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CFP: IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010, March 2-5, Taipei Taiwan
by Stephen C. North 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Call for Papers – IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010 March 2-5, 2010 Taipei Taiwan The 3rd IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2010) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan during March 2 to 5, 2010. Visualization has become an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines. PacificVis is an IEEE sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asian-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asian-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of visualization. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Feature extraction Flow visualization GPU based visualization Graph drawing Information visualization Large data visualization Illustration techniques Multi-field visualization Multi-resolution techniques Parallel visualization Perception in visualization Software visualization Time-varying visualization Usability and visualization systems Uncertainty visualization Vector/Tensor field visualization Visual analytics Visualization applications Visual data mining Volume visualization and modeling Visual-based knowledge discovery All papers accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010 will be published in hardcopy proceedings by IEEE and also included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected research papers of outstanding quality will be invited to submit an extended version to IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics. Top application papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on visualization applications and design studies. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: September 25, 2009, 11:59pm Pacific Time Notification of acceptance : November 13, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: December 4, 2009 Symposium : March 2-5, 2010 Paper Format & Submission Procedure Original unpublished papers of up to 8 pages (two-column, single- spaced, 10 point font, including figures, tables and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English and formatted by using the templates (DOC, LaTeX) on the conference website. All papers will go through a rigorous review process by the international program committee. Submissions should be made electronically in Adobe PDF for documents (no paper copy will be accepted), QuickTime MPEG-4 or DivX version 5 for additional videos, and TIFF, JPEG, or PNG for additional still images. All supplemental materials (including videos and additional images) and the document should be provided as a single archivey zip file with your manuscript. Interested authors are encouraged to check the conference website http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/pvis2010/ (under construction) for most updated information. Please contact us via IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010 email (pvis10(a)cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw) with your questions and comments. Symposium Co-Chairs: Ming Ouhyoung, National Taiwan University Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis Program Co-Chairs Stephen North, AT&T Research Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology Local Organization Co-Chairs: Bing-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Yung-Yu Chuang, National Taiwan University Chuan-kai Yang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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Upcoming Paper Deadline: Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology - ACM CHIMIT09
by Eben Haber 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Paper & Short Paper Deadline is in 3 weeks! ACM CHIMIT '09 - Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology November 7-8, 2009, Baltimore, MD (Immediately after USENIX LISA, also in Baltimore) Since 2007 CHIMIT has been the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. At CHIMIT, researchers and practitioners share issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, computer systems, and management and service sciences to address cognitive, social, and technical issues in managing the increasing complexity of modern Information Technology (IT) systems. Information Technology (IT) is central to modern life. From our homes to our largest enterprises, we are surrounded by software and hardware components that support our work and personal lives: wireless access points, network routers, firewalls, virus scanners, databases, web servers, storage and backup systems, etc. These components exist to permit us to do other things, e.g., manage inventory, communicate with friends or customers, sell products through websites, yet all too often managing the underlying IT infrastructure takes time and resources away from the real work at hand. IT systems have grown increasingly complex over the years, and the cost for keeping the infrastructure running is now a significant burden. We are at a turning point where further advances in technology and business efficiency and growth require fundamentally new approaches to IT system design, management, and services. CHIMIT is an ACM-sponsored conference, and accepted Paper and Short Paper submissions will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. We are also soliciting submissions for Panels, Courses, and a non-archival Poster Session for work in progress. Topics include (but are not limited to): User Studies of IT infrastructure management in context, exposing user needs, pain points, work practices, and examples of both successful and unsuccessful work. Design - approaches to bring about improved, human-centered IT systems. Experimental Studies on the usage of new or existing IT systems. Tools and Techniques for improved administration, e.g., visualizations of system behavior, or collaborative interfaces. Automation approaches to reduce administration workload or improve productivity. Organizational Knowledge - how can shared knowledge improve IT management. Processes and Practices - examples of best practices and improved processes in IT management. New Technologies - how will the changing technological landscape (e.g., Cloud Computing, pervasive mobile devices, etc.) affect IT management? IT Beyond the Enterprise - what are the implications now that we're doing backups, network configuration, etc. in the home? Submission Dates: July 3, 2009 Papers and Short Papers Due August 7, 2009 Panels and Courses Due August 28, 2009 Selections announced September 11, 2009 Posters Due September 25, 2009 Poster selections announced Further examples, details, and instructions for submissions can be found on the website: http://www.chimit09.org Regards, The CHIMIT'09 Committee

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New Event: Discovery Exhibition
by Petra Isenberg 29 May '09

29 May '09

This year we are trying to establish a new event, the Discovery Exhibition <http://www.discoveryexhibition.org/>, at IEEE VisWeek <http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/>. It is intended to stimulate forward thinking about the way in which visualization can play a role in work, research, entertainment, and many other areas. The exhibition, therefore, encourages the submission of impact reports of visualization (or visual analytics) use with a real user group and real data (possibly long after the first paper was published). We are looking forward to your submissions and comments. Your support is greatly appreciated. Bongshin Lee, Jing Yang, Petra Isenberg Call for Participation -- Discovery Exhibition VisWeek 2009 will for the first time host a Discovery Exhibition. It is intended to be a venue for everyone in the visualization community to share stories about the results of applied research and to publish reports on the impact that visualization research or simply visualization use has had on the work and life of people. 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. Contents: The content of the submissions can be 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. The entry should provide information on the impact that insights (or findings) have had. It is ok to use existing tools. If necessary, the dataset can be anonymized. 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)? Submissions: Please use the following link to submit your entry: http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/infovis09d Submissions consist of: * A 2-page write-up following the VisWeek poster template. These should focus on: the domain and data, insights/discoveries/findings and process in which they were acquired, impact of visualization use, and representations, interactions, and tools used if any. · Optional video submissions that explain your contribution. * Please check the Discovery Exhibition website (http://www.discoveryexhibition.org) frequently for updated information on submission templates, dates, FAQ, and examples. Review and Rewards: The contest co-chairs will judge entries based on whether they meet the submission criteria. We will give out awards for various categories based on the quality of the submissions (e.g. quality of the write-up, of the insight, etc.). The exact award categories will depend on the received entries. All accepted entries will be archived and published on the Discovery Exhibition website. At the conference all accepted submissions will also receive some time to present their stories. Presentations will consist of a poster and a short presentation during a conference session. Please check the website for more detailed information closer to the conference. Important Dates: Submission deadline: July 17th, 2009 Contact: Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Jing Yang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Petra Isenberg, University of Calgary discovery_exhibition(a)vgtc.org

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VAST 2009 Visual Analytics CHALLENGE - Final Call
by Plaisant, Catherine 19 May '09

19 May '09

>>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<< www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09 A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2009 Symposium FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 20 Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets? - Social network - Internet and badge traffic - Video We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU... You can submit a Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks. If you can pull all that data together and analyze the overall situation then you can submit to the Grand Challenge. Entries will be judged on the ACCURACY of the answers (compared to our ground truth scenario) and the RATINGS given by Visual Analytics peer reviewers AND by professional analysts. DATES - Submission: June 20 - Results: ~ August 1 - Challenge Workshop and VAST 2009 Symposium: October 10 - 16 WHAT DO YOU GET? - The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2009 Symposium and may participate in a panel at the Conference. - ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website. - Teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge WORKSHOP to discuss the results of the Challenge, compare their experiences, and influence next year's Challenge. - Student participants may apply for travel support www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09 VAST Challenge Chairs - Georges Grinstein, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell - Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland - Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab - Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Lab Catherine Plaisant, PhD Associate Director of Research Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park (301) 405-2768 http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/

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Call for Papers: ACM CHIMIT09 - Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology
by Eben Haber 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Call for Papers, Short Papers, Posters, Panels, and Courses ACM CHIMIT '09 - Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology November 7-8, 2009, Baltimore, MD (Immediately after USENIX LISA, also in Baltimore) Since 2007 CHIMIT has been the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. At CHIMIT, researchers and practitioners share issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, computer systems, and management and service sciences to address cognitive, social, and technical issues in managing the increasing complexity of modern Information Technology (IT) systems. Information Technology (IT) is central to modern life. From our homes to our largest enterprises, we are surrounded by software and hardware components that support our work and personal lives: wireless access points, network routers, firewalls, virus scanners, databases, web servers, storage and backup systems, etc. These components exist to permit us to do other things, e.g., manage inventory, communicate with friends or customers, sell products through websites, yet all too often managing the underlying IT infrastructure takes time and resources away from the real work at hand. IT systems have grown increasingly complex over the years, and the cost for keeping the infrastructure running is now a significant burden. We are at a turning point where further advances in technology and business efficiency and growth require fundamentally new approaches to IT system design, management, and services. CHIMIT is an ACM-sponsored conference, and accepted Paper and Short Paper submissions will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. We are also soliciting submissions for Panels, Courses, and a non-archival Poster Session for work in progress. Topics include (but are not limited to): * User Studies of IT infrastructure management in context, exposing user needs, pain points, work practices, and examples of both successful and unsuccessful work. * Design - approaches to bring about improved, human-centered IT systems. * Experimental Studies on the usage of new or existing IT systems. * Tools and Techniques for improved administration, e.g., visualizations of system behavior, or collaborative interfaces. * Automation approaches to reduce administration workload or improve productivity. * Organizational Knowledge - how can shared knowledge improve IT management. * Processes and Practices - examples of best practices and improved processes in IT management. * New Technologies - how will the changing technological landscape (e.g., Cloud Computing, pervasive mobile devices, etc.) affect IT management? * IT Beyond the Enterprise - what are the implications now that we're doing backups, network configuration, etc. in the home? Submission Dates: July 3, 2009 Papers and Short Papers Due August 7, 2009 Panels and Courses Due August 28, 2009 Selections announced September 11, 2009 Posters Due September 25, 2009 Poster selections announced Further examples, details, and instructions for submissions can be found on the website: http://www.chimit09.org Regards, The CHIMIT'09 Committee

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VizSec 2009
by John Goodall 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

The 6th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) will be helpd October 11, 2009 in Atlantic City, NJ, USA in conjunction with VisWeek 2009. The deadline for full papers (12 pages) is May 8, 2009. The deadline for short papers (6 pages) is May 22, 2009. Please see the web site for formatting instructions, templates and information on how to submit your paper. http://vizsec.org/vizsec2009/ Best, -john -- john goodall, phd . JohnG(a)SecureDecisions.avi.com Applied Visions Inc . Secure Decisions Division http://securedecisions.avi.com . http://vizsec.org

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Post-doc position available
by Guy Melançon - INRIA 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a post-doc position on interactive visualization of dynamic graphs through multilevel representations. The selected candidate is expected to look at a number of issues posed by the interactive visualization of dynamic graphs. The problem of graph clustering is challenged and the idea of a just-in-time strategy requires to have a closer look at how neighborhoods are defined/computed for dynamic graphs. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.fr. -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 269

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PhD position available -- Visualizing evolving multimedia databases
by Guy Melançon - INRIA 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Please forward to all possible interested person ----------------- The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a PhD position focusing on the visualization of evolving multimedia databases. This PhD project is developed in collaboration with INA (the Franch National Audio/visual Media Institute, see http://www.ina.fr) The data we face within the INA context can be handled from different perspectives and implicitly share numerous relations that must be explored suggesting to address it as a graph visualization problem. The goal is to provide the user with a readable and coherent visual representation of the data, equipped with relevant interactions, which becomes a real challenge when dealing with data dynamically evolving with time. The INA data presents numerous facets, thus allowing the definition of several visualization options and scenarios we need to specify according to potential usage and objects characteristics. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.fr. -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 269

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PhD position available -- visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks
by Guy Melançon - INRIA 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Please forward to all possible interested person ----------------- The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a PhD position focusing on the visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks. The PhD project takes place within the ANR TANGUY project headed by Thalès Communications and in collaboration with Xerox (XRCE Grenoble) and the law firm FIDAL. The project aims at designing a methodology to support the incremental construction and easy use of semantic networks. The development of a (prototype) system should help law experts to deal with large document collections from which potential facts have to be identified, extracted, organized and ultimately validated or annotated. Starting from valid pieces of information extracted from text document (Xerox expertise), our goal is to offer adapted mechanisms to visualize, navigate and annotate all this information. The construction of a network of facts should follow from semantic proximity between pieces of information or from users’ knowledge. As a consequence, the interactive navigation of the network can exploit available results in graph visualization which is at the heart of our INRIA team. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.fr. -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 269

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REV-CONF: Gazing into the 21st Century (Veigl)
by Image Science 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Second International Conference for Image Science Goettweig 08: Gazing into the 21st Century. Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems, October 16th - 18th 2008 The increasing number of new technical and social possibilities to produce and distribute visual material - from YouTube, Flickr to other virtual spaces - demonstrates more and more the demand for strengthening visual competencies. On that basis the credo of the conference Gazing into the 21st Century, which brought together American experts on image science like Felice Frankel, Barbara Stafford or Michael Naimark with German representatives like Marie-Luise Angerer, Oliver Grau or Nikolaj van der Meulen et al., was dedicated to the inventory, classification and historiography of the latest worlds of images in the domains of publicity, art, entertainment and science. Nowadays individual worlds of images form the background of PCs and cell phones; TV transforms to the global field of zapping of thousands partly even interactive channels; several hundred thousand new videos are published online every day in video communities; in interactive three-dimensional worlds of images a virtual and seemingly authentic parallel universe expands. In addition to entertainment also science and politics use the new dimensions of creating images and impact images. New questions arise in this new context: which inspirations do current image worlds experience though art? Which influences does medium have over the iconic character of the image? Which chances and challenges arise for intermediators of images and museums because of the „liquidity” of the image? Additionally, democratic chances and risks are directly related to processes of transformation in publicity provoked new image worlds, chances which ask for sensitive handling and augmented projects of archiving. Practices of collective writing, as they appear on the most famous hypertext Wikipedia, revolutionized within a decade the over centuries established status of author variability, style and aesthetical shape. The same developments were noticed by the journalist and photograph Stefan Heidenreich from Berlin in the world of the electronic image. YouTube and Flickr represent new forms of a collaborative visual process, obtaining more and more dominance. The transformations resulting in the fields of copyright, artistic institutions, popular culture and economy seem to be vague. The discussions led to the consensus that the possibilities for an increasing democratization of image policy exists more than ever, but that the increasing frankness of communication also needs more critical faculties and sensibility for the handling of visual material. Despite the alteration of the world of images in both professional and most private fields, the social reactions lag behind these developments. Felice Frankel, representative of North American image science and founder of the Image and Meaning Initiative - against the background of image policy claimed for an intensification of the dialogue between natural sciences with image sciences, designers and artists with natural scientists, in order to make the power of images more visible in the representation of science. A lot of visualizations that respond to the intellectual canon of today´s societies, do not correspond to the contemporary state of research and thus communicate a wrong or dated image. Oliver Grau, professor for image science at the Danube University Krems, also took on the question of image policy in the public place and pointed out main problems of current cultural policy. Media art, “the” contemporary art form, is still rarely collected by museums, not accepted in a suitable manner and nearly inaccessible for the non north-western public. Grau worries about the erasure of three decades of artistic work from the cultural memory. For the near future he recommends the establishment of an encyclopaedia of visual media. Similar to mapping projects in natural sciences, like seeing and its relation to the evolution of image media. Jan Henselder from Berlin, dealt with the loss of contemporary material, too, and digitized biographical interviews about the national socialist and GDR past and preserves them for future generations. Règis Debray can add to the conversation, that beyond the communication via new technologies adequate social institutions are also necessary in order to guarantee the transfer of medial contents. Another focus of the conference was the question about the finding of knowledge through technological procedures of visualization concerning natural sciences. So the medical scientists Dolores und David Steinman from Toronto University showed, resulting from their practical experience, that most of the images clinicians are confronted with are computer generated interpretations of patients´ records. Organic processes as well as the bloodstreams´ dynamics elude the human view, what makes computer aided imaging techniques indispensable for timely diagnosis and therapy. The challenge is the integration of scientific truth, aesthetic trends and established scientific-medical conventions. These days doctors primarily make decisions how the digitally measured values are to be displayed. This causes, like in many fields that are not trained in the handling of images and respectively whose training does not broach the issue of the phenomenon image, a naïve handling of new image forms. The discussion underlined the need for scientific image qualification in creating scientific knowledge influenced by technological methods of visualization. Nicolaj van der Meulen, image scientist and professor for art history at University Basel, claimed for an applied image research that should not only deal with the representation but also the generation of knowledge by use of visual concepts. A web based, digital medium for image-oriented research was presented in this context by Martin Warnke, head of the data center of Lueneburg University. „HyperImage“ fulfills the long wished for requirement not to treat visual forms semiotically. Observations on images may be marked, arranged, published and utilized scientifically without adding linguistic remarks. (www.hyperimage.org) Already at the beginning of the international conference the American media artist Michael Naimark pointed out the image development of Google Earth: Despite the promises of virtual reality many applications emerging during the last years are, due to a lack of combination of photo-realistic and interactive features, not able to involve recipients in such a way that you can feel the illusion of the site. Harald Kraemer, university lecturer and media producer, noticed the need for improvement of the dramaturgy of web sites. The recipient should be integrated through a feeling of solidarity and empathy, which can be achieved through a holistic attempt of the symbiosis of content, navigation and design. The rector of the Art College for Media in Cologne, Marie-Luise Angerer, integrated the advanced problem area with the title “The Affective and Emotional Addressing of Recipients of Digital Media.” The discussion about affective and emotional addressing finds a broad base what, interdisciplinary practised, should and could lead to an “affect policy”. Barbara Stafford from the University of Chicago pointed out another aspect. The “Social - Memory - Hypothesis” sees a condition for the maintaining of social cohesion in the coordination of individual satisfaction of needs and inter-subjective behaviour. In order to clarify the workings of this „social synchronization“ she pleaded for an intensified relation to aspects of associative art in historic and recent worlds of images and drew a line from ancient hieroglyphs to hybrid collages. Results of the conference can be seen that the main challenge for making use of the democratic chances presented by the image politics of our time is the further expansion of visual competencies on the part of recipients as well as producers of new image worlds and digital archiving projects. The dialog between artists, scholars from the humanities and natural sciences offers the necessary platform on which image competency may be further developed through new educational research and teaching tools in order to serve the needs of the general public. A publication about the conference results is in preparation and should be published in 2009. A continuation of the Goettweig image conference is planed for 2010. by Thomas Veigl

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