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[CFP] BigVis 2023 :: 6th Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics Workshop @ EDBT/ICDT 2023 Ioannina, Greece
by Nikos Bikakis 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Call for Papers BigVis 2023: 6th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2023 March 28 2023, Ioannina, GR Held in conjunction with the 26th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 26th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2023) Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with little or no support and expertise on the data processing part. Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and analysis has gained great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities. In this respect, several traditional problems from these communities such as efficient data storage, querying & indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction, sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to visual information over-plotting. Further, they must encourage user comprehension offering customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and business analysts to visually gain value and insights out of the data as rapidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. The BigVis workshop aims at addressing the above challenges and issues by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, exchange, and disseminate their work. BigVis attempts to attract attention from the research areas of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and highlight novel works that bridge together these communities. Workshop Topics ------------------------------------ In the context of visual exploration and analytics, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, graph - Human -in -the -loop processing - Human -centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive & human -centered machine learning - Interactive data mining - User -oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization - Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling - Progressive analytics - In -situ visual exploration & analytics - Novel interface & interaction paradigms - Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi -level, filtering - Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing - Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization - Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc. - Immersive visualization - Interactive computer graphics - Setting -oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks - High performance, distributed & parallel techniques - Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques - Linked Data & ontologies visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics - Case & user studies - Systems & tools Submissions ------------------------------------ Regular/Short Research papers [up to 8/4 pages] Work-in-progress papers [up to 4 pages] Vision papers [up to 4 pages] System papers and Demos [up to 4 pages] Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 23, 2023 (AoE) Notification: February 18, 2023 Camera-ready: February 25, 2023 Workshop: March 28, 2023 Special Issue ------------------------------------ TBD Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ Nikos Bikakis, HMU & ATHENA Reacher Center, Greece Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Steffen Frey University of Stuttgart, Germany George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Reacher Center, Greece Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University, China Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jürgen Bernard, University of Zurich, Switzerland Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh, USA Yiru Chen, Columbia University, USA Eva Chondrodima, University of Piraeus, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Daniel Deutch, Tel Aviv University, Israel Katerina Doka, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz, Germany Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece Christoph Garth, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Parke Godfrey, York University, USA Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Ekaterini Ioannou, University of Tilburg, Netherlands Stefan Jänicke, Leipzig University, Germany Li Jie, Tianjin University, China Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs James Klosowski, AT&T Labs Research Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, Italy Kristin Potter, NREL, USA Sajjadur Rahman, Megagon Labs Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Panagiotis Ritsos, Bangor University, United Kingdom Maria Riveiro, Jönköping University, Sweden Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University, Denmark Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart, Germany Tarique Siddiqui, Microsoft Research Dimitrios Skoutas, Athena Research Center, Creece Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Arjun Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Manuel Stein, University Konstanz, Germany Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany Natkamon Tovanich, École Polytechnique, France Katerina Tzompanaki, CY Cergy Paris University, France Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden Sean Wang, Fudan University, China Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Jules Wulms, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jiazhi Xia, Central South University, China Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Dimitris Zissis, Marine Traffic -- Nikos Bikakis Information Management Systems Institute ATHENA Research Center Athens | Greece www.nbikakis.com -- _ nikos

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CFP - CDVE2023 call for papers - The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
by CDVE2023 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

CDVE2023 Call for Papers The 20th International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2023) will be held in Mallorca, Spain on October 1-4, 2023. See https://www.cdve.org for details. You are all welcome to submit papers and join us! The focus of the conference is "cooperative". Research results concerning multiple users, multiple disciplinaries, multiple locations, multiple units, multiple sensors are within our attention. The major areas are in design, visualization, and engineering, and any other cooperative applications. The areas include social networks, IoT, sensor networks, health care, education etc. Check our https://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for more. This year we will include cooperative applications in more areas such as in metaverse etc. 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 a couple SCI indexed journals. A recommended submission of abstracts is now open. You can submit the whole paper directly without submitting an abstract. However, we highly recommend you to submit an abstract first to receive some feedback before writing the full paper. The abstract submission deadline is Feb. 15, 2023. Full paper deadline is April 1, 2023. The submission page is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2023 We hope that you are enjoying a very happy year of 2023. See you in Mallorca! -- ------------------- The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 1-4, 2023, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve(a)cdve.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Open PhD Position in Information Visualization / Visual Analytics at Linköping University, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** We are seeking for an engaged and bright PhD student to work with us in the areas of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. The main focus of the advertised position (ref. LiU-2022-05261) is the web-based visualization of large and complex, multilayer networks. Related aspects, such as multilayer network embeddings, graph layouts for multilayer networks, or the visual analysis of attributes across network layers, will also be studied. Research in this doctoral project will involve foundational visualization principles, techniques and visual analytics tools for analyzing multilayer network data especially from the power systems domain. The work will even include the development and provisioning of a suitable backend infrastructure to serve the web-based, interactive visual display with the needed original and derived data collected during the analytical process. Main supervisor will be Prof Andreas Kerren (andreas.kerren(a)liu.se) Please visit the official vacancy website of Linköping University for a more detailed description of the topic, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/20942 The application deadline is February 6, 2023. Note that a PhD position in Sweden is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits. As a doctoral student, you devote most of your time to doctoral studies and the research projects of which you are part. Your work may also include teaching or other departmental duties, up to a maximum of 20% of full-time. The PhD thesis must be completed and defended within the official appointment up to a maximum of five years (i.e., 4 years doctoral studies and 1 year departmental tasks, full-time equivalent). The advertised position will be placed in the iVis research group (http://bit.ly/ivis-liu) led by Prof Andreas Kerren, Linköping University, Norrköping Campus, which is part of the division for Media and Information Technology. The research group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces, for example in the life sciences, humanities, or environmental sciences. Our research vision is to attack the big data challenge through the combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. Please share this message with any great candidates. Best regards, Andreas Kerren iVis Group @ Linköping University

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Open PostDoc Position in Information Visualization / Visual Analytics at Linnaeus University (LNU), Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged and bright PostDoc to work with us in the areas of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. The postdoc fellow will conduct research within the fields of information visualization and visual analytics in close collaboration with ISOVIS members, other research groups of the department, and domain experts within the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). The work duties include the whole research cycle, i.e., from literature reviews and the identification of research challenges, throughout the implementation of visualization tools and performing user studies, to the reporting of the results in publications. In this context, the postdoc fellow is expected to regularly present intermediate/final research results at international conferences/workshops and publish them in highly-ranked conference proceedings and journals in the areas of information visualization, visual analytics, but possibly also in the areas of the domain experts. Within the DISA environment, large and complex data sets from various domain areas need to be efficiently visualized to transform data into useful information and new knowledge by the development of visualization principles, techniques and visual analytics tools, including provisioning suitable backend infrastructures to serve web-based, interactive visualizations. To the extent of maximal 20% of the working time, the postdoc fellow will be involved in teaching activities at different levels (incl. supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis projects). The teaching tasks relate to subjects of the ISOVIS research group, as well as to more general courses in computer science and software development. Please visit the official vacancy website of Linnaeus University for a more detailed description of the duties, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=j… The application deadline is January 9, 2023. The advertised position (ref. 2022/1019-2.2.1) will be placed in the ISOVIS group (http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) led by Professor Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Växjö Campus, Sweden. The research group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces, for example in biochemistry, humanities, or software engineering. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. We are looking forward to receiving your application! Please also consider to share this message with any great candidates. Best regards, Andreas Kerren ISOVIS Group @ Linnaeus University -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science and Media Technology + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: https://bit.ly/andreas-kerren + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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IEEE VR 2023 Call for Awards Nominations
by IEEE VR Publicity 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Please take a moment to consider nominating one or more individuals (or yourself) for 2023 IEEE VGTC VR Awards, to be presented at the 2023 IEEE VR conference, March 25-29, 2023. The short nomination form and relevant information are here: https://ieeevr.org/2023/awards/vgtc/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2CCpLJlitnMI4No7hNWWlAFa…> For reference -- and inspiration :) -- the winners from previous years are listed below. Henry Fuchs, Chair IEEE VGTC VR Awards Program vgtc-vr-awards(a)vgtc.org *Outstanding Dissertation | Award Honorable Mention* 2016 Ravish Mehra | Bireswar Laha, Merwan Achibet 2017 A. Maimone | A. Kulik Yuta Itoh 2018 Sebastian Friston | Richard Skarbez 2019 Qi Sun | James Baumeister 2020 Misha Sra | Folker Wientapper 2021 Mayra Barrera Machuca | Javad Fotouhi 2022 Nami Ogawa Katharina Krösl *Significant New Researcher Award* 2022 Mar Gonzalez-Franco *Career/Lifetime Technical Achievement Award Achievement Award*2005 Mel Slater Mark Bolas 2006 Larry Hodges Kay Stanney 2007 Susumu Tachi C. Cruz-Neira, T. DeFanti, D. Sandin 2008 Bowen Loftin Bernd Fröhlich 2009 Jaron Lanier Hirokazu Kato 2010 Fred Brooks Ming C. Lin 2012 Lawrence J. Rosenblum Dieter Schmalstieg 2013 Henry Fuchs Mark Billinghurst 2014 Steven K. Feiner Doug Bowman 2015 Michitaka Hirose B. Iribe, M. Antonov, P. Luckey 2016 Thomas A. Furness III Anthony Steed 2017 Grigore Burdea Michael Zyda 2018 Mark Bolas Gregory F. Welch 2019 Mark Billinghurst Anatole Lécuyer 2020 Victoria Interrante Jeremy Bailenson 2021 Mary C. Whitton David P. Luebke 2022 Gudrun Klinker Kiyoshi Kiyokawa *Service Award* 2022 Kiyoshi Kiyokawa *VR Academy: 2022 Inductees (Inaugural Class)*Michael Abrash Myron Krueger Kurt Akeley Jaron Lanier Michael Antonov Brenda Laurel Ron Azuma Anatole Lécuyer Jeremy Bailenson Ming C. Lin Mark Billinghurst Bowen Loftin Mark Bolas Benjamin Lok Doug A. Bowman Palmer Luckey Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. David P. Luebke Grigore Burdea Betty Mohler Sabine Coquillart Qunsheng Peng Carolina Cruz-Neira Ramesh Raskar Thomas A. DeFanti Jannick Rolland Steven K. Feiner Lawrence J. Rosenblum Scott Fisher Daniel Sandin Bernd Fröhlich Dieter Schmalstieg Henry Fuchs Mel Slater Thomas A. Furness III Kay Stanney Michitaka Hirose Anthony Steed Larry F. Hodges Ivan Sutherland Victoria Interrante Susumu Tachi Brendan Iribe Gregory F. Welch Hirokazu Kato Mary C. Whitton Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Michael Zyda Gudrun Klinker ------------------------------------------------ [image: beacon]

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CFP: Seventh Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2023)
by Maurice Koch 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit relevant manuscripts for consideration in the * Seventh Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2023) * May 30 - June 2, 2023, Tuebingen, Germany in conjunction with the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA): https://etra.acm.org/2023/ All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the Short Paper Proceedings of ETRA 2023. The details are appended and also available at https://www.etvis-workshop.org/etvis-2023. Please feel free to contact us directly for any further enquiry. Best regards, Michael Burch (University of Applied Sciences, Chur, Switzerland) Guenter Wallner (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) ************************************************************************** Seventh Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2023) May 30 - June 2, 2023, Tuebingen, Germany in conjunction with ACM ETRA 2023 https://etra.acm.org/2023/ ************************************************************************** Contact: etvis2023(a)gmail.com ************************************************************************** ________________ IMPORTANT DATES ________________ ● Submission Due: Feb 22, 2023 ● Notification: Mar 21, 2023 ● Camera Ready: Apr 05, 2023 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 ● Guenter Wallner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, guenter.wallner(a)jku.at ________ MEDIA CHAIR ________ ● Maurice Koch, University of Stuttgart, Maurice.Koch(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de ________ PUBLICITY CHAIR ________ ● Kun-Ting Chen, University of Stuttgart, Kun-Ting.Chen(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de

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Call for PacificVis 2023 Visual Data Storytelling Contest
by Nam Wook Kim 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, 2023 IEEE PacificVis Data Storytelling Contest Call for Submissions Submission Deadline: January 19, 2023 (Thu), midnight (PST). The Visual Data Storytelling contest celebrates its seventh year in 2023. This contest aims to encourage students, researchers, and visualization practitioners to demonstrate the value of data visualization through compelling visual data stories and to promote innovative and effective use of data visualization for communication and presentation. This contest explores the emerging data communication genre, including data storytelling, narrative visualizations, explanatory notebooks, and visual essays. The contest will be held in conjunction with IEEE PacificVis 2023 <https://pvis2023.github.io/pvis2023/>from April 18-21, 2023, in Seoul, Korea. For more information, please refer to the call for submission: https://visstory.github.io/ Please encourage students from your visualization courses to submit their exciting projects! Kind Regards, Nam Wook Kim (he/him/his) Assistant Professor of Computer Science Boston College 🌐 www.namwkim.org 📞 +1 (857) 600-8725 [image: BOSTON COLLEGE LOGO]

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Open Senior Lecturer Position in Information Visualization at Linnaeus University (LNU), Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged and bright Senior Lecturer to work with us in the areas of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. The work duties include the whole research cycle, i.e., from literature reviews and the identification of research challenges, throughout the implementation of visualization tools and performing user studies, to reporting of results and publication in highly-ranked journals and conferences in the areas of information visualization and visual analytics. In addition, the position holder will teach in courses at different levels (incl. course administration and supervision of thesis projects), be involved in syllabi and curricula development, and be responsible teacher for courses. The teaching tasks relate to subjects of the ISOVIS research group, as well as to more general courses in computer science and software development. The position also involves co-supervision of doctoral students, active participation in the operational work and development of the ISOVIS research group, and attracting external research funding. Please visit the official vacancy website of Linnaeus University for a more detailed description of the duties, formal requirements, assessment criteria, and on how to apply for this position: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=j… The application deadline is January 9, 2023. The advertised position (ref. 2022/1108-2.2.1) will be placed in the ISOVIS group (http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) led by Professor Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Växjö Campus, Sweden. The research group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces, for example in biochemistry, humanities, or software engineering. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. We are looking forward to receiving your application! Please also consider to share this message with any great candidates. Best regards, Andreas Kerren ISOVIS Group @ Linnaeus University -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science and Media Technology + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: https://bit.ly/andreas-kerren + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: special issue of The Cartographic Journal about schematic network mapping "Beck at 90 Years"
by noellenburg 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

CALL FOR PAPERS (for PDF version see http://www.tubemapcentral.com/writing/academicfiles/cjcfp.pdf) SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE CARTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL “Beck at 90 Years” Special Issue Editors: Maxwell Roberts Alexander Kent Guest Editorial Board: David Forrest Herman Haverkort Martin Nöllenburg Clive Richards Robert Waller In 1933, Henry Beck’s original design for representing the London Underground was published, schematising the entire network for the first time using only horizontal, vertical and 45-degree diagonal lines and distorting topography to enhance clarity. The London Underground has been depicted using these techniques ever since and cartographers and designers worldwide have been influenced by its success. To mark this anniversary and Beck’s contribution, The Cartographic Journal will publish a multidisciplinary Special Issue exploring the foundations and future prospects for transport cartography in which schematisation forms an important element of design. We welcome full contributions of up to 8,000 words (Refereed paper – substantive research – with double-blind peer review) or shorter manuscripts of up to 4,000 words (Observation paper – brief reports of preliminary findings or theoretical remarks – with editorial review) that either focus on Beck’s work and its legacy or take a wider perspective. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: • History of schematic maps and mapping transport systems • Effectiveness/fitness of purpose of historical and/or contemporary designs • Approaches to designing schematic maps and/or suggestions for best practice • Evaluating schematic map effectiveness, including usability studies • Methods and algorithms for automatic layout of schematic maps • Implications of schematic mapping research for information design • The role of psychology in designing and understanding schematics • Cross-cultural factors in the design and use of schematic maps • Effectiveness of schematic maps on portable devices • New approaches to schematic mapping, such as use of atypical design rules • The use of schematic maps beyond transit domains Provisional abstracts (up to 150 words) should be submitted by email to mjr(a)essex.ac.uk by 13th January 2023. First submissions of papers should be received by 9th April 2023. All accepted papers will be published online (with DOI) ahead of the printed Special Issue. The Cartographic Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic periodical published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the British Cartographic Society. Its readership extends to over 180 countries and its current one-year impact factor is 1.366.

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PhD scholarship at University of Nottingham, UK (10 positions in total, deadline Feb 2023)
by Kai Xu 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Hi, University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/) is a top research university in UK (ranked 7th in 2021). The School of Computer Science is currently offering 10 PhD scholarships for students starting in 2023 (https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SCI2122) The Visualization, Text Analytics, and Graphics Group (VisTAG) group covers all areas within visualisation, including graphics, infovis, visual analytics, and their applications to data science and machine learning (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/research/visualization-and-com…) The deadline is in February 2023. Any interested applicant please contact Kai Xu (kai.xu(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:kai.xu@nottingham.ac.uk>) or Robert Laramee (robert.laramee(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:robert.laramee@nottingham.ac.uk>) for possible PhD projects. Regards, Kai Dr Kai Xu Associate Professor School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK kai.xu(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:kai.xu@nottingham.ac.uk> https://kaixu.me/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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