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PostDoc and Ph.D. positions in Visual Analytics at TU/e, the Netherlands
by Fernando Paulovich 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

*PostDoc in Visual Analytics for trustworthy AI in long-term health risk assessment* *Ph.D. in Visual Analytics for prescriptive data analysis* We are looking for a highly motivated PostDoc researcher and a Ph.D. candidate who wants to develop exciting visual analytics solutions involving trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence. Both positions are with the Visualization cluster at TU Eindhoven (TU/e), the Netherlands. The visualization cluster (https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/visualization <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.…>) at TU/e has a strong track record in visualization and visual analytics for ML models and high-dimensional data. It has generated several award-winning contributions at major visualization conferences (IEEE VIS, IEEE InfoVis, IEEE VAST, EuroVis); several successful start-up companies (MagnaView, Process Gold, and SynerScope); and several techniques that are used on a large scale worldwide. More details about the PostDoc position can be found at: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/postdoc-visual-analytics-for-trustworthy-ai-… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.tue.…> More details about the fully funded Ph.D. position can be found at: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-visual-analytics-for-prescriptive-dat… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.tue.…> All the best, Prof. Dr. Anna Vilanova Dr. Fernando Paulovich -- -------------- Fernando V. Paulovich, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Visual Analytics for Data Science Department of Mathematics and Computer Science TU Eindhoven Email: f.paulovich(a)tue.nl De Zaale, Metaforum MF 7.089 PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands -------------

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IEEE AIxVR 2024 (call for workshops & special sessions)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2024 - Call for papers, http://aixvr.org 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 17-19, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) ================================ IEEE AIxVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields, to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. === CALL FOR WORKSHOPS === Workshops are an important part of IEEE AIxVR and complement the main program. They offer the opportunity to discuss topics related to AR/VR and AI more focussed, explore new research directions and novel applications, and provide excellent opportunities for networking. They typically feature regular paper presentations, but also other forms of interaction such as invited talks, panels, demos, and hands-on sessions. If you are interested in organizing a workshop at IEEE AIxVR 2024, please refer to the call for workshops on the conference's website: https://aivr.science.uu.nl/aixvr2024_cfw.html#workshops === CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS === Special sessions provide organizers with an opportunity to host a session about a dedicated topic related to the conference as part of the technical program. They are integrated into the main program in the same way as regular sessions and typically feature technical paper presentations but can also contain other types of presentations such as invited talks or panels. If you are interested in organizing a workshop at IEEE AIxVR 2024, please refer to the call for workshops on the conference's website: https://aivr.science.uu.nl/aixvr2024_cfw.html#special === DEADLINES & PROCEDURE === Submissions are processed immediately on a case-base. Thus, please submit your proposal at your earliest convenience to allow for sufficient time to set up and prepare your workshops and special sessions. For more information about the conference and related procedures, please refer to the event's website: http://aixvr.org

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IEEE VR 2024 call for reviewers
by IEEE VR Publicity 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Dear VR/AR/XR community, IEEE VR2024 needs your help. We are currently looking into recruiting more reviewers to ease the review load for everyone. Please consider signing up as a reviewer in PCS. PCS signup instructions for reviewers 1. Log on to the system at https://new.precisionconference.com/vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2bzERJF4yJ5Gr41bXRZqF6Ml…> 2. Click on "Reviews" at the top of the page. 3. Click on "Volunteer to Review". 4. Select "VR" and "IEEE VR 2024" from the drop-down menus. 5. Volunteer for a number of reviews on the "Papers" line. 6. Click again on "Reviews" at the top of the page. 7. Click on "Provide sample publications". To help the system match you to submissions, please upload 8 to 10 PDF papers in which you have expertise. They can be your own publications, or can be publications of other authors in an area in which you have expertise. PCS does not store the PDFs; it only extracts and stores word counts from them. If you provide fewer than 8 papers, the system will not be able to accurately match you to the conference submissions. We really appreciate your support. Best regards, IEEE VR 2024 Paper Chairs Yuta Itoh Tabitha Peck Voicu Popescu Stefanie Zollmann program2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2mNduDMg2jq8poJ8gzytf_X5…> [image: beacon]

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Only 9 days left to apply for position: Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization
by Yuri Engelhardt 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Please share – only 9 days left to apply for the position of: * Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization * Join our team at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, as an Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization, to work with us on your passions in cartography, (geo)visual analytics, data visualization and/or information visualization – seehttps://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temporal-data-visualization/ We will prioritize selecting women who fit the profile. You have a PhD degree in cartography, data and/or information visualization, geo-informatics, geography, or a related field, and experience in one or more of the following areas: cartography, (geo-)data/information visualization, (big data) visual analytics, AR/VR/XR, ethics in geo-visualization, cognition / usability testing. You have experience in teaching, including (online) lecturing and tutoring at an academic level, and supervision of graduate students and emerging researchers. You will develop a research direction and educational profile within the ambitions of the Faculty ITC (https://www.itc.nl/) at the University of Twente (https://www.utwente.nl/en/) and contribute to ITC’s mission of capacity development (https://www.itc.nl/global-impact/) Brief introduction to our 'faculty with a mission':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJhLG085Wg At the University of Twente we thrive to be driven by societal needs + open + inclusive + sustainable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrxg6QznghE You will (co-) supervise graduate students (as well as collaborate with our e-Learning specialists) to develop educational materials for a diversity of MSc programs: our faculty-wide MSc programs M-Geo (https://www.itc.nl/education/course-finder/geo-information-science-earth-ob…) and MSc Spatial Engineering (https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/master/programmes/spatial-engineering/) and our national and European joint MSc degrees GIMA (https://www.msc-gima.nl/) and MSc Cartography (https://cartographymaster.eu/) You will take ownership of coordination and management tasks throughout the faculty, particularly in the joint MSc programs. You will have at your disposal our visualization lab (https://www.itc.nl/facillities/labs-and-resources/visuse/) with its innovative equipment for VR/AR/XR, and eye-tracking usability research. We offer: - An inspiring multidisciplinary, international and academic environment. The university offers a dynamic ecosystem with enthusiastic colleagues in which internationalization is an important part of the strategic agenda - Position for initially one year (full-time), after which your position can become PERMANENT, subject to a successful evaluation - Gross monthly salary between € 6,002.- and € 7,025.- (depending on experience and qualifications, job profile Associate Professor, level 2 or 1). This is the maximum start salary with growth opportunities - A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3% - Costs for moving to Enschede may be reimbursed - Excellent support for professional and personal development - A solid pension scheme - A total of 41 holiday days in case of full-time employment Please see our vacancy page for more information:https://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temporal-data-visualization/ For more information you can also contact prof. Raul Zurita-Milla (r.zurita-milla(a)utwente.nl) prof. Karin Pfeffer (k.pfeffer(a)utwente.nl) or Yuri Engelhardt (yuri.engelhardt(a)utwente.nl) Application deadline: before 30 September 2023

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Call for Papers - MDPI Analytics Special Issue "Visual Analytics: Techniques and Applications"
by Kostiantyn Kucher 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

--------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MDPI Analytics Special Issue "Visual Analytics: Techniques and Applications" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/analytics/special_issues/6TU44NMM74 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 Special Issue Guest Editors: - Dr. Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden - Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden --------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue invites article submissions within the broader field of visual analytics, including research papers presenting novel approaches, systems, techniques, evaluation studies and theoretical methodologies, application papers presenting design studies and successful uses of VA in practice, and survey papers giving state-of-the-art overviews of the field. Manuscripts should be submitted online via mdpi.com until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. Please see further details regarding the submission process and APC fees at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/analytics/special_issues/6TU44NMM74 ---------------------------------------- For any questions regarding manuscript submission or publication, please feel free to contact guest editors at {katerina.vrotsou,kostiantyn.kucher}(a)liu.se or Analytics Editorial Office at analytics(a)mdpi.com ---------------------------------------

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IEEE AIxVR (CfP, deadline extended to Sep 22, 2023)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2024 - Call for papers, http://aixvr.org 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 17-19, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) ================================ **DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL 22 SEPTEMBER** IEEE AIxVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields, to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. === AREAS OF INTEREST ========== We invite researchers from Virtual (VR), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to: + Systems, incl. techniques, performance, implementation + Content creation and modelling + Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour + AI technologies for VR/AR + Interactions, interactive & responsive environments + Applications and use cases + Ethical & societal aspects of AI and VR/AR === SUBMISSIONS ========== For 2024, we are welcoming submissions for the following tracks: + Full paper track (Up to 8 pages, focus on new and innovative research in AR/VR and AI) + Short paper track (Up to 4 pages, focus on initial ideas, pilot studies, work in progress) + Industry paper track (Up to 8 pages, focus on work with clear relevance for industry) Accepted papers in all of these tracks will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. === IMPORTANT DATES & SUBMISSION DETAILS ========== + September 22, 2023: Submission deadline (extended) + Mid-November 2023: Acceptance notifications + Early December 2023: Camera ready versions due For submission details please refer to the conference's website at http://aixvr.org === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Jan 17-19, 2024, at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Options for remote participation for presenters who are unable to travel to L.A. will be provided.

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Academic Positions at Newcastle University
by Daniel Archambault 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Everyone, Newcastle University invites applications for Lecturers and Senior Lecturers (close to Assistant Professors in many systems). Deadline is October 22nd. https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Lecturer-&-Senior-Lecturer-in-Computin… The positions are permanent positions involving both teaching and research. If you would like to discuss these positions or Newcastle University and the region in general, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Daniel Archambault Professor of Visualisation/Data Science Newcastle University, School of Computing.

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Call for Papers - IVAPP 2024
by Kostiantyn Kucher 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

--------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) @ VISIGRAPP 2024 February 27-29, 2024, Rome, Italy (Hybrid Event) https://ivapp.scitevents.org The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics mainly associated with Information and Data Visualization, but also with related fields such as Visual Analytics or Scientific Visualization. IVAPP is organized in 3 major tracks: 1 - Information Visualization 2 - Scientific Visualization 3 - Visualization Techniques ---------------------------------------- Regular Paper Submission: October 9, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) Position Paper Submission: November 15, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: December 21, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) ---------------------------------------- Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality as part of the peer-review process. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book. A short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science Journal. Furthermore, we would like to inform that the event will be of hybrid nature, in the sense that online presentations of accepted papers will be possible for those authors that are unable to travel to the venue. Please see further information and detailed submission instructions at https://ivapp.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx ---------------------------------------- Conference Chairs - Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France - A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP/INESC TEC, Portugal Program Chairs - Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark - Helen Purchase, Monash University, Australia Associate Chairs - Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden - Christina Gillmann, Leipzig University, Germany - Eva Mayr, Danube University Krems, Austria In Cooperation with - European Association for Computer Graphics - Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization Forschungs-GmbH - French Association for Computer Graphics Keynote Speakers - Fahad Khan, Linköping University, Sweden - Stefanie Posavec, Independent Work, United Kingdom - Mel Slater, University of Barcelona, Spain - Gerhard Rigoll, Technical University of Munich, Germany ---------------------------------------- For any questions regarding paper submission or participation, please contact IVAPP Secretariat at ivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org

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Submission due in 2 weeks! ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Oct 13-15 Sydney
by Tony Huang 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

**apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email* *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM SUI brings together top researchers and practitioners from around the world who focus on spatial interaction for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and for ubiquitous, intelligent/smart and real environments. We invite contributions from a wide range of fields including design, social science, arts and creative Industries, and other application domains. ACM SUI 2023 is the 11th edition of the Symposium. We welcome you to join us in this premier international forum for sharing exciting new research and development in the field while meeting your peers and enjoying the beautiful Sydney! Accepted Workshops: Interactive Spatial Interfaces for Health and Well-being: https://www.xipeiren.com/hsi.html Accepted Workshops: Computer Vision for Spatial User Interaction (CvSUI 2023): https://dongl-group.github.io/project_pages/CvSUI_2023.html Approved SUI23 Special Issue: Computers & Graphics (SCI indexed, impact factor:1.821), all authors are invited after the conference: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics Please refer to https://sui.acm.org/2023/papers <https://sui.acm.org/2023/> for more details. *IMPORTANT PAPER DATES* Submission deadline: *June 23, 2023* Author notification: August 6, 2023 Camera Ready: August 27, 2023 *TOPICS* All topics that are directly or indirectly relevant to spatial user interactions and interfaces are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Design practices, principles and frameworks Interaction design, usability and user experience (UX) User interface metaphors Evaluation methodologies and metrics Perception and cognition Human factors and ergonomics Ethical, social, cultural and language factors Inclusion and accessibility Privacy and security Empathy, trust, acceptance and safety Interactive spatial computer graphics Spatial input devices and technology Haptics, spatial audio, touch, tangible, gesture based spatial interactions and interfaces Multimodal/multisensory and other novel forms of spatial interaction and perception Spatial interaction with data, virtual humans and avatars Distributed, multi-user and collaborative spatial interaction Immersive analytics and visualisation Intelligent spatial interfaces, interaction and collaboration User adaptive spatial interaction and personalization Applications of human spatial perception to interaction Applications of spatial UIs, such as games, entertainment, CAD, education, health, engineering

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IEEE AIxVR (CfP, deadline Sep 17, 2023)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2024 - Call for papers, http://aixvr.org 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 17-19, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA, USA) ================================ IEEE AIxVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields, to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. === AREAS OF INTEREST ========== We invite researchers from Virtual (VR), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to: + Systems, incl. techniques, performance, implementation + Content creation and modelling + Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour + AI technologies for VR/AR + Interactions, interactive & responsive environments + Applications and use cases + Ethical & societal aspects of AI and VR/AR === SUBMISSIONS ========== For 2024, we are welcoming submissions for the following tracks: + Full paper track (Up to 8 pages, focus on new and innovative research in AR/VR and AI) + Short paper track (Up to 4 pages, focus on initial ideas, pilot studies, work in progress) + Industry paper track (Up to 8 pages, focus on work with clear relevance for industry) Accepted papers in all of these tracks will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. === IMPORTANT DATES & SUBMISSION DETAILS ========== + September 17, 2023: Submission deadline (all tracks) + Mid-November 2023: Acceptance notifications + Early December 2023: Camera ready versions due For submission details please refer to the conference's website at http://aixvr.org === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Jan 17-19, 2024, at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Options for remote participation for presenters who are unable to travel to L.A. will be provided.

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