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Postdoctoral Position in Intelligent User Interfaces / InfoVis - UBC-CS
by Giuseppe Carenini 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

====================================== Postdoctoral Position in Intelligent User Interfaces / InfoVis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver, BC, Canada ====================================== We are seeking outstanding candidates with a background in adaptive interfaces and possibly information visualization to contribute to a project aimed at developing user-adaptive visualizations. Experience with eye-tracking technology is an asset. The project involves an interdisciplinary team from the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, adaptive interfaces, and information visualization. There is growing evidence that visualization effectiveness can depend on user traits such as cognitive skills, knowledge, preferences and attention. The goal of our project is two-fold: (i) conduct user studies to identify the role of individual differences in visualization effectiveness; (ii) develop user-adaptive visualizations that adapt in real time to specific user needs, using information on the relevant individual differences as well as behavioral data collected via eye-tracking and other sensors. The post holder will contribute to the design of the user studies as well as the development and testing of adaptive visualization techniques. The candidate will also help supervise and coordinate graduate students. The ideal applicant should be qualified at the PhD level (or equivalent) and must have excellent interpersonal, writing and research skills, strong time management and organizational skills, the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and work both independently and as a member of the multidisciplinary research team. The successful applicant will joint the world-class AI and HCI communities in the UBC CS department. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/cs-research/lci and http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/imager.php Timescale of Appointment: 1.5 years, extendable pending availability of funding. Review of applicants begins Jul. 15, 2011 until the position is filled Target start date: As soon as possible. Exact start date is negotiable. Salary: CAN$ 45-50K/year Informal inquiries are welcome, and may be made to Dr. Cristina Conati (conati(a)cs.ubc.ca) Submit vita, statement of research interests, and three letters of reference to conati(a)cs.ubc.ca -- Giuseppe Carenini, Department of Computer Science, CICSR #129, University of British Columbia, 2366 Main Mall Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z4 carenini(a)cs.ubc.ca, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~carenini Office Phone: (604) 822-5109 Cell. : 778-9949042 Fax: (604) 822-5485

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CfP: ADVTEL 2011 - Workshop on Enhancing Learning with Ambient Displays and Visualization Techniques
by Till Nagel 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

*** Our apologies if you receive this call more than once *** *************************************************************************** 1st International Workshop on Enhancing Learning with Ambient Displays and Visualization Techniques (ADVTEL-2011) http://sites.google.com/site/advtel2011/ Held at the 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL11) in Palermo, Italy, September 20 - September 23, 2011 *************************************************************************** RATIONALE Visualization techniques have been researched as a way to help people deal with the abundance of information. It makes use of the principles in Gestalt Theory that explains the human visual capacity, such as proximity, similarity, continuity, symmetry, closure and relative size. They rely on the design of effective and efficient interactive visual representations that users can manipulate to solve specific tasks themselves. This approach is especially useful when a person does not know what questions to ask about the data or when (s)he wants to ask better, more meaningful questions. At the same time displays have become a pervasive part of our environment in various manifestations. While they were traditionally used to (mainly visually) present information they also become more and more important as interfaces to access and interact with digital information. Following these developments, researchers have recently started to exploit the potential of ambient displays for learning purposes, research cognitive effects, and promote the interaction of learners with their environment. In this workshop, we are looking for contributions in the intersection of Technology Enhanced Learning and # Information visualization; that concentrates on the use of interactive visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition. # Visual analytics; that aims to support analytical reasoning by interactive visual interfaces. # Knowledge visualization; that uses visual representations to improve the transfer and creation of knowledge between people. # Ambient Display Design; that supports individual and collaborative learning processes, problem solving and sense making. *************************************************************************** TOPICS OF INTEREST: We believe that the intersection of both fields – i.e. visualization and Technology Enhanced Learning - can provoke exploration, insight and understanding. Therefore, suggested topics for contributions to our workshop include the use of existing and novel visualization techniques to the following, not limited list of application domains in TEL: # Personalization, user modeling and adaptation, # Science 2.0, # Learning analytics, # Self-reflected learning, # Recommendation techniques, # Mobile technologies, # Tabletop technologies, # Learning Object Repositories and its federations, # Evaluation methods for visualization techniques, # Social awareness, # Practices of diverse Technology Enhanced Learning disciplines, and how visualization techniques can influence them, # Exploration and exploratory search # Design dimensions and patterns # Theoretical approaches for embedding ambient learning displays in educational environments # Evaluation methodologies # Prototypical Implementations # Experimental validations of ambient learning displays # Sense making scenarios # Problem Solving scenarios # Information Awareness # Personalization and Contextualization # Feedback and changes in behavior # Distributed Interaction # Embodiment (into the physical environment) # Ambient Intelligence # Design guidelines # Ambient Information Channel *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP FORMAT Prior to the workshop, a dedicated group on TEL Europe (http://teleurope.eu/) will be opened to: facilitate discussions among participants before and after the conference; post submitted papers for an open peer review; post access to prototypes and applications; publish information and news about the workshop; collect reactions through social media on the workshop; create a special interest group that can be used after the workshop to collect ideas, evaluation subjects, etc. Each presenter will be linked to related papers from other presenters and will be asked to compare how the works of others relate to their own work. We encourage the presentation of the work by giving a live demo to provoke true interactions within the workshop in an attempt to get away from the mini-conference format. The results and discussions from the workshop will be summarized and analyzed in a short paper. Podcasts of the presentations will be disseminated through STELLAR. *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work. The following types of contributions will be possible: # Short papers (3-5 pages) that state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop and describe solution concepts, prototypes and work in progress, even when in very early and not yet mature state. # Full papers: (8-12 pages) that describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. In this category, empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are welcome for submission. The presentation of unfinished ideas, tools under development and especially failures is explicitly encouraged. This includes the presentation and discussion of tools and their real-world usability. The recommended format for the contributions is Springer LNCS. Contributions should be submitted through EASY-CHAIR: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=advtel2011 We aim to publish workshop proceedings through CEUR-WS.org *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: July 20th, 2011 * Results Notification: August 17th, 2011 * Camera Ready Submission: September 1st, 2011 * Workshop Date: September 20th or 21st, 2011 *************************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) # Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium # Andrew Vande Moere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium # Boris Müller, FH Potsdam, Germany # Moritz Stefaner, Germany # Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universität Paderborn, Germany # Nikos Manouselis, AgroKnow, Greece # Xavier Ochoa, ESPOL, Ecuador # Martin Wolpers, FIT, Germany # Dan Suthers, University of Hawaii, USA # Mark Van t‚Äô Hooft, Kent State University, USA (tbc) # Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore # Albrecht Schmidt, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany (tbc) # Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan (tbc) # Tom Gross, University of Bamberg, Germany (tbc) # Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany *************************************************************************** ORGANISERS # Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven # Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven # Eelco Herder, L3S # Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen # Fridolin Wild, KMi, The Open University # Till Nagel, FH Potsdam # Marcus Specht, Open Universiteit Nederland # Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit Nederland # Dirk Börner, Open Universiteit Nederland *************************************************************************** ABOUT EC-TEL 11 EC-TEL is a unique setting for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in Technology Enhanced Learning from Europe and other continents to meet together and exchange on the current challenges and advances in the field. At EC-TEL, experts and young researchers in Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, as well as entrepreneurs have the opportunity to establish collaborations, strengthen their links and cross-fertilize their core disciplines. EC-TEL 2011 will push further the Ubiquitous Learning paradigm by not only tackling the challenges of exploiting new trendy devices in various contexts, but also by investigating ways to meet and support formally and informally the learners in their learning playgrounds and social environments thanks to innovative scenarios. See http://www.ec-tel.eu/ for details. *************************************************************************** MORE INFORMATION http://sites.google.com/site/advtel2011/ Contact: joris.klerkx(a)cs.kuleuven.be

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CFP: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Discovery Exhibition
by Jinwook Seo 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

CFP: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Discovery Exhibition Providence, RI, USA / October 23-28, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions due: July 15th, 2011 Submission information: <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/apahome45.htm> www.discoveryexhibition.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Discovery Exhibition is a conference venue in which we share stories about the impact that visualization research has had on the end-user community. In order to help us distribute more broadly how visualization impacts people's work or lives, leads to decisions being made, or actions being taken. VisWeek has been hosting the Discovery Exhibition since 2009. In contrast to a common academic contribution at a conference, however, the goal of an entry to the Discovery Exhibition is not to describe a visualization or vis tool per se, but to share which impact it had on the people using it. Sharing these stories with the community will help us all improve our understanding about the role of visualization in work, research, entertainment, and many other areas, after it has moved out of the research realm. To encourage publishing reports about the application of visualization systems to real world problems, we specifically allow submissions that report the impact of “previously published work” on its user community. Accepted authors will benefit from the following opportunities to present their work: - A 2~4 page summary will be published and permanently archived on our website: www.discoveryexhibition.org. - Their work will be displayed as a poster throughout the conference. - A short oral presentation of their work at a plenary fast-forward session. The content of a discovery submission is not about a visualization tool itself. Instead it has to focus on the impact that the use of the tool or the visualization has had on a specific user group. Successful submissions have to focus on the insights, discoveries, or general stories of visualization use in any domain or data. The description should show a real user community. For example, an entry could talk about insights made by a group of environmental scientists trying to find a cause of global warming using a specific visualization tool, and about the discovery process (i.e., how they made the discovery). The entry should provide information on the impact that insights (or findings) have had. It is OK to use existing tools. Indeed, we strongly encourage students to even study the impact of tools built by others such as ManyEyes, Tableau, or Excel! If necessary, the datasets can be anonymized, but no synthetic data is allowed. Submissions could, for example, include information on: - What discoveries have users made? What have they learned about their data that they did not know before? What insights have they gained? - What impact did the findings, insights, or discoveries have on their community? - What surprising uses of visualization tools were seen? Were tools re-appropriated to answer very different questions than they were designed for? - What was necessary to integrate a system or tool into everyday work practices? What were the obstacles to introducing new visualization technologies (if any)? IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: July 15th, 2011 Notification date: August 19th, 2011 Final Submission of Revised Summaries: September 2, 2011 Submission of Fast Forward Materials and Poster: September 30, 2011 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please submit your entry to the following address: discovery_exhibition(a)visweek.org If you plan to submit videos, please upload them to a web server and send us a link to download the file. For more information, please refer to www.discoveryexhibition.org. ------------- IEEE VisWeek Discovery Exhibition Co-Chairs Florian Mansmann and Jinwook Seo discovery_exhibition(a)visweek.org www.discoveryexhibition.org <http://www.discoveryexhibition.org/>

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SPIE VDA 2012 Call for Papers
by Wong, Pak C 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Call for Papers SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis January 22-23, 2012 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Burlingame, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2011 Notification: September 12, 2011 Final Manuscripts: November 14, 2011 Keynote Speakers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University Tom Malzbender, HP Labs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2012 covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and, more recently, visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. The average paper acceptance rate of recent VDA conferences was about 50%. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including: * Internet imaging, medical imaging, image processing * Biomedical visualization and applications * Internet, web, and security visualizations * Analysis techniques and data mining * Data exploration using classical and novel approaches * Databases and visualization * High-performance computing and parallel rendering * Tools and applications exemplified by case studies * Virtual environments and data visualization * Information and scientific visualization * Volume and flow visualization * Interaction paradigms and human factors Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization. Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be directed to the conference chairs: * Pak Chung Wong (pak.wong(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:pak.wong@pnnl.gov>), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * David L. Kao (david.l.kao(a)nasa.gov<mailto:david.l.kao@nasa.gov>), NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao(a)hp.com<mailto:ming_hao@hp.com>), Hewlett-Packard Labs * Chaomei Chen (Chaomei.Chen(a)cis.drexel.edu<mailto:Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu>), Drexel University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee ================== Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories Robert Erbacher, Northwest Security Institute Conference Chairs ================= Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center Ming C. Hao, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Conference Co-Chairs ==================== Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina Charlotte Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory Jinah Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Program Committee ================= Madjid Allili, Bishop's University Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Guoning Chen, University of Utah Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Paul Craig, Napier University Marian Dörk, University of Calgary Sussan Einakian, University of Alabama in Huntsville Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology Matti T. Grohn, CSC-Scientific Computing Halldor Janetzko, University of Konstanz Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Alark Joshi, Boise State University Dan Keefe, University of Minnesota Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Heidi Lam, Google, Inc. Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Bob Lewis, Washington State University Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Bremen Zhanping Liu, University of Pennsylvania Lucille T. Nowell, U.S. Department of Energy Harald Obermaier, University of Kaiserslautern Renato Pajarola, University of Zürich Donald A. Pelligrino, Jr., Drexel University William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Aaron J. Quigley, University of St. Andrews Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Computer Graphics and E-Learning Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Christopher D. Shaw, Simon Fraser University Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University Mike Sips, German Research Center for Geoscience Kalpathi R. Subramanian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Yinlong Sun, Purdue University Soon Tee Teoh, San Jose State University Matthew O. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yingcai Xiao, University of Akron Ciaxia Zhang, Google, Inc. Jian Zhang, Drexel University Song Zhang, Mississippi State University

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2nd CFP DATAVIEW'11 - DEADLINE IN 2 WEEKS - Second International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration on the Web
by Alessandro Bozzon 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Second International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration on the Web (Dataview'11) **DEADLINE IS IN 2 WEEKS!!!*** co-located with ECOWS'11 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services 14 September 2011 - Lugano, Switzerland Workshop website: http://dataview.como.polimi.it IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011 Camera ready papers: August 12, 2011 Workshop date: September 14, 2011 GOALS AND TOPICS ---------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of data providers available on the Web, especially in the form of Web services. This trend is associated with the increasing availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as mash-up platforms - that enabled users to develop novel applications and business scenarios. As the richness and value of data increases, applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. This is a major change of paradigm with respect to traditional document integration and navigation, as the interaction with data object repositories proved to be a challenging task for application developers. To address these issues, cross fertilization between different disciplines is mandatory: existing approaches for Web service engineering, integration and composition should be merged with data visualization and interaction methodologies with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and visualization paradigms for data-centric Web Services. Topics of interest are related to the context of data-centric Web Services and include, but are not limited to: * Data-centric Web Service integration * Visualization of integrated heterogeneous data on the Web * Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data search and exploration * Linked Data visualization and exploration * Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization * Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration * Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration * Data visualization for next-generation mobile Web-services * Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques * Innovative uses of tag clouds * Ambient information displays * Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces * Visualizations for multimodal interaction Tools for Web data visualizations * Relevant Web Service Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Enterprise 2.0 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------- Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of the workshop's core topics. Papers submitted to DATAVIeW ‘11 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. * Full research and experience papers (maximum length: 8 pages) * Short Papers (maximum length: 5 pages) * Position Statements (maximum length: 3 pages) Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and are to be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dataview2011) All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Workshop papers will be published as CEUR-WS Proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ECOWS conference to be found on their website (http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Sara Comai ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy, sara.comai(a)polimi.it) Moira Norrie ( ETH Zurich, Switzerland, norrie(a)inf.ethz.ch) Alessandro Bozzon ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy, bozzon(a)elet.polimi.it) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Marco Brambilla - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Fabio†Casati - Universita degli studi di Trento, Italy Martin Gaedke - Chemnitz University of Technology Irene Celino - CEFRIEL, Italy Suzanne Little - Knowledge Media Institute, UK Flavio De Paoli - Universit‡ di Milano, Italy Michael Grossniklaus - Portland State University Roberto De Virgilio - Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy Schahram Dustdar - TU Wien, Austria Marcello Lieda - Khalifa University Juan Carlos Preciado - Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Giovanni Toffetti Carughi - UCL, UK Marco Winckler - University Paul Sabatier, France Emanuele Della Valle - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Beat Signer - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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PhD/postdoc position available in genome visualization at Leuven University (Belgium)
by Jan Aerts 26 May '11

26 May '11

**Background** The last decade has seen a tremendous evolution in the field of clinical genetics. However, although new high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques have opened the door for routinely identifying genome variations that might contribute to a given disease, there are still several bottlenecks that stand in the way of widespread application in the clinic. Several of these issues can be (partly) solved with data visualization techniques. Geneticists rely heavily on genome browsers to investigate genetic variation in their genomic context (see e.g. http://www.ensembl.org and http://genome.ucsc.edu; visualization expert Ben Fry created http://bit.ly/lBK6wR) Although of priceless use, these browsers all have the significant drawback that they can only display data relative to a so-called "reference". It is also impossible for them to show rearranged chromosomes as they appear in for example cancer. **Aim** Within this project, we will build a new interactive genome browser that is capable of displaying so-called structural genomic variation and is able to display patient data relative to actual control (healthy) data rather than a theoretical reference. This visualization will include several features. First of all, it will be possible to visualize the differences in chromosome structure between individuals. This will be based on a directed graph, and might be inspired by the ABySS-Explorer tool by Nielsen et al (http://bit.ly/iZhLi1) Secondly, the tool will enable any path through this graph to be considered as the "reference", so that depictions resembling the genome browsers such as http://bit.ly/l6W0dV can be created. Thirdly, it will be possible to simultaneously look at high resolution while still maintaining the context of the whole chromosome. Finally, this tool will be able to visualize different levels of uncertainty in the data. **Profile** The ideal candidate for this position holds a MSc or PhD degree related to data visualization. He/she should be eager to learn about genomics and variation in the human genome. He/she will collaborate with PhD students and postdocs both at ESAT and the University Hospital in Leuven, as well as with clinical geneticists and international collaborators. The position requires good analytical skills and knowledge of programming languages such as java, ruby or perl. Knowledge of data visualization frameworks such as Processing (http://www.processing.org) and/or Protovis ( http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) are a significant plus. We offer a competitive package and a fun, dynamic environment connected to a top-notch consortium of young leading scientists in human genetics and cancer. The University of Leuven is one of Europe‚Äôs leading research universities, with English as the working language for research. Leuven is one of Europe‚Äôs most beautiful university towns, just outside Brussels, at the heart of Europe. To apply for this position, please send your CV together with a photograph and - if possible - some examples of your work to Prof Jan Aerts ( jan.aerts(a)esat.kuleuven.be) The deadline for this application is 30th June 2011. Please do not hesitate to forward this message to any interested parties. ================================= Dr Jan Aerts Assistant Professor Faculty of Engineering - ESAT/SCD Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2446 3001 Leuven-Heverlee (Belgium)

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CFP: Visual Analysis of Massive Data (HICSS 45 minitrack)
by John Goodall 25 May '11

25 May '11

Visual Analysis of Massive Data for Decision Support and Operational Management ** http://bit.ly/hicss45 ** Hawaii International Conference for Systems Sciences 45 Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii / January 4-7 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions due June 15, 2011 Submission information: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/apahome45.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This minitrack builds upon earlier HICSS minitracks on visual analytics, mobile computing, and digital media at scale. It seeks to define commonalities between analytical methods that utilize interactive visualization to cope with challenges posed by data, platform, and application. These include: -Processing massive data from data archives and real-time data streams. -Need for predictive and real-time analytics and operations management, -Mobile device limitations: battery, processing capacity, screens and interactivity. -Need to coordinate across multiple roles and tasks within and across organizations. -Interoperability of mobile, desktop, tabletop, wall, and virtual environments Innovations in computers, graphical displays and sensors give us the capability to generate, process, and visualize data from real-time data streams and massive data archives. Advanced data analysis approaches generate new algorithms, applications, and communication protocols optimized for platforms that include supercomputers and low-wattage mobile computers. Innovations in computer graphics and human-information interaction provide the basis for novel interactive visualization systems that can support the innate human ability to characterize, analyze, and manipulate information in complex interactive visual and multimodal environments across a multitude of devices, from mobile phones to supercomputers. Taken in isolation, both algorithmic "data sciences" approaches and human-centered "visual analytics" human-computer interface methods hold great promise for operationalizing massive datasets and streaming data in support of a broad range of human activities. Applications in basic scientific research, business analytics, health sciences, environmental science and engineering R&D explore the implications of these methods for advancement of knowledge and strategic planning. Applications in coordination, command and control of complex human activities such as disaster relief, law enforcement, and anti-terrorism add the constraints of real-time performance and distribution of planning to the challenges faced. We invite mathematical, computational, cognitive, and organizational perspectives on the use of advanced data processing and interactive visualization approaches to understanding and controlling complex systems across a range of human endeavors. We also invite participation from researchers who are looking at scaling issues and multi-scale issues, whether these scales refer to the time of decision making, the form-factor and operational constraints of mobile devices, the number of decision makers or the more traditional notion of multi-scale simulation and real-world scales of data. We are particularly interested in papers that report on an effective synthesis of algorithms and visualization with an impact on decision-making and/or coordination of operations, as evidenced by either realist simulations or adoption in a concrete mission. This minitrack seeks to bring together researchers and problem owners working in these areas to present research methods and findings and to discuss their approaches and ideas to advance the state-of-the-art for this class of complex "wicked" problems. SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO: David Ebert Purdue University Email: ebert(a)purdue.edu Brian Fisher Simon Fraser University Email: bfisher(a)sfu.ca John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Email: jgoodall(a)ornl.gov Paul Kantor Rutgers University Email: paul.kantor(a)rutgers.edu

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CFP DATAVIEW'11 - Second International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration on the Web
by Alessandro Bozzon 15 May '11

15 May '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Second International Workshop on Data Visualization and Integration on the Web (Dataview'11) co-located with ECOWS'11 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services 14 September 2011 - Lugano, Switzerland Workshop website: http://dataview.como.polimi.it IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011 Camera ready papers: August 12, 2011 Workshop date: September 14, 2011 GOALS AND TOPICS ---------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of data providers available on the Web, especially in the form of Web services. This trend is associated with the increasing availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as mash-up platforms - that enabled users to develop novel applications and business scenarios. As the richness and value of data increases, applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. This is a major change of paradigm with respect to traditional document integration and navigation, as the interaction with data object repositories proved to be a challenging task for application developers. To address these issues, cross fertilization between different disciplines is mandatory: existing approaches for Web service engineering, integration and composition should be merged with data visualization and interaction methodologies with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and visualization paradigms for data-centric Web Services. Topics of interest are related to the context of data-centric Web Services and include, but are not limited to: * Data-centric Web Service integration * Visualization of integrated heterogeneous data on the Web * Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data search and exploration * Linked Data visualization and exploration * Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization * Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration * Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration * Data visualization for next-generation mobile Web-services * Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques * Innovative uses of tag clouds * Ambient information displays * Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces * Visualizations for multimodal interaction Tools for Web data visualizations * Relevant Web Service Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Enterprise 2.0 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------- Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of the workshop's core topics. Papers submitted to DATAVIeW ‘11 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. * Full research and experience papers (maximum length: 8 pages) * Short Papers (maximum length: 5 pages) * Position Statements (maximum length: 3 pages) Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and are to be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dataview2011) All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Workshop papers will be published as CEUR-WS Proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ECOWS conference to be found on their website (http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Sara Comai ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy, sara.comai(a)polimi.it) Moira Norrie ( ETH Zurich, Switzerland, norrie(a)inf.ethz.ch) Alessandro Bozzon ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy, bozzon(a)elet.polimi.it) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Marco Brambilla - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Fabio†Casati - Universita degli studi di Trento, Italy Martin Gaedke - Chemnitz University of Technology Irene Celino - CEFRIEL, Italy Suzanne Little - Knowledge Media Institute, UK Flavio De Paoli - Universit‡ di Milano, Italy Michael Grossniklaus - Portland State University Roberto De Virgilio - Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy Schahram Dustdar - TU Wien, Austria Marcello Lieda - Khalifa University Juan Carlos Preciado - Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Giovanni Toffetti Carughi - UCL, UK Marco Winckler - University Paul Sabatier, France Emanuele Della Valle - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Beat Signer - Vrije Universiteit Brussel ------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Bozzon, Ph.D Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Via Giuseppe Ponzio, 34/5 - 20133 Milano - Italy tel: +39.02.2399.7341 fax: +39.02.2399.7321 bozzon(a)elet.polimi.it alessandro.bozzon(a)polimi.it http://home.dei.polimi.it/bozzon http://www.google.com/profiles/aleboz ------------------------------------------------- Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

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Interface Designer/Info Viz wanted in Berlin!
by Johannes Landstorfer 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hello everyone! The IxDS-Interaction Design Studios in Berlin are looking for 2 freelance Junior Designers (experienced students or graduates) You can find all details here http://www.ixds.de/blog/ixds-is-hiring-interface-designer-info-viz-gesucht/ Hope to hear from you soon! Johannes or translated here: // Tasks We have several projects where we need your support, with tasks such as - Qualitative user studies (interviews/observations) - Concept creation following CoDesgin methods (concepts for graphical and physical interfaces, as well as data visualisation) - Implementation as prototypes, in collaboration with our software developers and - User tests You should bring some initial understanding of most of the tasks above and sophisticated skills for interface design and/or data visualisation. Of course, the multi-disciplinary team of IxDS will support us. // Timeframe The projects will start during the next weeks and go on for a couple of months (one until November). On average, you will need 2-3 days of time per week. If everything works out well, we would like to continue working with you on a regular basis. We are ready to answer all questions you might have, please feel free to ask. If you apply, please attach some relevant samples of your work. // Contact Johannes Landstorfer, work(a)ixds.de -- Designer IxDS — Interaction Design Studios GmbH Brunnenstr. 7d, 10119 Berlin +49 (0)30 275 77 662 +49 (0)176 2425 4998 http://www.ixds.de Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 118950 Geschäftsführer André Knörig

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new book - The Map Reader
by martin dodge 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hello Please excuse this bit of self-promotion but I just wanted to flag a new book I've co-edited that is about to be published by Wiley. I thought the The Map Reader might be of relevance to some of the people on this list. The volume excerpts over 50 key pieces of scholarly writing on cartographic representation and mapping practice from the last few decades, along with five new interpretative essays. It has been co-edited with Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins. This pdf gives some more detail on The Map Reader, with the table of contents listing the extensive range of material included, our preface explaining the purpose of the book and the first interpretative essay, http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/Map_Reader_promotional.… Details are also given on the Wiley promotional webpage, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470742836.html Also, through the Wiley e-book library service you can look at the six colour plates in the book for free (although they are large pdf files, so quite slow to download) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979587 And of course it can be ordered from bookshops, including Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Reader-Theories-Cartographic-Representation/dp/… 42836 While we appreciate its an expensive academic book and likely beyond an impulse individual purchase, it is a nicely produced hardback volume that we hope will find a role as a valuable reference and source of ideas for researchers and students. Many thanks cheers Martin --- Martin Dodge Geography School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom. Homepage: http://www.cybergeography.org/martin/martin.html Blog: http://cyberbadger.blogspot.com/

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