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Call for book chapters: Human centric visualization: Theories, methodologies and case studies
by whua5569＠gmail.com 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Please help to circulate. ******** CALL FOR CHAPTERS ************* Abstract due: Feb 24, 2012 Notification due: March 09, 2012 Full chapter due: June 15, 2012 *Human centric visualization: Theories, methodologies and case studies * A book edited by Tony Huang (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia), to be published by Springer: www.springer.com Web: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=19780%A9ownerid=14… *1. Introduction* Visualizations are produced for people to make sense or interact with them. Rapid advances in display technology and computer power have enabled researchers to produce visually appealing pictures or compelling visual environments to end users. However, the effectiveness of those pictures in conveying embedded information to the users and impact of visual environments on humans have not been fully understood. This book addresses issues related to design, evaluation and application of visualizations from a human centric perspective. This cutting-edge book is an edited volume whose contributors include experts worldwide, from diverse disciplines including psychologist, artists, engineers and scientists. Academics, students, engineers and consultants will find this book useful for both research and engineering purposes. *2. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:* *Part I: Introduction and overview* Current status and future challenges of visualization methods Current status and future challenges of human centric visualizations research Survey of design principles and evaluation methods in visualization *Part II: Theories, models, heuristics and design principles for human centric visualization* Survey of theories, models, heuristics and design principles for visualization Theories of visual thinking, diagram perception, cognition and reasoning and their applications Latest developments toward theories of visualization Latest development of models, heuristics and design principles for visualization Applications of the theories, models, heuristics and design principles Adaptations and applications of theories from other domains in visualization *Part III: Methodologies for design, development and evaluation of human centric visualization* Evaluation methods Measurement metrics Taxonomies of tasks Design and evaluation frameworks Development and validation of methodologies Application of methodologies Lessons learned and experience obtained in developing and applying methodologies *Part IV: Case studies of human centric visualization* Human factors (e.g., memory, cognitive ability, gender, individual differences) Visual perception and cognition Social, cultural aspects of visualizations Implications of new technologies (e.g., displays, new media) on humans User experience Implications of interactive methods on humans Implications of new visualizations on humans Roles of human in collaborative visualizations Use of visualizations for decision making Use of visualizations for learning Use of visualizations in business Use of visualizations in software engineering Visualizations in virtual reality/mixed reality/augmented reality Case studies and evaluations of interfaces, systems and prototypes of visualizations Lessons learned and experience obtained in evaluating and designing visualizations ......... *3. International editorial advisory board* Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA Philip Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA Joe Goldberg, Oracle, USA John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Maolin Huang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA Jack van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands *4. Important dates* Abstract due: Feburary 24, 2012 (Abstract has no length limits, usually should include motivations, method, contributions and a brief outline of the full chapter) Notification: March 09, 2012 Full chapter due: June 15, 2012 Full manuscript due to publisher: August 1, 2012 Book publication: October 1, 2012 *5. Contact* All submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Tony Huang (CSIRO ICT Center, Australia) Email: whua5569(a)gmail.com

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CfP for a Special Session on Visual Data Clustering at IV2012
by Gilles Venturini 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

[Please distribute and accept our apologies for cross-posting.] ================================ Call for Papers ================================ special session on Advances in Interactive and Visual Data Clustering http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/AIVDAC.htm organized within the 16th International Conference Information Visualisation 2012, which will be held on 10, 11, 12 and 13 July 2012, LIRMM CNRS Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, France. (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/) Scope -------- Visual and interactive approaches have been developed for data clustering since several decades now with the aim of improving the discovery of clusters in unlabelled data. With the new challenges that result from the accumulation of large and complex datasets, efficient visual data clustering requires the study and implementation of new and advanced methods. The aim of this symposium is to let researchers make a state of the art, discuss their ideas, present recent advances and results within the context of data clustering and visualizations or interactive methods. The scope of the symposium will cover all aspects of visual and interactive data clustering. This includes many different issues like: - How can the domain expert create clusters from an interactive visualization of large and/or complex data? - How can standard clustering algorithms be combined and improved with visualizations and interactions? - What methods may efficiently reorganize a visual structure in order to let clusters appear? - What are the recent and successful applications of visual data clustering? Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics covered, but not limited to, include: - Visualization of clusters: maps, dendrograms, trees, matrices, 1D/2D/3D/nD ... - Clustering algorithm that produce visual results: Self-Organizing Maps, hierarchical agglomerative clustering, biomimetic algorithms, proximity graphs - Cooperation between clustering and visualization algorithms - Reorganization of visualizations, rearrangement clustering, matrix or tree reordering - Interactive discovery of clusters, other interactions with clusters in visualization - Visual analytics and data clustering - Handling large and complex data: Bioinformatics, Social networks, attributes-values, sequences, trees, graphs - Parallel implementation of visual clustering approaches - User and case studies Organizers --------------- - Hanene Azzag, University of Paris 13, France hanene.azzag(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr - Mustapha Lebbah, University of Paris 13, France Mustapha.lebbah(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr - Gilles Venturini, University Francois Rabelais of Tours, France venturini(a)univ-tours.fr Important Dates ---------------------- 1 March 2012 : Submission of papers 22 April 2012 : Notification of Reviewing Result 05 May 2012 : Submission of camera-ready Instruction 5 July 2012 : Pre-Registration date 10- 13 July 2012 : Conference Days Author Guidelines: -------------------------- Please follow the regular submission guidelines of IV 2012 for full paper or short paper at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm Submit your paper using paper submission system, select the correct special session and notify us by sending an email. -- Assistant professor University of Paris 13 LIPN-UMR 7030 - CNRS 99, av. J-B Clément F-93430 Villetaneuse Tel: +331 49 40 28 31 Fax: +331 48 26 07 12

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CFP: VisualCol 2012
by Robert Biuk-Aghai 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Call for Papers and Participation International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol 2012) As part of The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) May 21-25, 2012, The Westin Westminster Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA Workshop website: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-17-visualcol In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submission Deadline: February 05, 2012 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters Brief Description: In many collaborative situations, multiple distributed users simultaneously interact with and analyse complex information while sharing their results with others. It is through such collaboration that multiple users bring their expertise to bear on a particular problem to analyse incomplete information and reach collaborative decisions. Such collaboration is far more effective when users collaborate by interacting with meaningful visualizations that accurately depict shared information. Visualizations must present information in a manner that is easily understood by individuals with different expertise and perspectives on the problem at hand. Users must be able to interact with the visualization to highlight or manipulate information in a natural way that is readily observed by other participants. At the same time it is also important to understand the collaborative processes that users in collaborative environments carry out, and the outcomes of these processes, particularly in large-scale collaborations such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogging (twitter, identica etc), social networking and other Web 2.0 collaborative environments. Visualizations of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes help researchers, site administrators and end-users to perceive such patterns that are otherwise difficult to perceive given the vastness of the information involved. This workshop on Visualization and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) – will have a dual focus on visualization and its role in collaboration, as well as visualization of collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for visualization in and of collaborative environments. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization speciality. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative visualization architectures, technologies, or algorithms - Visualization for managing collaborative environments - Unique challenges in collaborative visualization - Collaborative visualization solutions and applications - Web-based collaborative visualization - Visualization in collaborative decision making and support - Collaborative data analysis and visualization - Visualization in/of Social Networks and Media - Visualization of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes of collaborative environments and social networks Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline ---------------- February 05, 2012 Notification of Acceptance --------------- February 19, 2012 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due ---- March 01, 2012 Conference Dates: ------------------------ May 21 - 25, 2012

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CFP: AAAI ICWSM Workshop on Social Media Visualization
by Eser Kandogan 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Call for Papers Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) 4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://socmedvis.ucd.ie Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena. The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for presentation of research and applications of visualization of social media data. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics approaches to social media data sources. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012 Notification: 16th March 2012 Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012 Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012 Workshop: 4th June 2012 Topics We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics Submissions Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization or visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according to AAAI guidelines. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using EasyChair by 2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session. The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by 2nd April 2012. We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where visualization is needed to understand social media data. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://socmedvis.ucd.ie or email socmedvis(a)ucd.ie. Regards, Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault(a)ucd.ie Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, eser(a)us.ibm.com Martin Harrigan, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan(a)ucd.ie

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Call for Papers: VLC 2012 (August, Miami)
by J.Burton＠brighton.ac.uk 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '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 -------------------------------------------- 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: ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS)
by Petra Isenberg 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

*Call for Participation: Papers& Notes* *ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2012* http://its2012conf.org *“Surfaces Every Day”* The field of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces is rapidly evolving. Hardware prices are falling, core sensing technology is improving, software toolkits are maturing, and interaction paradigms are slowly beginning to solidify. As a result, interactive tabletops and surfaces are increasingly making their way beyond laboratories and appearing in a wide variety of private and public spaces including museums, offices, schools, airports, hotels, medical centers, and homes. Such surfaces employ a variety of technologies (capacitive sensing, computer vision, motion sensors, etc.) and appear in varied form-factors (large walls and tabletops, tablets and slates, flexible materials, on-demand projection, etc.). The ACM conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and interest areas. The intimate size of this single-track symposium provides an ideal venue for leading researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange research results and experiences. We encourage submissions on (but not limited to) the following topic areas as they relate to interactive tabletops and surfaces: - Systems for, experiences with, and/or evaluations of surfaces in specific application areas (education, science, business, entertainment, health, accessibility, homes, etc.) - Gesture-based interfaces - Multi-modal interfaces - Tangible interfaces - Novel interaction techniques - Data handling/exchange - Information visualization/data presentation - Software engineering methods - Computer supported collaborative work - Co-located, distributed, or mixed-presence collaboration - Middleware and network support - Virtual reality and augmented reality - Social protocols - Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities - Human-centered design and methodologies - Interaction in context - Evaluations and user studies *Paper and Notes* We invite paper submissions of two kinds: Papers (10 pages) and Notes (4 pages). Papers must present original, innovative, and forward-looking research, possibly in one or more of the themes given above. Notes must also report novel and complete research, but with a more focused and succinct contribution than papers. Submissions must be submitted as a single PDF file in the ACM format through the submission system. When appropriate, authors are also encouraged to submit a supplementary video file (not to exceed 3 minutes in length and 30 MB in size). * * *Important Dates* · June 25, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for initial submissions · August 1: First-round notifications (*Revise *or *Reject*) · August 24, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for revised submissions · September 12: Final notifications (*Accept* or*Reject*) · October 12: Deadline for camera-ready submissions *New Review Process* We are excited to introduce a new review process for ITS 2012. This process is modeled on the process used for the 2012 ACM CSCW conference; based on their experiences, we anticipate that this process will result in more fair and consistent reviews, as well as higher and more uniform quality in the final program, without increasing total reviewer workload. Papers and Notes will undergo two review cycles. After the first review a submission will receive either a “Revise” or “Reject” decision. Authors of papers that are not rejected will have 3 ½ weeks to revise and resubmit them. The final revision will be re-reviewed as the basis for the final revision. This is similar to a journal process, except that it is limited to one revision with a strict deadline. The primary contact author will be sent the first-round reviews on August 1. Submissions that are rejected in the first round cannot be revised for ITS 2012, but authors can begin reworking them for submission elsewhere. The reviews should help the authors of papers in the “revise” category to prepare their revisions for the second round. Authors will also submit an additional document in the second round, which provides a description of how the reviewers’ comments were addressed. Authors need to allocate time for revisions between August 1 and August 24. Revised submissions must be uploaded to PCS by 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on August 24 to be considered. Final acceptance decisions will be based on the revised submission. This is not an invitation to submit extended abstracts or incomplete papers. As in the past, submit the paper that you would like to have published. Incomplete or otherwise non-competitive submissions will be desk-rejected without review. We anticipate that approximately half of the submissions will be rejected in the first round, enabling reviewers to focus on papers that have a reasonable chance for acceptance. Acceptance is not guaranteed for papers making the second round, but we expect that papers that undergo serious efforts to address the reviewer comments will have a strong chance for acceptance. * * *Papers vs. Notes* Papers (up to 10 pages) and Notes (up to 4 pages) should detail original research contributions. Papers and Notes will be presented at the ITS conference, be included in the conference proceedings, and be archived in the ACM Digital Library. ITS does not accept submissions that were published previously in formally reviewed publications or that are currently submitted elsewhere. Papers and Notes go through the same review process. A Paper must break new ground and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field. A Note must report new results that represent a contribution to the filed. Compared to Papers, Notes may include less discussion of related work, evaluation, or implementation detail. Notes are held to the same standard of scientific quality as Papers, but are more focused and succinct in scope and scale. ITS 2012 will have a “Best of ITS” awards program, in accordance with SIGCHI guidelines. Approximately 5% of submissions may receive “Honorable Mentions” and 1% may receive “Best Paper/Note” awards. *Submission Information* Submissions should use the format shown in the conference template (a template Word and LaTeX file will be posted here in February 2012). Submissions should be converted to PDF and uploaded to the Precision Conference system athttps://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/ *by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 25, 2012*. The PCS system will be open for uploading submissions beginning on May 25th. When appropriate (such as for submissions introducing novel systems or interaction techniques), authors are encouraged to submit a supplementary video file (not to exceed 3 minutes in length and 30 MB in size). *All submissions should be anonymized for double-blind review. *This means that your paper and any supplementary video materials should have authors’ names and affiliations removed and avoid obvious identifying features. Citations to your own relevant work should not be anonymous, but please cite such work without identifying yourself as the author. For example, say “Prior work by Smith et al. [1]” instead of “In my prior work.” Confidentiality of submitted material will be maintained. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of Papers and Notes will be published online in the Advance Program. Submissions should contain no information or material that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication, and should cite no publication that will be proprietary or confidential at that time. Final versions of accepted Papers and Notes must be formatted according to the instructions we provide. Copyright release forms must be signed for inclusion in the proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library. * * *Program Co-Chairs* Meredith Ringel Morris,*Microsoft Research* Michael Horn,*Northwestern University* program(a)its2012conf.org -- Petra Isenberg, PhD Research Scientist AVIZ group | INRIA Saclay Île-de-France phone: +33 16 91 54 249 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/

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Call for papers: VisualCol 2012
by Robert Biuk-Aghai 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Call for Papers and Participation International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol 2012) As part of The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) May 21-25, 2012, The Westin Westminster Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA Workshop website: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-17-visualcol In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submission Deadline: February 05, 2012 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters Brief Description: In many collaborative situations, multiple distributed users simultaneously interact with and analyze complex information while sharing their results with others. It is through such collaboration that multiple users bring their expertise to bear on a particular problem to analyze incomplete information and reach collaborative decisions. Such collaboration is far more effective when users collaborate by interacting with meaningful visualizations that accurately depict shared information. Visualizations must present information in a manner that is easily understood by individuals with different expertise and perspectives on the problem at hand. Users must be able to interact with the visualization to highlight or manipulate information in a natural way that is readily observed by other participants. This workshop on Visualization and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) – will focus on visualization and its role in collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for interactive visualization in a collaborative environment. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization specialty. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative visualization architectures, technologies, or algorithms - Visualization for managing collaborative environments - Unique challenges in collaborative visualization - Collaborative visualization solutions and applications - Web-based collaborative visualization - Visualization in collaborative decision making and support - Collaborative data analysis and visualization - Visualization in Social Networks and Media Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline ---------------- February 05, 2012 Notification of Acceptance --------------- February 19, 2012 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due ---- March 01, 2012 Conference Dates: ------------------------ May 21 - 25, 2012 -- Dr. Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, Assistant Professor Coordinator of European Exchange Programs Department of Computer and Information Science Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau Ph: (+853) 83974375 Fax: (+853) 28838314 Homepage: http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~robertb/ Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Group: http://www.fst.umac.mo/se/dacc/

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Post doctoral and PhD positions available
by Pourang Irani 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Apologies for cross-postings. Pourang ------------------------------------------------- Post-doc and PhD positions in Canada in Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction The HCI labs at the University of Manitoba (in Winnipeg) and ETS (in Montreal) have open positions for 1-2 post-docs and 2-3 PhD students to work on interactive information visualizations for spatio-temporal data. Themes of the project include spatio-temporal queries, visual analytics, natural and multi-touch interaction in analytics, collaboration, and annotation. The candidate will work collaboratively with graduate and undergraduate students, and will also collaborate with faculty members in different disciplines. Industrial partners will be involved and the candidate may potentially be traveling within Canada. For more information, contact Pourang Irani (irani(a)cs.umanitoba.ca) or Michael McGuffin (michael.mcguffin(a)etsmtl.ca)

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Postdoc positions in infovis and probabilistic modeling
by John Goodall 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

The Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has two open postdoc positions: https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/228 https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/227

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CFP: IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Extreme Scale Visual Analytics
by Wong, Pak C 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

+ + + Submission Deadline: 12 November 2011 + + + Call for Papers Extreme Scale Visual Analytics For IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications' Jul/Aug 2012 issue Submissions due: 12 November 2011 In 2004, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) featured a special issue on the then-new research area of visual analytics. Now, we seek articles examining advances related to extreme-scale visual analytics problems, their analytical and computational challenges, and their real-world applications. By extreme-scale data, we mean both scientific and nonscientific data that today consumes hundreds of terabytes and will scale to exabytes in the next few years. Although exabyte use might seem exaggerated for any practical purposes, it's indeed only a thousand times more than what we see and work with every day. At Supercomputing 2010, an Intel engineer told the audience that the current 48-core processor could theoretically scale to 1,000 cores. Among the challenges will be how we utilize the newly acquired hardware or processing power to address the extreme-scale data problem. We believe that visual analytics will play a critical role in meeting the challenges and that we must start looking into the problem now. We're particularly interested in today's technologies that can theoretically scale to analyze tomorrow's extreme-scale data. Topics of interest include (but aren't limited to) * scalable visual analytics techniques, * parallel visual analytics techniques, * uncertainty in visual analytics, * high-performance visual analytics algorithms, and * scalable visual analytics architectures. We're also interested in the following core areas of visual analytics, as applied to extreme-scale datasets: * visual representations and interaction techniques; * data management and knowledge representation; * analytical reasoning; * presentation, production, and dissemination methods; * evaluation methods, interoperability, and technology practice and experience; and * mathematical foundations. Articles should be no more than eight magazine pages, where a page is 800 words and a quarter-page image counts as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to 10. Visit CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.htm. Please submit your article using our online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special- issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer-review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org. Please direct any other correspondence before submission to the guest editors: * Pak Chung Wong, pak.wong(a)pnnl.gov * Valerio Pascucci, pascucci(a)sci.utah.edu * Han-Wei Shen, hwshen(a)cse.ohio-state.edu

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