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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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CFP: GeoVA(T) - GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time (2012 edition)
by Gennady Andrienko 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting your best work to our GIScience workshop GeoVA(T): GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time The deadline is Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Submission format: PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE VisWeek format We shall arrange and announce the conference management system soon. Best regards, Gennady Andrienko, on behalf of the workshop organizers ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R370BREAAAAJ ____________________________________________________________ ---------------------- Call for papers ------------------------------- GeoVisual Analytics, Time to Focus on Time Workshop @ GIScience (18 September 2012, Columbus OH, USA) & Special issue of Information Visualization (early 2013) http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2012 The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference, - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008, and - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008. - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at AGILE'2010. 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), and - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2009, v.36 (3) - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, v.24(10) 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 in rich, novel and useful ways - it's time to focus on time. The theme for the workshop and this special issue of the Information Visualization journal is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing. The workshop will provide participants with the possibility 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 spacial issue according to the quality, maturity and likely impact of the work in addition to its fit with the theme. 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 - visualization and analysis of multi-scale and multi-temporal data - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data 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), - Jason Dykes (City University), - Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC), - 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) - MODAP - Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (FET-Open Coordination Action) - MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (COST-Action IC0903) Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko: Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2012 Submission and selection procedure & deadlines end-October, 2011 preliminary CFP announced February 23, 2012 final CFP announced May 1, 2012 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 (to be announced) 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, 2012 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, 2012 Full papers for the special issue(s) are submitted September 18, 2012, Columbus, Ohio, USA Authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion October 1, 2012 Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue November 1, 2012 Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments. December 1, 2012 Final notifications early 2013 IVS special issue published ________________________________________________________________________

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Research Internships - Visual Analytics for Language Processing and Text Mining
by Daniela Oelke 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF) <http://www.dipf.de/> in Frankfurt am Main is a federally and state-funded member of the Leibniz Association. The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the DIPF's Information Center for Education currently seeking Research Interns (for a term of six months) in the field of Visual Analytics for Language Processing and Text Mining for its Frankfurt am Main location. The position is part of the establishment of the new working branch of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab under the leadership of Prof. Iryna Gurevych (UKP-DIPF) at the Frankfurt am Main location. The Lab cooperates closely with the Technology-based Assessment <http://tba.dipf.de/> and Information Management groups at DIPF, as well as with the Department of Computer Science (UKP-TUD <http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp-home/>, Prof. Iryna Gurevych) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. It is the core of a newly built institutional research priority for knowledge processing <http://www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de/> at DIPF and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The UKP Lab conducts research in the intersection of language processing and machine learning, text mining, and knowledge discovery in the Web. The Lab's approach combines the foundations of large-scale language processing, real-world text mining, and hands-on skills in the rapid development of scalable systems with practical relevance. Requirements We are looking for graduate students that would like to work on projects that research and apply visual analytics methods for language processing and text mining, with substantial theoretical knowledge, excellent problem-solving and programming (Java) skills for language processing and visualization, eagerness to apply the knowledge and skills in new contexts, and interest to participate in internationally competitive research leading to publications in the respective cutting-edge conferences. The ability to work independently, personal commitment, teamwork and communication skills, and a readiness to cooperate are required. The ability to speak German is desired, but is not a hard requirement. Experience in visual analytics and/or data visualization, as well as natural language processing, text mining, and machine learning is a plus. The position is ideally suited for individuals willing to acquire graduate-level research experience to qualify as a PhD student, research associate, or for an industry position. Applications from women are particularly encouraged. All other things being equal, candidates with disabilities will be given preference. The position is a fixed-term contract with an option to extend it, provided certain conditions are met. A part-time working arrangement is possible. As a scientific institution, the primary goals of the Leibniz Institute DIPF are high-profile basic research and innovative scientific services. Particular importance and visibility is attached to their application to education in the public sector. DIPF avails itself of the expertise of computer science at TU Darmstadt to build a research center for knowledge processing and educational computer science. The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the best in Germany. Among the distinguishing features of the nascent UKP-DIPF working group are its applications of semantic language technology, text mining, and information retrieval, as well as its powerful infrastructures for the aggregation and evaluation of knowledge. Applications (including CV, details of previous academic work, educational and professional references, and final thesis in electronic form) should be submitted by *March 17, 2012* to * gurevych (at) cs (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de <javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto('ocknvq,iwtgxaejBeu0vw/fctouvcfv0fg');>*.

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

13 Feb '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 . 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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Only ten days left! Final CFP: Human centric visualization
by whua5569＠gmail.com 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for repeated posts. Only ten days left; this is a final call for contributions. Thank you! ******** CALL FOR CHAPTERS ************* *Chapter proposal 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 (diagrams) 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 evaluation methods in visualization Survey of theories, frameworks, models, heuristics and design principles for visualization *Part II: Theories, models, frameworks, heuristics and design principles for human centric visualization * Theories of visual thinking, diagram perception, cognition and reasoning and their applications Latest developments toward theories of visualization Latest development of frameworks, models, heuristics and design principles for visualization Applications of the theories, frameworks, 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 * Approaches and practices of visualization design 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 Visual analytics Social, cultural aspects of visualization 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 visualization Use of visualizations for decision making, learning, business, software engineering, science, security, biology, design, construction, cartography, etc. Visualization 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 Christof Körner, University of Graz, Austria David Laidlaw, Brown University, USA Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Kim Marriott, Monash 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 * *Proposal due: February 24, 2012 *(Proposal 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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