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VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security
by John Goodall 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/ The VizSEC 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security will be held in conjunction with IEEE Vis 2007 and IEEE InfoVis 2007 in Sacramento, CA USA between October 28 and November 1, 2007. We are still waiting to hear the exact date of the event from conference organizers. This year's workshop will be an incubator for new ideas related to security visualization, a forum for garnering feedback from peers, and a place to identify and meet potential collaborators. We are currently in discussion with a publisher to release the proceedings from this year's workshop in book form. Please see the web site (http://vizsec.org/workshop2007/) for more information, and stay tuned for updates, author instructions, and submission instructions. Also, please note that there is a new web site for the VizSEC community, http://vizsec.org/. While the site is a work in progress, we hope it will help in gathering together resources and ideas related to cyber security visualization. We will also be adding a mailing list in the near future. We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you, John Goodall Greg Conti Kwan-Liu Ma .... John Goodall, Ph.D. | JohnG(a)SecureDecisions.com <mailto:JohnG@SecureDecisions.com> | www.SecureDecisions.com <http://www.securedecisions.com/> Secure Decisions | 6 Bayview Avenue Northport NY 11768 | 631.754.4920

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ANN re:place 2007 conference, Berlin, 15-18 November 2007
by Image Science 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

re:place 2007 The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Date: 15-18 November 2007 Information: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace An interdisciplinary forum of over 70 researchers and artists from all over the world, re:place 2007 presents multiple historical relations between art, science and technology. The title 're:place' refers to the sites and the migration of artistic and knowledge production. This theme is highlighted during the panel discussions and poster sessions, particularly in the 'Place Studies' stream which looks at specific historical instances and settings. Special attention will be given to alternatives to the 'Western' historical paradigms through presentations about art-science relations in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America. The conference includes general forum discussions on interdisciplinary research strategies, as well as keynote lectures by Lorraine Daston and Siegfried Zielinski. replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual Art at Danube University Krems' Center for Image Science, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and others. Supported by Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin - CzechPoint and Schwedische Botschaft Berlin. Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference ticket (3 days): EUR 50 (full) / EUR 20 (concessions) Day ticket: EUR 25 (full) / EUR 10 (concessions) Contact and information: replace(a)mikro.in-berlin.de, http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRAGUE / art - science - media - theory / BERLIN 8-18 NOVEMBER 2007 Three major conference events on art, science and media theory will take place in Prague and Berlin this November. Visit the MutaMorphosis conference (8-11 Nov.) and bring yourself up to date with contemporary art in extreme envirnments at the border between art and science. Take part in a Prague symposium about the exceptional media theorist, Vilem Flusser (12-13 Nov.). And then make the short journey to Berlin, where the re:place 2007 conference (15-18 Nov.) will feature outstanding interdisciplinary research and debates about the histories of media, art, science, and technology. http://mutamorphosis.org / http://www.goethe.de/prag / http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace Flyer download (1.9 MB) for this series at: http://mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/07/18/PRAGUEBERLINNOVEMBER2007.p… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Programme re:place 2007 check http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace for updates *** 13 / 14 / 15 November, pre-conference workshops and events (to be announced) ****** Thursday 15 November ********************************** *** Opening Session 15 November, Thursday, 14.00-15.00, Auditorium Welcome by Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE) Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT): MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities *** Panel 1: Place Studies: Art/Science/Engineering 15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Auditorium Michael Century (CA/US), Encoding motion in the early computer: knowledge transfers between studio and laboratory Stephen Jones (AU): The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, 1968-1975 Eva Moraga (ES): The Computation Center at Madrid University, 1966-1973: An example of true interaction between art, science and technology Robin Oppenheimer (US/CA): Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" and E.A.T. *** Panel 2: Intersections of Media and Biology 15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Theatersaal Assimina Kaniari (GR/UK), Morphogenesis in Action: D'Arcy Thompson and the experimental in Leonardo from LL Whyte to now Jussi Parikka (FI): Insect Media of the Nineteenth Century Michele Barker (AU): From Life to Cognition: investigating the role of biology and neurology in new media arts practice Boo Chapple (AU): Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from medicine to contemporary art and biology *** Keynote 1/Helmholtz Lecture (speaker t.b.c.) 15 November, Thursday, 18.30 at Helmholtz-Zentrum, Humboldt University *** Special Lecture Presentation Timothy Druckrey (US): Cinemedia - Visions of Computation in Cinema 15 November, Thursday, 21.00 at TESLA Media>Art<Lab Berlin ****** Friday 16 November ********************************** *** Panel 3: Histories of Abstraction 16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium Laura Marks (CA): Artificial life from classical Islamic art to new media art, via 17th-century Holland Arianna Borrelli (IT/DE): The media perspective in the study of scientific abstraction Amir Alexander (US): Death in Paris: When Mathematics became Art Paul Thomas (AU): Constructed infinite smallness *** Panel 4: Comparative Histories of Art Institutions 16 November, Friday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal moderation: Stephen Kovats (DE/CA) Lioudmila Voropai (RU/DE): Institutionalisation of Media Art in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socio-economic Factors Renata Sukaityte (LT): Electronic art in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: the interplay of local, regional and global processes Christoph Klütsch (DE): The roots and influences of information aesthetics in Germany, Canada, US, Brazil and Japan Catherine Hamel (CA): Crossing Into The Border - an intersection of vertical and horizontal migration *** Panel 5: Place Studies: Media Art Histories 16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium Daniel Palmer (AU): Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL): From Media Art to Techno Culture. Reflections on the Transformation of the Avant-Gardes (the Polish case) Caroline Seck Langill (CA): Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s Machiko Kusahara (JP): A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 - 1970 *** Panel 6: Media Theory in Cultural Practice 16 November, Friday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal Kathryn Farley (US): Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of Classroom Collaboration Nils Röller (DE/CH): Flusser's Individual Academy: Thinking instruments in institutional and personal relations Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (US): The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory Antony Hudek (US/CH), Antonia Wunderlich (DE): Between Tomorrow and Yesterday: charting Les Immatériaux as technoscientific event *** General Discussion 16 November, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium *** Keynote 2: Siegfried Zielinski (DE) 16 November, Friday, 20.00, Auditorium ****** Saturday 17 November ********************************** *** Panel 7: Interdisciplinary Theory in Practice 17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Auditorium moderation: Sara Diamond (CA) Christopher Salter (US/CA): Unstable Events: Performative Science, Materiality and Machinic Practices Simone Osthoff (BR/US): Philosophizing in Translation: Vilem Flusser's Brazilian Writings Karl Hansson (SE): Haptic Connections - On Hapticality and the History of Visual Media Janine Marchessault (CA)/ Michael Darroch (CA): Anonymous History as Methodology: The Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-53) *** Panel 8: Place Studies: Russia / Soviet Union 17 November, Saturday, 10.00-12.30, Theatersaal Introduction/Moderation: Inke Arns (DE): The Avant-Garde in the Rear View Mirror Olga Goriunova (RU): Cultural critique of technology in philosophy of technology and religious philosophy of early XX century Russia Margareta Tillberg (SE/DE): Cybernetics and Arts: The Soviet Group Dvizhenie (Movement) 1962-1972 Margarete Voehringer (DE): 'Space, not Stones' Nikolai Ladovski's Psychotechnical Laboratory for Architecture, Moscow 1926 (t.b.c.) Irina Aristarkhova (RU/US): Stepanova's 'Laboratory' *** Panel 9: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Auditorium moderation: Bernd Scherer (DE) Sheila Petty (CA): African Digital Imaginaries Cynthia Ward (US): Minding Realities: Geometries of Cultural Cognition Erkki Huhtamo (FI/US): Intercultural Interfaces: Correcting the pro-Western Bias of Media History Manosh Chowdhury (Bangladesh/JP): Can there be an 'Art History' in the South?: Myth of Intertextuality and Subversion in the Age of Media Art *** Panel 10: Cybernetic Histories of Artistic Practices 17 November, Saturday, 14.30-17.00, Theatersaal moderation/introduction: Geoff Cox (UK): Software Art has No History Christina Dunbar-Hester (US): Listening to Cybernetics: Music, Machines, and Nervous Systems, 1950-1980 David Link (DE): Memory for Love Letters. Computer Archaeology of a Very Early Program Brian Reffin Smith (UK/DE): Hijack! How the computer was wasted for art Kristoffer Gansing (SE): Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State *** General Discussion 17 November, Friday, 17.30-18.30, Auditorium *** Keynote 2: Lorrain Daston (US/DE) 17 November, Saturday, 20.00, Auditorium ****** Sunday 18 November ********************************** Presentation of Results of the LBI Workshop on Documentation and Metadata with Dieter Daniels a.o. 18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 1 Forum on Cyber-Feminism with Faith Wilding, Irina Aristarkhova, a.o. 18 November, Sunday, 10.00 Forum Discussion: Connecting Music(ology) and Media Art Statements by Dr. Joseph Cohen (Collège de Philosophie, Paris) and Dr. Rolf Grossmann (Applied Cultural Studies/Aesthetics, Leuphana University Lüneburg). Discussants include Dr. Werner Jauk (University of Graz) and Dr. Paul Modler (Design University Karlsruhe). Moderation by Joyce Shintani (Design University Karlsruhe). 18 November, Sunday, 10.00, Conference Hall 3 Feedback Session and planning for re: conference follow-up in 2009 18 November, Sunday, 12.00, Auditorium ****** POSTERS ********************************** (poster exhibition plus short lunchtime presentations) Su Ballard (NZ): 'Real Time': early encounters with immersive installation in Aotearoa New Zealand Clarisse Bardiot (FR): The Artists and Engineers of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, New York, 1966 Ross Bochnek (US): When Clinical Neuropsychology Met Time-Based Art Wayne Clements (UK): The Descent of New Media: Art, Warfare and Cambridge Cybernetics Lenka Dolanova (CZ): What They Were Cooking in There: Cooks, Their Kitchen and the Taste of Fresh Video Ernest Edmonds (UK/AU) Human and robot behaviour: art meets AI Francis Arsene Fogue Kuate (Cameroon): The contribution of technical centres to the development of Media Art in Africa: A case study of the Audiovisual Professional Training Centre of Ekounou (Yaounde) Francesca Franco (IT/UK): New Media Art and an Institutional Crisis in the History of the Venice Biennale, 1968 Darko Fritz (HR/NL): Vladimir Bonacic: Dynamic Objects (1968-1971) - computer-generated works made in Zagreb within New Tendencies art network (1961-1973) Yara Guasque (BR), Sandra Albuquerque Reis Fachinello (BR), Silvia Guadagnini (BR): Skipping stages. From constructivism in architecture and in poetry to the digital media: searching for parameters to understand the emerging media and the formation of a specialized audience in Brazil Rosana Horio Monteiro (BR): Art and Science Playing on the Margins. On the discovery of photography in the 19th century Brazil Karen Ingham (UK): A Ticket to The Theatre of The Dead Maude Ligier (FR): How cybernetics entered the world of art? The case of Nicolas Schöffer David McConville (US): Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, and Perturbation in Early Dome Theaters Vytautas Michelkevicius (LT): (Post)photography and Media Art: Rethinking Institutionalization and Public Curatorship in Lithuania Simon Mills (UK): framed: interviews with new media writers and artists Angela Ndalianis (AU), Lisa Beaven (AU), Saige Walton (AU): Technologies of Wonder - a Pansemiotic Approach Ariane Noel de Tilly (CA): The different 'versions' of John Massey's As the Hammer Strikes (A Partial Illustration) Ryan Pierson (US): Thinking Space: Mediating IBM's Deep Blue in the History of Computers Markku Reunanen (FI): Observations on the Adoption of Science in a Subculture Nina Samuel (DE/CH): Re-Reading Fractals: Towards an Archeology of the Digital Form Roberto Simanowski (DE/US): The Art of Mapping Data: Statistics, Naturalism, and Transformation Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (AT/FI): Paul Otlet's impact on visual knowledge building in current developments of Web 2.0 Melanie Swalwell (NZ): Early Digital Games Production in New Zealand Carolyn Tennant (US), Kathy High (US): The Experimental Television Center Claudia X. Valdes (CL/US), Phillip Thurtle (US): From Spiderman to Alba: transgenics in a post-nuclear world Simon Werrett (US): The Festive Formation of the City: The Art and Science of Urban Space in the late Soviet Union ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wendy Jo Coones, M.Ed. Department for Image Science DANUBE UNIVERSITY Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 3500 Krems, AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.mediaarthistories.org

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CFP: Workshop on Massive Datasets - Nagoya
by Yuri Ivanov 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Massive Datasets http://www.merl.com/wmd/ at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007/ November 15, 2007 Nagoya, Japan Are the tools we use to understand our data scalable to the tens of millions of records, huge spans of time, minute details of behavior, and large geographic extent that future sensor networks will generate? In the future buildings will be studded with sensors. Every movement will generate a few bits of data. Every fluctuation in temperature will be recorded. Every deviation in lighting will be noticed. These large and complex datasets will challenge the tools we use today. Looking into the future of residential and office building Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) has been collecting motion sensor data from a network of over 200 sensors for a year. The data is the residual traces of year in the life of a research laboratory. It contains interesting spatio-temporal structure ranging all the way from the seconds of individuals walking down hallways, the minutes in lobbies chatting with colleagues, the hours of dozens of people attending talks and meetings, the days and weeks that drive the patterns of life, to the months and seasons with their ebb and flow of visiting employees. The dataset contains well over 30 million raw motion records, spanning a calendar year and two floors of our research laboratory. As such it presents a significant challenge for behavior analysis, search, manipulation and visualization of the data. We have also prepared accompanying analytics such as partial tracks and behavior detections, as well as map data and anonymous calendar data marking the pattern of meetings, vacations and holidays. MERL is now releasing this data set to the community. We invite you to download the data and apply your analytic, visualization, and interface tools. We hope that you will find new facets of the data and then submit papers to this workshop to compare notes with your colleagues. The goal of the workshop is to understand the state of the art in the context of the huge, detailed dataset of the near future. We solicit papers which utilize the dataset to demonstrate new insights on the data using any of the following techniques, or any other related technique: * Interactive visualization * Interactive search techniques * Pattern discovery * Interactive data mining * On-line learning * Scalable techniques for data analysis and visualization * Event detection and classification * Data summarization Papers should be 8 pages inclusive. Please use the official ACM format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates: Data Release: June 30, 2007 Paper Submission: August 31, 2007 Notification: September 14, 2007 Camera Ready: September 30, 2007 Organizers: Christopher R. Wren Yuri A. Ivanov (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) Program Committee (confirmed): Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo) Aaron Bobick (Georgia Institute of Technology) Trevor Darrell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Irfan Essa (Georgia Institute of Technology) Minkyong Kim (IBM Research) Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers University) Thad Starner (Georgia Institute of Technology) Kazuhiko Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric) Andrew Wilson (Microsoft Research) [We apologize if you see multiple copies of this CFP.]

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APGV 07 - Early registration deadline ends
by Christian Wallraven 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

APGV 07: FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION Co-located with 10th Tübingen Perception Conference Tübingen, Germany, 25th - 27th July, 2007. http://www.apgv.org Keynote by Greg Ward on "Dynamic Range and Visual Perception" Invited talks by - Oliver Bimber (University of Weimar) - Volker Blanz (University of Siegen) - Philip Dutré (KU Leuven) - Rafal Mantiuk (MPI for Computer Science, Saarbruecken) ------ EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS THIS WEDNESDAY JULY 4TH ------ INFORMATION ----------------------------- Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004, APGV has brought together researchers from the fields of perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from perception to advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and haptic representation, and to use computer graphics to enable perceptual research that would otherwise not be possible. By co-locating APGV 07 with the tenth annual Tübingen Perception Conference (http://www.twk.tuebingen.mpg.de/) we aim to further promote communication with the core perception community, and also bring APGV back to Europe. The keynote this year will be given by Greg Ward - he is a pioneer in High Dynamic Range Imaging which was first employed as part of the Radiance lighting simulation system that he developed during his employment at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Greg has published numerous papers on lighting simulation as well as co-authored a recent book on High-Dynamic-Range-Imaging. Additionally, we will offer four invited talks by Oliver Bimber, Volker Blanz, Philip Dutré, and Rafal Mantiuk all of which have had an interest and have worked on bridging perception and computer graphics. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Early Registration: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Late Registration: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Symposium: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - Friday, July 27, 2007 TUEBINGEN --------- The beautiful town of Tuebingen is situated in southern Germany within a short distance from the Alps, Switzerland, Austria and France. Apart from its historic town quarter with the world-famous Hoelderlin Tower and picturesque old houses, Tuebingen is renowned for its excellent research facilities both from the University and the Max Planck Institutes. Tuebingen is a convenient 20 minute drive away from international Stuttgart Airport and well-connected by German Rail. It offers hotels and restaurants in all price categories and represents an ideal starting point for exploring southern Germany and the neighboring countries of Switzerland, Austria and France. CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- Christian Wallraven, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Veronica Sundstedt, University of Bristol PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Michael Langer, McGill University PROGRAM COMMITEE ---------------- Marina Bloj, University of Bradford, UK Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, USA David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK William Cowan, University of Waterloo, Canada Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah, USA Douglas W. Cunningham, University of Tuebingen James Elder, York University, Canada Marc Ernst, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Mark Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Yves Guiard, CNRS / Université de la Méditerranée, France Matthias Harders, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University, USA Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, USA Ann McNamara, St. Louis University, USA Gary Meyer, University of Minnesota, USA Karol Myszkowski, MPI for Informatics, Germany Shin'ya Nishida, NTT, Japan Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dinesh K. Pai, Rutgers University, USA Adar Pelah, University of York, UK Sylvia Pont, Utrecht University, Netherlands Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia, USA Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol, UK Peter Shirley, University of Utah, USA Bill Thompson, University of Utah, USA Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire, USA Ben Watson, North Carolina State University, USA Andrew Welchman, Birmingham University, UK -- Christian Wallraven MPI for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany ph: +49-7071-601607 | fax: +49-7071-601616 ----- APGV 2007: http://www.apgv.org ----- web: http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~walli

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Post Doc Opportunities
by Sheelagh Carpendale 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Post-doctorate Research Position in Information Visualization Post-doctorate Research Position in Groupware/Ubiquitous Computing University of Calgary Alberta, Canada Professors Saul Greenberg and Sheelagh Carpendale are seeking two bright and energetic post-docs to work on research in: * *information visualization* (under the supervision of Carpendale) AND * *groupware and ubiquitous / domestic computing* (under the supervision of Greenberg) The candidates will primarily work with their immediate supervisor, but will have good opportunities to interact with other faculty members and students. The candidates will also have opportunities to propose collaborative projects of their own related to the research area. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record that demonstrates high quality independent research in either information visualization or groupware/ubicomp. Candidates should be willing to commit to a two year post-doc. The positions will be located in the Interactions Laboratory, a rich community of students, researchers and faculty that specialize in many aspects of Human Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. Calgary is 45 minutes by car from the Canadian Rockies, a spectacular part of the world. These positions are made available through their recent award of an iCORE Industrial Chair, sponsored by iCORE and Smart Technologies, Inc. *To apply* Please send a resume and a description of your research interests to Robin Arseneault: rarsenea(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca If you will be attending CHI, please let Robin know by email as we may schedule an interview there. Sheelagh Carpendale's web site is http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sheelagh/ <http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Esheelagh/> Her group's research is at: http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ Saul Greenberg's web site is http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/ <http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Esaul/> His group's research is at http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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Visual Analytics Contest - a submission category of the IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium [updated]
by Plaisant, Catherine 03 May '07

03 May '07

COMPETE >> TEST YOUR RESEARCH OR PRODUCT >> WIN PRIZES >> PUBLISH Visual Analytics Contest www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 a submission category of the IEEE Symposium on VISUAL ANALYTICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007 >>> NEW <<< The top entries will coauthor a joint journal paper which will appear in the Applications Department of the March 2008 issue of Computer Graphics and Application (CG&A) --- VAST 2007 Contest --- The dataset consists mostly of news stories, along with some multimedia materials and background information. The goal is to determine if inappropriate activities are taking place and to provide evidence based hypotheses and conclusions. Participants have several months to prepare their submissions. --- What's different this year? --- The general format of the event remains the same as the 200 contest but this year we also provide a pre-processed version of the dataset (e.g. with entities already extracted) so that more teams can participate. Your team will need to decide whether to enter the contest using the preprocessed data or the raw data. --- Important dates --- July 13th Deadline for submission Mid August Acceptance notification Oct 27/Nov 1 IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, CA --- Contest Chairs --- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory --- Contest webpage: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 ---

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CFP: Visual Information Expert Workshop - VIEW2007
by Riccardo Mazza 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

****we apologize for multiple posting**** CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Visual Information Expert Workshop VIEW2007 Hungary December 3-4, 2007 www.view2007.eu Technical sponsor: IEEE EMBS Conference language: English The first Visual Information Expert Workshop explored the basis of a pixelization paradigm. Pixelization methods associate an informational entity with a single pixel so that a set of information entities can be translated to an image. Pixelization has proven to be an effective yet underutilized visualization method and thus needs further investigation to exploit its potential. During the first workshop, the following fields of inquiry were opened: * Pixelization theory, including mathematics of pixelization, pixelization per se and pixelization related to multidimensional data. * Pixelization applications, including spatial pixelization, temporal pixelization and qualitative pixelization. * Pixelization and Neurocognition. A 2nd workshop will be held to address these and other issues in visualization. Specifically, this years VIEW will be open to all 2D visualization methods. Non-exhaustively, example topics include: * Mathematics, Discrete Geometry and Statistics * Information sciences: computer sciences, Data mining, Web sciences, Networks * Physics * Medicine and Biology * Economics, Management * Psychology, Neuro-Cognitive sciences, Sociology * Engineering * Geography, Demography Important Dates: * Paper abstracts: June 5, 2007. * Papers: June 15, 2007. * Notifications: July 25, 2007. * Camera ready copy: September 5, 2007. The papers of the conference will be published in a book edited by Springer (LNCS). Conference Chairs: Laszlo Darago, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Pierre Levy, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM, UPMC, France Conference Co-chairs: Francois Poulet, ESIEA, Laval, France Riccardo Mazza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Invited Speaker: Alfred Inselberg, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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2006 UMUAI James Chen Award Recipients
by Alfred Kobsa 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-006-9002-9 has been elected as the winner of the 2006 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee chaired by Judy Kay from the University of Sydney, Australia. The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. It carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information is available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's website at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-1391/ Alfred Kobsa, Editor User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research

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APGV 07 - FINAL call for papers - Note deadline extension
by Christian Wallraven 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

APGV 07: FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION Co-located with 10th Tübingen Perception Conference Tübingen, Germany, 25th - 27th July, 2007. http://www.apgv.org Keynote by Greg Ward ------ DEADLINE EXTENSION TO TUESDAY, APRIL 3RD ------ FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------------------- Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004, APGV has brought together researchers from the fields of perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from perception to advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and haptic representation, and to use computer graphics to enable perceptual research that would otherwise not be possible. Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the intersection of computer graphics, visualization and perception. Specific examples include, but are not limited to: * applications of insights from perception to the development of algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling, rendering and/or animation * applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods for more effective representation and communication of data * the study of perception and perceptual issues in virtual environments * computational aesthetics, stylization, and perceptual aspects of non-photorealistic rendering Submissions are particularly welcome in all areas of basic perception research that have applications in computer graphics and visualization. Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be published by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be invited to be extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (http://www.acm.org/tap/) By co-locating APGV 07 with the tenth annual Tübingen Perception Conference (http://www.twk.tuebingen.mpg.de/) we aim to further promote communication with the core perception community, and also bring APGV back to Europe. The keynote this year will be given by Greg Ward - he is a pioneer in High Dynamic Range Imaging which was first employed as part of the Radiance lighting simulation system that he developed during his employment at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Greg has published numerous papers on lighting simulation as well as co-authored a recent book on High-Dynamic-Range-Imaging. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Poster Submission: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Early Registration: Friday, June 22, 2007 Late Registration: Friday, July 13, 2007 Symposium: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - Friday, July 27, 2007 TUEBINGEN --------- The beautiful town of Tuebingen is situated in southern Germany within a short distance from the Alps, Switzerland, Austria and France. Apart from its historic town quarter with the world-famous Hoelderlin Tower and picturesque old houses, Tuebingen is renowned for its excellent research facilities both from the University and the Max Planck Institutes. Tuebingen is a convenient 20 minute drive away from international Stuttgart Airport and well-connected by German Rail. It offers hotels and restaurants in all price categories and represents an ideal starting point for exploring southern Germany and the neighboring countries of Switzerland, Austria and France. CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- Christian Wallraven, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Veronica Sundstedt, University of Bristol PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Michael Langer, McGill University PROGRAM COMMITEE ---------------- Marina Bloj, University of Bradford, UK Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, USA David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK William Cowan, University of Waterloo, Canada Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah, USA Douglas W. Cunningham, University of Tuebingen James Elder, York University, Canada Marc Ernst, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Mark Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Yves Guiard, CNRS / Université de la Méditerranée, France Matthias Harders, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University, USA Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, USA Ann McNamara, St. Louis University, USA Gary Meyer, University of Minnesota, USA Karol Myszkowski, MPI for Informatics, Germany Shin'ya Nishida, NTT, Japan Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dinesh K. Pai, Rutgers University, USA Adar Pelah, University of York, UK Sylvia Pont, Utrecht University, Netherlands Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia, USA Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol, UK Peter Shirley, University of Utah, USA Bill Thompson, University of Utah, USA Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire, USA Ben Watson, North Carolina State University, USA Andrew Welchman, Birmingham University, UK -- Christian Wallraven MPI for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany ph: +49-7071-601607 | fax: +49-7071-601616 ----- APGV 2007: http://www.apgv.org ----- web: http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~walli

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The InfoVis 2007 Contest
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

"A gripping tale that will have you glued to your seat!" - The New York Times "An unforgettable experience" - Miami Morning Herald "A frightening vision of the future" - LA Times Showdown in Sacramento - The InfoVis 2007 Contest In a world where eternal darkness has fallen on the minds of humans, where databases suck the lifeblood out of the enslaved masses, these brave young men and women are the last ones who dare to fight back ... BOOM Contest Description at http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Misc/Visualization/ BOOM Data at http://eagereyes.org/InfoVisContest2007Data.html BOOM Deadline July 13, 2007

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