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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2024 VGTC Virtual Reality Awards
by IEEE VR Publicity 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2024 VGTC Virtual Reality Awards Nomination deadline: *January 15, 2024* Nominations are open now for the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award, Technical Achievement Award, Significant New Researcher Award, Service Award, and the Virtual Reality Academy. Nominations for the Dissertation Award closed in August. All awards will be presented at the IEEE VR 2024 conference being held March 16-21, 2024 in Orlando, Florida USA. Award criteria and nomination forms are here: https://ieeevr.org/2024/awards/vgtc/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2mZnv3Ra5pGv3-rIL0Z6TLnd…> Deadline for nominations is *January 15, 2024*. Mary Whitton, Chair IEEE VGTC VR Awards Program vgtc-vr-awards(a)vgtc.org [image: beacon]

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Fully funded PhD positions at CU Boulder
by Morteza Karimzadeh 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Dear All, We are looking to recruit promising PhD students to work on (geo)visualizations and visual analytics systems for renewable energy grids and power systems. The project will be based at the University of Boulder department of Computer Science or Geography, with options to do graduate work in either program, in collaboration with and funded by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. See sample of recent work here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09153 Deadline is coming up fast: https://www.colorado.edu/cs/admissions/graduate-admissions/how-apply Please email me with questions or inquiries. [cid:image001.png@01DA2E0D.BADED830] Morteza Karimzadeh, PhD Assistant Professor of Geography Affiliate Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Information Science University of Colorado Boulder Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Nations 303-492-3252 karimzadeh(a)colorado.edu<mailto:karimzadeh@colorado.edu>

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Workshops offered at IEEE VR 2024
by IEEE VR Publicity 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear All, Please find the information for workshops offered at IEEE VR 2024. You can navigate to the link provided for more details about each workshop. https://ieeevr.org/2024/program/workshop/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2bNZsktA796j5T6DvtmT3MlV…> [image: ExploretheVirtualFrontier1.5-1.png] On behalf of IEEE VR 2024 - Workshop Organizing Committee [image: beacon]

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Conferences: CFP: Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR (IDEATExR)
by IEEE VR Publicity 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

CFP: Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR (IDEATExR) To be held in conjunction with the 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 16-21, 2024 | Orlando, Florida USA Check out our website at: https://ideatexr.carrd.co/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2p3CcBDLBBxLBELLYvK0DJh6…> ABSTRACT The potential benefits of XR should be for all, regardless of their cultural background, gender identity, race, neurodiversity, ethnicity, economic status, age, etc. However, our community is still facing challenges preventing equal involvement. Most research within this space relies on the M-WEIRD user populations and is done by M-WEIRD researchers (Male, White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic), effectively missing most of the world’s population [1], thus hindering generalizability of findings and diversity of ideas. In fact, approximately 95% of the global population is excluded from VR research [1] and only 15% of first-paper authors at ISMAR and IEEEVR are women [2]. Moreover, the ethics informing XR research have been identified as one of the grand challenges facing human-computer interaction research today, with the replication crisis featuring transparency as a critical step for remediation. These factors make *formal discussions surrounding inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR not only timely – but necessary. **And we want you to be a part of them.* It’s important to note that these concerns are also relevant to technical work not involving human participants as they also play a role in research teams, ideas, proposed solutions, conduct, etc. Due to the important, evolving, and shifting nature of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, this workshop has five main goals: 1. To provide a vehicle through which to understand better the pulse of the community surrounding issues of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, 2. To shine a spotlight on these issues for community members who perhaps haven’t seen or given them much consideration, 3. To celebrate those that are engaging in research either true to the spirit of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, or those engaging in research about these topics specifically, 4. To help researchers better understand how to ensure their work are more inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, transparent, and ethical, particularly in their software and study design, 5. To spotlight how people are represented in XR technologies (or not) as researchers, designers, participants, and users, 6. And to bring together disparate perspectives and research foci together under a shared goal to be inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, transparent, and ethical in XR. This goal can be shared by software, hardware, and human-focused researchers. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to provide their insights on what is working for our community, as well as what isn’t – effectively helping to shape the future of IEEEVR and XR research. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop has six facets: inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics. We expect researchers to submit early work that has already shown a commitment to one or more of these aforementioned facets. These could include work with diverse participants, work examining skin-tone rendering in AR, computer vision algorithms for differently-abled hands, testing of accessibility and usability of a VR app for those with different sensory abilities, etc. Further, while we anticipate this next type of paper to be rarer, we anticipate papers that feature research explicitly regarding the realm of diversity in XR. Finally, position papers informed by either survey of the literature or profound experience in the facets of this workshop are also well within our scope. IMPORTANT DATES - *Paper Submission Deadline: Friday January 12th, 2024 (23:59 AoE)* - *Notification: Monday January 22nd, 2024 (23:59 AoE)* - *Camera-ready version: Friday January 27th, 2023 (23:59 AoE)* SUBMISSION We have two submission options (or ‘formal’ ways to engage with IDEATExR)! 1. We welcome paper submissions from 2-4 pages, excluding references. Authors should also provide a brief explanation (At least one paragraph; no more than 1 page attached in supplementary materials) of how they feel their paper fits into this workshop or achieves the workshop’s facets. Paper quality versus length will be assessed according to a contribution-per-page judgment. Papers will be considered in relation to their intended scientific merit AND their contribution or adherence to inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR. 2. We welcome lightning talk proposals 1 page in length, excluding references (what your talk is about and how it fits into IDEATExR). These are 5-10 minute ‘talks’. They can be used to promote an idea, share preliminary ideas and get feedback, or propose collaborations based around the goals of IDEATExR. These will NOT be published papers (though recordings may be posted with author permission) but are instead a way for community members to contribute ideas or generate discussion without the need to write a paper. Submissions must be written in English and follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format described at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Uj8Tt-R20mTxrkVMEqLNHDD…> Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members following a double-blind review process. Accepted papers will be given guidelines for preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. More information and submission guidelines can be found at our website: https://ideatexr.carrd.co/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2PIJcNKGLkJU9ekYU5Sj7pvH…> Please direct any questions to Lee Lisle at llisle(a)vt.edu ORGANIZERS Lee Lisle, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, llisle(a)vt.edu Cassidy R. Nelson, Virginia Tech, cassidynelson(a)vt.edu Nayara de Oliveira Faria, Virginia Tech, nfaria(a)vt.edu Rafael N.C. Patrick, PhD; Virginia Tech, rncp(a)vt.edu Dylan Fox, XRAccess, dylan(a)xraccess.org Aleshia Hayes, PhD; University of North Texas, aleshia.prof(a)gmail.com John Quarles, PhD; University of Texas San Antonio, john.quarles(a)utsa.edu CITATIONS [1] T. C. Peck, K. A. McMullen, J. Quarles, K. Johnsen, C. Sandor, and M. Billinghurst, “DiVRsify: Break the Cycle and Develop VR for Everyone,” *IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl.*, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 133–142, 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2021.3113455. [2] T. C. Peck, L. E. Sockol, and S. M. Hancock, “Mind the Gap: The Underrepresentation of Female Participants and Authors in Virtual Reality Research,” *IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.*, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1945–1954, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.2973498. [image: beacon]

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CFP: Eighth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2024)
by Maurice Koch 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit relevant manuscripts for consideration in the * Eighth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2024) * June 4 - June 7, 2024, Glasgow - United Kingdom in conjunction with the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA): https://etra.acm.org/2024/ All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the Workshop Proceedings of ETRA 2024. The details are appended and also available at https://www.etvis-workshop.org/etvis-2024. Please feel free to contact us directly for any further enquiry. Best regards, Michael Burch (University of Applied Sciences, Chur, Switzerland) Kuno Kurzhals (University of Stuttgart, Germany) ************************************************************************** Eighth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2024) June 4 - June 7, 2024, Glasgow - United Kingdom in conjunction with ACM ETRA 2024 https://etra.acm.org/2024/ ************************************************************************** Contact: etvis2024(a)gmail.com ************************************************************************** ________________ IMPORTANT DATES ________________ ● Submission Due: Feb 15, 2024 ● Notification: Mar 14, 2024 ● Camera Ready: Apr 05, 2024 All accepted papers will be published by ACM. ______ SCOPE ______ Broadly, this workshop considers the intersection of eye tracking research with visualization, whether the contributions relate to eye tracking studies of visualizations, or vice versa, visualization techniques for eye tracking. Technological advances in computer vision algorithms and sensor hardware have greatly reduced the implementational and financial costs of eye tracking. Thus, it is unsurprising to witness a significant increase in its use as a research tool in fields beyond the traditional domains of biological vision, psychology, and neuroscience, in particular, in visualization and human-computer interaction research. One of the key challenges lies in the analysis, interaction, and visualization of complex spatio-temporal datasets of gaze behavior, which is further complicated by complementary datasets such as semantic labels, user interactions and/or accompanying physiological sensor recordings. Ultimately, the research objective is to allow eye tracking data to be effectively interpreted in terms of the observer’s decision-making and cognitive processes. To achieve this, it is necessary to draw upon our current understanding of gaze-behavior across various and related fields, from vision and cognition to visualization. All together eye tracking is an important field to be understood, be it in the sense of data analysis and visualization, interaction, or user-based evaluation of visualization. _______ TOPICS _______ Manuscripts are solicited on the following topics with an emphasis on the relationship between eye tracking and visualization, including but not limited to the following: ● Visualization techniques for eye-movement data (inc. spatio-temporal visualization, evolution of gaze patterns, visual analysis of individual behavior, 2D vs. 3D representations of eye-movement data) ● Visual analytics of gaze behavior (inc. visual data mining, aggregation, clustering techniques, and metrics for eye-movement data) ● Eye-movement data provenance ● Standardized metrics for evaluating gaze interactions with visualization ● Cognitive models for gaze interactions with visualizations ● Novel methods for eye tracking in challenging visualization scenarios ● Uncertainty visualization of gaze data ● Interactive annotation of gaze and stimulus data ● Systems for the visual exploration of eye-movement data ● Eye tracking studies that evaluate visualization or visual analytics ● Eye tracking in non-WIMP visualization environments, including mobile eye tracking, mobile devices, and large displays ● Visualization of eye tracking data in mixed and virtual reality (3df & 6df, 360°) ● Visualization applications that rely on eye tracking as an input parameter ____________ SUBMISSIONS ____________ Authors are invited to submit original work complying with the ETRA SHORT PAPER format (up to 8 pages in single-column format, any number of references, max. 150 words abstract). Also, ensure that the Author Guidelines (https://www.siggraph.org//learn/instructions-authors for SIG sponsored events [sigconf]) are met prior to submission. _________ ORGANIZERS _________ ● Michael Burch, University of Applied Sciences, Chur, Switzerland, michael.burch(a)fhgr.ch ● Kuno Kurzhals, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Kuno.Kurzhals(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de ____________ PAPER CHAIRS ____________ ● Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States, cxiong(a)u.northwestern.edu ● Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, nakayama(a)ict.e.titech.ac.jp __________________ STEERING COMMITTEE __________________ ● Michael Burch, University of Applied Sciences, Chur, Switzerland, michael.burch(a)fhgr.ch ● Lewis Chuang, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, lewis.chuang(a)phil.tu-chemnitz.de ● Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Daniel.Weiskopf(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de ___________ MEDIA CHAIR ___________ ● Maurice Koch, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Maurice.Koch(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de

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ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Wanling Cai 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. The ACM UMAP 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the conference. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply for presenting their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic. This forum will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to: * Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment. * Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice. * Explore career pathways available after completing their doctoral degree. * Network and build collaborations with other members of the community. Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research (see detailed requirements below), which will be evaluated by the doctoral consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work. A mentoring session will take place during the conference, and the DC students are expected to attend. ** Important Dates ** Paper Submission: March 28, 2024 Notification: April 26, 2024 Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 9, 2024 Conference: July 1 – 4, 2024 DC Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days) Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time. ** Submission ** All submissions must be written in English. Submissions should be a single PDF document consisting of: (i) the recommendation letter, (ii) the research description, and (iii) the curriculum vitae. This PDF document should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Doctoral Consortium Papers” track. ** Length and Formatting ** Format and Content Guidelines. Consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short papers<https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/> concerning the key topics of this call as well. Each proposal should be a single PDF document, with three required components: (i) a recommendation letter, (ii) a description of your doctoral path, (iii) and a curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your dissertation advisor, please include a short explanation. Specifically, for each component, please consider the following instructions: 1. Letter of Recommendation (from your primary dissertation advisor, in any format): * Describe your interaction with the student and your assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the ACM UMAP 2024 doctoral consortium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions you expect the student to make to the group. * The DC targets students who have a clear idea of their research plans and have started their research but have not yet executed a majority of their research. Please explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by July 2024. * Recall that students who are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor (or the equivalent) should instead include a short explanation and a description of where the student is in their doctoral progress and the anticipated timeline. 1. Research description (6 pages at most plus additional pages for references; figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit): using a single-column manuscript formatted according to the guidelines discussed below, please include the following: * Your name, advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work. * Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your doctoral program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.). * Context and motivation for your research. * Key related work that frames your research. * Specific research objectives, goals, or questions. * Research approach, methods, and rationale. * Results and contributions to date. * Expected next steps. * Dissertation status and long-term goals. 1. Curriculum vitae (2 pages at most, in any format): a concise summary of your current curriculum vitae, including research publications. Clearly separate published papers from those under review or in press. Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk-rejected. *Single-Blind Policy*. Proposals will be reviewed single-blind and, therefore, do not need to be anonymized before submission. *Template for the Research Description*. Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the research description component should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for students are given below: * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>. * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>. * Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…> Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries. *Accessibility*. DC students are strongly encouraged to provide “alt text” (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author and it broadens the reader base for the author’s work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing figures<https://authors.acm.org/journals/accessibility-recommendations-for-publishi…>. *Submission Policy*. Please consider the following ACM’s publication policies: 1. “By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies>, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…>. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.” 2. “Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID<https://orcid.org/register>, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors<https://authors.acm.org/author-resources/orcid-faqs>. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.” *Camera-ready Information*. Accepted proposals (i.e., the research description component) will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues. ** Registration and Presentation Policy ** Each accepted proposal in the doctoral consortium track must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the doctoral student by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted proposal must be presented in person in the doctoral consortium session to be included in the conference proceedings, published by ACM and available via the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ** Financial Support ** ACM UMAP has a long history of supporting students who want to attend the conference. Doctoral students of the accepted DC proposals will have higher priority for the ACM UMAP grant applications. Please periodically consult the page that summarizes grants and support opportunities, available at https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/. ** Doctoral Consortium Chairs ** * Martijn C. Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands * Styliani Kleanthous, CYENS CoE and Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Rodrygo Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Contact information: umap2024-dc at um.org

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ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Wanling Cai 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-tutorial/ ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Tutorial Proposals ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2024 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. Tutorials are expected to be instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorials are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * User modeling in the era of generative artificial intelligence. * Responsible user modeling and personalization. * Effective evaluation of personalized applications. * Strategies to let users be in control of the personalization process. Tutorial presenters can have 4 pages + 1 for references in the adjunct proceedings. ** Important Dates ** · Tutorial Proposal Submission: January 11, 2024 · Notification: February 1, 2024 · Tutorial Description & Website URL Submission: February 24, 2024 · Tutorial Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024 Note: The submission deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time. ** Submission ** All tutorial proposals must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals” track. ** Length and Formatting ** *Format*. Each proposal should be arranged into a single PDF document, not exceeding 5 pages (references included). *Template*. Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the proposal should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for the organizers are given below: * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>. * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>. * Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>. Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries. *Structure*. The proposal should include the following information: * Title and abstract of the tutorial (200 words maximum). * Tutorial description: · Learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2024. · Targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills. · Brief outline of the tutorial structure. · Brief description of the practical sessions. * Tutorial length (ideally 1 hour and a half). * Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions, and from other tutorials on the same or similar topics (please specify conference name and year). * Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of each tutorial organizer, indicating previous training and speaking experience. *Evaluation Criteria*. All proposals will be reviewed by the ACM UMAP 2024 Tutorial Chairs. The features that will be evaluated are: * ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research. * clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description. * good organization, as appearing from the outline. * the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community. * background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics. ** Instructions ** *Support*. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a tutorial proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for tutorial proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. *Diversity*. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing their different perspectives to the tutorial topic. We welcome tutorials with a creative structure that may attract various types of participants and may ensure rich interactions. *Expectations*. The organizers of accepted tutorials are expected to set up a webpage for the tutorial including detailed information about the tutorial organization and timeline, and disseminate a call for participation. They will be responsible for their own publicity. *Proceedings*. There will be conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM, and available via the ACM Digital Library. A camera-ready summary of the tutorial should be written by the organizers to be included in these adjunct proceedings. *Camera-ready Information*. Accepted summaries will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the summaries will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues. ** Registration and Presentation Policy ** Each accepted tutorial summary must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each tutorial has to be run by all organizers. Therefore, each tutorial organizer must be registered (at least 25% in person, the remaining online). Each accepted tutorial summary will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ** Tutorial Chairs ** * Amra Delic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Eelco Herder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy Contact information: umap2024-wt at um.org

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IEEE VR 2024 - Call for Tutorials
by IEEE VR Publicity 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

IEEE VR 2024: the 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 16-20, 2024 | Orlando, Florida USA http://ieeevr.org/2024/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2K1rdkMV3Vy5Dhy6_JjWCv_f…> Important Dates Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. - January 08, 2024: Tutorial submissions due - January 15, 2024: Acceptance notification - January 31, 2024: Advance program descriptions for IEEE VR 2024 website due Overview Tutorials are an excellent opportunity to offer education in topics in our field for both novice and experienced researchers. We invite members of our community to submit proposals for 90-minute or half-day tutorials. We anticipate that both tutorials and workshops will be presented during the conference. Proposed tutorials may be introductory or advanced and should address topics of interest to the extended reality communities (virtual, mixed, or augmented reality), as well as the 3D user interface community. Proposals will be evaluated on their relevance to the conference topics, their suitability for presentation in a virtual tutorial format, and the qualifications of the instructors. We will strive for a balance of topics in the tutorial program and also consider the potential for interest and attendance. Upon review of submitted proposals, suggestions may be provided by the Tutorial chairs to submitters on how to improve their submission. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - 3D interaction - Input devices - Haptics, audio, and other non-visual interfaces - Systems, toolkits, software frameworks, and game engines for VR/AR/MR - Introduction to virtual, augmented, or mixed reality - Computer graphics techniques for VR/AR/MR - Advanced display technology - Immersive projection technology - Multi-user and distributed VR/AR/MR - Serious games - Tracking and sensing - Modeling and simulation - User studies and evaluation - Immersion, presence, perception, and cognition - Navigation and cybersickness - Applications of VR/AR/MR - Teleoperation and telepresence - AI and VR/AR/MR - Sanitation and hygiene for VR/AR/MR - Online studies and remote data collection We also welcome tutorial proposals on recently evolving topics such as Neural rendering and machine learning (deep learning, etc.) related to Virtual and Augmented Reality. Submission Guidelines Proposals are welcome on topics that have been previously addressed; in addition, new topics, approaches, or insights are especially appreciated. Submissions should include a statement indicating how the proposal differs from recent tutorial presentations that may have approached a similar topic, or why it is important to offer it again. Topics taken from the list of suggested topics appropriate for paper submissions to the main conference are also welcome. Proposals for tutorials should be submitted electronically (PDF) and should include: - Title - Expected duration (90 minute or half-day) - A brief description of the topics to be addressed, including time allotted to each (roughly 500 words) - The technical level and intended audience - The expected value to that audience - If the tutorial has been delivered before, include a description of where and when, and explain why it should be held again. This is required regardless of whether the proposers organized the previous tutorials themselves or the previous tutorials were taught by someone else. - The names, contact information and a short biography (roughly 200 words each) for the proposed instructors. Tutorial submissions must be submitted via email to the Tutorials Chairs at tutorials2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/26wA366KV_8ho8BTyDeBHp6z…> . For each accepted tutorial we will be able to provide one complimentary workshop/tutorial (Saturday-Sunday) registration. Contacts For more information, to inquire about a particular tutorial topic, or to submit a proposal, please contact the Tutorials Chairs: - Ivan Rodriguez-Conde, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA - Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University, USA - Heide Lukosch, University of Canterbury, NZ tutorials2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2r_6kacH34zm-F7tYy7Qo46v…> [image: beacon]

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ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Wanling Cai 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-workshop/ ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Workshop Proposals ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2024 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will provide a venue to discuss and explore key emerging areas of user modeling, recommender systems and adaptive hypermedia research, among others, with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Please consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short papers<https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/> concerning the key topics of this call as well. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program, comprising different workshop formats and combining newly emerging, currently evolving, and established research topics. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: * Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic where participants are asked to submit a white paper or position statement. * Traditional mini-conferences on key, emerging, specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes. * Mini-competitions or research challenges around selected topics, with either individual or team participation and their own evaluation processes * Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the main conference general tracks, with interactivity and engagement in mind. * Joint panels aiming to synthesize insights from diverse perspectives by bringing together experts from different workshops or sessions. ** Important Dates ** * Workshop Proposal Submission: January 11, 2024 * Notification: February 1, 2024 * Workshop Description & Website URL Submission: February 24, 2024 * Workshop Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024 * Workshop Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days) We strongly encourage the organizers of accepted workshops to diligently follow the suggested deadlines in the schedule for the authors of workshop papers: * (Suggested) 1st Call for Workshop Papers: February 28, 2024 * (Suggested) 2nd Call for Workshop Papers: April 13, 2024 * (Suggested) Workshop Paper Submission: April 24, 2024 * (Suggested) Notification: May 8, 2024 * (Mandatory) Workshop Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024 These dates are synchronized with the notification of paper acceptance in the main conference track, and the availability of early registration for the authors of accepted workshop papers. Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time. ** Submission ** All workshop proposals must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals” track. ** Length and Formatting ** *Format*: Each proposal should be arranged into a single PDF document, not exceeding 5 pages (references included). *Template*: Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the proposal should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for the organizers are given below: * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>. * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>. * Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…> Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries. *Structure*: Each proposal is expected to include the following information: * Workshop title and acronym. * Workshop chair(s), including, for each organizer, their affiliation, main email address, website link, and experiences in organizing such events. Note that organizers are expected to attend the workshop and be actively involved in its organization. * Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest. * Keywords (at least 3). * Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time and how it complements (rather than duplicates) the topics of the main conference. * Workshop format, particularly discussing the mix of expected events, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions. * Short description of the intended audience and the expected number of participants, including how they will be selected. * List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). The program committee is mandatory. * Requested duration (half day or full day). * When available, past editions of the workshop, including their website URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. * If this would be the first edition of the workshop, a description of how this workshop differs from others on the same or similar topics (include conference name and year). * Any other relevant information to support your proposal. ** Instructions ** *Support*: We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. *Diversity*: We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing their different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of participants and may ensure rich interactions. *Expectations*: The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop including detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline, disseminate a call for papers, a call for participation, select reviewers, and gather reviews before selecting the final program. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. *Proceedings*: There will be conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM, and available via the ACM Digital Library. A camera-ready summary of the workshop should be written by the organizers to be included in these adjunct proceedings. Moreover, all workshop papers will be published in the same proceedings. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to make sure that the authors of workshop papers adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. *Camera-ready Information*: Accepted summaries/papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the summaries/papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues. ** Registration and Presentation Policy ** Each accepted workshop summary must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each workshop has to be run by all organizers. Therefore, each workshop organizer must be registered (at least 25% in person, the remaining online). Each accepted workshop summary will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Each accepted workshop paper must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted workshop paper can be presented either in person or online and will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ** Workshop Chairs ** * Amra Delic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Eelco Herder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy Contact information: umap2024-wt at um.org

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Call for Tutorials | DIAGRAMS2024
by DIAGRAMS CONFERENCE 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

*** Call for Tutorials: Diagrams 2024 *** 14th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams September 27 – October 1, 2024 University of Münster, Germany www.diagrams-conference.org/2024 *** Highlights *** - Tutorial sessions - Graduate Symposium - Three Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education - Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards - Keynote speakers: Mateja Jamnik, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Barbara Tversky ***************************************************************** The Diagrams conference provides a united forum for all researchers with an interest in the study of diagrams. The conference fosters multi-disciplinarity and allows researchers from areas such as computer science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, history (of science, art, etc.), education research, and more to meet and share their perspectives on the theory and application of diagrams. We invite tutorials consisting of shorter presentations and activities that run for a maximum of 2 hours. Previously, attendees have particularly enjoyed tutorials that are interactive and spark debate. In contrast to Workshops, Tutorials do not solicit contributions from attendees. *Tutorials* are expected to address topics that are of interest to the Diagrams 2024 conference attendees. These include but are not limited to, the issues of interest found on the Main Track, Philosophy Track, and Psychology & Education Track Calls pages at: www.diagrams-conference.org/2024. Examples of previous Tutorials include: · Visualizing "Information" · Learning to use the Openbox: A Framework for the Implementation of Heterogeneous Reasoning · Drawing Euler Diagrams for Information Visualization · Interpreting and understanding relational database queries using diagrams · Representational Systems Theory: What, Why and How? · Square of Opposition: Theory and Applications At least one of the authors of an accepted tutorial submission will be expected to attend the conference to give the tutorial to interested conference attendees. For more information and examples of previous tutorials, see: https://diagrams-2024.diagrams-conference.org/calls/tutorials/ ***************************************************************** SUBMISSION We invite submissions for review that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. A tutorial proposal must contain: 1. A single page listing: a. the title of the tutorial, b. the names and contact information for all organizers, c. brief biographies of the main organizers. 2. A description of the topic and rationale for the tutorial, including a brief description of why the tutorial will be relevant to Diagrams 2024 conference attendees. 3. Information on any requirements for delivering the tutorial (e.g. blackboard, flipovers, projector etc.). 4. An abstract, of up to 500 words, describing the tutorial that can be used to advertise the tutorial on the Diagrams 2024 website. *Submission date: March 1, 2024.* Notification: March 15, 2024. More details, including formatting instructions and all important dates can be found at https://diagrams-conference.org/2024. For further questions, please contact the Tutorial Track Chair: Andrea Reichenberger (andrea.reichenberger(a)uni-siegen.de) ***************************************************************** -- *Publicity Chair, Diagrams Conference 2024* Giulia Ferrari, PhD Mathematics Education University of Torino

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