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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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IEEE VR 2024 Call for Papers - Abstracts due September 27, 2023
by IEEE VR Publicity 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

*IEEE VR 2024: the 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces* March 16-20, 2024 | Orlando, Florida USA Overview IEEE VR 2024 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year there is again a SINGLE submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and the conference only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are: 1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2024 2. Accept as IEEE VR 2024 conference paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2024 3. Major revision to IEEE TVCG 4. Accept as IEEE VR 2024 poster 5. Reject *Inquiries:* *program2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/20Ml6J8JnAq5-oa-v_K9vxF9…>* 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. *The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored.* - *September 27 Wednesday, 2023*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)* - *October 4 Wednesday, 2023*: Submissions due - *December 15 Friday, 2023*: Initial notifications - *January 17 Wednesday, 2024*: Revised submissions due - *January 24 Wednesday, 2024*: Final notifications - *January 31 Wednesday, 2024*: Camera-ready materials due Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this year. More details will be available in the coming months. *IMPORTANT:* IEEE VR 2024 uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process. Failure to anonymize submissions will result in desk rejection. Each research paper should provide a contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and systems. - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - *Technical papers* should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - *System papers* should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing systems/techniques/methods. We welcome paper submissions between 4 and 9 pages, not including references. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG conference format ( https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2zh0G9AfY0L4dzN8ISJ1Xh9h…>). Accepted papers and posters will have to be formatted by the authors according to the relevant camera-ready guidelines. Topics IEEE VR 2024 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D user interaction - 3DUI metaphors - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive / 360° video - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Scene description and management issues - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces - Tracking and sensing - User experience and usability Review process The review process will have two cycles. *Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial notification)* Submissions will be assigned to two members of the VR 2024 International Program Committee (IPC): a coordinator (primary) and a secondary reviewer. Submissions that violate the submission guidelines or that receive low review scores from the coordinator and the secondary reviewer will be rejected. The other submissions will receive a total of at least three reviews. Based on the reviews and in consultation with a subset of the IPC, the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations for each submission: - *Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper.* Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), these submissions with substantial contribution will be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. - *Conditionally accept as conference paper.* These submissions will be considered for inclusion in the Proceedings of IEEE VR, archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. - *Recommend for major revision to IEEE TVCG.* This recommendation is reserved for submissions that make a substantial contribution but that require revisions beyond what can be achieved within the conference reviewing process. These submissions will be given the option of major revision to IEEE TVCG. Reviewer continuity will be attempted but not guaranteed. Note that as per IEEE TVCG rules a single major revision is possible. - *Recommend as a two-page poster.* Authors of a submission receiving this recommendation have the option of condensing their submission into a two-page poster, including references. Subject to a final approval by the Posters chairs, accepted posters will be included in the IEEE VR Abstracts and Workshops proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. Note that IEEE VR does not consider posters as a final disclosure of research results. Thus, work accepted as an IEEE VR poster might be eligible for inclusion in future publications. - *Reject.* *Review Cycle II (Initial notification to Final decision)* Each conditionally accepted paper will be reviewed by its coordinator, who will make a final recommendation regarding acceptance. Should the conditions for acceptance not be met, the paper will be rejected. Additional Guidelines *Abstract Submission.* Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. *Ethics and Responsibility.* All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution, and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. *Review Duties for Authors.* The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide constructive feedback and engage with authors on their work. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality reviews, one author will be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the time of submission. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the junior authors during the review process. *Presentation at the Conference.* All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference. An in-person presentation is expected, and online presentations will be accommodated only in exceptional cases. *Submission Language.* All paper submissions must be in English. *Previous Publication and Plagiarism.* Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this treatment is applied to the following cases: - non peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences (posters, demos, etc.) Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2HA90YGpyBMoAN45s8fqCG9s…> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2w35HGPOACg2mDsBcKjttwGi…>. *AI-generated Text.* Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by the authors to edit grammar of their own text. *Submission Anonymity.* * IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process * This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity (exceptions were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through carelessness. Authors that have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. * Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection. * *Pre-dissemination through public online repositories.* Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv) before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its double-blind review. *Videos.* Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. Contacts *program2024 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2xPmMoRFbOXqL3QcXXkrjWHz…>* *Technical Papers Chairs:* - Yuta Itoh, *The University of Tokyo, Japan* - Tabitha Peck, *Davidson College, USA* - Voicu Popescu, *Purdue University, USA* - Stefanie Zollmann, *The University of Otago, New Zealand* [image: beacon]

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Call for Bids to host IEEE VR Conferences
by VR Publicity 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

*Call for Bids*. Once a year, the IEEE VR Publicity Committee sends to relevant email mailing lists a “Call for Bids to host IEEE VR Conferences”. In the Call for Bids, the IEEE VR Conference Steering Committee is reaching out to our community to solicit interest for hosting future IEEE VR Conferences. Bids can be submitted at any time throughout the year. Also, the Steering Committee encourages those active in the IEEE VR community to consider hosting a future IEEE VR conference. Those interested in hosting the five-day conference should email the IEEE VR Steering Committee Chair, J. Edward Swan II (swan(a)acm.org) a brief (one page) statement of interest. The statement of interest should include information about potential hosts, their previous participation with the IEEE VR Conference, potential locations (cities, convention facilities), possible years for hosting, the capacity of the area to support the conference (hotels and options for international travel), and previous conference organizing experience. At the IEEE VR Conference, the Call for Bids is reiterated during the closing conference remarks. *Consideration of Bids.* The IEEE VR Steering Committee meets regularly to discuss conference organizing and management topics. During these meetings, the committee reviews the submitted bids. The committee uses the following criteria in evaluating bids: ● Previous experience of hosts in IEEE VR leadership positions (e.g., conference organizing and program committees) using data collected from previous conferences. ● Previous experience of hosts in managing large conferences. ● Potential of location and host to successfully host a large event with (400–1000+) international attendees along with a growing (likely 1000+) number of online attendees. ● There is a preference (but not a requirement) that a hosting location meets a 3-year rotation of the Americas, Europe / Africa, and Asia / Oceania. ● A goal for diversity in representation, research perspectives, and research areas. The committee votes on potential hosting locations for future VR conferences. The top group(s) are asked to develop more extensive proposals to be presented at the IEEE VR Steering Committee meeting held during the IEEE VR conference. A final decision is usually made at the conference, and future conference hosts are put in contact with current hosts to help pass along critical conference organization information and experience. It is the Steering Committee’s goal to have IEEE VR conference hosting locations established at least two years in advance. The upcoming and previous IEEE VR conference locations: ● IEEE VR 2024 Orlando, Florida, USA ● IEEE VR 2023 Shanghai, P.R. China ● IEEE VR 2022 Christchurch, New Zealand ● IEEE VR 2021 Lisbon, Portugal ● IEEE VR 2020 Atlanta, Georgia, USA ● IEEE VR 2019 Osaka, Japan ● IEEE VR 2018 Reutlingen, Germany ● IEEE VR 2017 Los Angeles, California, USA ● IEEE VR 2016 Greenville, South Carolina, USA ● IEEE VR 2015 Arles, Carmargue-Provence, France ● IEEE VR 2014 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ● IEEE VR 2013 Orlando, Florida, USA ● IEEE VR 2012 Orange County, California, USA ● IEEE VR 2011 Singapore ● IEEE VR 2010 Waltham, Massachusetts, USA ● IEEE VR 2009 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA ● IEEE VR 2008 Reno, Nevada, USA ● IEEE VR 2007 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA ● IEEE VR 2006 Alexandria, Virginia, USA ● IEEE VR 2005 Bonn, Germany ● IEEE VR 2004 Chicago, Illinois, USA ● IEEE VR 2003 Los Angeles, California, USA ● IEEE VR 2002 Orlando, Florida, USA ● IEEE VR 2001 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan ● IEEE VR 2000 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA ● IEEE VR 1999 Houston, Texas, USA ● IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1998 Atlanta, Georgia, USA ● IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1997 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA ● IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1996 Santa Clara, California, USA ● IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1995 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA ● IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1993 Seattle, Washington, USA ● IEEE Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality 1993 San Jose, California, USA *The process used to select the general and program chairs*. The IEEE VR Steering Committee selects the general and program chairs for the IEEE VR Conference. To select the chairs, the IEEE VR Steering Committee applies a data-driven methodology to identify and invite candidates. The IEEE VR Steering Committee begins the selection process in March. The goal is to staff all committees rapidly. The IEEE VR General Chairs are a combination of (usually one to two) people who are hosting the conference along with chairs that hosted the IEEE VR conference the previous year. This combination of new and returning chairs enables expertise and experience to be carried over from previous conferences. This year, the IEEE VR 2023 General Chairs (Xubo Yang and Kun Zhou) have been joined by two IEEE VR 2022 General Chairs (Tobias Langlotz and Stephan Lukosch) to improve the preparation and organization of the conference. The IEEE VR Program Chairs are a combination of people who are invited by the Steering Committee along with program chairs from previous IEEE VR conferences. New program chairs are selected by first rank-ordering recent conference organization committee membership and international program committee membership. Then, the geographical location and background of researchers are also considered, with a goal to form a group of diverse and representative chairs that are well-versed with the paper submission and review process. The steering committee sends out invitations to the general and program chairs selected. If people decline the invitation, the committee invites the next candidates from the ranking given the desired makeup of the final committee. *The process used to select members of the steering committee. *The IEEE VR Steering Committee is composed of members who serve six- to seven-year terms. New committee members are considered each year to replace a retiring member or to expand the committee to manage the expanding growth and complexity of the IEEE VR community and conference. Potential steering committee invitees are selected from a rank-ordering of recent conference organization committee membership and international program committee membership. In particular, IEEE VR conference hosting is valued. The geographical location and background of researchers are also considered. The goal is to form a diverse and representative committee with a global perspective of the IEEE VR conference. The committee recognizes that there are still many areas underrepresented in the IEEE VR community. In recent years, three initiatives have begun to improve representation: the committees increasingly are using data on participation and contribution to the community to make informed decisions, have increased documentation of the processes employed in awards and conference leadership selection (through archived statements such as this one), and have developed a mentorship initiative to develop leadership skills amongst our newer and junior members in the IEEE VR community. Our goal is to establish a process of leadership development to make opportunities more available to a broader global community. (This information also appears in the front matter of the VR 2023 Conference Proceedings) -- On behalf of the IEEE VR steering committee

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Vacancy: Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization
by Yuri Engelhardt 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

Associate Professor of Spatio-Temporal Data Visualization Join our team at the University of Twente 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 – see https://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temp… 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 M-SE ( 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% - Excellent support for professional and personal development - A solid pension scheme - A total of 41 holiday days in case of full-time employment - Costs for moving to Enschede may be reimbursed Please see our vacancy page for more information: https://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/1377/associate-professor-spatio-temp… 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: 30 September 2023

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DVS support for research study recruitment
by Tamara Munzner 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Hello Visualization Researchers, In case you're not already aware of this resource, be aware that the Data Visualization Society supports researchers in recruiting study participants. There's a nice introduction to this initiative in their launch article from last year: https://nightingaledvs.com/connecting-researchers-and-practitioners/ If you're already a member or patron of the DVS, you can head directly to the Research Recruitment page and fill out the form there (DVS login required) https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/research-recruitment For those who are not DVS members yet but are intrigued, here's the more detailed background information from that page DATA VISUALIZATION RESEARCH RECRUITMENT The academic data viz community plays a critical role in our field, advancing the depth of our knowledge on how people read and create data visualizations. Many research studies actively recruit data visualization practitioners as research subjects, while others explicitly look for folks outside of our field. *As a professional society, DVS aims to bring together data visualization communities, like academics and practitioners.* Every so often, we see a call for participants shared on our DVS Slack, but we know that Slack only reaches a subset of our members and it’s easy to miss out on one of those opportunities. To address that need to better connect researchers with potential study participants, when we launched our new membership intake form in 2021, members could opt-in to a dedicated list to learn about opportunities to participate as research subjects in academic studies. To date, we have nearly *7,000 members* who have said ‘yes’ to receiving study invitations, and we want to make that resource more accessible to researchers interested in connecting with those members. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION *Value to the field: *As a Society, we believe in the value of connecting researchers and practitioners in different ways. The academic research distribution list is one tool for enabling those kinds of connections. Researchers can connect with potential study participants actively working in the field of data visualization, while practitioners can contribute to the generation of new knowledge to inform our work and learn more about how research studies are conducted by participating. *Who is eligible to submit studies: *Currently, the distribution list is limited to sharing study invitations from academics and students affiliated with a university or evaluators who are conducting research for the purpose of informing the practice of data visualization. The rationale for these constraints is to amplify study invitations that have been reviewed for appropriate informed consent and study protocols by an Institutional Review Board or equivalent. At this time, questionnaires developed as personal projects or more informal studies are not eligible to be shared with the distribution list. These types of projects can be shared on the DVS slack workspace on the #-help_general channel that all members are added to upon joining our Slack workspace. *Distribution timing: *Study opportunities will be distributed via email monthly to those who have opted in to receive those invitations. Requests received by the *10th *of the month will be compiled and shared by the *18th *of the month. Depending on the volume of requests we receive, we may opt to send opportunities on a more frequent basis. *Privacy considerations: *The Data Visualization Society does not distribute or share member names or contact information with partners, vendors, or other third parties, including researchers. Members who have opted in will receive the monthly email with study opportunities and can independently opt in to participating; DVS will only make the approximate total size of the distribution list publicly known, which is helpful for the purpose of researchers knowing the reach. *Read the full DVS Privacy Policy here.* <https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/privacy-policy> *General disclaimer: *DVS is providing this opportunity to submit study participation requests and distribute to our members in support of our broader mission to continue to connect parts of our community and advance the field. DVS reserves the right to decline to share a study participation opportunity with our members if it does not have a clear connection to the field of data visualization or has content or study aims that are not aligned to our inclusive code of conduct as an organization. DVS assumes no responsibility for the experience of a study participant if they opt into a study that is distributed through this mechanism. Cheers, Tamara ---- Tamara Munzner Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm, tmm(a)cs.ubc.ca

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