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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] BigVis: Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics Workshop, EDBT 2021, Cyprus
by Nikos Bikakis 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Due to numerous requests the submission deadline has been extended to **January 18, 2021** --------------------------------------------- Call for Papers BigVis 2021: 4th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2021 March 23, 2021, Nicosia, Cyprus Held in conjunction with the 24th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 24th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2021) 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 ************************************************* Machine Learning and Visualization ------------------------------------------------- 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] Special Issue ------------------------------------ Extended versions of the best papers of BigVis 2021 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) [pending final decision]. Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 18, 2021 **extended** Notification: January 29, 2021 Camera-ready: February 8, 2021 Workshop: March 23, 2021 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ 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 Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh, USA Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside, USA Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, University of York, Canada Silu Huang, Microsoft Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France Halldor Janetzko, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Switzerland Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Eser Kandogan, IBM Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Google James Klosowski, AT&T Research Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark Martin Nöllenburg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, NAVER LABS Europe, France Jaakko Peltonen, Aalto University & University of Tampere, Finland Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, Italy Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Rahman Sajjadur, Megagon Labs Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University, Denmark Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Kostas Stefanidis, University of Tampere, Finland Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete & FORTH-ICS, Greece Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden Chaoli Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Chen Wei, Zhejiang University, China Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University, China Jiazhi Xia, Central South University, China Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA -- _nikos bikakis

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IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) - Deadline extension
by Axel Soto 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates (submission deadline extended): Submission deadline: January 6, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/) The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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Permanent Lecturer/Reader (tenured) in Data Vis @ University of Edinburgh
by Benjamin Bach 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Permanent Lectureship/Readership (Assistant/Associate Prof) in Data Visualization at the VisHub group (http://visualinteractivedata.github.io) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh. Closing date: 12th January 2021 The position is embedded in an interdisciplinary environment at the University of Edinburgh, spanning the School of Informatics, the new Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) (https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ <https://efi.ed.ac.uk/>), the Centre for Design Informatics (https://www.designinformatics.org <https://www.designinformatics.org/>), and the VisHub / Visual+Interactive Data group (http://visualinteractivedata.github.io <http://visualinteractivedata.github.io/>). The position aims to build new cross-disciplinary bridges between these areas and shape a range of current efforts in data visualisation across the University of Edinburgh and beyond. The successful applicant will be expected to develop a portfolio of high quality externally-funded research, working collaboratively with colleagues across different disciplines and with a range of external partners (from communities, industry and government). They will be expected to publish high quality research regularly, and to undertake research that has societal impact, while contributing to the interdisciplinary research environment of EFI. The position will contribute substantially to the development and delivery of interdisciplinary visualisation courses within new MSc programmes in EFI and will offer supervision within the School of Informatics. The EFI programmes will be developed to an innovative model which includes on-campus and online delivery, interdisciplinary connections and a project-based design. The post holder will expand and build on an existing portfolio of teaching resources in the area of visualisation at the University. Teaching will start in the academic year 2021/22, with time and support before that dedicated to course design and development. Your skills and attributes for success: The successful candidate will - have a PhD, - a track record of high-quality research demonstrated through publication in top tier journals and conferences, - the enthusiasm and ability to undertake original cross-disciplinary research and - a commitment to high quality, creative teaching. We are looking for colleagues with energy, insight and enthusiasm who are committed to world-leading, interdisciplinary teaching and research. All applications must contain the following supporting documents: - A covering letter indicating how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for the post - A teaching statement, indicating your commitment to creative, innovative approaches - A five-year research and publication plan, including plans for attracting external research funding - Full CV (resume) and publication list Further details are at the application site: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… <https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1…> Deadline: 12th January, with interviews happening in March or April. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[CFP] Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics Workshop (BigVis2021), EDBT 2021, Cyprus
by NIkos Bikakis 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

Call for Papers BigVis 2021: 4th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2021 March 23, 2021, Nicosia, Cyprus Held in conjunction with the 24th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 24th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2021) 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 ************************************************* Machine Learning and Visualization ------------------------------------------------- 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] Special Issue ------------------------------------ Extended versions of the best papers of BigVis 2021 will be invited for submission in a special issue. [TBA] Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 8, 2021 Notification: January 29, 2021 Camera-ready: February 8, 2021 Workshop: March 23, 2021 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ 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 Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh, USA Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside, USA Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, University of York, Canada Silu Huang, Microsoft Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France Halldor Janetzko, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Switzerland Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Eser Kandogan, IBM Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Google James Klosowski, AT&T Research Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark Martin Nöllenburg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, NAVER LABS Europe, France Jaakko Peltonen, Aalto University & University of Tampere, Finland Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, Italy Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Rahman Sajjadur, Megagon Labs Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University, Denmark Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Kostas Stefanidis, University of Tampere, Finland Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete & FORTH-ICS, Greece Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden Chaoli Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Chen Wei, Zhejiang University, China Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University, China Jiazhi Xia, Central South University, China Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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CDVE2021 CFP: The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
by cdve .org 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

*CDVE2021 Call for papers* www.cdve.org, email: cdve2021(a)easychair.org To face the challenges of the pandemic COVID19, cooperative work via computer becomes a crucial technology to continue our daily life and work. CDVE2021 will continue to be a global meeting forum for the researchers and professionals working in cooperative design, visualization, engineering and any areas of cooperative work via computer. The CDVE2021 conference will be held during October 24-27, 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. You are invited to submit unpublished papers. The conference proceedings of CDVE2021 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. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special or normal issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. Please go to our conference web page the related topics, paper format and submission details. The submission page is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2021 . To see how to write a paper and how we evaluate the papers, please see https://www.cdve.org/evaluate.html *Abstract submission* (non-compulsory) - 2 pages Submission deadline: Feb 15, 2021. You will receive some feedback to help before your complete paper writing. *Full paper * Submission deadline: April 10, 2021. Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2021 Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors : June 20, 2021 *Short paper* Submission deadline: April 20, 2021. Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2021 Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors : June 20, 2021 *Poster Paper submission* Submission deadline : June 10, 2021 Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2021 Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors : July 31, 2021 *Contact* All questions about submissions should be emailed to cdve2021(a)easychair.org Please feel free to forward this call. You can also reply to this mail with a mail title: “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving further calls from CDVE2021.

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postdoc position at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (TU Wien)
by Miksch Silvia 12 Dec '20

12 Dec '20

We are looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated candidates to fill the following open postdoc position at the Research Unit Visual Analytics (TU Wien) (https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/orgs/e193-07) For details, please see the TU Wien Bulletin, issue 2020/52 (https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/blatt_struktur/anzeigen/10438#p510.3) (text in German, because being fluent in the German language both orally and in written form is mandatory). Closing date for applications: December 31, 2020 The position will be filled earliest as possible. The Vienna University of Technology aims for enhancing the number of women in scientific positions and therefore, particularly invites women to apply. Applicants are not entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expenses and/or other costs caused by the application procedures. Best regards, Silvia Miksch ================================================================ Silvia Miksch, Univ.-Prof. Ph.D. MSc. Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Faculty of Informatics Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 193-07 (188-1) A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe email: silvia.miksch(a)tuwien.ac.at url: https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/team/silvia-miksch =================================================================

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Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended)
by Axel Soto 12 Dec '20

12 Dec '20

Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended) --------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference series sponsored by ACM (SIGCHI and SIGAI) and has been held annually since 1993 as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. To involve the greater IUI community in conference organization and better plan for the conference, we request proposals for hosting and organizing IUI two years ahead of time. We regularly rotate the conference locations to engage with IUI research communities around the globe. Below shows the location and time of the three most recently scheduled IUI conferences: IUI 2020 Cagliari, Italy March 17-20 IUI 2021 College Station, Texas April 13-17 IUI 2022 Helsinki, Finland March 22-26 Why host IUI? There are several benefits of hosting and organizing an IUI conference. First, conference hosts/organizers have an opportunity to publicize their work, build relationships, and interact with the international IUI community. Second, this is a great opportunity for the organizers/hosts to introduce their students and colleagues to the IUI community and help grow the community as a whole. Third, hosts/organizers can use the opportunity to build local IUI communities, connecting representatives from both academia and industries. Bid Requirements All proposals must be written in English with a readable font not smaller than 12 point and margins not less than one inch on all sides. The proposal should address each aspect outlined below but not exceed 15000 characters (approx. 5-6 pages). Based on the merits of the proposals and factors such as ensuring a diversity of conference locations, the board will choose the top candidates and then a finalist will be chosen and announced at IUI 2021. Please note that the bid requirements have been modified from previous years. Please read the requirements below carefully before writing up your bid. Hosts/Organizers The conference hosts/organizers should have knowledge of the IUI community, such as having attended and published regularly at IUI, and have experience with conference organization. One of the main IUI goals is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. For that reason, the bid proposal must suggest ONLY the conference general chairs. The IUI steering committee will work with the selected bid proposers on building the conference organizing team. We especially encourage that the key conference organizers consist of people from both industry and academia, representing both AI and HCI since the work presented at IUI is at the intersection of these disciplines. Please include short bios of the proposed conference general chair(s). Location Since IUI is an international forum, we expect that attendees will travel from different parts of the world to the conference location. It is important that the proposed location is conveniently located for all attendees to reach by available means of transportation. Time IUI conferences have been held at various times during late winter through early spring, most typically in March though earlier times will be considered. Your bid should include a proposed time with key dates (e.g., paper submission and notification). The choice of time should also take into account the weather conditions of the proposed location to avoid potential weather-caused travel delays and potential conflicts with other conferences and their submission deadlines. Virtual Attendance and the Impact of COVID-19 We hope that by the time of the 2023 conference that it will be possible to hold a physical conference similar to those held before 2020. Organizers should still prepare for decreased attendance and to offer virtual participation options for those who may not yet be comfortable traveling long distances. Conference Venue Please describe the proposed conference venue, including the following aspects: * Capacity. In recent years, IUI has typically had around 250 attendees, though IUI 2018 had a record high of over 350 participants and IUI 2019 had a similar number. No conference has been held since COVID, however current ACM recommendations are to anticipate a 30-40% decrease in attendance in the near term. IUI has typically taken place over four days, the first of which consists of workshops and tutorials hosted in parallel separate rooms (10-20 people). To encourage interaction among the attendees, during the main conference, it is also desirable to have additional space at the venue to put up IUI posters for the attendees to visit during coffee breaks. * Facilities. The venue should provide basic conference facilities, such as high speed internet access that can support the participants in parallel effectively and LCD projectors. * Location. The venue should be centrally located for attendees to reach quickly by ground transportation and have access to other amenities (e.g., restaurants). * Accessibility. The venue should be accessible to attendees with disabilities. * Reception and poster session dinner. Traditionally, IUI opens with a welcome reception on the night before the 1st day of the conference. The first night of the conference features a dinner reception with the poster and demo session. The location(s) of the receptions are not required to be co-located with the venue, however the location criterion above should still be used to minimize the travel for the attendees. * Social event. Traditionally, IUI has a social event + dinner on the second day of the main conference * Special events. Traditionally, during the conference the “test of time” paper award is given to the most influential IUI paper, which is accompanied by a plenary talk session for its authors. TiiS papers published in the last year are also integrated into the technical program, there is a “town hall meeting” where IUI community issues are discussed, and there is IUI steering committee lunch with current and upcoming conference and program chairs. These events need to be considered while planning the conference Accommodation Most attendees will need accommodation during the conference period. One of the responsibilities of the conference hosts/organizers is to locate and reserve a bulk of affordable lodging for attendees. Please describe the proposed accommodation options, including the price range of the hotel rooms and the distance to the main venue. Provisionary Budget Plan The proposal should also include a provisional budget, outlining the cost of major items, including the rental of the conference venue, cost/per person for the reception and banquet, and the estimated conference registration fee. Please consider including meals for participants in the budget, especially if there are limited food options near the conference venue. Important Dates Jan 29, 2021 (Extended): Bids are due. Please submit your bid to steering-chair(a)iui.acm.org Feb 26, 2021 (Extended): Notifications are sent to all submissions. For further information, please contact: jeff(a)jeffreynichols.com

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NASA Call for Interns
by Davidoff, Scott (US 397F) 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

COME USE VISUALIZATION TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE https://datavis.caltech.edu Create new ways to analyze planetary scale science data with the NASA JPL / Caltech / Art Center Data-to-Discovery summer visualization internship, a multi-disciplinary program for computer scientists and designers. Students will develop creative, interactive visual analytic tools to support scientific research and engineering groups at JPL and Caltech. Multi-disciplinary student teams will merge methods from Human-Centered Design with computing, 3D graphics and user interfaces, to visualize real-world physical science data sets. Students will partner with active research projects to learn how they conduct research, and iteratively create and test tools to innovate their methods. Program mentors create a collaborative studio bridging multiple projects that all students contribute to. The program offers experience crossing disciplinary boundaries, while solving hard, real-world problems with visualization. Projects have delivered prototype tools that have gone on to be used to drive rovers and look for alien life on Mars, and made contributions to top-tier academic research conferences. QUESTIONS? Join the info session, Monday December 14th, 3-4 PM-EST, 12-1 PM-PST, https://bit.ly/datavis21-info-session<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/bit.ly/datavis21-info-session__;!!PvBDto6…> DATES | June 14 - August 20, 2021 (to be confirmed) LOCATION | Online SALARY | $7.3K for undergraduates, $9K for graduate students APPLY | https://bit.ly/datavis21-interns DEADLINE | Accepting applications now, until positions are filled PROJECTS | https://datavis.caltech.edu ELIGIBILITY 1. Open to continuing students in Fall 2021 2. US citizens or permanent residents (for NASA data), working from US 3. GPA must be >= 3.0 at application time Scott Davidoff, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Maggie Hendrie, Art Center Santiago Lombeyda, Caltech Hillary Mushkin, Caltech

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CfP: EuroVis 2021 - Full Papers
by Borgo, Rita 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

EuroVis 2021 Call for Papers With this call for papers, we invite submission of high-quality papers that will set the standard astimulate 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 2021 (https://www.eurovis.org/) will be held in Zürich, Switzerland on June 14-16, 2021. 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 lengths 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/eurovis21a 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 2021 website: https://www.eurovis.org/index.php/for-submitters/full-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: November 25, 2020 (Wednesday!) Full paper deadline: December 4, 2020 Reviews available, rebuttal start: January 27, 2021 Rebuttal deadline: February 1, 2021 First Round Notification: February 19, 2021 Revised Submission: March 10, 2021 Final Notification: March 26, 2021 Camera Ready Version: April 19, 2021 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 Tatiana von Landesberger, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Germany

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ETRA 2021: CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
by Soha Rostaminia 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Since ETRA'16 tutorials are part of ETRA conference being an important platform for the up-to-day knowledge sharing within the eye tracking community. The tutorials are meant to be a platform for sharing in-depth information on eye tracking methodology, data analyses, visualizations, and applications in different fields. ETRA'21 will include a number of half-day and full-day tutorials, where experts in the field cover a topic related to eye tracking or eye movement research within the general theme of the conference "Bridging the Communities". All tutorials as the whole ETRA’21 conference are going to be online only. We encourage all experienced eye tracking researchers to submit the tutorial propositions which are going to be of high importance for the field. The submission should include the A) extended abstract (up to 350 words), B) tutorial scope (up to 100 words), C) tutorial audience (up to 100 words), D) bio sketch of the teacher(s) (up to 100 words). Indicate also, which conferencing and communication technologies you plan to use for various activities. The deadline for the submission is March 28, 2021. Submissions can be made through the submission form https://forms.gle/iLR5WWEn2vkcSH8J9 <https://forms.gle/iLR5WWEn2vkcSH8J9> For questions, please email Krzysztof Krejtz (kkrejtz(a)swps.edu.pl <mailto:kkrejtz@swps.edu.pl>) or Roman Bednarik (roman.bednarik(a)uef.fi <mailto:roman.bednarik@uef.fi>) ETRA 2021 Tutorial Chairs. Kindest Regards, ETRA 2021 publicity chair, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soha Rostaminia (people.cs.umass.edu/~srostaminia/ <http://people.cs.umass.edu/~srostaminia/>) College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst

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