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IEEE AIVR 2022 (Call for Papers)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

================================ IEEE AIVR 2022 - Call for papers, http://ieee-aivr.org 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality December 12-14, 2022 (online plus on-location satellite events) ================================ IEEE AIVR 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 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 2022, we are welcoming submissions for the following tracks: + Technical paper track (4-8 pages, focus on new and innovative research in AR/VR and AI) + Poster and work-in-progress tack (2-4 pages, focus on initial ideas, pilot studies, work in progress) + Industry track (2-4 pages, focus on work with clear relevance for industry) + Demos and videos track (2 pages, focus on prototypes, new solutions, innovative usages) Accepted papers in all of these tracks will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. === IMPORTANT DATES & SUBMISSION DETAILS ========== Preliminary key dates for all tracks are as follows: + August 22, 2022: Submission deadline for all tracks (tentative) + Early October 2022: Acceptance notifications (all tracks) + Early November 2022: Camera ready versions due (all tracks) For submission details please refer to the conference's website at http://ieee-aivr.org === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Dec 12-14, 2022. Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic and expected travel restrictions, the event will be held virtually. If feasibile, it will be complemented with on-location satellite events (ideally at least one in the US, Europe, and Asia). Details about these satellite events will be posted on the website over the summer.

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Open Position for Permanent Employment as a Research Engineer in Information Visualization at Linnaeus University (LNU), Vaxjo, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged research engineer to work with us in the areas of information visualization and visual analytics. The advertised position (reference number: 2022/494-2.2.1) will be affiliated to the information visualization research group (ISOVIS) led by Professor Andreas Kerren (see http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) The group is part of the national research infrastructure InfraVis and is with this advertisement recruiting a research engineer in information visualization for InfraVis. InfraVis (https://infravis.se) is a national research infrastructure in support of scientific advancement through the application of state-of-the-art data analysis and visualization techniques. The goals of InfraVis are to significantly improve data analysis support, address new challenges involving large and complex data and create competitive advantages for Swedish researchers. The infrastructure consists of visualization experts working with various software solutions and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis will be offered assistance through a national helpdesk as well as in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis will also provide software solutions based on development in connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars, and on-line documentation. The successful candidate will be responsible for support and development in the visualization of data. The general tasks include advanced user support, selection of suitable software, development of visualization tools, and training of user groups from many different research areas. Thus, the main duty is to provide service in context of the national infrastructure. The employment is a permanent position (full-time). A PhD degree in information visualization, visual analytics, or equivalent from a related area is required. 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 June 8, 2022. 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: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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IEEE VIS Arts Program 2022 - deadline extended
by Charles Perin 31 May '22

31 May '22

The submission deadline for the VISAP Arts Program (VISAP) 2022 is extended to June 9, 2022. This gives you another week to finalize your submission(s)! The VIS Arts Program (VISAP) is a mini-conference and exhibition where visualization researchers, designers, and (media) artists come together to showcase and discuss works at the intersection of data visualization, art, and design. It is the biggest associated event in the IEEE VIS conference, and its main goal is to foster new thinking, discussion, and collaboration across and between fields of research and practice. The theme for VISAP’22 is “mingling spaces.” For 10 years the VIS Arts Program, and before this, the VIS Arts Show, have represented a mingling space, a space “to bring or mix together or with something else, usually without fundamental loss of identity” [Merriam-Webster]. VISAP’22 will take place in a hybrid format, and we will therefore experiment with different forms of mingling, attempting to bridge and mix not only disciplines, methodologies, and techniques but also the virtual and the physical, the immaterial and the material; people and artifacts online and offline, remote and on-site. In line with this experiment, we invite submissions that explore, re-interpret, speculate and reflect on the idea of mingling spaces. VISAP welcomes a wide range of submissions, including interactive artworks, design projects, novel visualization tools and applications, art-science or artist-in-lab projects, critical interpretations and evaluations of data visualizations, and philosophical meditations on the intersections between art and research. These can either be submitted to a paper track, or to an exhibition track. For details, visit https://visap.net/ Contact: art(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:art@ieeevis.org> Twitter: https://twitter.com/visapnet General Chairs: Charles Perin – University of Victoria Uta Hinrichs – University of Edinburgh Exhibition Chairs: Rebecca Ruige Xu – Syracuse University Peter Froslie – University of Oklahoma Design Chairs: Bon Adriel Aseniero – Autodesk Tommaso Elli – DensityDesign, Politecnico di Milano --- Charles Perin | he/him | Assistant Professor | University of Victoria | http://charlesperin.net<http://charlesperin.net/> We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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CFP: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Digital twins of natural landscapes
by Jade 31 May '22

31 May '22

Manuscript submission is now open for a new article collection on “Digital twins of natural landscapes” in *Frontiers in Virtual Reality*. You can find more information or submit in frontiersin.org/research-topics/35674/ Topics include, but are not limited to the following: • Computational methods to model and simulate plants in 3D and/or XR • Computational methods to model plants interaction, the impacts of disturbances (e.g., fire, climate change) on forests, and ecosystems in 3D and/or XR • Forest data and scenario visualization • Applications, validations and evaluations of XR on forestry and ecology • Games (including serious games and general games), educational applications and trainings in the context of forestry and ecology • Reviews on state of the art forest visualization methods in 3D and/or XR • Human perception of forest landscape in XR Frontiers in Virtual Reality is a high visibility journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire breadth of Extended Reality. All research will be published Open Access. Additionally, we aim to put together a free eBook of all published manuscripts to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the latest research developments in the field. Deadline for abstracts: *June 12, 2022* Deadline for papers: *August 11, 2022* Please note that publishing fees are applied to accepted articles, but the team at Frontiers is happy to advise you in this regard. You can reach out to our dedicated point of contact at Frontiers if you have any questions: virtualreality.submissions(a)frontiersin.org Regards, Jiawei Huang, Arnadi Murtiyoso, Pejman Sajjadi -- Dr. Jiawei(Jade) Huang https://sites.psu.edu/jade/

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Call for Graduate Symposium | DIAGRAMS 2022
by DIAGRAMS CONFERENCE 30 May '22

30 May '22

*REMINDER: Deadlines for the Diagrams 2022 Graduate Symposium is coming soon! * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2022/index.php/calls/graduate-symposium/ The Graduate Symposium offers senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations, and students will have the opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research (details given below). Submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted submissions will be expected to be in attendance at the virtual conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates. Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement (see website for details). *Important Dates for Graduate Symposium*Submission Deadline: *June 6, 2022* Supervisor statement deadline: *June 13, 2022* Notification: *July 18, 2022* Camera-Ready: *August 11, 2022* *Conference Dates (Rome, Italy)* Workshops & Tutorials : *September 13, 2022* Main Conference : *September 14-16, 2022* Graduate Symposium : *September 17, 2022* *All important dates and information can be found at www.diagrams-conference.org/2022 <http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2022>* We look forward to seeing you in Rome! -- *Publicity Chair, Diagrams Conference 2022* Amy Rae Fox (she / her) <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/> PhD Candidate Cognitive Science, UC San Diego www.amyraefox.com @thoughtafox <https://twitter.com/thoughtafox>

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CFP: June 15 submission deadline for Interactive Visual Analytics for Knowledge Integration and Decision Intelligence @ HICSS
by Ebert, David 29 May '22

29 May '22

Dear colleagues--- Please consider submitting a paper to the Interactive Visual Analytics for Knowledge Integration and Decision Intelligence ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 56) by June 15, 2022 to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Maui January 3-6, 2023. Interactive Visual Analytics for Knowledge Integration and Decision Intelligence supports human decision making through interaction with data and statistical and machine learning processes, with applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. In partnership with organizations in defence, health care, and business, visual analytics research methods combining laboratory studies, cognitive ethnography, and field experiments have aided the design of information systems for decision making about injuries to children, multiomic precision health, radiological diagnosis, and VR for conflict zone operations. Submissions are encouraged that focus on the core issues of theory and methods for visualization, analytics, knowledge integration and decision intelligence in organizations. Case studies of applications of these methods to new analytic and decision making tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, social sciences, and other domains are particularly welcome. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Additionally, submissions may include understandable, trustable AI as well as human-guided AI to round out the problem-solving process. Emphasis will be given to submissions that use visual analytics for social change discovery, analysis, communication, and focus on mixed-initiative human/AI analysis. This proposal builds upon our successful HICSS-47, HICSS-48, HICSS-49, HICSS-50, HICSS-51, HICSS-52, HICSS-53 and HICSS-54 +HICSS-55 minitracks on visual analytics for decision support and our earlier minitracks on visual analytics, mobile computing, and digital media at scale. It seeks to define analytical methods and technologies that use interactive visualization to meet challenges posed by data, platforms, and applications for decision making and risk-based decision making: Analysis of multi-perspective knowledge integration, synthesis and engineering in organizations. Use of interactive visualization and visual analytics in digital economies Visual analytics and visualization in "wicked" problem solving in organizations Analysis of datasets of varying size and complexity from archives and real-time streams Collaborative visual analysis and operational coordination within and across organizations. Interactive and visual risk-based decision making Interactive machine learning methods Managing response time of complex analytical tasks Effective deployment and case studies of success from deployed visualization and analytics experiences Visualization and analytics for data-driven policy making and decision support Issues and challenges in evaluation of visual decision making Mixed-initiative analysis methods for decision making Cognitive and social science aspects of visual decision-making environments For HICSS 2023 we extend our focus to multidisciplinary collaboration among researcher from a variety of research perspectives. Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on the analytics of the data itself and coordination of multiple levels of analysis, decision-making and operations to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders. We invite computational, cognitive, and organizational perspectives on advanced data processing and interactive visualization for analysis and decision-making across a range of human endeavors. We also invite participation from researchers who are looking at scaling issues and multiscale issues, whether these scales refer to the time of decision making, the form-factor and operational constraints of mobile devices, the number of decision makers or the more traditional notion of multiscale simulation and real-world scales of data. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine computational and interactive analytics in "mixed initiative" or Interactive Machine Learning systems, decision support in the context of an organization (e.g. communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. More information about this minitrack can be found here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/decision-anal…> . Please see author instructions at: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/__;!!GNU8KkXDZl…> and feel free to contact the co-chairs with any questions. Minitrack Co-Chairs: David Ebert University of Oklahoma ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu> Brian Fisher Simon Fraser University bfisher(a)sfu.ca<mailto:bfisher@sfu.ca> Kelly Gaither University of Texas at Austin kelly(a)tacc.utexas.edu<mailto:kelly@tacc.utexas.edu> Dr. David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC) University of Oklahoma Vice President for Publications, IEEE Computer Society 5 Partners Place 201 Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600 Norman, OK 73019 ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu>

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[cfp] Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture (DCIC 2022)
by Jonathan Hook 24 May '22

24 May '22

DCIC 2022 A multidisciplinary conference on Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture (DCIC 2022) DCIC 2022 is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share insights on the impact of interactive, immersive and artificially intelligent technologies on creative practices and the industries, societies and cultures through which they emerge. DCIC aims to create a sense of shared multi-disciplinary identity and foster new interdisciplinary links, by combining three interconnected perspectives: - technology-driven creative practices and technology advancements driven by creative practices - working practices and economic development in the creative and cultural industries - digital culture and society Through DCIC, we seek to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines across STEM, arts and humanities, and the social sciences. We invite proposals for short presentations that expose thought-provoking aspects concerning digital creativity, industry and culture. These include but are not limited to: - new user experiences - new forms of content and artistic expression - new forms of mediated interaction beyond entertainment audience insights - new authoring tools, creative processes and production workflows - content distribution architectures and systems - virtual and real-time production, approaches and working practices - industry responses to new immersive technologies and media - skills gaps and training needs - EDI implications in the creation, distribution and consumption of digital media - politics, inequalities and power relations of technology innovations and digitalisation - interactive and immersive technologies in relation to activism and political discourse - digital technologies and well-being - utopic and dystopic futurisms for a digitally mediated world. The conference format has been designed to maximise the potential for crossing disciplinary boundaries and encouraging multi-disciplinary connections and debates. Each conference session will be curated in such a way as to include related complementary contributions from each of the three perspectives mentioned above as well as a fair distribution of topics. DCIC expects a significant participation from industry partners, facilitated through the University of York’s rich network of collaborators maintained through the sponsoring bodies listed further below. It will thus be a platform for conversations and debates between academic research and industry R&D and practice. Format: - Attendance is free. - The conference will take place in-person at the University of York. Please do not hesitate to get in touch about any questions regarding accessibility requirements or requests. - Filmed presentations will be accepted. The plenary sessions will be live-streamed. - Presentations: max 7 minutes each. The presentations should be rooted in existing research, while being challenging and thought provoking. - Sessions will be curated to bring together related papers that provide perspectives from different disciplines to maximise cross-discplinary dialogues and debates. - Parallel streams will be linked through plenary panels and discussions - All the presenting authors will be encouraged to submit their presentation for publication on the conference web page prior to the conference day. A list of possible publication formats will be later circulated (e.g. slide deck, text, video recording, etc.) - Selected presentations will be invited to be written as articles for publication in an edited book. - Those selected for presentation will be automatically registered as participants at the conference. Submission guidelines: - Please submit abstracts of between 300-400 words by 27 June 2022. - Please click on this link to access the submission form - https://tinyurl.com/tkvrwzz6 <https://tinyurl.com/tkvrwzz6> - We aim to notify all proposers of selected presentations by 15 July 2022. Important Dates: 27 June 2022 – abstract submission deadline 15 July 2022 – invitation for presentation 22 July 2022 – registration opens 20 September 2022 – date of the conference Sponsors: The School of Art and Creative Technologies at the University of York - a collaboration between the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media. Digital Creativity (DC) Labs XR Stories, the Yorkshire Creative Cluster Partnership Screen Industry Growth Network (SIGN) Any enquiries, please contact enquiries(a)digitalcreativity.ac.uk <mailto:enquiries@digitalcreativity.ac.uk>

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Second Call for Papers: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization - GD 2022
by Patrizio Angelini 24 May '22

24 May '22

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email ================================================================ Call for Papers GD 2022 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 13-16, 2022 - Tokyo, Japan https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/ ================================================================ This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for submitting your papers to GD 2022 is approaching: Abstract submission deadline: June, 1st Paper submission deadline: June, 8th. Given the current status of the restrictions in Japan, the conference will be held in online hybrid mode. All authors will be given the possibility to present their work from remote. The organization committee is also preparing for an on-site component, but this possibility cannot be confirmed at the current stage. Please find more information at: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/pages/news/ Please recall that, for the first time in the GD conference, this year the review process will be handled in a “lightweight double-blind mode”: authors are not allowed to reveal their identity in the submitted paper, but are free to disseminate draft versions of the paper prior to the conference and to give talks on the topic as they normally would. More details can be found in the full call for papers, which can be accessed at the following links and is reported below for your convenience: HTML version on the conference website: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/pages/cfp/ PDF version: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/assets/pdfs/CallforPapers2022.pdf ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ------ Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security, or software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for about 30 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing, as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. GD 2022 will be held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, on September 13-16, 2022, with a reception on the evening of September 13. A pre-conference PhD school is planned for September 12-13, 2022. While we hope that a physical conference will be possible, details of the exact format of the venue (onsite, online, hybrid) will be announced before the submission deadline. Regardless of the format, we are committed to offering remote participation for both presenters and the audience. The code of conduct for the GD conference can be found at http://graphdrawing.org/codeOfConduct.html PAPERS ------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. To promote a balanced coverage of the field, GD has two distinct tracks, and papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of the two tracks. However, all program committee members may review papers from either track. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects ---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms * Geometric and topological graph theory * Computational topology of graphs on surfaces * Geometric network design and optimization * Geometric computing Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects -------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such as the development and evaluation of network visualization algorithms, systems, and interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Visualization of networks in real world applications * Engineering of graph drawing algorithms and network visualization systems * Benchmarks and experimental studies of algorithms, systems, and user interfaces for graph drawing and network visualization * Cognitive studies on network visualization readability and user interaction * Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs and networks Authors of accepted applied papers can request the opportunity to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. Short papers ------------ In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Submission format ----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the appropriate LaTeX style file, either gd-llncs.cls<https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/assets/template/gd-llncs.cls> for long papers or gd-llncs-short.cls<https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/assets/template/gd-llncs-short.cls> for short papers; these are derived from the style file used for the conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in particular, the use of packages such as times.sty is not allowed. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without consideration of their merits. To promote inclusion of figures in the submitted papers, submissions will have a strict number of lines limit. Regular papers must have at most 400 lines and at most 14 pages (excluding references). Short papers must have at most 225 lines and at most 7 pages (excluding references). When counting the lines, the following sections should be excluded: title, authors block, keywords, references. For figures, tables, and algorithm pseudo-code, only the lines of the main caption should be counted. Lines in all the rest of the paper should be counted, including the abstract. The claims of the paper should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the line/page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. All submissions will be handled through EasyChair at the web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2022 Posters & Contest ----------------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster itself. Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference are provided on the conference web site https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2022/pages/contest/ LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW PROCESS -------------------------------- This year, for the first time in the GD conference, the review process will be handled in a “lightweight double-blind mode”. This means that authors are not allowed to reveal their identity in the paper that they submit to GD'22, but are free to disseminate draft versions of the paper prior to the conference and to give talks on the topic as they normally would. In particular, the submitted paper should not contain authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. References to their own related work are allowed, as long as the supporting text maintains anonymity (e.g., using sentences in the third person, anonymising references). Members of the Program Committee will not have the identity of the authors of any paper revealed to them during the entire review process. To handle conflicts of interest effectively, authors will be offered the opportunity to declare conflict of interest with relevant PC members when they submit their paper. PUBLICATION: PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUES ----------------------- All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository at the same time as submitting their camera-ready versions, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked appendix. This appendix could contain a long version of the entire paper or proofs that have been omitted from the main text. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv "replacements") are allowed. Upon submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper, the authors will be required to specify the arXiv identifier associated with the paper for inclusion in a conference index, which will be also published in the arXiv repository. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author (barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa/travel restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Invitations to the special issues will be sent at most two weeks after the conference. A TVCG papers session at the Graph Drawing conference will also feature regular TVCG papers. Please find more details at https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tvcg/tvcg-partners-with-c… AWARDS ------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2022 will bestow a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2022 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline June 1 (23:59 PDT) Paper submission deadline June 8 (23:59 PDT) Notification of paper acceptance July 18 Poster submission deadline August 10 (23:59 PDT) Notification of poster acceptance August 19 Final versions due September 5 (23:59 PDT) Contest submission deadline September 6 (23:59 PDT) Symposium September 13-16 Invitations to special issues September 30 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Patrizio Angelini (co-chair), John Cabot University, Italy Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo, Canada Sabine Cornelsen, Universität Konstanz, Germany Giordano Da Lozzo, Roma Tre University, Italy Stephan Diehl, Universität Trier, Germany Henry Förster, Universität Tübingen, Germany Martin Gronemann, TU Wien, Austria Yasuhiro Hashimoto, The University of Aizu, Japan Michael Hoffmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hiroshi Hosobe, Hosei University, Japan Yifan Hu, Yahoo! Research, USA Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan Philipp Kindermann, Universität Trier, Germany Karsten Klein, Universität Konstanz, Germany Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA Jan Kratochvíl, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Irene Parada, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Sergey Pupyrev, Facebook, US Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, Scotland Arnaud Sallaberry, LIRMM, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France Ingo Scholtes, University of Zurich, Switzerland Falk Schreiber, Universität Konstanz, Germany André Schulz, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Andrew Suk, University of California San Diego, USA Antonios Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Alessandra Tappini, University of Perugia, Italy Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Reinhard von Hanxleden (co-chair), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Tatiana von Landesberger, Universität Köln, Germany ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Takayuki Itoh (chair), Ochanomizu University, Japan Ken Wakita, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Masahiko Itoh, Hokkaido Information University, Japan Hsiang-Yun Wu, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Rina Nakazawa, IBM Research, Japan Yuri Miyagi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann (chair), Universität Trier, Germany Tamara Mchedlidze, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Wouter Meulemans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Open Position for Permanent Employment as a Research Engineer in Information Visualization at Linnaeus University (LNU), Vaxjo, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 20 May '22

20 May '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Come and join us! We are seeking for an engaged research engineer to work with us in the areas of information visualization and visual analytics. The advertised position (reference number: 2022/494-2.2.1) will be affiliated to the information visualization research group (ISOVIS) led by Professor Andreas Kerren (see http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/) The group is part of the national research infrastructure InfraVis and is with this advertisement recruiting a research engineer in information visualization for InfraVis. InfraVis (https://infravis.se) is a national research infrastructure in support of scientific advancement through the application of state-of-the-art data analysis and visualization techniques. The goals of InfraVis are to significantly improve data analysis support, address new challenges involving large and complex data and create competitive advantages for Swedish researchers. The infrastructure consists of visualization experts working with various software solutions and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis will be offered assistance through a national helpdesk as well as in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis will also provide software solutions based on development in connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars, and on-line documentation. The successful candidate will be responsible for support and development in the visualization of data. The general tasks include advanced user support, selection of suitable software, development of visualization tools, and training of user groups from many different research areas. Thus, the main duty is to provide service in context of the national infrastructure. The employment is a permanent position (full-time). A PhD degree in information visualization, visual analytics, or equivalent from a related area is required. 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 June 8, 2022. 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: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +------------------------------------------------------- -- +------------------------------------------------------- + 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: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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CfP VisGuides: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Guidelines – Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 18 May '22

18 May '22

VisGuides: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Guidelines – Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education This year’s topic: Visualization Research in the Wild 16 (or 17) October 2022, Workshop at IEEE VIS, October, Oklahoma City, USA VisGuides 2022 calls for submissions about visualization guidelines in research, design, and education. The ever-increasing global awareness, practice, and teaching of information and data visualization includes a growing audience of consumers and creators. Building on the success of prior editions of the VisGuides workshop in 2016, 2018<https://c4pgv.dbvis.de/>, and 2020<https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/c4pgv/>. This year’s edition focuses on * Visualization Research in the Wild and the roles guidelines play in it * Implementing an actionable framework around creating, curating, and applying guidelines for the wider visualization and non-visualization community. Submit your work and ideas as either a short paper, long paper, or a guideline report discussing a guideline, its empirical evidence, application, and limitations. Become part of a vibrant half-day workshop that will bring together an exciting program with papers and discussions on the future of guidelines in visualization. This workshop also features an open call for being part of the program committee (PC) to provide an opportunity to advocate for guidelines in a broad range of topics. If you would like to get involved, contact bbach(a)ed.ac.uk. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format. You can attend online or in person though we hope that you can join us in-person. Online sessions will be synchronous with the in-person workshop. Website: https://visguides-workshop.github.io/ Topics and Scope The IEEE VIS VisGuides workshop is a forum for constructive discussions around guidelines in visualization and how the visualization researchers and creators disseminate and discuss their designs. The understanding and operationalization of guidelines is important not only for academics, but also for practitioners alike, who are tasked to make design trade-offs, problem-solving, and justify decisions. Moreover, guidelines are essential for teaching and learning about visualization. Questions this workshop wants to discuss include: * What visualization guidelines exist and how do we (as a scientific community) collect and disseminate them? * How do we apply and discuss guidelines in daily-work practice, in design, in advising, and in teaching? * What is the role of visualization knowledge and guidelines in the wild, i.e., outside the scientific community? * How to scrutinize empirical knowledge and make a discussion around guidelines public? * What are types of guidelines, guidance, and how do we formalize visualization knowledge? * How can we systematize, rank and categorize guidelines in the wild? Goals * Illustrating the use of best practices and guidelines in the wild as seen from the VIS community and practitioners, through discussions among the presenters and the audience. Collecting, reflecting and discussing a survey of well-known guidelines from the presenters and the audience through interactive activities, examples, and submissions * Constructing an open and democratic discussion about principles, guidelines, recommendations, based on the presented evidence (including examples of their uses and misuses), critique (including revision and improvement) and conditioning (i.e., education, training, and deployment) compiling the lessons learned from the usage of those guidelines * Discussing ideas and proposals of feasible approaches towards the formalization of visualization guidelines, with an impact beyond the scientific visualization community. This is an important point as more and more visualization designs are created outside the scientific community. The visualization community must reinforce the efforts to publicize their study results * To raise questions about the ethical, practical, and technical implications of establishing guidelines for visualization. Broadening the discussion of guidelines to applications and educational contexts Workshop Schedule (Preliminary) * Keynote * Paper presentations * Group discussion (possible breakout groups) * Collecting & curating guidelines * Application in education * Research in the wild * Social dynamics and operationalization * Wrap-up Submission Info This workshop features 3 types of submissions. Please carefully read the respective instructions. Topics of these submissions include, but are not limited to: * Comparative analysis of several guidelines for visual representation, requirements, and gap analysis of principles and guidelines for one or more visualization tasks (or application domains) * Evidence-based critique of a principle or a guideline * Case studies of a principle in relation to a task, a visual design, and a group of users * Proposal of a new principle or a guideline, or a major revision of an existing one * Proposal of a mechanism for curating principles and guidelines * Proposal of a framework for the critique of principles and guidelines * Proposal of a mechanism for disseminating and deployment of established principles and guidelines * Proposal of a mechanism for prioritising and ranking established principles and guidelines * Discourse on a long-term sustainable mechanism for creation, curation, critique, and conditioning activities * Discourse on the relationships and transformations between principles and guidelines and other theoretical aspects, such as taxonomies, conceptual frameworks and models, and quantitative laws, and so forth Short Paper: * 2 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style * Please add the [SHORT] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline: July 22 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Monday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Publication through ArXiv and the workshop website Long Paper: * 6 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style. * Please add the [LONG] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline July 22 (Friday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Publication through IEEE Digital Library Guideline Report: * 6 pages + references in the IEEE VIS Style * Please add the [REPORT] label to your submission title in PCS. * Submission deadline: July 22 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Notification: August 14 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT) * Published on ArXiv and the workshop website * Report example format: * Title of the guideline that is proposed or discussed. * Guideline description * Background * Supporting elements * Arguments (common sense) * Study evidence * Design examples * Rejecting elements * Arguments (common sense) * Study evidence * Design examples * Discussion * Implications / Considerations * Ethical * Practical * Technical * . . . * Conclusions * Summary-box * Title * Description * Supporting (max 3 bullet points) * Contra (max 3 bullet points) * Discussions (max 2 bullet points) * References Submission website: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Please select the following on the submission website: Society: “VGTC”, Conference: “VIS 2022”, Track: “VIS 2022 VisGuides” Review process: 2-3 peer reviews each. Single-blind mandatory, double-blind optional. Presentation: ~3-5 minutes plus plenary discussion. Registration: Participants must be registered for the specific day at the VIS conference. Workshop date: 16 (or 17) October 2022. Workshop Co-chairs Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, UK Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King's College London, UK Alexandra Diehl, University of Zurich, CH Advisory Board Min Chen, University of Oxford, UK Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, DE Renato Pajarola, University of Zurich, CH Webmaster Gabriel Dias Cantareira, King's College London, UK

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