will be held in the Advanced Technologies Centre at the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn campus. Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th November are devoted to workshops, tutorials and a doctoral consortium. Wednesday 28th November to Friday 30th November will contain the main body of the conference. *Conference Theme The conference theme, Innovation, Immersion, Integration, Inclusion and Interaction. The theme reflects both the global nature of HCI and the diversity of cultures within which people incorporate interactive use of computers in their daily lives. It also reflects how HCI practitioners and researchers conduct their research and build their applications. *Conference Topics OzCHI welcomes submssions concerning any aspect of HCI. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Accessibility - User Interfaces in Mobile devices - Social and collaboration technologies - Mashups and end-user programming - Embodied interaction and tangible computing - Ubiquitous computing - Visualisation, mixed reality and game technologies - Intelligent User Interfaces - Consideration of affective, emotional and motivational aspects - Design and social research methods - User Interaction Issues with the use of ICT in expanding cultural contexts and in all aspects of home, work, play and life - eHealth and Welfare - HCI education - Benevolence, including HCI research in areas such as aid and development, human rights, community projects etc. *Conference Organizers - Conference Chair Viv Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology - Conference Academic Chair Graham Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology - Technical Program Chairs Caslon Chua, Swinburne University of Technology Weidong (Tony) Huang, CSIRO ICT Centre Clinton Woodward, Swinburne University of Technology - Short Papers and Posters Chairs Graham Farrell, Swinburne University of Technology Raj Vasa, Swinburne University of Technology - Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Dana McKay, Swinburne University of Technology Karola Von Baggo, Swinburne University of Technology Duncan Stevenson, ANU - Industry and Sponsorship Chairs Kon Mouzakis, Swinburne University of Technology - Panels Chair Florian Nachreiner, Medibank Private - Doctoral Consortium Chairs Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sydney Margot Brereton, Queensland University of Technology - Student Design Challenge Chairs Martin Tomitsch, University of Sydney Andrew Cain, Swinburne University of Technology - Student Volunteer Chairs Susan Hansen, UTS & Rhodes University Ruchi Saraf, Swinburne University of Technology Olga Gologshchapova, Swinburne University of Technology Shannon Pace, Swinburne University of Technology - CHISIG Liaison Steve Roberts We look forward to your involvement at this year's OzCHI conference. Viv Farrell, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology: Conference Chair Graham Farrell, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology: Academic Co-Chair Please direct any enquiries to Viv Farrell by email: conf.chair[AT]ozchi.org

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Extended deadline: CFP - Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics
by Urska Cvek 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

6th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) ****************** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/IVbm.htm ************************** IVBI 2012: July 11, 2012 * IV 2012: July 10-13, 2012 * Montpellier * France ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2012 ***EXTENDED*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Call for papers and participation Organized as part of the 2012 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 6th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original papers in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical and biomolecular data and processes. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting interaction with large and complex data sets. We encourage the submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys. Peer-reviewed papers will be published in conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines. ** Example topics include, but are not limited to: High-performance computing and parallel rendering Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment and search Protein structure, function, sequence analysis Signaling pathways, biochemical networks Gene regulation, expression, identification and networks DNA, RNA structure, function, sequence analysis Biochemical and cellular simulations and models Structural, functional and comparative genomics Biomarkers Drug design Computer aided diagnosis ** Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to: Interaction with data sets, human factors Data exploration using classical and novel approaches Visualization and databases Linking literature and semantics in pathway visualizations Volume and flow visualization Annotation and labeling Overview and detail presentation of predictive or uncertain data Comparative Methods / User studies / Surveys Identification of correlated and anomalous relationships in disparate data sets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 15 March 2012 - Submission of papers through online submission system 5 May 2012 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) and early registration 11 July 2012 - Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/IVbm.htm Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm IV 2012: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/ ** Symposium chairs: Urska Cvek, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.edu Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu

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CFP AVI 2012 Workshop: Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration in Visual Analytics Systems (submission March 16)
by Nathalie Riche 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

(Apologies for multiple emails) (Please feel free to forward this to colleagues or to other relevant lists) Call for papers Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration in Visual Analytics Systems, AVI 2012 workshop (21 may 2012) Submission deadline: March 16, 2012 *** Topic *** Visual analytics involves complex analytical processes that can often benefit from collaboration. Many researchers have explored co-located synchronous systems to help support collaborative visual analytics; however, the process can often be long and require a series of sessions. Providing support for asynchronous collaboration in visual analytics systems can help divide the problem between several analysts across many sessions to ensure that they can effectively work together toward a solution. Currently, visual analytics systems offer limited support for asynchronous, multi-session work. In this workshop, we seek to bring together researchers from both the CSCW and Visual Analytics communities to discuss avenues for supporting asynchronous collaboration in visual analytics system. *** Submissions *** We invite authors to submit 2-4 page papers reporting contributions in the areas of collaborative visual analytics, or asynchronous collaboration or 2-page position statements motivating their interest in the workshop topic. Papers should be formatted according to the AVI 2012 (ACM SIG Proceedings) format. The selection of workshop participants and presentations will be based on refereed submissions. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to give short presentations. We will interweave presentation sessions with longer periods of discussions. Presentations will be grouped by key topics to foster spontaneous discussions. Please send submissions to nath(a)microsoft.com *** Important dates *** Submission deadline: 16 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2012 Final submission: 2 April 2012 Workshop date: 21 May 2012 *** Organizers *** Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research, USA Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research, USA Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tom Gross, University of Bamberg, Germany

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VAST Challenge 2012 Call for Participation
by Cook, Kristin A 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies.) VAST Challenge 2012 Call for Participation Mini-challenge 1 data now available! See http://www.vacommunity.org/vastchallenge2012 This year's VAST Challenge focuses on visual analytics applications for both large scale situation analysis and cyber security. There will be two mini-challenges to test your visual analytics applications and your analytical skills. Available now: In mini-challenge 1, (the imaginary) BankWorld's largest financial institution, the (fictitious) Bank of Money needs your best situation awareness visualizations to understand the health of its global corporate network. How do you visualize status data for a network containing nearly a million computers in a way that you can perceive network health and identify problems? Coming soon: In mini-challenge 2, unusual events are occurring in one of the Bank of Money's regional offices. Some of them may very well wreak havoc across the institution if they turn out to be malicious. What are these unusual events? And if you were in charge of computer security, what actions should be taken to safeguard the network and quite possibly save the Bank of Money from disaster? (Participants from last year's VAST challenge may find their firewall and IDS log analysis tools useful for this challenge as well.) We encourage participation by individuals and teams in industry and academia. Creative approaches to visual analytics are encouraged. Please visit http://www.vacommunity.org/vastchallenge2012 for more information about the challenge and to download datasets and instructions. Data for mini-challenge 1 is available now. Data for mini-challenge 2 will be available soon. For more information, please contact vast_challenge(a)visweek.org<http://visweek.vgtc.org/visweek/2012/info/call-participation/vast_challenge…>. The submission deadline is July 9, 2012. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions! Kris Cook and Georges Grinstein, VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs

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Call for Papers: VLC 2012 (Submission due March 31st!)
by J.Burton＠brighton.ac.uk 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies.) =========================================================== VLC 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing in conjunction with The 18th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach, USA August 9 - August 11, 2012 (URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms12.html) Theme: Effectiveness of Visual Languages Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A. SCOPE Visual languages mediate human and computer interaction. For some visual languages this mediation is straightforward; using a mouse to access a drop-down menu is well-known to computer users. For others, this mediation can be enriched via sketch and gesture recognition. This is made possible by advances in commodity hardware. More formal visual languages allow experts to accurately specify complex systems, such as software architecture or chemical molecules. A visual language can also encompass complex human-computer interaction such as navigating a set of semantically linked videos. Indeed, precision of semantics underlies visual languages and computation. Aspects of visual computing are multi-faceted in goals that are to be achieved during information or language design. The following represents a short list of qualities that are of importance to the study within visual computing: efficiency, aesthetics, pleasure, emotion, engagement, immersion, collaboration, and culture. Aspects of art, engineering, and science play key roles where certain practitioners focus on design and engineering of visual interactions whereas others analyze and study these interactions (i.e., science). The International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing will explore these issues, and will be held in conjunction with the 2012 International Conference of Distributed Multimedia Systems (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms12.html) For this year's special theme we request high-quality submissions on visual languages that increase the efficacy of various tasks, or on the effectiveness of visual languages themselves. In addition to the special theme, we continue to solicit papers on all aspects and approaches to visual languages and computing, including interactive visual computing, computer-empowered visual computing, human-empowered visual computing, transformation algorithms for visual computing, and visual languages for visual computing. TOPICS The following topics are of special interest: Aesthetic Computing Ambient Information Interaction Automated Generation and Layout of Visualisations Biomedical Imagery Computer-Assisted Visual Art and Design Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities Gestural Computing Human-Machine Interface Design Human Vision Systems and Models Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and Representations for Visual Information Pictorial Databases and Information Systems Scientific Visualization Sketch and Gesture based design Sketch and Gesture based interaction with data Sketch Recognition Software to Support the use of Visual Languages Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning Visual Computing for Expert Communities Visual Computing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Visual Computing on Sensed Data Visual Languages Visual Programming Visualization of Computational Processes SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by the international Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of DMS 2012. A selection of the best papers will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. Papers of up to six (6) IEEE double-column pages should be submitted electronically via the VLC 2012 paper submission page: http://conf.ksi.edu/vlc2012/submit/SubmitPaper.php (submission site will be open Jan 1, 2012). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2012 Camera-ready copy: June 10, 2012 Early conference registration due: June 10, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Levent Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS A. J. Delaney, University of Brighton, UK; PC co-chair Metin Sezgin, Koc University, Turkey; PC co-chair PUBLICITY CHAIR J. Burton, University of Brighton, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dorothea Blostein, Queen's University, Canada Jeff Browne, UC Santa Barbara, USA Alfonso F. Cardenas, University of California, USA Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy Philip Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, USA Aidan Delaney, University of Brighton, UK Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno, Italy Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy Manuel J. Fonseca, INESC-ID, Portugal Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy Joaquim A Jorge, Instituto Suoerior Tecnico, Portugal Levent Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Robert Laurini, University of Lyon, France Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland Joseph J. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, USA Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tevfik Metin Sezgin, Koc University, Turkey Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Stefano Valtolina, University of Milan, Italy Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy CONFERENCE LISTED BY DBLP INSPEC Compendex AllConferences.com WikiCFP =========================================================== Regards, Dr Jim Burton Lecturer in Computing University of Brighton ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________

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14th ISSI Conference in Vienna - first announcement
by Steinbrunner Silvia 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Dear All, The 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (http://www.issi-society.info/upcoming.html) will take place in Vienna, Austria 15-19 July 2013. The conference will be hosted by the University of Vienna and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. Please save the date! Best regards, Juan Gorraiz & Edgar Schiebel juan.gorraiz(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:juan.gorraiz@univie.ac.at>; edgar.schiebel(a)ait.ac.at<mailto:edgar.schiebel@ait.ac.at>

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Extended Deadline (Mar 30): AVI Workshop "Designing Interactive Spaces"
by Hans-Christian Jetter 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Second Call for Papers: "Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning." Workshop DCIS 2012 @ AVI 2012, Capri, Italy May 25th, 2012 Website: http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ !!! DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO: March, 30th, 2012 !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Submission until: March 30th, 2012 (4 page research & position papers, ACM SIG Proceedings Format) Interactive spaces are physical environments or rooms for co-located collaborative work that are augmented with ubiquitous computing technology. Their purpose is to enable a computer-supported collaboration between multiple users based on a seamless use of different devices for natural post-Windows-Icons-Menu-Pointer interaction, e.g., multi-display environments, multi-touch walls, interactive tabletops, tablet PCs, tangible user interfaces or digital pen & paper. These environments can serve to support or augment group activities such as presentation, discussion, brainstorming, sketching, drafting or sensemaking. While the original vision of interactive spaces can be traced back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, many findings about the theory, design and practice of interactive spaces have to be re-evaluated today. Due to the recent advances in commercially available hardware and software (novel tabletops such as Microsoft Surface 2.0, light high-performance tablets and tablet PCs, pico projectors & depth cameras for gestural and 'touch anywhere' interaction, operating systems bridging mobile and stationary devices, e.g. Microsoft Windows 8), this field moves quickly and formerly impossible designs and visions can now be put into practice. This new generation of interactive spaces with natural user interfaces is of great relevance in knowledge-intensive and collaborative domains such as e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning. The DCIS 2012 workshop aims at documenting and advancing the current state-of-the-art of co-located collaboration in interactive spaces. Our goal is to identify the essential research challenges and formulating a future research agenda by inviting high-quality position and research papers from HCI, Information Visualization, CSCW, e-Science and CSCL. This multi-disciplinary perspective is intended to provide an overview of the field beyond the typical boundaries of disciplines. *** Submissions: *** We invite high-quality non anonymized research and position papers of up to 4 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings format http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis(a)inf.uni-konstanz.de. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by anonymous reviewers from the workshops program committee. All accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website. Extended versions of selected submissions will be published in a special issue of the Springer journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) Topics include but are not limited to: - Understanding users natural collaboration in rooms when using interactive spaces or non-digital physical artifacts. - Conceptual frameworks for natural user collaboration, learning and interaction. - Novel designs of interaction techniques, visualizations, smart furniture or devices for natural collaboration in interactive spaces. - Enabling technologies for natural interaction in interactive spaces ranging from software frameworks to computer vision and new sensor technology. - New observation and evaluation approaches for interactive spaces (e.g. longitudinal evaluation). - Best-practice examples and lessons learned from different application domains based on the experiences of academics and industry. As participants, we invite researchers from academia (professors, postdocs, PhD and graduate students), researchers from research labs, and practitioners from industry. In particular, we invite professional users of interactive spaces (e.g. designers, scientists, architects, analysts, journalists) to report about their real-world tasks, needs and experiences. Please note that the submission and acceptance of a research or position paper is necessary for attending the workshop (max. 3 participants per paper). *** At the workshop: *** We aim at high-quality 25 minute presentations (15 minute talk, 10 minute discussion) for each peer-reviewed submission. The presentations are followed by an open discussion or working groups to formulate a future research agenda for collaborative interactive spaces from the different domains. We hope to continue our discussion in a relaxed informal atmosphere at a workshop dinner as social event in the evening. *** Important dates: *** Submission deadline for research & position papers: March 30, 2012 (extended). Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2012 (Earlybird Registration of AVI ends on April 15, 2012). Date of the workshop: May 25, 2012. *** Contact: *** For question about the workshop please contact hans-christian.jetter(a)uni-konstanz.de. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis(a)inf.uni-konstanz.de. *** Organizers: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Media Design, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. *** Journal Publication Chair: *** Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York. *** Program Committee: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York tbc -- Hans-Christian Jetter (M.Sc.) Human-Computer Interaction Group http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/staff/Jetter University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Box D 73, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Room A 615, Phone +49-7531-88-3534

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Senior Research Fellow
by Sheena Wells 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Fellowship in Information Visualisation for the Biological Sciences Fixed term contract for up to 3 years (with possible 1 year extension) We are looking for an exceptional Senior Research Fellow to oversee the creation and management of 3D visualisation solutions across the 2020 Science research programme. The post is funded by a large EPSRC grant and will involve working on projects based across three principle sites, Oxford, UCL and Microsoft Research, Cambridge. The post holder will be expected to design and implement a visualisation strategy across the programme to determine where visualisation solutions would be most appropriate and the form they might take. We will consider candidates from various backgrounds, but all must be able to give evidence of their ability to produce outstanding and novel scientific visualisations and communicate their work effectively to a diverse mix of academics and scientists. Applicants should have a degree or PhD in a relevant area (e.g. Information Design, Computational Science, Mathematical or Computational Biology, Applied Mathematics, or Computer Science) coupled with an excellent portfolio of research in visualisation or information design. The Fellow will undertake research as a member of the University of Oxford, based in one of the Departments associated with the programme and be responsible to the Principal Investigators of the programme. The post is available for up to 3 years (with possible 1 year extension), has a salary on the University grade 08S scale (£37,012-£44,166 p.a.) or grade 07S scale (£29,249-£35,938 p.a.) depending on experience. For further details and to apply please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… The closing date for applications is 30 March 2012.

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