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[Special Issue CFP] Machine Learning Approaches in Big Data Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)
by Nikos Bikakis 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

Call for Papers Special Issue "Machine Learning Approaches in Big Data Visualization" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) https://bit.ly/37EaNcn Data visualization is now one of the cornerstones of data science, turning the abundance of big data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Data visualization in the big data era raises the need to co-design and more closely align the underlying data management systems with the user-oriented techniques that state-of-the-art visualization systems now offer. Several solutions from those two communities are revisited with big data in mind, such as efficient data storage, adaptive indexing for enabling visual interaction and visual analytics, machine learning (ML)-driven visualization and new ways for visual presentation of massive data, and personalization and automation techniques that can fit to different users’ needs. Overall, modern visualization systems start integrating scalable techniques to efficiently support complex ML-based analysis over billion-object datasets, while limiting the visual response to a few milliseconds. This special issue aims to publish novel works on multidisciplinary research areas spanning from data management and ML to visualization and human-computer interaction. Topics for the Special Issue ------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration, and analytics techniques for various data types (for example: text, stream, field, high-dimensional, graph, and temporal) - ML-driven visualization - Interactive data mining visualization - Progressive visual analytics - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching, and query processing for interactive applications - User-oriented visualization (for example: recommendation, assistance, and personalization) - Visual representation techniques (for example: aggregation, sampling, multi-level, and filtering) - In-situ visual exploration and analytics - Immersive visualization - Setting-oriented visualization (for example: display size, smart phones, and visualization over networks) - High-performance, distributed, and parallel techniques - Visualization hardware and acceleration techniques for visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization and analytics Deadlines ------------------------------- Submissions due: 29 October 2021 Publication: May/June 2022 Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Please see the author information on how to submit a manuscript. Please submit your papers through the ScholarOne online system and be sure to select this special-issue name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. Guest Editors ------------------------------- Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Austria Contact the guest editors at cga3-2022(a)computer.org -- _ nikos

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Multiple Faculty Lines (all levels) at the University of South Florida
by Paul Rosen 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Hi all— The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida is hiring for multiple faculty lines at all levels. We are interested in all areas, but I will be advocating for hiring in VIS, HCI, AR/VR, graphics, etc. https://cra.org/job/university-of-south-florida-tenure-track-faculty-positi… If you have questions or are planning to apply, please let me know. Cheers, Paul ==================================== Paul Rosen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida prosen(a)usf.edu<mailto:prosen@usf.edu> http://www.cspaul.com

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CfP: EuroVis 2022 - Full Papers
by Borgo, Rita 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

EuroVis 2022 Call for Papers With this call for papers, we invite submission of high-quality papers that will set the standard and stimulate future trends in the field of visualization and visual analytics. Accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, the International Journal of the Eurographics Association, after a two-stage peer-reviewing process. All accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference. EuroVis 2022 (http://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/) will be held in Rome, Italy on June 13-17, 2022. We encourage submissions from all areas of visualization and visual analytics. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Techniques: novel algorithms, visual encoding methods, and/or interaction techniques for data analysis, exploration, or communication. All sub-areas of data visualization and visual analytics are welcomed, including high-dimensional, time-series, spatial, geographic, text, hierarchical, and network data. Techniques may be specialized for specific devices or form-factors (e.g., mobile or wall-scale visualization). * Systems: new software frameworks, languages, or tools for visualization; systems for large-scale visualization; integrated graphical systems for visual analysis or interactive machine learning; collaborative and web-scale visualization systems. * Applications & Design Studies: novel use of visualization to address problems in an application domain, including accounts of innovative system design, deployment and impact. We welcome diverse application areas, including the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, engineering, arts, sports, and humanities. * Evaluation & Empirical Research: Comparative evaluation of competing visualization approaches; controlled experiments to inform visualization best practices; longitudinal and qualitative studies to understand user needs, visualization adoption, and use. * Theory: models of visual encoding, interaction, and/or analysis tasks; implications from theories of perception, cognition, design, and/or aesthetics; methods for automated design or visualization recommendation. For a wider range of paper types, please see “Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers<http://cmci.colorado.edu/visualab/papers/19-CGA-ContributionTypes.pdf>” by B. Lee et al. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The maximum length for submitted papers to the full papers track is 10 pages (in Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) style, including all images, but excluding references). Authors are encouraged to use supplementary documents to provide extra content. Papers exceeding the maximum allowed number of pages will be automatically rejected. Submissions must be made using the Computer Graphics Forum style, using the conference LaTeX template for full papers. A LaTeX style sheet and overleaf template will be provided as well as a sample document explaining the required format. Authors have the option to submit their papers anonymously. In contrast to previous years, double-blind reviewing is optional, not required: authors may choose to disclose their identities to the reviewers. The reviewing process does not consider anonymity as a factor. The process will attempt to preserve anonymity of authors of anonymized submissions. However, the program committee, which is responsible for half of the reviews, will know the authors of submissions reviewed by them. Authors have the option of submitting additional material with their submissions. Supplementary materials, such as videos and supporting data, are encouraged. For papers that have previously been reviewed for other venues and have been rejected or withdrawn, the authors are strongly encouraged to provide the original submission with a cover letter describing the changes they have made to comply with reviewers' comments and requests. All full papers accepted to EuroVis appear in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, containing the conference proceedings, and will appear at the same time in the Eurographics digital library. EuroVis submissions and papers are subject to the pre-print and self-archiving policies of the Computer Graphics Forum journal. Details are available from the journal web site: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-acce… Given the uncertainty due to the pandemic, further details will be communicated regarding possible Open Access charges. Abstracts and full papers are submitted using the Precision Conference System (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/eurovis22a Please note you shall select Eurographics as Society. Submission of an abstract is mandatory by the abstract deadline, with completed papers due on by the full paper deadline. Submissions will not be accepted if an abstract is not submitted by the abstract deadline. Abstract submissions require the title, authors, paper type, abstract, and keywords in the form. The remaining fields (the document, additional material) are submitted by the full paper deadline. Please note that EuroVis accepted papers are published as a regular-length journal article, so submitting just an abstract is not sufficient. Submitters should choose keywords and categories appropriate for their paper as this information is used in reviewer selection. For more details please see the EuroVis 2022 website: http://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: November 24, 2021 (Wednesday!) Full paper deadline: December 2, 2021 Reviews available, rebuttal start: January 26, 2022 Rebuttal deadline: January 31, 2022 First Round Notification: February 18, 2022 Revised Submission: March 10, 2022 Final Notification: March 26, 2022 Camera Ready Version: April 19, 2022 All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. For any questions concerning full paper submissions please contact the full papers chairs: fullpapers(a)eurovis.org FULL PAPERS CHAIRS Rita Borgo, King’s College London, UK G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Austria

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Open PhD Position in Information Visualization / Visual Analytics at Linköping University, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

*** 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-2021-02831) is the visual analysis of large and complex, multivariate networks and/or text data. Research in this doctoral project will involve foundational visualization principles, techniques and visual analytics tools for analyzing heterogeneous network/text data coming from various data sources. 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 streams, and/or user 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?rmpage=job&rmjob=16881&rmlang=UK The application deadline is August 20, 2021. 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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Conferences: IEEE VR 2022 - 2nd Call for Journal Papers - Abstracts Due Sept 1!
by IEEE VR Publicity 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

IEEE VR is the premier conference for all things related to virtual reality user interfaces. https://ieeevr.org/2022/contribute/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> Call for Journal PapersImportant Dates - *September 1, 2021*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)* - *September 6, 2021*: Submissions due - *October 29, 2021*: Notification of first review cycle results - *December 3, 2021*: Revised paper submissions due to second review cycle - *January 7, 2022*: Final notifications - *January 22, 2022*: Camera-ready material due from authors of accepted papers Links - Both abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> - All VR Journal Papers submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG journal format described at https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> Overview IEEE VR 2022 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). Inquiries contact: journalpapers2022 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> Submission Guidelines Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> Each research paper should provide a validated contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technology, applications, and systems. - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - *Technology papers* should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - *System papers* should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions such as user studies, benchmarking, and/or comparisons with existing systems/techniques/methods. We appreciate that due to the COVID-19 situation, in-person user studies may not be possible to perform in the necessary timescale for submission. We encourage authors to think about other ways to validate their contribution, such as qualitative studies with fewer users, expert reviews, online studies, etc. We encourage potential authors to engage the ongoing community discussions around these topics as they are common to many of us. *Further Details Regarding Submissions.* We welcome paper submissions not exceeding 9 pages, excluding references. References may not exceed two additional pages. Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), all accepted paper submissions will automatically be published in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. To meet TVCG standards, papers recommended for inclusion to TVCG will undergo a two-stage review process (see SUBMISSION DEADLINES below). Authors of papers that are determined to be acceptable to the journal subject to minor revisions during the first review cycle will be invited to submit a revised version for a second review cycle. Only papers that are accepted in this second cycle will appear in the journal issue. Papers that fail to pass the second round of reviews may proceed through further revisions to appear in a future regular issue of TVCG. *Review Duties for Authors.* The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide expert feedback and engage with authors on their work. To expand the reviewing pool and promote quality reviews, one author will be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the time of submission. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the junior author during the review process. *Ethics and Responsibility.* All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by your institution, and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your affiliation, needs to be indicated via the submission system. *Conference Presentation.* All accepted papers must be orally presented at the conference. We are actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation to determine if the in-person IEEE VR experience will be safe as well as feasible due to international travel rules. We expect that travel restrictions will enable all authors to join us at the conference. In the case that the sanitary situation does not allow it, we will support authors to present their work remotely. There is also the possibility for authors of relevant previously published TVCG papers (accepted within the last year) to present their work at IEEE VR 2022. Interested authors should contact the program chairs for more details. *Abstract Submission.* Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded a week prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. Topics IEEE VR 2022 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D user interaction - 3DUI metaphors - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive / 360° video - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Scene description and management issues - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces - Tracking and sensing - User experience and usability Additional Submission Guidelines All paper submissions must be in English. Paper submissions must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A paper identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> . *IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process.* This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (*including citations and optional videos*) must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through carelessness. Authors that have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. *Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection.* *Videos.* Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. Submission Deadlines Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. A convenient tool to see when AoE is for your local time is setting your location at 1 and Baker Island (which uses AoE) for: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> *The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored.* - *September 1, 2021*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)* - *September 6, 2021*: Submissions due - *October 29, 2021*: Notification of first review cycle results - *December 3, 2021*: Revised paper submissions due to second review cycle - *January 7, 2022*: Final notifications - *January 22, 2022*: Camera-ready material due from authors of accepted papers Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> All VR Journal Papers submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG journal format described at https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/journal/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> Contacts Journal Papers Chairs: - Luciana Nedel (lead chair), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil - Jeanine Stefanucci (TVCG liason), University of Utah, USA - Ferran Argelaguet, Inria Rennes, France - Daisuke Iwai, Osaka University, Japan - Lili Wang, Beihang University, China journalpapers2022 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5…> [image: beacon]

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Poster Submission Deadline Extended -- VizSec 2021-- Aug 04, 2021
by Sanchari Das 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

*** Website https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ *** Poster Submission Deadline Extended. New Deadline: August 04, 2021 Event Date: October 27, 2021 We are cordially inviting you to participate in the poster session of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 2021. VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will take place on October 27, 2021, in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE VIS conference <http://ieeevis.org/>, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS. VizSec program will be presented in an online format with virtual presentations. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user-assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, penetration testing, and other related research topics. We are soliciting Poster Submissions. Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. In line with the full conference, the presentation of posters will take place online. There will be 1-2 dedicated poster sessions in which poster authors can virtually meet and discuss their work with conference participants. An additional web presence of posters will replace the traditional physical installation of poster boards. More concrete details will follow soon. Awards There will be an award for Best Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ Posters should be 2 page abstracts. Presenters are also encouraged to submit an accompanying video or other supplementary materials by following the IEEE VIS formatting guidelines. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. VizSec uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) <https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc> to handle the poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Aug 04, 2021 Submission deadline for posters Aug 16, 2021 Author notifications for poster submissions For more information please see: https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ Sincerely, VizSec 2021 Publicity Co-Chairs Sanchari Das, Noëlle Rakotondravony

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Special Issue of International Journal of Digital Libraries: multimedia, visualization
by Maria Zemankova 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

I would like to encourage you to consider contributing a paper to the "Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Epigraphy, and Paleography: Bringing Records from the Distant Past to the Present" (see attached) in the areas of Applications of computer vision, computer graphics, and information visualization tools for rendering inscribed artifacts In particular, contributions describing existing efforts and research issues in capturing and making accessible cultural heritage in Asia (near and far), Africa, Australia and South America would be most welcome. For additional information, please contact: Stephen M Griffin, Independent Scholar (prev. NSF, LoC, University of Pittsburgh), smg21601(a)gmail.com (Lead Guest Editor) or Maria Zemankova (prev. NSF, Program Director Intelligent Information Systems, retired) mzemanko(a)outlook.com

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1st CFP for TREX'21 IEEE VIS Workshop
by Nourani,Mahsan 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Dear Colleagues/Friends, I'm glad to announce the second-time TREX workshop on TRust and EXpertise in Visualization, that will take place at IEEE VIS 2021 (format TBD). Please help us spread the word! Following TREX'20, this year's workshop will focus on **human-centered aspects of visualization and visual analytics systems that are powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, including user trust, cognitive biases, domain expertise, transparency, and human-in-the-loop considerations**. For more information and updates, please follow us on Twitter @TrexInVIS (https://twitter.com/TrexInVIS) or visit our website: https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2021/. Below is the formal call-for-papers for TREX 2021: ------------------------------------------------- **IMPORTANT DATES** Submission Deadline: Jul 30, 2021 Author Notification: Sep 3, 2021 Camera-Ready Deadline: Sep 17, 2021 TREX 2021 Workshop: October 24 or 25, 2021 (Virtual or hybrid, depending on the IEEE VIS decision on conference format) **WORKSHOP GOALS** Visual analytics (VA) systems combine computational support and human cognitive and perceptual skills to explore and analyze data. Many of these systems have been incorporating machine learning (ML) models and algorithms to introduce some level of automation to the analytical process. However, within this relationship, there are a number of aspects that can impact the effectiveness of the human-machine teaming, including (1) people’s domain and system expertise, (2) human biases, including cognitive and perceptual biases, and (3) trust in ML models and visual representation of data. Expertise, bias, and trust are intrinsically intertwined. Additionally, visual analytics systems are used in different fields and by people from various backgrounds, with different levels of domain expertise and experience with machine learning and visual analytics tools. This variety of experience and domain expertise among human users has opened the door for new research directions and challenges in the fields of visual analytics and machine learning. Designers who fail to consider the aforementioned diversities might introduce problems to the analysis effectiveness and user experience. Furthermore, experience and domain expertise might affect user trust in visual analytics tools; although, how and why they affect trust is still an open question. Trust will eventually affect how much the users would rely on and use the tool. While users will take advantage of their prior experiences to make better decisions with the assistance of analytic support, they might carry many cognitive biases that can negatively influence their decision-making or analysis process. Recent research shows trust in and reliance on the visual analytics systems/tools as well as user strategies and biases can be directly influenced by domain and system expertise (or lack of expertise). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss and discover challenges in ML supported visual analytics tools and set the stage for future research **TOPICS OF INTEREST** 1. Trust considerations based on different areas of domain expertise (e.g., medical, security, scientific, financial domains) 2. Trust and bias considerations based on different levels of user familiarity with machine learning and visual analytics systems 3. Detecting and preventing cognitive biases in visual analytics and machine learning for users. 4. User trust in machine learning models and visual explanations of model decisions in visual analytics systems. 5. The correlation between trust, domain knowledge, and potential cognitive biases. 6. The relationship between domain expertise and trust with model transparency, human interpretability, and model understandability in visual data analysis. 7. The relationship between model interpretability, domain expertise, and trust. 8. Human-centered considerations in Human-in-the-loop visualization tools and interpretable models. **CONTRIBUTION TYPES** We are looking for and open to diverse forms of research (as listed below) within the realm of visualization and machine learning with appropriate emphasis and relation to human trust, expertise, and cognitive factors. We encourage submissions of research involving: 1. Human empirical research/findings 2. Design guidelines and surveys 3. Technique papers 4. Position papers 5. Case studies **SUBMISSION FORMAT** The workshop will accept papers with 2 to 6 pages in length, plus 2 pages of references. All submissions must be in IEEE VGTC Conference Style Template format (Download the templates here: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) We also encourage authors to submit a short 30-second video of their work (for publication purposes) when submitting their work, if applicable. Depending on the conference format this year (i.e., virtual or hybrid), the authors of the accepted papers might be required to submit a longer video (e.g., 5 to 10 minutes) to substitute a live presentation. In such an event, we will send further instructions closer to the workshop. The submissions are made through the PCS (Precision Conference Solutions) website. At least one author from each accepted paper needs to register for the conference (please refer to the IEEE VIS Website http://ieeevis.org/ for the registration requirements). The submissions are not required to be anonymized, and may include the full name of authors, their email, and affiliation as well as an acknowledgment. **PUBLICATION** The workshop accepts papers in two formats, as seen below. Upon submitting the papers, authors are asked to determine their desired paper format: 1. Archival Short paper publication through IEEE Xplore. This means that the papers can only be published in a proper journal as an extended version with at least 30% new content. This means each paper will be published and available through IEEE Xplore with an assigned DOI and are citable. While the papers published in this format can be extended to a journal publication (with 30% new content, subject to the rules of that journal), this content cannot be re-used for a future conference submission, such as IEEE VIS, EuroVis, and CHI. 1. Short paper statements or Work-in-progress notes, which will be non-archival. In other words, the authors maintain the copyright of their paper and are allowed to reuse their material in future publications. **ORGANIZERS** Mahsan Nourani -- University of Florida Eric Ragan -- University of Florida Emily Wall -- Emory University Alireza Karduni -- Northwestern University **CONTACT** For more information, you can email us at TrexInVis(a)gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @TrexInVIS, or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2021/index.html. Kind Regards, --- Mahsan Nourani, Graduate Research Assistant, INDIE Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida mahsan.page<https://mahsan.page/>

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BioVis@ISMB Social Event + Michel Westenberg Memorial Event
by Turkay, Cagatay 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, Everyone who is interested in biological visualization is cordially invited to join the virtual BioVis (http://biovis.net/2021/program_ismb/) Social Event today - Monday, July 26th @ 6 pm UTC (2 pm EST / 20:00 CEST) - in Zoom. As part of this event, we will host a Memorial Event for Michel Westenberg in a separate Zoom breakout room. Michel Westenberg (https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/29-04-2021-in-memoriam-…) passed away at a young age earlier this year. He was a core member of BioVis and an extremely valued colleague who will be dearly missed. The conference registration for BioVis@ISMB is not free this year, but the Social/Memorial Event is open to everyone. Please note that, although the program on the website says 6 pm - 8 pm UTC, the event will be open-ended, so just join us at your convenience. Since the goal of the event is to allow everyone to meet and take part in the discussions, there will be no program. Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93869254726?pwd=SzFVWFJYRUxPNFMzN3BIRXhkNFhiQT09 Meeting ID: 938 6925 4726 Passcode: 616752 Best regards, Cagatay Turkay & Michael Krone BioVis@ISMB2021 General Chairs

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🎉Second call for participation for the workshop on VisActivities🍻🧠📊💡
by Samuel Huron 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Dear All, ================================================================== *🎉 Call for participation🍻🧠📊💡*VisActivities - Visualisation Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing, part of IEEE VIS (Oct. 24/29, 2021, Virtual) https://visactivities.github.io ================================================================== Given this year’s special circumstances 😷 VisActivities is now opening a second call for participation. These submissions are: 📝- Workshop Papers: deadline 24 August - On PCS ⚽️- Activity Descriptions: deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 😂- Challenges: deadline:deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 More information on the individual calls below. *🔥Motivation:*Workshops, classes, or collaborations with domain experts often include hands-on data visualization activities that involve analog or digital tools and materials as well as more or less well-defined protocols. Recent years have seen the emergence of such data visualization activities in different contexts, including education, design, activism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. While many of these activities naturally take place in a group setting, due to the social distancing measures during the Covid-19 more and more of these activities are now happening online. The VisActivities workshop is a venue where researchers, practitioners, and educators from within and outside of the visualization community discuss goals, methods, audiences, materials and challenges they face when conducting and organising activities. It is also an opportunity where we can brainstorm, design and try novel activities collectively. (more detail on the website) *📝Workshop papers:* We invite a wide range of research papers. Contributions can include: visualization activities, online platforms for activities, learning material, learning goals, taxonomies, visualization guidelines, critical reflections on conducting visualization activities (teaching experience), evaluation strategies for activities, teaching approaches, ethical and critical considerations on activities and teaching. Reports on activities could include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many teaching activities, including a protocol and material of activities including results and reflections. Materials could include new teaching material that supports teaching in general and which is ready for application (slides, visualizations of schema/diagrams/design spaces, cheat sheets, teaching tools), or targeted to support specific activities (physical visualization, sketching templates, programming tutorials). We are particularly interested in ideas about evaluations for both activities and materials. *⚽️ Activity description:* In the 2nd VisActivities workshop, we want to give participants the opportunity to share their activities in the way they were meant to be disseminated: by running them. We therefore invite applications to run an online activity regarding visualization education, design, activism, interdisciplinary collaboration or beyond. Activities can include, for example, sketching aids for idea generation, toolkits for visualisation design, protocols with tangible tokens to help conceptualize quantities for data visualization; sketching exercises to help activists or other stakeholders better understand social issues etc. *Requirements*: The suggested activity must be adapted to online settings, could account for approximately 1 hour or less and expect a double digit number of participants. The suggested activities do not need to be polished: the workshop settings offer a great platform and audience from which to build upon. Upon request the workshop organisers can help with the facilitation. Submission form: https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 *😂 Challenges :* As part of the workshop program, we are collecting opinions and position statements on visualization education and teaching. We are especially looking to gather challenges and questions regarding experiences, methodologies, activities that educators face when teaching data visualisation concepts in light of Covid-19 but also more broadly. These challenges will be collected and organised into themes to help scaffold discussions during the workshop. Depending on participants’ interest these discussions could also form the basis for a shared viewpoint publication of what the community could be working towards. *Format:* 200 word text summarizing your positions about the main issues / challenges about teaching visualization. Submissions can choose to stay anonymous. Submission form: https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 ❤️ Enjoy your summer ❤️ ORGANIZERS Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh Georgia Panagiotidou, KU Leuven Mandy Keck, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University Sheelagh Carpendale, Simon Fraser University

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