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Graphics Interface 2023 Early Bird Registration deadline: May 1st 2023.
by Hamid Mansoor 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

Graphics Interface 2023 ⧫ 30 May - 2 June, 2023 ⧫ Victoria, British Columbia, Canada http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023 Early Bird registration for Graphics Interface 2023 is due soon! (Monday May 1st) Our schedule is out (https://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/schedule/) We have three excellent Keynotes: Melanie Tory, Maneesh Agrawala and Craig Kaplan (http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/keynote-invited-speakers) an exciting lineup of 6 courses/workshops for both HCI/Visualization and Graphics audiences (http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/workshop-panels-and-courses) and several amazing social activities, including an excursion to the Malahat Skywalk<https://malahatskywalk.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3a2iBhCFARIsAD4jQB0cpbkkAF0fG8wZI…>, and a banquet at the world-renowned Butchart Gardens<https://www.butchartgardens.com/>. Come join us in beautiful Victoria! Register here: http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/attending-and-registration/ Hamid Mansoor (GI 2023 publicity chair), on behalf of the GI 2023 organizing committee<http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2023/committee/> and the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society<https://graphicsinterface.org/chccs-scdhm/>.

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PhD student position in information visualization with focus on game analytics - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
by Ilir Jusufi 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** * Faculty funded PhD position We are looking for a Ph.D. candidate that will be involved in a research project related to the user-centered visualization of large and complex, multivariate data derived from various sensors and/or performance counters/indicators. The successful Ph.D. candidate should develop and evaluate fundamental visualization and interaction techniques, and visual analytics tools for exploring and analyzing multivariate data from various sources, such as IoT sensors or various performance counters collected for game analytics purposes. The work might also include the development of necessary tools for gathering the data as well as building the necessary infrastructure to serve the designed prototypes and manage potential data streams. The main duties of Ph.D. students are to devote themselves to their research studies which include participating in research projects and third-cycle courses (no less than 80%). The work duties may also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20%). The project involves regular business trips to meetings with our project partners and to international conferences. Please visit the official vacancy website of Blekinge Institute of Technology for a more detailed description of the topic, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://www.bth.se/eng/about-bth/vacancies-at-bth/?rmpage=job&rmjob=787&rml… The deadline for the application is May 29, 2023 --- [signature_1855184072]<https://www.bth.se/> Ilir Jusufi Senior Lecturer Blekinge Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science, DIDA 371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden +46 (0)455-12 34 56 www.bth.se<http://www.bth.se/> BTH applies the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and supplementary legislation. Information on how personal data is processed is available at www.bth.se/personal-data/<http://www.bth.se/personal-data/>

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Conference on Quantification in Visual Computing (QiVC 2023): Call for Participation
by Daniel Weiskopf 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** 2nd International Conference on Quantification in Visual Computing (QiVC 2023) *** June 11th, Leipzig, Germany, co-located with EuroVis 2023 *** https://www.sfbtrr161.de/events_sfbtrr161/SFB-TRR161-Conference-2023 The 2nd International Conference on Quantification in Visual Computing (QiVC 2023) will be held on Sunday, June 11th, in Leipzig, Germany. This event is organized by the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 161 (Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing, https://www.sfbtrr161.de) It will be co-located with EuroVis 2023, at the same location as the EuroVis conference. Conference registration is now open: https://www.sfbtrr161.de/events_sfbtrr161/SFB-TRR161-Conference-2023/ This conference will address recent trends in visual computing in a broad sense, including the combination of visualization, human-computer interaction, AR/VR/XR, computer graphics, computer vision, perceptual psychology, etc. The program will feature three invited keynote presentations by: * Gudrun Klinker, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany * Zhi Li, Netflix, USA * Melanie Tory, Northeastern University, USA The program will be complemented by talks given by researchers of SFB-TRR 161 and a panel discussion. More detailed information can be found on the conference web page: https://www.sfbtrr161.de/events_sfbtrr161/SFB-TRR161-Conference-2023/

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CFP - MERCADO Workshop at IEEE VIS 2023: Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online
by Matthew Brehmer 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

MERCADO is a half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2023 <https://ieeevis.org/> on the topic of new Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online, taking place October 22nd or 23rd in Melbourne, Australia. https://sites.google.com/view/mercadoworkshop/home We aim to gather researchers working in data visualization, human-computer interaction (HCI), and computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) who are interested in multimodal, synchronous, and remote or hybrid forms of communication and collaboration within organizational and educational settings. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION If you have been working on designing new ways to communicate, present and tell stories about data synchronously or asynchronously, using visualizations and new modes of interaction for presenters, please consider sharing your experiences at this workshop. SUBMISSIONS Those who want to participate in this workshop will submit a short paper (two to four pages) in the style of short provocation or reflection statements, case studies, design fictions, or work-in-progress reports. We will also encourage the submission of accompanying videos. We will host accepted submissions on the workshop’s website, however will we also encourage authors to archive their publications using open access services. Please see the call for participation for details and a timeline of important dates. The proposal for this workshop is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11825. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are at 11:59pm (23:59) AoE Anywhere on Earth - Submission deadline: June 21 2023 via PCS - Notification: July 21 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: August 21 2023 - Demos, provocations, pictorials: Mid-September 2023 (TBA) - Workshop: October 22 or 23, 2023 ORGANIZERS - Matthew Brehmer, Tableau Research, USA - Maxime Cordeil, University of Queensland, Australia - Christophe Hurter, ENAC, University of Toulouse, France - Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan CONTACT mercadoworkshop(a)googlegroups.com

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Two Full-time PhD Positions in Visual Analytics Available at TU Graz, Austria
by Tobias Schreck 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

------------------------------ We have 2 full-time PhD positions in Visual Analytics for initially three years available at Graz University of Technology, Austria. ------------------------------ One position is in Adaptive Visualization of Health Information within an FWF (Austria) research group together with researchers in Cognitive Psychology and Medicine. The other position is in Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data within an FFG (Austria) research project together with domain experts from industry. Both positions are initially for three years, and with the possibility of preparing a PhD thesis in Computer Science at TU Graz. We offer exemplary professional and personal development possibilities. Our institute is part of the Visual Computing research cluster at TU Graz, providing a leading scientific environment. The full-time gross salary for this position is, depending on the employment level, up to 3.058,60 Euro per month (14 times a year), and includes social insurance. The city of Graz and its surrounding region offer exceptional quality of living. For further information and how to apply, please see https://www.tugraz.at/institute/cgv/about-cgv/open-positions#c522012 or contact Prof. Tobias Schreck at tobias.schreck(a)cgv.tugraz.at. -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck Graz University of Technology Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization Inffeldgasse 16c II, Room 134 A-8010 Graz, Austria Phone: +43 316 873 5403, Fax: +43 316 873 105403 Mail: tobias.schreck(a)cgv.tugraz.at Web: https://www.cgv.tugraz.at/schreck/

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ESANN 2023 - extended deadline for submissions
by Michel Verleysen 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

ESANN 2023 - 31st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium and online, 4-5-6 October 2023 https://www.esann.org Extended deadline for submissions Due to numerous requests the deadline to submit papers to the ESANN 2023 conference has been extended to May 5, 2023. Please note that no further extension will be given. Looking forward to seeing you at ESANN 2023, The organizing committee. ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen UCLouvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be ========================================================

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CDVE2023 Second call for papers
by CDVE2023 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

CDVE2023 Second Call for Papers - May 25, 2023 The 20th International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2023) will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on October 1-4, 2023. See www.cdve.org for details. The conference is launching a second call or papers. The paper deadline for both full and short papers of the call is May 25, 2023. If you did not have time to submit during the first call, this is your opportunity! Please check the Submission page for how to submit the papers. This year, we will have the conference on-site! We also provide on-line options with reduced registration fee. Check our https://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for more. The proceedings of CDVE2023 will be published by the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Nature. It will be indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library etc. Selected papers will have the opportunity to fully expand to be considered in some SCI indexed journals. You are welcome to forward this call. -- ------------------- The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 1-4, 2023, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2023(a)easychair.org Web: https://www.cdve.org

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Call for Paper: 10th China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (submission due May 15)
by Wang, Qianwen 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

The 10th China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (ChinaVis 2023) will be held in Chongqing, China, from July 21 to 24, 2023, hosted by the China Society of Image and Graphics, and co-organized by Technical Committee on Visualization and Visual Analysis, Chongqing University, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Chongqing University of Education with multiple sponsorships. **Submission Guidelines** ChinaVis 2023 solicits papers written in either Chinese or English. Accepted papers in English will be recommended to publish in the Journal of Visualization or Visual Informatics, and accepted papers in Chinese will be recommended to the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics or similar journals. Papers in English are required to use the IEEE VGTC conference template (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html) Papers in Chinese should follow the formatting guidelines of the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (http://www.jcad.cn/) The non-reference content of a manuscript should not exceed 8 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by anonymous domain experts in two rounds. The conference uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) (https://new.precisionconference.com/chinavis) for the first-round review, and manuscripts conditionally accepted will be recommended to the corresponding journals. For the second-round review, authors must revise their manuscripts according to the comments received in the first-round review and submit manuscripts using the respective submission system of the recommended journal. In the past years, the acceptance rate of papers was approximately 30%. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format. To better illustrate the dynamic operational status and process of interactive visualization systems, authors are encouraged to submit additional materials such as a screen-captured video of their system. All submissions must be unpublished original work. If the paper has been reviewed and rejected by other international visualization conferences or journals, the authors can attach past reviews and provide a "Cover Letter" to clarify the improvement of the paper. Please refer to https://chinavis.org/2023/english/paper_en.html for more details. For any questions, please contact: chinavispaper(a)163.com. ***TOPICS**** (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO) • Scientific visualization • Information visualization • Visual analytics • Data processing for visualization • Interactive design and display technology in visualization • Visual design and visualization system • Visualization evaluation and visual cognition • Big data visual analytics • Visualization and visual analytics theory • Visualization and visual analytics applications (including but not limited to natural sciences, engineering, social sciences) • State-of-the-art survey in visualization ***IMPORTANT DATES**** - Abstract submission deadline (PCS system): May 10, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - Full paper submission deadline (PCS system): May 15, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - First-round acceptance notice for papers: June 20, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time - Paper revision submission deadline (journal system): July 10, 2023 11:59 p.m. Beijing Time (Tentative)

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Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) - Call For Papers
by Jürgen Bernard 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org The submission deadline is July 17, 2023, creating an opportunity to showcase late-breaking research results on Visual Analytics in Healthcare. CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2023 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2023) is the 14th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS designers, scientists, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from visualization and visual data analysis research, and c) emerging research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demos, either as video supplemental material or live demos during the workshop to be arranged with the organizers for maximum visibility. In years past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal. BEST PAPERS: ---------------- VAHC assigns Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards. The awards entail a certificate and recognition on the VAHC website. This year, we also plan to invite authors of high-quality papers to submit a revised and extended version to an internationally recognized scientific journal. The topic of this special issue will be “Interactive Visualization of Health Data for Digital and Personal Health”. The review process will seek to assign the same reviewers for previously accepted VAHC papers. Watch out for details in our second call for papers. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts. The 2023 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and abstraction of visual analytics methods, including (but not limited to): Clinical care - Prescription drugs and drug-drug interactions - Multi-omic datasets - Longitudinal clinical data - Visual data mining of EMRs - Specific treatment contexts, emergency department, patient safety, mental health. - Clinical workflows - Outcome forecasting or prediction - Explainable AI and ML in healthcare Digital health and personal health - Mobile health - Wearable devices' data control and processing - Telehealth and telemedicine - Personalized medicine Patient-related applications: - Patient-generated health data - Understanding of patient behavior and experience - Patient education - Physician-patient communication Public health data: - Pandemic forecasting and tracking - Learning from crises with visualization - Public health surveillance systems PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- VAHC 2023 will have a new paper format! We will accept short papers with up to six pages plus one page of references (6+1). We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short paper types listed below: Application papers (format: “6+1”) Research papers (format: “6+1”) Positions and system demo papers (format “2+1”) Posters (format: “2+1” abstract and A0 poster) Accepted application papers and research papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Accepted system demo papers and posters will be included in the VAHC proceedings and made available via IEEE VIS for digital download. All accepted types of submissions will have the chance for an oral presentation. Demo: Every system demo paper may be accompanied by a video demo submission All material will be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template: http://ieeevis.org/year/2021/info/call-participation/shortpapers Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission: July 17, 2023 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: August 28, 2023 VAHC 2023 workshop: October 22 or 23, 2023 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Jürgen Bernard University of Zurich General Chair Annie T. Chen University of Washington Co-Chair Danny T.Y. Wu University of Cincinnati Co-Chair -- Jürgen Bernard Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Zurich juergen-bernard.de

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Datasets for Infovis project..
by Kalpathi Subramanian 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

I am running an infovis course this semester and looking for links to datasets (have found a few) that students can use for their final project. Thanks. -- krs -- ______________________________________________________________________ K.R.Subramanian Phone: (704) 687-8579 Assoc. Professor, Computer Science UNC Charlotte, Woodward 435E Email: krs(a)uncc.edu Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 Web: www.cs.uncc.edu/~krs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately. Thank you.

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