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TVCG and GD partnership
by Patrizio Angelini 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

--- Apologies for possible multiple messages ---- Dear colleague, Do you publish papers relating to Graph Drawing or Network Visualization at TVCG? If so, you may like to know that authors of accepted TVCG papers can present their work at the annual International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. This can be an excellent opportunity to showcase your research and to meet with other like-minded researchers in the friendly GD community! We are keen to promote this partnership, and plan to dedicate a session to relevant TVCG papers in the conference program of GD '22, which will be (hopefully) held in Tokyo, Japan on September, 13-16. You can find more details on the partnership arrangements and how to apply to present your work at GD '22 at the following link: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tvcg/tvcg-partners-with-c… Patrizio Angelini & Reinhard von Hanxleden PC chairs of GD '22

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Open PostDoc Position in Information Visualization / Visual Analytics at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

*** 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. This position (ref. LiU-2022-00141) is part of a joint collaboration between the two largest research programs in Sweden, the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) and the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), with the ultimate goal of solving ground-breaking research questions across disciplines. The successful candidate will become member of an interdisciplinary research project entitled “Visual Analytics for Enhancing Quality and Trust in Genome-wide Expression Clustering and Annotation”, where the Information Visualization group at Linköping University (LiU) and the Systems Biology group at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) work closely together. There is a need for a functional genome-wide annotation of the protein-coding genes to get a deeper understanding of mammalian biology. The new data-driven strategy to be developed in the project is based on interpretable unsupervised learning (e.g., dimensionality reduction and clustering) of whole-body co-expression patterns, supported by state-of-the-art visual analytics. Interactive guiding of the clustering process will be used to explore the gene expression landscape in humans and other mammalian species, and to create a whole-body map of all protein-coding genes in all major cell types, tissues and organs. This will allow for the improvement of the quality of the classification of all protein-coding genes according to their whole-body co-expression patterns, resulting in every gene being annotated to a unique expression cluster together with other genes with a similar body-wide pattern. The focus of this PostDoc position at LiU will be on research and development of an interactive and interpretable (human-in-the-loop) clustering strategy to reach these goals. The successful candidate will develop visual analytics approaches that provide fine-grained quality analysis of the clustering processes and better interpretation/annotation of clusters. Please visit the official vacancy website of Linköping University for a more detailed description of the duties, formal requirements, and on how to apply for this position: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18150&rmlang=UK The application deadline is February 28, 2022. The advertised position will be affiliated to the iVis research group led by Professor Andreas Kerren (see http://bit.ly/ivis-liu) 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 environmental research, transportation systems, social sciences, or artificial intelligence. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for deriving meaning from the data and final decision making. Our research is highly relevant for academia and industry as both 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 iVis Group @ Linköping University -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linköping University + Department of Science and Technology + Kopparhammaren 2, Room 3028 + SE-602 33 Norrköping, Sweden + + Phone: +46 11 36 34 06 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)liu.se + WWW: https://liu.se/en/employee/andke01 + WWW: https://ivis.itn.liu.se +-------------------------------------------------------

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CDVE2022 abstract deadline reminder: Feb. 15, 2022
by cdve .org 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

*CDVE2022 Call for paper abstracts* The 19th International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2022) conference participation. See 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 cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering, and any other cooperative applications. The proceedings of CDVE2022 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 paper directly without submitting an abstract. However, we highly recommend you to submit an abstract first to receive some feedback from us before writing the full paper. The abstract submission deadline is Feb. 15, 2022. The submission page is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2022 . See you in Poland! ------------------- The 19th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering September 25-28, 2022, Krakow, Poland Email: cdve2022(a)easychair.org <cdve2020(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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[Deadline Extension] BigVis 2022 : Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics Workshop @ EDBT/ICDT 2022 [Online]
by Nikos Bikakis 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

** Paper submission deadline has been extended to February 4, 2022 (AoE) ** BigVis 2022: 5th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics, EDBT/ICDT 2022 https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2022 March 29 2022, Edinburgh, UK [Online] Held in conjunction with the 25th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 25th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2022) 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 Special Theme ------------------------------------ _Human-AI Collaboration_ BigVis 2022 will devote a session to Human-AI collaboration approaches in the context of Big data visualization and analytics. 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: February 4 (AoE) ***Extended*** Notification: February 20, 2022 Camera-ready: February 25, 2022 Workshop: March 29, 2022 [Online] Special Issue ------------------------------------ TBD Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Hanna Hauptmann, Utrecht University, Netherlands George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart, Germany Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria Evanthia Dimara, Université Paris-Sud Harish Doraiswamy, Microsoft Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside Steffen Frey, University of Groningen Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Christoph Garth, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Parke Godfrey, York University Hamed Haddadi, Imperial College London Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs Alireza Karduni, Northwestern University James Klosowski, AT&T Labs Research Manolis Koubarakis, National University of Athens Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology Davide Mottin, Aarhus University Laura Po, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno Sajjadur Rahman, Megagon Labs Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences Panagiotis Ritsos, Bangor University Maria Riveiro, Jönköping University Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University Arjun Srinivasan, Tableau Manuel Stein, Universität Konstanz Christian Tominski, University of Rostock Natkamon Tovanich, IRT SystemX Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete & FORTH-ICS Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Yunhai Wang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Jules Wulms, Vienna University of Technology Jiazhi Xia, Central South University Kai Xu, Middlesex University Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- Nikos Bikakis Information Management Systems Institute ATHENA Research Center Athens | Greece www.nbikakis.com

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Job posting
by Tim Dwyer 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

Continuing (tenured) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics at Monash University, Australia Applications close 15 February 2022, details: https://t.co/M0s4t8kzXF -- Prof. Tim Dwyer BSc BCS(Hons) PhD http://ialab.it.monash.edu/~dwyer <http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/~dwyer> Faculty of IT Monash University Australia Office Address: Building H, 6.36, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Rd Caulfield East Mobile: 0481 240 767 (from overseas: +61 481 240 767)

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From Skala - REMINDER - Call for Papers - WSCG 2022 - 30. Jubilee Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2022
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Please, forward also to your fellows and/or PhD students Sent via a list server: infovis(a)infovis.org ----------- WSCG 2022 - Call for Papers _ REMINDER --------- 30. WSCG 2022 Jubilee Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision 2022 HYBRID MODE due to CoVid situation (preferably physical mode) -- In copoperation with the Eurographics Association -- Pilsen (the city of beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic May 17-20, 2022 - http://www.wscg.cz - detailed info - http://www.wscg.eu Conference rates: CORE B, Qualis B1, ERA B ------------------ Important dates & Submission: January 30, 2022 - special session proposals via email only (Extended) -------------- via submission server only --------------- February 10, 2022 Abstract - recommended only February 28, 2022 - Full, Short, Poster papers (submission via server only [http://wscgreg.zcu.cz] Papers will be published in the Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). At least one author has to present the paper physically or online or pre-recorded. Proceedings will be made after the conference. Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Accepted workshops/sessions: - Meshless methods in Computer Graphics and Visualization - Other agreements expected Contact: ======== Prof. Vaclav Skala mailto:WSCGconf@gmail.com?subject=WSCG2022 Conference organizer & Chair --------------------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala Contact: http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic

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*CFP* "IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 
by Jonathan Hook 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

*CFP* "IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Deadline for 500-word Abstract Submissions: 15 February 2022 Deadline for Full Papers: 15 June 2022 Expected date of publication: May 2023 We invite submissions for a special issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies on the topic of Immersive Storytelling (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/con) Storytelling is central to the immersive entertainment industry in all its variety: Alternative Reality Games (ARGs); escape rooms; experiential art; immersive audio; Live Action Role Play (LARP); live experiences incorporating Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR); scare and other themed attractions; immersive interactive theatre; transmedia and virtual experiences. The industry underpins an international marketplace that encompasses everything from Dreamscape Immersive’s location-based VR attractions, to Museum of Ice Cream’s multi-sensory installations, to Punch Drunk’s immersive theatre shows; examples spread across the USA, Singapore, Dubai and China. The global pandemic has accelerated the pace of R&D as the power of creative minds has focused on connecting with dispersed audiences in their own homes and locales using technologies like streaming and mobile device applications. With this come the challenges of retaining qualities of liveness and collective experience when people can’t physically travel or congregate in large numbers. At this time of experimentation, adaptation and recovery we can reflect on the current reality of the ‘experience economy’ conceived by Pine and Gilmore in 1998, given that immersion is a contested term and the diverse forms listed above all have complex histories. The goal is to bring together perspectives from the global research community across multiple disciplines which have a stake in developing, studying and critically interrogating immersive storytelling. The Editors welcome contributions on any topic related to immersive storytelling, such as: * Definitional debates and histories. This could include taxonomies, historical background, disciplinary perspectives and comparative analyses of existing works. * Collaboration and partnership models. This could include examples of production practice, digitally enabled forms (including algorithmic/automated generation) and authoring processes (including co-creation). * Platforms, tools, techniques. This could include content creation tools, underpinning technologies/techniques, prototype systems, conceptual designs and strategies to scaffold user interaction. * Aesthetics and new modes of experience. This could include emergent/hybrid creative methodologies, economic value, business model innovation, the contexts of consumption, industries of research and criticism, investment priorities (e.g. the UK’s £72 million Creative Industries Sector Deal); and the impact of these on cultural policy, professional skills and creative sector employment, especially in light of threats to arts funding * Critical approaches to immersive storytelling. This could include modes of participation (agency, liveness, presence and collective experience) and strategies of support (funding and pricing models). * Researching immersion and immersive experiences. This could include research histories, approaches to user testing and audience research, and intersectional methodologies for analysing creative practice. * Sites, contexts and cultures of immersive storytelling production. This could include issues of representation, social justice, public attitudes, the digital divide, global variations in technology access and usage, and the ethics of using personal data (including unintended consequences). We are open to a range of approaches in exploring this topic, which is broadly conceptualised, and particularly welcome submissions that address immersive storytelling practice, audiences and research in the global south. To submit: Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio per author to the guest editors at sarah.martindale(a)nottingham.ac.uk and jonathan.hook(a)york.ac.uk by 15 February 2022 Authors of accepted abstracts will be contacted in mid-March and invited to submit full contributions by 15 June 2022 Guest Editors: Sarah Martindale (University of Nottingham, UK) and Jonathan Hook (University of York, UK) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/con

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University of Copenhagen seeks Full Professor in Visualization
by Kasper Hornbæk 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen is looking to hire a full professor in Visualization. The professor will work to strengthen visualization research within the department and the university. Candidates working in any area of visualization may apply, including visual analytics, information visualization, and medical and scientific visualization. However, we particularly encourage candidates that research information visualization to apply. The professor will join a rapidly growing department, with strong research groups in Human-Centred Computing, Machine Learning, and Algorithms. We are located in Copenhagen, consistently recognized as one of the world’s most liveable cities, in the country of Denmark, ranked as one of the top three happiest countries in the world. Please reach out to me with questions or find the full call at https://di.ku.dk/ominstituttet/ledige_stillinger/211-014621-2k-professor-of…. The deadline is February 20th. All the best, Kasper -- Professor Kasper Hornbæk, PhD Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen Sigurdsgade 41, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark calendar:: calendly.com/khornbaek // zoom::khornbaek mail::kash@diku.dk<mailto:kash@diku.dk> // phone::+45 30957883 www::kasperhornbaek.dk // twitter::@khornbaek

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Volunteer to become a PC member for IEEE VIS 2022 Short Papers
by Chaoli Wang 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

The IEEE VIS 2022 Short Papers Co-Chairs invite qualified applicants to volunteer for the Program Committee (PC) for the IEEE VIS 2022 Short Papers program! This call is oriented towards volunteers who have *not* served as a PC member in the past – past PC members do not need to submit this form to be considered again. Even though volunteering does *not* guarantee a spot on the PC, all volunteers will be considered with great interest and gratitude. Short Papers Co-Chairs will consider several factors when selecting PC members. Ideal volunteers are those who have recently graduated with their Ph.D. degree or will graduate within a year and have published at least one first-authored paper at IEEE VIS/EuroVis/IEEE PacificVis. You can volunteer to become a PC member for IEEE VIS 2022 Short Papers by filling out the form at https://forms.gle/KWYVry5VSsRtktqZ7. The volunteering period closes on **February 15, 2022**. We look forward to new PC members joining us this year! Thanks, Michelle Borkin, Christoph Garth, Jonathan Roberts, Chaoli Wang IEEE VIS 2022 Short Papers Co-Chairs

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We are hiring an assistant professor in Applied Psychology, Design of Digital Technologies.
by Samuel Huron 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, The School Telecom Paris, part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Institut Mines Telecoms is currently looking for an assistant professor in Applied Psychology (and) Design of Digital Technologies. https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/enseignantchercheur-en-er… Application deadline is March 19, 2022. Employer Télécom Paris is one of the top engineering schools in France [1]. These schools are the more competitive variant of universities in the public education system of France, with student admission ratios of around 5%-10% [2]. The school was founded in 1878, and prides itself to have invented the word “telecommunication”. In May 2019, the school announced to collaborate with four other grandes écoles (Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, ENSAE and Telecom SudParis) to form the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP-Paris) [3]. IP Paris brings together five prestigious graduate schools with one ambition: create a world-class institute committed to cutting-edge research and excellence in training. The five founding graduate schools embody experience, history and roots, positioning IP-Paris as a leading educational institution, both in France and internationally. In this context, the school moved recently into a new building located in Palaiseau, approximately 30 minutes south of Paris. The researcher-teacher who is recruited will join the INTERACT research team [4] in the SES (Social and Economic Sciences) Department of Télécom Paris, and the CNRS laboratory “i3” (Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation) [5]. Surroundings The school just recently (October 2019) moved into a new building in Palaiseau on the campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/campus/campus-life/our-new-buildings-in-pal… campus is easy to reach by public transportation (2 RER stations, several bus lines) and inside a National Park (La Vallée de chevreuse). The campus is approximately 30 minutes from Paris. Paris is one of the most visited cities in the world and offers an incredible number of museums, theatres, art and design exhibitions and vivid art, sport, music, scientific, tech and nightlife scenes. [1] https://www.telecom-paris.fr/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles [3] https://www.ip-paris.fr/ [4] https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/the-school/teaching-research-departments/ec… [5] https://i3.cnrs.fr/en/

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