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CFP: First International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks (in conjunction with BIBM 2009 deadline August 10 2009)
by Kai.Xu＠csiro.au 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Please ignore the previous email: some of the line breaks seem not working. [apologies for cross-postings] --------------------------- Call For Papers ----------------------------- First International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks http://cs.utsa.edu/~jruan/bibm2009_GTBN/ In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2009) Washington D.C., USA, Nov 1-4, 2009 Networks are pervasive in biomedical research. Common examples include metabolic pathways, protein interaction networks, gene regulatory networks, and other networks generated through integrative systems biology approaches. Various ontologies, such as those in the Open Biomedical Ontologies, have a directed acyclic graph structure and are also networks. The recent development in semantic web and annotation of public databases produced a collection of huge RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs that can be used for reasoning and inferring new knowledge. The collaboration within a research community and citations among publications are two examples of social networks within the biomedical field. The topological nature of networks makes their analysis considerably different from those designed for other data types such as sequences. There is a rich literature on graph techniques in mathematics and computer science, but their study in biomedical domain is still in its early stage and many important problems remain open. This presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in modelling, prediction, analysis , and visualization of biomedical networks. This workshop aims to bring together people with diverse background including bioinformatics, computational biology, data mining, graph algorithms, network analysis, ontology and high-performance computing, and provide a forum for discussion and opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration. Original research papers are solicited in, but not limited to the following topics: * Prediction and analysis of biological networks (e.g., protein interaction networks, regulatory networks, co-expression networks, metabolic pathways, etc) * System biology approach in data integration * Analysis of network topologies (e.g., centrality and network motif analysis) * Network-based data mining algorithms (e.g. protein complex prediction, tumour classification, etc) * Network alignment and comparison algorithms * Visualization techniques for biomedical networks * Biomedical ontologies, especially graphical analysis for them * Gene network control (e.g. network perturbation, stability, sensitivity) * Evolution analysis of biological networks * RDF graphs and reasoning * User studies related to biomedical networks * Collaboration, citation, and other social network analysis for biomedical community ---------------------- Workshop Co-organizers ---------------------- * Kai Xu, CSIRO, Australia * Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA * Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia --------------- Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2009 * Final Camera-ready Paper Due: September 17, 2009 * Workshop: November 1-4, 2009 (exact date TBD) ----------------------------- Program committee (tentative) ----------------------------- * Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney, Australia * Dirk Koschützki, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA * Yuan (Alan) Qi, Purdue University, USA * Falk Schreiber, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany * Kai Tan, the University of Iowa, USA * Rohan Williams, Australian National University, Australia * Xifeng Yan, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

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CFP: First International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks (in conjunction with BIBM 2009 deadline August 10 2009)
by Kai.Xu＠csiro.au 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

[apologies for cross-postings] --------------------------- Call For Papers ----------------------------- First International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2009) Washington D.C., USA, Nov 1-4, 2009 Networks are pervasive in biomedical research. Common examples include metabolic pathways, protein interaction networks, gene regulatory networks, and other networks generated through integrative systems biology approaches. Various ontologies, such as those in the Open Biomedical Ontologies, have a directed acyclic graph structure and are also networks. The recent development in semantic web and annotation of public databases produced a collection of huge RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs that can be used for reasoning and inferring new knowledge. The collaboration within a research community and citations among publications are two examples of social networks within the biomedical field. The topological nature of networks makes their analysis considerably different from those designed for other data types such as sequences. There is a rich literature on graph techniques in mathematics and computer science, but their study in biomedical domain is still in its early stage and many important problems remain open. This presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in modelling, prediction, analysis , and visualization of biomedical networks. This workshop aims to bring together people with diverse background including bioinformatics, computational biology, data mining, graph algorithms, network analysis, ontology and high-performance computing, and provide a forum for discussion and opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration. Original research papers are solicited in, but not limited to the following topics: * Prediction and analysis of biological networks (e.g., protein interaction networks, regulatory networks, co-expression networks, metabolic pathways, etc) * System biology approach in data integration * Analysis of network topologies (e.g., centrality and network motif analysis) * Network-based data mining algorithms (e.g. protein complex prediction, tumour classification, etc) * Network alignment and comparison algorithms * Visualization techniques for biomedical networks * Biomedical ontologies, especially graphical analysis for them * Gene network control (e.g. network perturbation, stability, sensitivity) * Evolution analysis of biological networks * RDF graphs and reasoning * User studies related to biomedical networks * Collaboration, citation, and other social network analysis for biomedical community ---------------------- Workshop Co-organizers ---------------------- Kai Xu, CSIRO, Australia Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia --------------- Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2009 Final Camera-ready Paper Due: September 17, 2009 Workshop Day: November 1-4, 2009 (exact date TBD) ----------------------------- Program committee (tentative) ----------------------------- Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney, Australia Dirk Koschützki, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yuan (Alan) Qi, Purdue University, USA Falk Schreiber, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany Kai Tan, the University of Iowa, USA Rohan Williams, Australian National University, Australia Xifeng Yan, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

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CHI 2010: Many ways to participate: Reviewers Needed, Upcoming Deadlines
by Eben Haber 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

NEWS FLASH: Reviewers Needed! Please volunteer for CHI 2010 reviewing today! CHI 2010 urgently needs volunteers to review for all tracks of the conference. Our first submission tracks are online now, so we will need to start tapping volunteer reviewers very soon. As in previous years, CHI will be using the Precision Conference system for reviewing. *) If you ALREADY have a PCS, please go to https://precisionconference.com/ ~sigchi/ to log in. Then, click on the Volunteer Center link to update your profile and specify how many submissions you'd be wiling. *) If you DO NOT have a PCS account, please sign up! Go to https://precisionconference . com/~sigchi/preGetID to create your account. Then click the Volunteer Center link to update your profile and specify how many submissions you'd be willing to review. CHI 2010 is using a unified reviewer pool, rather than requiring reviewers to volunteer for specific submission tracks. This reduces the burden of signing on as a volunteer, and also enables CHI to seek appropriate experts for all submissions. Your participation in the CHI review process is a vital contribution to the field, and our community. NEWS FLASH: Upcoming Deadlines It's time to start getting your submissions ready for CHI 2010! Course and Workshop proposals are only a few weeks away, and the deadline for Papers and Notes is only three months away. Here are the important fall deadlines, with links to details for each category: July 17: o Course proposals o Workshop proposals September 17: o Papers and Notes October 9: o Case Studies o Media Showcase o Doctoral Consortium o Panels CHI 2010: The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 looks outward to the human experience of computing in the world. "We are HCI" challenges our community to embrace the diversity of HCI in the world and to exclaim our commitment as a profession to empower people from all walks of life. Become a fan of CHI 2010

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A list of conference dates/deadlines with relevance to our community
by Mads Soegaard 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear all, [apologies for cross-postings] I've compiled a list of conference dates/deadlines with relevance to our community. I aim to send an updated overview every once in a while. There's a printerfriendly version (for hanging on your wall at http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/printerfriendly.html ) If you feel something is missing, or if you find errors, please go to http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/ and make additions or corrections. --------------------------------------------------- CHINZ 2009, 10th annual Conference on the NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction Auckland, New Zealand >From Jul 06 to Jul 07 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/conferences/chinz09/ --------------------------------------------------- iUBICOM 09, The 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing Birmingham, UK >From Jul 06 to Jul 06 2009 Deadline(s): 18 April 2009: Full paper submission deadline More info on http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/research/dsm/iUBICOM09/iUBICOM-09Workshop.htm --------------------------------------------------- EuroPLoP 2009 Conference Irsee, Germany >From Jul 08 to Jul 12 2009 Deadline(s): 31 January 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://hillside.net/europlop --------------------------------------------------- ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA >From Jul 14 to Jul 17 2009 Deadline(s): 25 February 2009: All categories except late breaking results 16 April 2009: Late breaking results More info on http://eics2009.org --------------------------------------------------- Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2009) Mountain View, CA >From Jul 15 to Jul 17 2009 Deadline(s): 27 February 2009: Technical paper submission deadline More info on http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/ --------------------------------------------------- HCI International 2009 San Diego, CA, USA >From Jul 19 to Jul 24 2009 Deadline(s): 20 October 0000: Abstract submission for tutorial proposals 23 February 2009: Abstract submission for poster proposals More info on http://www.hcii2009.org/ --------------------------------------------------- 1st IEEE 'Accessing the Future' Conference Boston, Massachusetts, USA >From Jul 20 to Jul 21 2009 Deadline(s): 29 May 2009: Early registration deadline More info on http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/accessingthefuture/index.php --------------------------------------------------- First International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT2009) Ostrava, Czech Republic >From Jul 28 to Jul 31 2009 Deadline(s): 15 May 2009: Submission Deaadline More info on http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx --------------------------------------------------- The Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information London, UK >From Aug 04 to Aug 06 2009 Deadline(s): 22 May 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www.dirf.org/diwt2009 --------------------------------------------------- The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology 2009 (ICCSIT 2009) Beijing, China >From Aug 08 to Aug 11 2009 Deadline(s): 8 August 2009: Conference Date More info on http://www.iccsit.org/ --------------------------------------------------- Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Mar del Plata, Argentina >From Aug 24 to Aug 25 2009 Deadline(s): 27 April 2009: Deadline for submissions of papers 15 June 2009: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 26 June 2009: Deadline for camera ready submissions More info on http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/asai2009/ --------------------------------------------------- INTERACT 2009, Twelfth IFIP conference on Human-Computer Interaction Uppsala, Sweden >From Aug 24 to Aug 28 2009 Deadline(s): 15 January 2009: Tutorials, workshops 30 January 2009: Full papers More info on http://www.interact2009.com/ --------------------------------------------------- DEGAS'2009: Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services Uppsala, Sweden >From Aug 24 to Aug 24 2009 Deadline(s): 15 May 2009: Submission of full and position papers 29 June 2009: Notification of acceptance 3 August 2009: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due More info on http://ihcs.irit.fr/degas2009/ --------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on 'Innovation for an Inclusive Future' Uppsala, Sweden >From Aug 24 to Aug 28 2009 Deadline(s): 18 May 2009: Submission deadline More info on http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/inclusiveworkshop/ --------------------------------------------------- Workshop Touch Affordances (at Interact 2009) Uppsala, Sweden >From Aug 25 to Aug 25 2009 Deadline(s): 15 June 2009: Position papers submission deadline 30 June 2009: Notification of acceptance More info on http://http:www.touchaffordances.org --------------------------------------------------- Copenhagen Design Week 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark >From Aug 27 to Sep 06 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.copenhagendesignweek.dk/ --------------------------------------------------- ASSE'09 - 10th Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering Mar del Plata, Argentina >From Aug 27 to Aug 28 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.38jaiio.org.ar/index.php/asse2009 --------------------------------------------------- Nordes 2009 Design Conference: Engaging Artefacts Oslo, Norway >From Aug 30 to Sep 01 2009 Deadline(s): 1 February 2009: All kinds of submissions More info on http://www.nordes.org --------------------------------------------------- HCI 2009 Conference, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction Churchill College Cambridge, UK >From Sep 01 to Sep 05 2009 Deadline(s): 5 March 2009: For all submissions and proposals More info on http://www.hci2009.org/ --------------------------------------------------- MaRK09, Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge Atlanta, USA >From Sep 01 to Sep 01 2009 Deadline(s): 15 June 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www1.cs.tum.edu/mark09/ --------------------------------------------------- ISWC 2009, International Symposium on Wearable Computers Linz, Austria >From Sep 04 to Sep 07 2009 Deadline(s): 5 April 2009: Submission Deadline (Full Papers, Posters, Notes) 18 May 2009: Submission Deadline (Late Breaking Results, Design Contest) More info on http://www.iswc.net --------------------------------------------------- Mensch und Computer 2009 Berlin, Germany >From Sep 06 to Sep 09 2009 Deadline(s): 6 July 2009: Early Bird Registration (Anmeldung mit Frühbucherrabatt) 31 August 2009: Online Registration (Online-Anmeldung) More info on http://www2.hu-berlin.de/mc2009/ --------------------------------------------------- TAMODIA 2009 Cambridge, United Kingdom >From Sep 07 to Sep 08 2009 Deadline(s): 27 April 2009: All paper categories (Scientific, Industrial/Demo, Student Short) More info on http://ihcs.irit.fr/tamodia2009/ --------------------------------------------------- ECSCW09 Conference Vienna, Austria >From Sep 07 to Sep 11 2009 Deadline(s): 6 March 2009: Full/short papers submissions due 3 April 2009: All other submissions due More info on http://www.ecscw09.org --------------------------------------------------- INTERACCIÓN 09 Barcelona, Spain >From Sep 07 to Sep 09 2009 Deadline(s): 15 April 2009: Submission Deadline 10 June 2009: Final Version More info on http://interaccion2009.aipo.es/ --------------------------------------------------- HAID'09, 4th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design Dresden, Germany >From Sep 10 to Sep 11 2009 Deadline(s): 19 June 0000: Posters and demos due for submission 20 April 2009: Papers due for submission More info on http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/HAID09/ --------------------------------------------------- 11th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education Brighton, UK >From Sep 10 to Sep 11 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.epde09.org/ --------------------------------------------------- CRIWG 2009, 15th Collaboration Researchers' International Workshop on Groupware Peso da Régua, Douro, Portugal >From Sep 13 to Sep 17 2009 Deadline(s): 3 April 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www.criwg.org --------------------------------------------------- IVA 2009, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Amsterdam, The Netherlands >From Sep 14 to Sep 16 2009 Deadline(s): 17 April 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://iva09.dfki.de --------------------------------------------------- MobileHCI 2009 Bonn, Germany >From Sep 15 to Sep 18 2009 Deadline(s): 16 February 2009: Submission Deadline for full and short papers More info on http://www.mobilehci09.org/ --------------------------------------------------- IDEA 2009, the annual Information Architecture Institute Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada >From Sep 15 to Sep 16 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://ideaconference.org/2009/ --------------------------------------------------- Mobile HCI 2009 Tutorial day Bonn, Germany >From Sep 15 to Sep 15 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.mobilehci09.org/program/tutorials --------------------------------------------------- Mobile Interaction with the Real World 2009 Bonn, Germany >From Sep 15 to Sep 15 2009 Deadline(s): 4 May 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://mirw09.offis.de/ --------------------------------------------------- EuroSSC 2009 Guildford, UK >From Sep 16 to Sep 18 2009 Deadline(s): 27 April 2009: Submission Deadline 15 May 2009: Extended Submission Deadline More info on http://www.surrey.ac.uk/eurossc --------------------------------------------------- IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Corvallis, Oregon >From Sep 20 to Sep 24 2009 Deadline(s): 22 February 2009: Paper Abstracts Deadline 8 March 2009: Paper Submissions Deadline More info on http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/vlhcc09/ --------------------------------------------------- Archibots 2009 - A Workshop on Architectural Robotics Orlando, Florida >From Sep 30 to ?? ?? Deadline(s): 25 June 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www.archibots.org --------------------------------------------------- ACM Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Area Tampere, FINLAND >From Sep 30 to Oct 02 2009 Deadline(s): 15 May 2009: Tutorial and Workshop Proposals 31 May 2009: Long Papers 15 June 2009: Short Papers 30 June 2009: Posters More info on http://www.mindtrek.org/academic --------------------------------------------------- 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition - 7.000 Euros Award Sum Tampere, Finland >From Sep 30 to Oct 02 2009 Deadline(s): 7 August 2009: Competition Entry Deadline More info on http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia --------------------------------------------------- Ubicomp 2009 Conference Orlando, Florida >From Sep 30 to Oct 03 2009 Deadline(s): 17 April 2009: Paper and Notes Submission Deadline 25 June 2009: Demos, Posters, Videos, DC Submission Deadline More info on http://www.ubicomp.org --------------------------------------------------- CENTERIS2009, Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems Ofir, Portugal >From Oct 07 to Oct 09 2009 Deadline(s): 15 April 2009: Paper submission deadline More info on http://centeris.eiswatch.org --------------------------------------------------- IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design 2009, Working Conference on Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts Pune, India >From Oct 07 to Oct 08 2009 Deadline(s): 3 August 2009: Paper Submission 21 August 2009: Acceptance Notification More info on http://hcdc.cdac.in/hwid/ --------------------------------------------------- AIGA Design Conference Memphis, TN, USA >From Oct 08 to Oct 11 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://designconference.aiga.org/ --------------------------------------------------- IEEE Information Visualization Atlantic City, USA >From Oct 11 to Oct 16 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/infovis --------------------------------------------------- IEEE Visualization Atlantic City, USA >From Oct 11 to Oct 16 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/vis --------------------------------------------------- VAST 2009 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology Atlantic City, NJ >From Oct 11 to Oct 16 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/vast --------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Sensing and Acting in Ubiquitous Environments (SEACUBE'09) St. Petersburg, Russia >From Oct 12 to Oct 14 2009 Deadline(s): 10 July 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www.seacube.org/ --------------------------------------------------- DECIS Human Factors Event 2009 Delft, the Netherlands >From Oct 13 to Oct 14 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.humanfactors.decis.nl/ --------------------------------------------------- DPPI09, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces Compiègne, France >From Oct 13 to Oct 16 2009 Deadline(s): 20 March 2009: New deadline for papers submission More info on http://www.utc.fr/dppi09 --------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability - ICOVACS 2009 Louisville, KY >From Oct 19 to Oct 21 2009 Deadline(s): 15 May 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline 15 June 2009: Full Paper Submission Deadline More info on http://icovacs.org --------------------------------------------------- ISMAR 2009 Conference Orlando, Florida, USA >From Oct 19 to Oct 23 2009 Deadline(s): 31 May 2009: Art, Media and Humanities Program Submission Deadline More info on http://www.ismar09.org --------------------------------------------------- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas >From Oct 19 to Oct 23 2011 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/09annualmeeting.html --------------------------------------------------- ICEBE 2009 Conference Macau, China >From Oct 21 to Oct 23 2009 Deadline(s): 5 April 2009: Abstract registration 19 April 2009: Paper submission More info on http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/ --------------------------------------------------- BITs 7th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Shanghai, China >From Oct 22 to Oct 25 2009 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.iddst.com --------------------------------------------------- WikiSym 2009, the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration Orlando, Florida, USA >From Oct 25 to Oct 27 2009 Deadline(s): 2 April 2009: Research papers, experience reports, workshop proposals and more 24 April 2009: Posters, demonstration proposals and more More info on http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php --------------------------------------------------- ASSETS 2009, Eleventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Pittsburgh, PA, USA >From Oct 26 to Oct 28 2009 Deadline(s): 10 May 2009: Technical Papers 6 July 2009: Posters, Demos, and Student Research Competition 17 July 2009: Doctoral Consortium More info on http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09 --------------------------------------------------- ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009 Berkeley, USA >From Oct 27 to Oct 30 2009 Deadline(s): 24 April 2009: Submission Deadline More info on http://www.creativityandcognition09.org --------------------------------------------------- The 5th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia 2009 (CEE-SECR 2009) Moscow, Russia >From Oct 28 to Oct 29 2009 Deadline(s): 30 June 2009: Abstract submission deadline More info on http://cee-secr.org/ --------------------------------------------------- ACE 2009 and DIMEA 2009 Athens, Greece >From Oct 29 to Oct 31 2009 Deadline(s): 19 June 2009: Deadline for Posters and Creative Showcases More info on http://www.ace2009.org --------------------------------------------------- Dust or Magic: The Ninth Annual Children's New Media Design Institute Lambertville (NYC), NJ USA >From Nov 01 to Nov 03 2009 Deadline(s): [Date unavailable]: None More info on http://www.dustormagic.com --------------------------------------------------- VIEW Conference 2009 Turin, Italy >From Nov 04 to Nov 07 2009 Deadline(s): 31 August 2009: VIEWFest: Intalianmix2009 Call for Entries 15 October 2009: VIEW 2009 Call for Entries More info on http://www.viewconference.it --------------------------------------------------- The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) London, UK >From Nov 09 to Nov 12 2009 Deadline(s): 30 April 2009: Workshop Submission Deadline 30 May 2009: Paper Submission Deadline More info on http://www.icitst.org --------------------------------------------------- CLIHC and LA-WEB 09, 4th. Latin American Conference on Human-computer Interaction Merida, Yucatan >From Nov 09 to Nov 11 2009 Deadline(s): 14 June 2009: Submission Deadline 10 July 2009: Notification of acceptance 1 August 2009: Camera-ready manuscripts due More info on http://latin-web.org/clihc09/ --------------------------------------------------- VRST 2009, The 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology Kyoto, Japan >From Nov 18 to Nov 20 2009 Deadline(s): 10 June 2009: Papers 17 June 2009: Short Papers More info on http://grouse.ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp:8080/VRST2009/ --------------------------------------------------- AmI 2009 Conference Salzburg, austria >From Nov 18 to Nov 21 2009 Deadline(s): 25 May 2009: Workshops Submission Deadline 8 June 2009: Papers Submission Deadline 22 June 2009: Short Papers, Posters, Demos, Landscapes Submission Deadline 5 October 2009: Visions, Industrial Case Studies Submission Deadline More info on http://www.ami-09.org/ --------------------------------------------------- OZCHI 2009 Conference Melbourne, Australia >From Nov 23 to Nov 27 2009 Deadline(s): 12 June 2009: Submission Deadline: Long papers, and workshop and tutorial proposals 28 August 2009: Submission Deadline: Short papers, industry case studies, demos and posters, and doctoral consortium More info on http://www.ozchi.org/ --------------------------------------------------- OZCHI 2009 Conference Melbourne, Australia >From Nov 23 to Nov 27 2009 Deadline(s): 28 August 2009: Short papers More info on http://www.ozchi.org --------------------------------------------------- DICTA2009, Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications Melbourne, Australia >From Dec 01 to Dec 03 2009 Deadline(s): 15 June 2009: Paper Submission Deadline More info on http://dicta2009.vu.edu.au --------------------------------------------------- TEI'10: Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Cambridge, MA, USA >From Jan 25 to Jan 27 2010 Deadline(s): 3 August 2009: Studios submissions due 2 October 2009: GSC submissions due More info on http://www.tei-conf.org --------------------------------------------------- IxD10 - Interaction 2010 Savannah, GA, USA >From Feb 04 to Feb 07 2010 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.ixda.org --------------------------------------------------- CSCW 2010 Conference Savannah, Georgia, USA >From Feb 06 to Feb 10 2010 Deadline(s): 1 June 2009: Paper and Notes Submission Deadline 16 October 2009: Demos, Posters, Videos, Doctoral Colloquium, Horizon Deadlines More info on http://www.cscw2010.org --------------------------------------------------- 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Hong Kong, China >From Feb 07 to Feb 10 2010 Deadline(s): 17 July 2009: Intention to Submit Workshop Proposal Deadline 31 July 2009: Final Workshop Proposal Deadline 25 September 2009: Long and Short Paper Submission Deadline More info on http://www.iuiconf.org/index.html --------------------------------------------------- CHI 2010 Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA >From Apr 10 to Apr 15 2010 Deadline(s): 17 July 2009: Workshop proposals due - http://www.chi2010.org/authors/cfp-workshops.html 17 September 2009: Papers and Notes Due - http://www.chi2010.org/authors/cfp-papers.html 3 October 2009: Case Studies Due - http://www.chi2010.org/authors/cfp-case-studies.html 9 October 2009: Panels (http://www.chi2010.org/authors/cfp-panels.html) More info on http://chi2010.org --------------------------------------------------- EuroHaptics 2010 Amsterdam, The Netherlands >From Jul 08 to Jul 10 2010 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.eurohaptics2010.org --------------------------------------------------- World Usability Day 2010 Everywhere >From Nov 11 to Nov 11 2010 Deadline(s): More info on http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ -- Best regards, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mads Soegaard, Editor-in-Chief Interaction-Design.org Please spend 7 seconds helping our Open Content efforts: Share a link to Interaction-Design.org with your friends (e.g. on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc) Address: Chr. 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CfP: VisWeek workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces
by Petra Isenberg 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

*************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************** Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces - CoVIS'09 http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/covis09 Approx. October 11, 2009, Atlantic City, New Jersey In conjunction with VisWeek 2009 (Vis, InfoVis, VAST): http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: August 1st, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 26th, 2009 Final camera ready submissions: September 14th, 2009 Workshop: TBD - approx. October 11th, 2009 TOPICS It is common for small groups of people to gather around visual displays of information to discuss or interpret the information to form decisions. Groups can share the task load of exploring large and complex datasets and can share various interpretations of a dataset when working together. However, tools to support synchronous collaboration between several people in their data analysis are still relatively scarce. Traditionally, visualization and visual analytics tools have been designed from a single-user perspective and for desktop computers. While hardware such as multi-touch displays and network capabilities have emerged that lend themselves especially well to collaboration, software support for collaboration around visualizations is still relatively scarce. One of the reasons is that single-user systems do not necessarily translate well to collaborative scenarios or interactive surfaces and require specific re-design. The design of digital systems for collaboration around visualization and visual analytics systems, therefore, poses additional challenges: we need to understand (a) how people collaboratively work with visual representations of data and which methods they use to solve information analysis tasks as a team, and (b) what the exact design requirements are for collaborative visual analysis scenarios. In this workshop we would like to discuss these challenges and discuss the role of interactive surfaces as an emerging technology for supporting collaborative visualization and visual analytics settings. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * the design of information visualization, scientific visualization, or visual analytics interfaces and environments for co-located collaborative work, * design of interactive visual representations for collaborative work on interactive surfaces, * the use of interactive surfaces to visualize and interact with information and data, * social components in collaborative visual analysis environments, * aspects of cognition in multi-user visualization and visual analysis environments, * evaluation of collaborative information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics systems, * multiple and coordinated views for collaborative visualization and data analysis systems, * design of multi-display environments for information analysis work, * collaborative visualization and visual analytics applications, * collaborative sensemaking, and * experience with traditional collaboration in information and data intensive fields. OBJECTIVES The main objective of the workshop is to bring people from academia and industry with relevant backgrounds together (a) to discuss ongoing research work in the field of multi-user collaborative visualization and visual analytics and (b) to jointly investigate how interactive surfaces can contribute to this area. This includes the analysis of problems encountered in the field, the presentation of specific solutions, and the discussion of special characteristics compared to the core research areas. The workshop is intended to be a platform to exchange information and experiences, to stimulate discussion, and to identify novel aspects and ideas to the topics above. During this workshop, we would like to identify a number of open problems that need further investigation and identify priorities to target research in this direction. We would like to put an emphasis on the following two (interrelated) questions: * What are the existing challenges inherent in designing interfaces for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing data in a collaborative fashion? * What unique challenges exist in building visualization systems for collaborative environments? SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit position papers of up to four pages in length which outline one or more potential topics/solutions to discuss during the workshop. Accepted Papers will be published in the technical report series of LMU Media Informatics. This means that they will receive an ISSN number. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Vis/InfoVis 2009 format: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html Submissions should be sent to Dominikus Baur: dominikus.baur(at)ifi.lmu.de ORGANIZERS Petra Isenberg, University of Calgary (Primary Contact) Michael Sedlmair, BMW Group - Research and Technology Dominikus Baur, University of Munich Tobias Isenberg, University of Groningen Andreas Butz, University of Munich PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anastasia Bezerianos, Ecole Centrale Paris Nathalie Henry, Microsoft Research Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Johannes Schöning, DFKI Saarbrücken Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz David S. Ebert, Purdue University Melanie Tory, University of Victoria CONTACT US If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: petra.isenberg(at)ucalgary.ca For more information, please see the workshop web site: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/covis09

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Postdoc position at GT FODAVA Center
by stasko＠cc.gatech.edu 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Seeking a Post-doctoral Researcher and Scientist The FODAVA (Foundations of Data Analysis and Visual Analytics) Center at Georgia Tech is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the research 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 post-doctoral scientist to collaborate with researchers from a variety of disciplines including computer science, mathematics, industrial and system engineering, and others. We hope that the successful individual in this role will be able to assist ongoing research projects as well as to initiate new projects. Georgia Tech faculty are dedicated to working with the successful applicant in mentoring and career growth. Qualified applicants should have a recently-earned PhD in a related discipline. Students completing their dissertation in the next few months also are eligible for the position. To apply, please send a brief cover letter describing your background and interests, as well as a your current CV, to lometa(a)cc.gatech.edu by July 31, 2009. Please direct any questions that you may have to that email address as well.

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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 12 Jun '09

12 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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