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Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024
by Miksch Silvia 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence Pre-Call for Applications For the recently established Cluster of Excellence CoE Bilateral Artificial Intelligence (BILAI), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are looking for more than 50 PhD students and 10 Post-Doc researchers (m/f/d) to join our team at one of the six leading research institutions across Austria (see below). In BILAI, major Austrian players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are teaming up to work towards Broad AI. As opposed to Narrow AI, which is characterized by task-specific skills, Broad AI seeks to address a wide array of problems, rather than being limited to a single task or domain. To develop its foundations, BILAI employs a Bilateral AI approach, effectively combining sub-symbolic AI (neural networks and machine learning) with symbolic AI (logic, knowledge representation, and reasoning) in various ways. Harnessing the full potential of both symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches can open new avenues for AI, enhancing its ability to solve novel problems, adapt to diverse environments, improve reasoning skills, and increase efficiency in computation and data use. These key features enable a broad range of applications for Broad AI, from drug development and medicine to planning and scheduling, autonomous traffic management, and recommendation systems. Prioritizing fairness, transparency, and explainability, the development of Broad AI is crucial for addressing ethical concerns and ensuring a positive impact on society. The research team is committed to cross-disciplinary work in order to provide theory and models for future AI and deployment to applications. CoE Research Institutions: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU Linz) Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz) Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien) Board of directors: Sepp Hochreiter (JKU Linz) Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) Thomas Eiter (TU Wien) Gerhard Friedrich (AAU) Christoph Lampert (ISTA) Robert Legenstein (TU Graz) Axel Polleres (WU Wien) Martina Seidl (JKU Linz) The call for applications will open on *** September 1,*** 2024. For more information, see http://www.bilateral-ai.net Stay tuned

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Your Input Needed for Our Visualization Design Research Survey
by fatimah alaboud 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Hi all, I hope this message finds you well. I'm writing to invite you to participate in a short survey (around 5-10 minutes) for a data visualization research project. Your expertise in visualization design would be incredibly helpful! This survey aims to gather insights from visualization designers about the factors they consider when creating visualizations. Your anonymous responses will be used solely for research purposes, ultimately aiming to develop more effective visualization design methods. The survey is divided into six parts, covering your background, design considerations, visual encoding and interaction, evaluation and user feedback, machine learning usage, and open feedback. Please take your time and answer honestly. There are no right or wrong answers. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclCDJV6hxRKalDKbjtkiF2K5HhrAalsm_… Thank you for your participation! Best regards, Fatimah Alqahtani PhD Student fatimahalaboud(a)hotmail.com<mailto:fatimahalaboud@hotmail.com> Newcastle University

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Two Industry-Driven Post-Doc Positions at CoSTAR LiveLAB (University of York, UK)
by Jonathan Hook 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Two Industry-Driven Post-Doc Positions at CoSTAR LiveLAB (University of York, UK) - Apply by: 01/07/2024 - Salary: £36,024 - £38,205 per year - Contract status: Fixed Term for 56 Months CoSTAR LiveLAB, led by the University of York, and based at Production Park in Wakefield, is a new research centre that focusses on applying new virtual production technologies to live events and how the latest developments can be used to ensure the UK has the skills and infrastructure to stay on the cutting edge of this type of technology. https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/converge… We are seeking two Postdoctoral Research Associates for the development of new technologies for immersive live performances. The PDRAs will conduct R&D activities at Production Park in Wakefield, in close liaison with the Project Directors and Co-Investigators. Successful candidates will have a strong track record of R&D in creative technologies, including one or more of the following: Machine vision; machine learning; Data science and analytics; immersive and interactive audio; media signal processing; low latency networking; psychophysics; UX design and testing; VR/AR. Candidates should have strong coding skills. The PDRAs will be expected to work closely with industry partners and other relevant stakeholders on a range of different projects. Find out more and apply here: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-associate-for-costar-… -- Jonathan Hook Professor of Interactive Media UX & Access Programme Lead: CoStar Live Lab <https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/converge…> School of Arts and Creative Technologies University of York, York, YO10 5DD http://www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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[CfP] Call for Posters for ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2024 (Deadline August 15, 2024)
by Yang, Yalong 23 Jun '24

23 Jun '24

*** Apologies for cross postings *** Call for Posters for ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2024 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) is the premier academic venue for research in the design, development, and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. This years conference will take place 27-30 October 2024 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The venue will be UBC Robson Campus. The ACM ISS 2024 poster program offers an engaging venue to present and discuss new and developing research. Posters enable researchers to get feedback on early-stage work and work-in-progress, establish potential collaborations, and discuss burning issues in ISS with the larger community in an informal manner during the interactive poster session. A poster will enable you to: * Present your poster in person at the conference. There will also be a Best Poster Award at the conference. * Publish an extended abstract of the poster in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. * Publish an optional video of up to 3 minutes long in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. * Work that is best suited for a poster submission includes, but is not limited to, preliminary results, thought-provoking and current topics, novel experiences and/or prototypes that have not been fully tested but show great promise, summaries of small-scale studies, and design-led explorations of interactive tabletops, surfaces and spaces. Deadline: Your poster and additional files<https://iss2024.acm.org/track/iss-2024-posters> should be submitted by August 15. Topic Areas ISS 2024 welcomes Poster Submissions about a range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces, as well as novel interface technologies, that include (but not limited to): * Large display interfaces and multi-display environments * Gesture-based interfaces (i.e., hands, fingers, body) * Multi-modal interfaces * Tangible user interfaces * Novel interaction techniques and paradigms * Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices * Different materials and form factors (e.g., curved, sand, water, and so on) * Interactive 3D spaces (i.e., Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, and so on) * Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (e.g., projected interfaces, drones, and so on) * Interactive architecture * Beyond traditional surfaces (i.e., shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related, and so on) * Interactive information visualization/data presentation * Software engineering methods and frameworks * Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces * Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction * Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities * Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces * Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs * Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (e.g., public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, and so on) Please refer to our homepage for the full call for posters and additional information: https://iss2024.acm.org/track/iss-2024-posters Posters Co-Chairs Yalong Yang, Georgia Tech Michelle Annett, MishMashMakers posters2024(a)iss.acm.org<mailto:posters2024@iss.acm.org>

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Graph Drawing 2024: Call for Software Presentations
by karsten.klein＠udo.edu 22 Jun '24

22 Jun '24

Please, help us to distribute this announcement. Apologies for cross-posting. =================================================================== Call for Software Presentations GD 2024 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 18–20, 2024 – Vienna, Austria https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/ Important Dates: ---------------- Expression of interest: July 07 Notification of acceptance: July 20 Proceedings abstract due: August 20 =================================================================== For more than 30 years, the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) has been the main annual event for researchers that focus on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing, their practical evaluation, as well as on the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. Researchers and practitioners working on all aspects of graph drawing and network visualization participate in the symposium. Celebrating the first return of GD to Vienna since the 9th GD Symposium in 2001, we would like to revive the idea of the successful GD 2001 software exhibition and invite software presentations for this year's edition. Software presentations at GD are opportunities to introduce and demonstrate implementations of methods and interfaces for network visualisation, including frameworks and editors or any other tools that support researchers and practitioners in their work. Software realisations that do not directly target application areas or research, but demonstrate some originality regarding outreach to the general public or have artistic value are also very welcome. The software presentation will take place as a part of the core GD program, and participating contributors will get the opportunity to submit a two-page abstract describing their software, which will be part of the official proceedings. The software should be demonstrated on site at the conference, the presenters are welcome to also bring a poster and video describing their software. As there is limited space, we first kindly ask anyone interested in contributing to submit a one-page expression of interest, which should include a short description of the software and its value for the graph drawing community, as well as a short description of how the software would be presented. Please send your expression of interest as a PDF file to gd2024(a)easychair.org. Program Committee Chairs ------------------------ Stefan Felsner (Technical University Berlin) Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz)

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IEEEVIS Workshop on Sustainable Practices within Visualization and Physicalization
by Georgia Panagiotidou 19 Jun '24

19 Jun '24

Just a few more days left to submit your ideas/provocations/designs to the VISions of the Future: Sustainable Practices within Visualization and Physicalization workshop! Join us at IEEEVIS 2024 on Oct 14 in Florida where we will weave together two disparate strands of ‘what can visualization do for climate research’ and ‘what can sustainability research teach the field of visualization’ into a coherent sustainability agenda for the field of Visualization broadly. Submission deadline: July 1st Submission type: 2-4 paper/pictorial/provocation Submission details and more information: https://visionsofthefuture.github.io

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Submission Open for Visualization in Data Science Symposium @ IEEE VIS
by Ana Crisan 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

VDS 2024, the tenth Symposium on Visualization in Data Science, solicits original work that emphasizes the role, application, and impact of visualization in data science. We would like to particularly encourage papers that cross disciplinary boundaries and show how visualization in data science can be a catalyst for discovery. Papers that integrate visualization with any stages of the data science pipeline (collecting data, cleaning data, mining data, exploring data, and communicating data) would be welcome as submissions to VDS. Special Theme : Data Science in the Age of AI This year we have a special theme soliciting contributions concerning ‘Data Science in the Age of AI’. We encourage authors to submit their work involving systems, techniques, studies, and theory relating to the relationship between AI and data science work. Unlike previous years, we also encourage the submission of position papers if they belong to the special theme. Contributions to VDS that do not concern this theme are still encouraged. VDS accepts archival full and short paper submissions for talks. *Deadline:* July 6th, 2024 Submission Details: https://www.visualdatascience.org/2024/cfp/ Contact: vds(a)ieeevis.org

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[CFP] First IEEE VIS Workshop on Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization (PDAV)
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

We solicit contributions that focus on progressive visualization and visual analytics The increasing amount of data is a long-standing challenge for data analysis systems. Although building interactive systems has been a central focus of the visualization community, when applied to large-scale data and complex algorithms, most current visualization systems suffer from long, unmanaged computation delays between user interactions and system responses, rendering the systems unusable. The critical challenge we face here is to make a system’s latency manageable, ultimately ensuring it remains below the golden limits of human latency regardless of the amount of input data and complexity of algorithms. Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization (PDAV) is a novel programming paradigm to control latency by replacing long computations with a series of smaller computations with bounded latency, improving iteratively until the whole computation is completed or until the user is satisfied with the latest iteration and stops. Thus, PDAV computations also need to inform the user about the quality of the result to allow early decisions with controlled quality. With PDAV, visual exploration systems can scale to large data sizes and use complex algorithms interactively, provided they are adapted to run progressively. This new paradigm is promising but will require important research and technical work to become mainstream. This workshop is aimed at explaining and accelerating the development of the paradigm. The workshop will present state-of-the-art research and work-in-progress to design and implement PDAV systems. We encourage late-breaking work, research in progress, and position papers; for example, topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to): Progressive Techniques for Information and Scientific Visualization Progressive Visual Analytics Systems Progressive Algorithms and Data Structures Progressive Databases and Data Management Systems Progressive Machine Learning Progressive Artificial Intelligence Progressive Data Science User Interfaces for Progressive Systems Languages and Toolkits for Progressive Systems Uncertainty in Progressive Systems Infrastructure for Progressive Systems Human Factors in Progressive Data Analysis Applications of Progressive Visual Data Analysis Theories for Progressive Visual Data Analysis Evaluation of Progressive Systems Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st July 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 19th July 2024 Camera Ready Paper and Poster: 26th August 2024 Workshop (1/2 Day, Morning): 14th October 2024 Organizers Alex Ulmer, Fraunhofer IGD Jaemin Jo, Sungkyunkwan University Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart Jean-Daniel Fekete, Inria & Université Paris-Saclay More info: https://ieee-vis-pdav.github.io/ For questions, please email the workshop chairs directly: pdav-chairs(a)ieeevis.org Alex, Jaemin, Michael & Jean-Daniel -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr Aviz Team Leader Inria, Université Paris-Saclay INRIA Saclay Centre www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 660, Université Paris-Saclay tel: +33 1 69156551 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240

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IEEE EduVis 2024 cfp
by Fateme Rajabiyazdi 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

We invite you to submit to our 2nd IEEE EduVis workshop, which aims to continue discussions on visualization education at the IEEE VIS 2024 conference. This year, submissions will focus on special topics relevant to the EduVIS community. Three submission tracks are: * Visualization for Education [Vis4Ed]: use of visualization in educational settings of any discipline or topic * AI for Visualization Education [AI]: integrate or limit tools like ChatGPT and generative AI into visualization education * Generic Topics in Visualization and Education [General]: includes any other submission relevant to the workshop We welcome submissions in the form of full papers or education reports that share opinions or teaching reflections. Submissions are due July 1. More info: https://ieee-eduvis.github.io/ Best, Fateme [cid:image001.png@01DAC0A5.7A018DF0] Fateme Rajabi, PhD, PEng Assistant Professor Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada http://healthvisfutures.sce.carleton.ca/ This email contains links to content or websites. Always be cautious when opening external links or attachments. Please visit https://carleton.ca/its/help-centre/report-phishing/ for information on reporting phishing messages. When in doubt, the ITS Service Desk can provide assistance. https://carleton.ca/its/chat -----End of Disclaimer-----

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ACM UMAP 2024 | Standard Registration until 21 June
by Wanling Cai 15 Jun '24

15 Jun '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * * Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/registration/ ACM UMAP 2024 – Standard Registration until 21 June ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the Steering Committee. Proceedings are published by ACM and part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP 2024 is organized as an in-presence event, with online attendance support only during workshops and tutorials (i.e., the main conference will be run fully in-presence). Only workshops and tutorials will be streamed. ACM UMAP 2024’s organizers seek to foster an accessible and inclusive conference. We recognize that attendees have differing abilities to pay, and have instituted a tiered pricing program to accommodate different financial needs. Thanks for your interest in UMAP 2024! Please read the information link below carefully regarding costs and deadlines. * Registration information: https://www.um.org/umap2024/registration/ - Standard Registration until June 21, 2024 - Onsite Registration By July 4, 2024 * Registration Link: https://cvent.me/ekykDz Contact Information If you have any questions or enquiries, please contact: umap2024-chair(a)um.org<mailto:umap2024-chair@um.org>.

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