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DataVis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing
by Samuel Huron 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Dear All, Help us spread the news! We invite submissions for our second workshop on VisActivities-DataVis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing (Oct. 24/29, 2021, Virtual/New Orleans, LA, USA): https://visactivities.github.io 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, visualization design, activism, self-reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration: for example, sketching aids designers to consider alternative ideas; ,manipulating tokens help students conceptualize quantities for data visualization; user interviews and discussions help developers understand requirements manipulating data help activist better understand social issues, etc. While many of these activities would 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. Switching from co-located and synchronous activities to remote and sometimes asynchronous activities, changed the way we teach or design data visualization. This required teachers and designers to reinvent activities, adapt materials to be suitable for online delivery, reorganise procedures, replace physical tools with virtual, rethink collaboration and engagement, restructure or invent new activities. At the same time, moving activities online opens new possibilities to involve people across the world and in turn increase diversity and access. The goals of this workshop include: Building an understanding and to synthesize protocols and materials used to lead data vis activities (online and offline), to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators from within and outside of the visualization community, brainstorm, design, experience, and try novel activities, and to discuss issues around goals, methods, audiences, materials, and evaluation for teaching data visualization. And also exchanges about the best teaching moment of the year. SUBMISSION: All submissions are submitted using PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com The workshop accepts 2 types of submissions: Workshop paper, Lightning Talks * Workshop papers, refer to classical research papers with a scientific contribution in theory, reflection, application, evaluation, design, or implementation. Page length will be limited to 4 pages TVCG/VIS style. 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 should include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many teaching activities, including a protocol and material of activities including results and reflections. Materials should 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 encourage evaluations for both activities and materials. * Lightning Talks, refer to fast 2 minute presentations of anecdotes, experiences and best experience specifically regarding online vis activities. These can discuss best teaching moments, activity reports, materials, tools, set-up etc in a brief concise way (4-5 slides) with the possibility of including additional material on the workshop website. Submission page length will be limited to 1 page briefly outlining the experience (only the abstract and a picture are mandatory) with any additional material added as an appendix. Lightning talks could also be picked for the Ice breaker: Fast forward testimony of best (teaching) moment of the year. The goal of these (casual) talks is to inspire, exchange nuggets of knowledge, provoke, trigger conversation and have fun. Any submission will be peer-reviewed, providing constructive feedback for the camera-ready version. All submissions will be published on and linked from our website and authors of workshop papers can choose to publish their accepted submissions in the IEEE DL. TIMELINE: July 4, 2021: Submission Deadline July 25, 2021: Reviews Collected August 3, 2021: Author Notification August 17, 2021: Submission Camera Ready Deadline 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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Reminder: Submissions due June 15 for VisComm Workshop
by Arcia, Adriana 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

SHORT PAPERS AND VISUAL CASE STUDIES DUE 6/15 The 4th Visualization for Communication Workshop (VisComm 2021<http://viscomm.io/>) An IEEE Visualization<http://ieeevis.org> Workshop October 24 or 25 The VisComm workshop brings together practitioners and researchers from a broad range of disciplines to address questions raised by the new and evolving role of data and information visualization in our everyday lives. We encourage participation from journalists, designers, practitioners, health communicators and others who do not typically attend the IEEE Visualization<http://ieeevis.org> conference. VisComm seeks: * Short research papers and short position papers * Visual case studies * Late-breaking works in progress See viscomm.io<https://viscomm.io> for full submission guidelines. Papers and Visual Case Studies due: June 15, 2021 Late-breaking Works in Progress due: September 23, 2021 Organizers Barbara Millet<https://com.miami.edu/profile/barbara-millet/>, University of Miami (bmillet(a)miami.edu<mailto:bmillet@miami.edu>) Jonathan Schwabish<https://policyviz.com/>, Urban Institute (jschwabish(a)urban.org<mailto:jschwabish@urban.org>) Alvitta Ottley<https://engineering.wustl.edu/Profiles/Pages/Alvitta-Ottley.aspx>, Washington University in St. Louis (alvitta(a)wustl.edu<mailto:alvitta@wustl.edu>) Adriana Arcia<https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/profile/adriana-arcia-phd>, Columbia University (aa2594(a)columbia.edu<mailto:aa2594@columbia.edu>) @VisWkshp #VisComm2021 #VisComm #ieeevis #ieeevis2021

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Diagrams 2021: FINAL Call for Graduate Symposium
by Mikkel Willum Johansen 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Dear all This is the final call for the free graduate symposium hosted by the Diagrams 2021 conference. Deadline for submission to the graduate symposium is June 21. Please find more information in the call for papers attached below or on the conference webpage www.diagrams-conference.org/2021<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021> - and do pass on the information if you know students or recent graduates for whom it may be relevant. I hope to see you at the conference! Best, Mikkel Willum Johansen Publicity Chair Diagrams 2021 *** Call for Graduate Symposium: Diagrams 2021 *** 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams September 28 – 30, 2021 Virtual Event www.diagrams-conference.org/2021<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021> *** Highlights of Diagrams 2021 *** - FREE REGISTRATION - Graduate Symposium proceedings will be available online - Inspirational ECR Speaker: Francesco Bellucci, University of Bologna - Three Conference Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education - Conference proceedings published by Springer - Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards - Graduate Symposium submission deadline June 21, 2021. - Conference paper submission dates in April 2021. ***************************************************************** Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams and has a multidisciplinary emphasis. The goal of the Diagrams 2021 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. The Graduate Symposium will include an Inspirational Early Career Researcher Invited Talk<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/keynotes/>. The invitation to deliver this talk is reserved for an active Diagrams researcher, within approximately ten years of their PhD, who has demonstrable potential to be a major leadership force within the community. The Inspirational ECR talk will be open to the entire Diagrams delegation. ***************************************************************** Submission Requirements Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/main-track/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/philosophy/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagr…. Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing – their thesis topic, – the approach being taken, – the work that has been completed, – the expected contributions of the research – any necessary acknowledgements (for example, supervision team and source funding). The student should be the sole author of their submission and the supervisor names should be included in the acknowledgements section. The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format. 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. All presenters must accept that it is not within the power of the organisers to prevent delegates from recording talks. However, when registering, delegates will be asked to confirm that they will not record any part of the conference. More details can be found at http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/graduate-symposium/. ***************************************************************** Supervisor Support Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to Mohanad Alqadah, msqadah ‘@’ uqu.edu.sa. The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement. ________________________________ Mikkel Willum Johansen Associate professor Department of Science Education University of Copenhagen Tlf: (+45) 28 72 84 41

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CfP ACM ISS 2021 (Summer Round), DL: July 2nd, 2021
by Hans-Christian Jetter 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

ACM ISS 2021, http://iss.acm.org/2021/, has two separate reviewing rounds (winter and summer) with separate deadlines. The winter round for ISS 2021 has already passed. This is the call for the summer round of ISS 2021. ISS 2021 Papers Summer Round: Important Dates AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Submission due: July 2, 2021 Notifications to authors: August 13, 2021 Revisions due: September 13, 2021 Final decisions to authors: September 26, 2021 Camera-ready due: October 1, 2021 ISS 2021: November 14-17 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS) is the premier venue for research on the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond our traditional scope – i.e. interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. ISS 2021 will be a hybrid event: Accepted papers are invited to present at the conference, and authors can choose whether or not they wish to present. Because of the evolving situation with COVID-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, ACM ISS will allow remote participation. While we do not know what the exact format of the conference will be, we will ensure everyone can present their papers at ISS. Publication model: PACMHCI journal: Starting last year, ISS switched to a journal model of publication. This year, there will be two submission rounds: winter round and summer round, with separate deadlines. Papers published by the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci , accepted in both rounds will be invited for presentation at the ISS 2021 conference. The conference retains its workshop, poster, and demo tracks, which will have their own publication outlet. The call for workshops, posters, and demos will be included in the summer round. Submissions will be done through http://new.precisionconference.com<http://new.precisionconference.com/> Submissions: Submissions to PACMHCI ISS should present original and mature research work. High-quality, elaborated case studies and practice reports with generalizable findings will also be considered. Papers should be written using a template provided by PACMHCI, https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates . Submissions should be anonymized. Primarily, this means that submissions must remove all author and institutional information from the title and header area of the first page. Author information should also be removed from submitted supplementary materials, in particular, videos. Submissions that do not do so may be rejected without review. Furthermore, all references must remain intact. If you previously published a paper and your current submission builds on that work, the complete reference with the author's name must appear in the references. Authors must refer to their previous work in the third person (e.g., “We build on prior work by Smith et al. [X] but generalize their algorithm to new settings.”) and avoid blank references (e.g., “12. REMOVED FOR REVIEWING”). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper (for example, in an Acknowledgements section), while encouraged, is left to the authors’ discretion. Paper Length: We recommend a page length in the new format of between 5-15 pages + any additional pages for references. There are no length restrictions on papers, however, reviewers will put the length of any submitted paper in context of the provided contribution when making decisions about acceptance and revisions. Revisions: The associate editors will make decisions for any submitted papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejected. These notifications will then be sent to the authors. If the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will revise their paper within this round. After the revised paper is submitted, the final decisions will be sent to the authors a few weeks later. If the initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in the next round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that the same primary and secondary board members will be assigned to continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major revisions" will not submit their revision within the current round, to allow extra time for any significant new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is possible. This means that papers accepted in the winter or summer round will be able to present their paper at ISS of the same year. A paper submitted in the summer round that received a major revision decision will not be presented at ISS of the same year but might be presented at ISS of the next year if accepted in the following winter round. Topic Areas: The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to): • Large display interfaces and multi-display environments • Gesture-based interfaces (hands, finger, body) • Multimodal interfaces • Tangible user interfaces • Novel interaction techniques and paradigms • Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices • Different materials and form factors: curved, sand, water, ... • Interactive 3D spaces (Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, ...) • Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...) • Interactive architecture • Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related, ... • Interactive information visualization/data presentation • Software engineering methods and frameworks • Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces • Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction • Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities • Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces • Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs • Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) Petra Isenberg, Hans-Christian Jetter, and Morten Fjeld ACM ISS 2021 Paper Chairs

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Reminder : CFP VizSec 2021 - Submission Deadline- June 21, 2021
by Sanchari Das 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

*** Website https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ *** Submission Deadline: June 21, 2021 Event Date: October 27, 2021 We are cordially inviting you to participate in 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 Technical (Full), Short, and Position Papers. Technical Papers Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Machine learning & explainable AI for cybersecurity - Adversarial machine learning visualization - Adversarial visualization - Visual analytics for cybersecurity - Data protection & privacy - Blockchain performance & security - Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure - Collaborative visualization for cybersecurity & provenance - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security - Training & education Submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are also particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VizSec dataset links <https://vizsec.org/data/>. Previous VizSec papers may be found on the VizSec Papers Browser <https://vizsec.dbvis.de/> and on IEEE Xplore. Short Papers Short papers describing initial research results, concise research contributions or incremental work on the above topics, even including practical applications of security visualization, are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Position Papers Position papers focus on topics needing or calling for discussion or reconsideration of forgotten topics relevant for the VizSec community. They should report a clear position on the target topic and should also suggest a proposal or actions regarding the target topic. They should stimulate imaginative and hypothesis-driven research. In particular, we encourage submissions both from researchers inside the visualization community and outside, such as researchers and practitioners from pure cybersecurity domains who currently do not broadly employ visualization in their work. Posters 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 the best full paper from the accepted program. This award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality as determined by the program committee. Key elements of the selection process include whether papers include evaluation, repeatable results, and open-source data or software. Authors of the best paper will be invited for submission to Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. There will also 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 The VizSec 2021 Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ VizSec full papers are limited to 9 pages of content plus an additional 2 pages of references. Papers may be shorter than this but must make a similar contribution to a longer paper. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus 1 page of references. Position papers may be up to 4 total pages including references. 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. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. VizSec uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) <https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc> to handle their paper and poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. June 21, 2021 Submission deadline for full, short, and position papers July 19, 2021 Author notifications Aug 9, 2021 Camera-ready submissions and copyright forms due July 29, 2021 Submission deadline for posters Aug 9, 2021 Author notifications For more information please see: https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/ Sincerely, VizSec 2021 Publicity Co-Chairs Sanchari Das, Noëlle Rakotondravony

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Abstract deadline in a week (8 June 2021) - Workshop on Provenance and Visualization (ProvViz)
by Kai Xu 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Call For Participation: Workshop on Provenance and Visualization (ProvViz) 21 July 2021 (Part of the Provenance Week 2021 - fully online) https://iitdbgroup.github.io/ProvenanceWeek2021/provviz.html The aim of this workshop is to encourage exchange between the provenance and visualization communities. During the workshop, we will introduce the latest developments in provenance analysis from the visualization community, and try to address research challenges that are relevant for both communities. It is part of Provenance Week 2021, which is a fully online event. All Provenance Week 2021 participants are welcome to join. There is an option to submit a one-page abstract before the workshop if you would like to propose a topic or research question to be discussed at the workshop. - Abstract Submission deadline: June 8th, 2021 - Author Notification: June 22nd, 2021 The LNCS format is recommended and please select the "ProvViz" track (which will be set up soon) when submitting the abstract in EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pw2021) The workshop lasts half a day (morning of 21 July 2021), and will start with a keynote by Bill Howe (please see the information below). After that, participants will form groups to discuss a particular area or research question based on their shared interest. Finally, each group will report back their discussion results and collaboration plan after the workshop. Keynote from Bill Howe, University of Washington Bio: Bill Howe is Associate Professor in the Information School and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in data management, machine learning, and visualization, particularly as applied in the physical and social sciences. As Founding Associate Director of the UW eScience Institute, Dr. Howe played a leadership role in the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment program through a $32.8 million grant awarded jointly to UW, NYU, and UC Berkeley, and founded UW’s Data Science for Social Good Program. With support from the MacArthur Foundation, NSF, and Microsoft, Howe directs UW’s participation in the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative. He founded the UW Data Science Masters Degree, serving as its inaugural Program Chair, and created a first MOOC on data science that attracted over 200,000 students. His research has been featured in the Economist and Nature News, and he has authored award-winning papers in conferences across data management, machine learning, and visualization. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Portland State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech. Regards, Workshop Organizers Eli T. Brown (DePaul University) Marc Streit (Johannes Kepler University Linz) John Wenskovitch (Virginia Tech) Kai Xu (Middlesex University)

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PhD/PostDoc Position in Game Computing | Austria
by Günter Wallner 31 May '21

31 May '21

Dear all, I'm seeking a highly motivated PhD and PostDoc candidate who would like to join the new Game Computing Group of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz. We welcome applicants with research interests broadly related to the areas of games user research, games analytics, and gameplay visualization. The focus will be on developing novel solutions for furthering our understanding of players to inform game design and development. Candidates with a strong background in HCI-related research, data science, or information visualization are particularly encouraged to apply. Both positions are full time for 4 years (PhD) and 6 years (PostDoc). Knowledge of German language is not mandatory. The deadline for application is June 30, 2021. For more information about the positions please visit https://www.jku.at/en/the-jku/work-at-the-jku/job-openings/academic-personn… (Job Reference Number: 4486 and 4487). If you have any questions please contact me directly. All best, Guenter Wallner

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CFP: Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making - Making Sense of a Growing Digital World Minitrack ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 55)
by Ebert, David 30 May '21

30 May '21

Dear colleagues--- Please consider submitting a paper to the Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making - Making Sense of a Growing Digital World Minitrack ( Decision Analytics and Service Science Track, HICSS 55) by June 15, 2021. Please see author instructions at: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ and feel free to contact the co-chairs with any questions. Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making 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. Current applications include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, precision medicine, safety and security and business processes. Submissions are encouraged that extend the areas of use to new analytic tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, social sciences, and other domains. Particular emphasis will be given to submissions that use visual analytics for social change discovery, analysis and communication. 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. We encourage authors to address these themes from their own 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. Visual analytics and visualization in digital economies Visual analytics and visualization in “wicked” problems Visualization in organizational analytics Visual analytics/visualization for trustable, explainable AI Visual analytics for Human-guided, interactive AI Visualization and 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 Cognitive and social science aspects of visual decision-making environments We also welcome 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. 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 5 Partners Place 201 Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600 Norman, OK 73019 ebert(a)ou.edu<mailto:ebert@ou.edu>

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Nomination Reminder: IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards
by Chuck Hansen 18 May '21

18 May '21

Call for Nominations: IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards The IEEE VGTC announces a new awards program for the IEEE VGTC Visualization Awards. The IEEE VGTC Awards program recognizes and honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research and/or service. Furthermore, we seek out nominations of individuals that enable us to recognize both the diversity of individuals, as well as diversity of contributions, from the community at large. The awards program will now have five awards plus induction to the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy: VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award - The Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding academic research and development in the field. VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award - The VGTC Significant New Researcher Award recognizes an individual who has made significant recent research contributions in the field. VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award - The Technical Achievement Award is given each year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in the field. VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award - The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual to honor that person’s lifetime contribution to the field. VGTC Visualization Service Award - The IEEE VGTC Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the community through the IEEE VGTC and/or the IEEE VGTC Sponsored Conferences and Symposia. VGTC Visualization Academy Selection - The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy is a prestigious academy that highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the field. The criteria for these awards can be found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/award-criteria Nominations are due by May 31, 2021. Nominations, except Dissertation award, should contain the name of the person nominated, the awards for which they are nominated, the short citation for the award, and a summary that carefully addresses the criteria for the award while not exceeding 600 words. Dissertation Award nominations should include: (1) The title and abstract of the dissertation, (2) the name of the candidate, (3) the name of the candidate’s primary advisor, (4) the institution where the dissertation was defended, (5) the date of the dissertation defense, (6) A 1-2 page summary of the significance and impact of the dissertation research, (7) an electronic copy of the full dissertation, or a pointer to where it can be obtained, (8) one letter of recommendation, up to 2 pages in length, ideally from the candidate’s primary advisor, and (9) a list of publications, awards, and other recognition by peers produced from the dissertation work. To nominate someone for any of these awards or the academy, please visit: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/vis-award-nominations/ If you have any questions, please contact: Chair of the Awards Committee for Visualization Charles Hansen, University of Utah vgtc-vis-awards(a)vgtc.org

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CfP: 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 17 May '21

17 May '21

======================================================================== Call for Participation 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities 24th (or 25th) October, 2021 http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/ ======================================================================== We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 6th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, “VIS4DH”, under the theme of The Politics of Scale. This will be a full-day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2021. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2021 in two ways - you can submit to the Paper track (see below), or you can submit to the Provocations track, which will be published by end of May. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the humanities, social sciences and all branches of visualization. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and to intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. We are particularly interested in papers and provocations that bring different disciplines together. More information is available on http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/. _______________________________________________ # CfP - Paper Track This year, VIS4DH will revolve around the topic of “scale”. Visualization is often celebrated as a method to facilitate the exploration and interpretation of “big data”. But is scale a relevant yardstick to measure and characterize the challenges connected to humanities research questions? Scholars have warned about the development and focus on large-scale digital infrastructures within the humanities, suggesting that smaller datasets and lighter infrastructures could better support the needs of humanist researchers. Additionally, critical voices have pointed out the risk of reproducing assumptions about dominant cultures and groups while further marginalizing those who are less likely to be remembered. ‘Data humanism’ has been proposed to highlight the creative potential of “small data” in terms of personal impact. Choices of scale—in terms of data, tools, or teams—influence not only project outcomes but also research methods and processes. This year, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: - Large scale approaches have been said to easily ignore context, to fetishize size and inflate their technical and scientific capabilities, which they rarely deliver. How can we mitigate these issues and effects of scale for existing large scale data infrastructures? - What other motivating factors should be taken into account regardless of scale? Are “volume, velocity and variety” our defining challenges, or should we deliberately shift the problem characterization in humanities projects towards data scarcity, sparsity, polysemy, uncertainty, historicity, quality, and contextuality? - What goes unseen when we look at massive datasets and large trends? How can information visualization techniques assist in bridging small and large scale findings? - How can we envision small data, small processes, small impact for visualization in the humanities? - What trade-offs in visibility (and in-visibility) are made when we consider different scales in projects at the intersection of visualization and the humanities research? - How can research at the intersection of visualization and the humanities counteract the dangers of data colonialism and of excluding marginalized positions? We invite papers at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide both theoretical and applied perspectives around these and other questions. For our paper track we are seeking works from scholars in visualization, the humanities, social science, and the arts who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. # Submission format Submissions will take the form of short (4-6 page - excluding references) papers. Submissions are meant to describe and critically discuss works at the intersection of visualization and humanities research, including applied case studies and empirical results and/or theoretical perspectives. We welcome works that highlight the difficulties (and proposed solutions) of designing visualizations in the context of humanities research and/or applying concepts from humanities research to foster visualization research and design. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their paper at the workshop as a pre-recorded video plus online discussion. All presentations will be followed by a lively discussion with workshop participants. The archiving and publication options for VIS4DH 2021 are still under development and will be detailed soon. # Submitting a paper Paper submissions should be in PDF format following the two-column IEEE TVCG Conference Style Template (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) Papers should be submitted via PCS (https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc) Submission deadline will be *July 23, 2021 (5pm PST)*. Notifications will be sent on August 16, 2021. Deadline for submitting a video of the pre-recorded talk is on September 1, 2021. Submissions to the Paper Tracks will be optionally double-blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double-blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself. _______________________________________________ # Important Dates [Papers] Submission Deadline: 23 July, 2021 (5pm PST) Notification Deadline: 16 August, 2021 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2021

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