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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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Research Positions:Post-Docs, Interns, Coops, Scholarship for Service
by Robert Erbacher 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

Title: Science of CyberSecurity Research Positions:Post-Docs, Interns, Coops, Scholarship for Service Location: Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD Contact: Dr. Robert F. Erbacher Robert.F.Erbacher(a)us.army.mil 301-394-1674 We are looking for Post-Docs, Interns, and Coops to join the Army Research Laboratory in the area of Science of CyberSecurity. This is a unique opportunity to work with actual analysts on real data. Post-Docs can be funded through either NRC or ORAU. We can also work with Scholarship for Service students. ORAU: http://www.orau.org/arlpostdocfellowship/applicants/cisd/cisd-science_cyber… NRC: http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/Opportunity.aspx?LabCode=76&ROPCD… The main focus of the research is described below; though we are looking to expand our capabilities so applicants in all areas of cybersecurity or domains applicable to solving cybersecurity problems are also of interest. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. The goal of this research is to examine the issues underlying cybersecurity, devising novel theoretical constructs on which future cybersecurity advances will be based. Research focuses on developing theories, models, and understanding that will lead to more effective intrusion detection techniques (e.g., how data can be effectively visualized for decision makers and how can existing information be acquired and fused with the effect of engendering greater understanding of events. Some specific areas of research being considered include but are not limited to: (1) exploring models for the representation of cybersecurity (e.g., game theory); (2) exploring ensemble techniques for improved detection with consideration of Byzantine General type attacks; (3) considering forensics and anti-forensics in the context of cybersecurity, both as a representational model as well as an analysis paradigm; (4) considering behavior as a fundamental indicator in detection and analysis; (5) acquiring improved network understanding with the goal of improving detection; and (6) developing novel detectors based on improved understanding to achieve low FP and FN. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on future cybersecurity research, work with actual analysts in the network analysis domain, validate theories with ARL scientists, and test techniques on real-world data. Keywords: Cybersecurity; Intrusion detection; Visualization; Cybersecurity theory; Cybersecurity models; Cybersecurity foundations; Network understanding; Ensemble techniques; Evidence fusion; ** Please note that we can only take US citizens.

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Data files available (InfoVis, VAST, CHI papers)
by John Stasko 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

If you would like some simple data files that describe every InfoVis and VAST Conference paper in the history of those conferences, we have created such files and have made them now available for download. The files contain a simple xml-ish format describing each paper, its title and abstract, authors, conference, year, keywords, etc. We believe that the format will be easy to read and understand. Also available on the same site is a file containing information about CHI conference papers since 1999. You can download the files from the webpage http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/datafiles.html. We hope that these files will be useful to researchers in the community exploring new methods of visualizing and understanding collections of documents. Unfortunately, the data files do not include citation information. We would be happy to have someone add that information to the files, however. :^) --John

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Research Scientist in Visual Analytics open position
by John Stasko 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

FODAVA: Seeking a Research Scientist The FODAVA (Foundations of Data Analysis and Visual Analytics) Center at Georgia Tech is seeking a Research Scientist to join our team. Enormous amounts of data are being generated every day in health care, computational biology, homeland security, commerce, and many other areas. Analyzing these massive and complex data sets is essential to achieve new discoveries, but is extremely difficult. An emerging research field known as data and visual analytics is concerned with synthesizing information and deriving insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous and possibly conflicting digital data for increased understanding and effective decision making. The FODAVA research initiative is dedicated to both defining the foundations of the data and visual analytics fields and advancing the state-of-the-art. Established in 2008, the FODAVA initiative is a collaborative effort funded jointly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For further information about the Center, please see http://fodava.gatech.edu/. We are seeking a Research Scientist (RS) to join our group and assist with ongoing research. The position will involve work on two main projects. First, the RS will contribute to the Jigsaw project (http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ii/jigsaw) Specifically, the RS will lead an effort into modifying the architecture of the system and creating a new API that will allow other software systems to better interact with it. Second, the RS will help build a visual analytics system for document discovery based on the fundamental data analytic theory and methods we have developed. The system will allow users to find and become aware of documents of interest among a sea of incoming documents such as research papers obtained with a crawler from across the internet. In addition to these two projects, there will be opportunities for the RS to collaborate on other ongoing research as well as to initiate new projects. Georgia Tech faculty are dedicated to working with the successful applicant in mentoring and career growth. The ideal candidate should have at least an MS in a related discipline or a BS with equivalent experience. Prior work in areas such as visual analytics, data analysis, data mining, machine learning, and/or HCI will be extremely useful. Candidates also should have strong software engineering and programming skills (knowledge of Java and Swing is a must) and good verbal, writing, and communication skills. This is a 2-year position, beginning Fall 2011. To apply, please send a brief cover letter describing your background and interests, as well as a your current CV, to Ms. Lometa Mitchell (lometa(a)cc.gatech.edu) Please direct informal questions about the position to Prof. Haesun Park (hpark(a)cc.gatech.edu) and/or Prof. John Stasko (stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu) We will review applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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CFP: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
by Eser Kandogan 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making Website: http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/ Date: MONDAY, October 24. ** PAPERS DUE THIS FRIDAY! ** Location: Providence, RI Analyzing text documents has become increasingly an important part of decision making in large corporations, small businesses, and households. This workshop will explore advanced research in the field of text visualization and analytics and their applications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in text visualization, text analytics, and visual analytics, to define the emerging fields of visual text analytics, and to discuss ideas, techniques, and applications to support decision making in different domains. Important Dates: Papers Due: Sep 2, 2011 Notification of Papers: Sep 16, 2011 Final Papers Due: Sep 30, 2011 Madness Participation Registration: Oct 10, 2011 Topics: We invite paper submissions that address any topic related to visual text analytics and application domains especially how interactive visual text analytics can facilitate decision making. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: · Visual and interaction design for text analytics · Visual representation, structure, metaphors for text · Perception and cognition in text visualizations · Systems, languages, and architectures for text analytics · Methodologies, processes for visual text analysis · Collaborative analysis of text corpora · Real-time visualization of streaming text data · Visual text analytics in social media · Industry-specific applications of visual text analytics (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.) · Studies of analytic work on document collections · Evaluation of visualization techniques; Metrics and bench-marks · Datasets and tasks for visual text analytics to facilitate decision making · Representations of uncertainty in text analytics Submission: We are looking for research and industry papers related to visual text analytics with a focus on facilitating human decision making. Papers are limited to 4 pages. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for a 15 minute (plus 5 minutes for questions) oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session. Papers must be formatted according to VisWeek format (see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html) Papers must be submitted by email to the conference organizers (eser(a)us.ibm.com) by September 2, 2011. Final versions of the papers are due September 30, 2011. 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 Oct 10, 2011. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/, or send email to Eser Kandogan (eser(a)us.ibm.com) Regards, Christopher Collins, Eser Kandogan, Michelle Zhou, and Shixia Liu -------------------------------------------- Eser Kandogan, Ph.D. User Systems and Experience Research, Computer Science IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 Ph: 408-927-1949

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