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Election of 5 New Members of the VGTC Executive Committee
by Rosen, Paul 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

***Apologies for cross-posting*** To the VGTC Community: The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) is pleased to announce the election of 5 new officers to the executive committee. The VGTC serves a vital role in the Visualization and Virtual Reality community by providing leadership, support, and organization services across multiple conferences. We thank these new officers, as well as the other candidates we were not able to select, for their interest in volunteering. The new officers are: • Jian Chen, The Ohio State University Vice Chair for Conferences • Charles Hansen, University of Utah Chair of the Awards Committee for Visualization • Mar Gonzalez Franco, Microsoft Research Ethics and Diversity Chair • Ben Watson, North Carolina State University Online Communities Chair • Laura Truțoiu, Facebook Industrial Relations Chair The complete announcement, along with the bios of the new executive committee members can be found at: https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/tc-media/sites/49/2020/09/07233430/VGTC-N… For questions about the VGTC, please contact Jim Ahrens at chair(a)vgtc.org<mailto:chair@vgtc.org>. Sincerely, Paul Rosen, on behalf of the entire VGTC executive committee ==================================== Paul Rosen, Ph.D. Assistant 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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Participants needed for visualization recommendation performance study
by Zehua Zeng 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hi everyone, We are conducting a user study to evaluate the performance of different data visualization recommendation techniques. Participation in the study is completely remote. If you are interested, the full details are below. Sign up form: https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_3K7nFtrdXLeksst ** We need participants from both academia and industry. Industrial participants are more needed. We would deeply appreciate it if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in participating. Thank you so much! ** ----------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in learning about some of the latest advances in data analytics and data science? Are you excited about new opportunities to practice your data visualization skills? Would you like to make a direct contribution to state-of-the-art data science research? We would like to invite you to participate in a University of Maryland research study on data visualization tools. We need participants for an approximately 60-minute study session online. In this session, you will use a visualization tool to answer analysis questions about a provided dataset and will be asked to complete surveys regarding demographic information and your feedback on the analysis environment. You will receive a *$10 Amazon gift card* as a thank you for your participation. Your participation will contribute directly to supporting current and future data science research. Usage data during the session will be recorded automatically, anonymized, and shared publicly as a community resource. Personal demographic details and survey answers will be only shared as aggregated results. Interaction logs and interview answers will be shared after being anonymized. Note that any raw data from the user study will be kept confidential, and will not be shared. To participate in the study, you must be at least 18 years of age and meet these criteria: (1) normal vision or corrected to normal with glasses or contact lenses; (2) normal color vision, and (3) have at least basic visualization or data analysis experience, such as experience with one of the following tools (or similar tools): Excel, R, SAS, Numpy/Pandas, Tableau. Participation in the study is completely voluntary. Please complete the following sign-up form <https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_3K7nFtrdXLeksst> if you are interested in participating in this study. If you have any questions, please contact Zehua Zeng by email at *zzeng(a)cs.umd.edu <zzeng(a)cs.umd.edu>*. Note that we cannot ensure the confidentiality of any information sent by e-mail. Please also feel free to forward this invitation to any other eligible individuals you think might be interested in participating. Best, Zehua

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2nd CfP for IEEE AIVR 2020 (deadline extended to Sep 11, 2020)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

3rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality Dec 14-18, 2020, http://ieee-aivr.org ========================================= *Update* We hear you! Due to various requests because of school year start and COVID19, we extended the deadline for all tracks of the 2nd call (special sessions, posters, demos, industry papers) by 1 week to Sep 11, 2020, AoE. IEEE AIVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an international forum for the exchange between those fields to present advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and together define the future of these exciting research domains. We invite researchers from Virtual, as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on AI that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation * Content creation and modelling * Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour * AI technologies for VR/AR * Interactions / interactive and responsive environments * Applications and use cases * Ethical and societal aspects of AI and VR/AR DEADLINE (2nd call): Sep 11, 2020 (extended and final) * Special session papers * Industry papers * Posters & work-in-progress * Demo/video papers Note: Full paper deadline has passed, but special sessions are still accepting full papers till Sep 11. Deadlines for workshop papers are Sep 24, 2020: https://aivr.science.uu.nl/aivr_dates.html

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ACM ISS 2020 - International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction (CfP)
by Klen Čopič Pucihar 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

*ACM ISS 2020, Nov 8-11, 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (ALL VIRTUAL)* The 14th ACM conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) is taking place from November 8 to 11 in all virtual conference mode. As part of the conference we organize the first International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction. *Call for participation* You are invited to submit a position or work-in-progress paper (2-4 pages, single column) to the first international workshop on Cross-Reality (XR) Interaction that describes the usage and transition between different systems on the reality-virtuality continuum (e.g. from reality to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)) or concurrent usage of multiple systems on this continuum for collaborative purposes. We invite you to make submissions relating to the workshop topic or any of the following themes: * XR ceptual models and design principles * Interaction, transition, and visualization or perception techniques * Real-world tool use and tangibles as input to XR systems * Collaboration across the reality-virtuality continuum * Input and output devices * Use cases in, e.g., education, industry, transportation, sports, healthcare * Evaluation of XR experiences * Privacy and security in XR * Any other XR related topic *Deadline* for submission is October 2nd 2020: https://xr.famnit.upr.si/#dates We will do our best to accommodate participants in disparate time-zones. All papers will be juried by an expert committee who will select participants based on the relevance and quality of the work on the broad domain of XR interaction. The proceedings of the workshop will be published on the website and through online repository (e.g. HAL, arXive) indexed by Google scholar. Please refer to the worksop website for further details https://xr.famnit.upr.si/ or write to augusto.esteves(a)tecnico.ulisboa.pt or klen.copic(a)famnit.upr.si. *Organisers* Adalberto L. Simeoneis, Mohamed Khamisis, Augusto Estevesis, Florian Daiber, Matjaž Kljun, Klen Čopič Pucihar, Poika Isokoskiis, Jan Gugenheimer

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ACM IUI 2021: 2nd Call for papers
by Axel Soto 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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ACM ISS 2020 Doctoral Symposium CfP: ddl extended to September 4
by Ruolin Wang 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, ACM ISS 2020 Doctoral Symposium Call for Participants! *ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) <http://iss.acm.org/2020/>* is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 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. *The ISS Doctoral Symposium (ISS DS) <http://iss.acm.org/2020/authors/doctoral/>* provides Ph.D. students with the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers in an informal and interactive setting. Participants can expect the chance to present their dissertation research in a supportive environment and to receive constructive expert and peer feedback on their research topics and possible career paths in both academia and industry. The Symposium aims to support community building by connecting beginning and established researchers. The ideal time to apply to participate in the DS is when some progress has been made in Ph.D. research, and a path to completion is planned but could benefit from outside opinions and refinement. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: *Friday, 4 September 2020*, 23:59 AoE Author Notifications: Friday, 18 September 2020 Final Manuscript Submission: Friday, 9 October 2020 *Quick Links* Formatting instructions: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow Precision Conference Submission: https://new.precisionconference.com Doctoral Symposium papers will be published in the ISS conference companion proceeding and published in the ACM digital library. All research topics suitable for the ACM ISS Conference and associated workshops are appropriate for the DS. The DS chairs aim to achieve diversity among the student participants, including diversity across research groups and geographical areas. Refer to previous years’ proceedings for examples: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3280295 All Ph.D. students are welcome to apply regardless of whether they are presenting at the main conference or not. Each submission will be reviewed by the DS chairs to assess its suitability for the DS, as well as additional expert reviewers when necessary. Authors of accepted submissions will present their work in a dedicated session and registration will be free. *Submission* Every submission should include: an extended abstract - no more than six pages in pdf format according to ACM Master Article Submission Template, a poster design - A0 portrait format, also in PDF format, a still image and a 30-second preview video that will both be used to advertise the work before and during the conference. a short video (optional) of up to 5 minutes long and at most 100MB in size presenting the research displayed in the poster. You are encouraged to do so if this clarifies the work, as is often the case in ISS interfaces. PhD Students should submit an extended abstract that describes: the problem that the thesis aims to address; the broad approach and how it builds upon and goes beyond key relevant previous work; the work completed and the plan for the full dissertation work; open questions/issues for discussion and/or what you want to get out of participating in the symposium. Completed work may be presented as an overview or highlighting a particularly important part in depth. Submissions must include a poster design (A0 portrait format), also in PDF format. The doctoral symposium posters are intended for display along with the other conference posters, and so should follow the same guidelines as described here: ISS 2020 Posters. The optional video presenting the research displayed in the poster must be no longer than 5 minutes and must be less than 100 MB in size. Please make sure that your video is playable on standard PC and Macintosh computers. We recommend that you encode your video as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks in all submitted videos. Submissions (both extended abstract and poster) should not be anonymised for review. Submissions must be submitted using the PCS system by the deadline: Friday, 28 August 2020. More details will be provided in the following weeks regarding the organization during the conference and the adaptation that will be implemented due to the virtual format of this year’s ISS conference. Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs Andrés Lucero, Aalto University Teresa Romão, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Fernando Birra, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa doctoral2020(a)iss.acm.org Ruolin(Violynne) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/ Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/violynne

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ACM ISS 2020 Demo & Poster CfP: ddl extended to September 4
by Ruolin Wang 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, ACM ISS 2020 Demo & Poster Call for Participants! The submission deadline has been extended to Sept 4! *ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) <http://iss.acm.org/2020/>* is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 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. Our websites: Demo: http://iss.acm.org/2020/authors/demos/ Poster: http://iss.acm.org/2020/authors/posters/ Demo GENERAL INFORMATION The ISS demo session provides a great opportunity for authors to present their prototypes, products and applications to conference attendees. We will provide a virtual demonstration area in which you will be able to showcase your best interactive experiences and commercial products during the ISS 2020 conference. In spite of the COVID-19 situation, our goal is to provide a highly interactive forum for lively discussions and hands-on experiences around the most exciting interactive technologies and installations. QUICK FACTS Submission details: Online Submission: PCS Submission System Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) Submission format: Extended Abstract, maximum 6 pages including references. Video figure showing the demo in appropriate detail and describing what attendees will experience (maximum 5 minutes). Submissions are not anonymous and author names, affiliations, and contact information will be visible to the reviewing committee throughout the submission process. Virtual Demos ISS 2020 is going fully virtual because of COVID-19, resulting in modifications to the Call for Demos in previous years. Unlike in previous years, a video demonstration is required at time of submission a poster is not required as part of the submission. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Creative and innovative technologies and applications in interactive surfaces and spaces, including displays, input and sensing technologies, interaction techniques, shape-changing devices, computer vision applications, audio – speech interfaces, wearable devices, visualization techniques, interfaces for public spaces and more. Also demos from industry (i.e. commercial applications and products) are highly encouraged. What are the benefits? You will get the opportunity to perform an online demonstration of your exciting projects and ideas to experts from both academia and industry during the conference. Your submission will be published and indexed as an extended abstract in the ACM digital library. How will we evaluate? Demo submissions will be reviewed and selected by the demo chairs. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference. Abstracts of invited demos from the papers track will not be reviewed. We will focus on interactive and exciting demos. We want to showcase interactive technologies from all over the world and create a highly exciting event. We thus encourage resubmission of existing exciting demos. Demonstrating during a virtual conference? Accepted demos will be demonstrated remotely by the authors to a live audience. At least one author is expected to present the demo during the times of the conference demo session and to interact with conference attendees. The virtual format of the demo session expands the capabilities of demo demonstrations in previous years, giving authors the opportunity to even demonstrate large-scale installations that could not have been brought to a conference venue. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION Every submission should include: A submission document using the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column), maximum 6 pages including references. Submissions should not be anonymized. Accepted submissions will be published on the ACM digital library. A video of up to 5 minutes long and at most 100MB in size. 1. Document submission The document submission should not be longer than 6 pages long, and must include all figures and references, and must be using the ACM Master Article Submission Templates. The submission should include a description of the relevance of the work to the immediate ISS conference community, as well as to the broader ISS community, emphasising its novelty, uniqueness, and rationale. 2. Video A video must be submitted along the written document, as it is the optimal medium to communicate your demonstration to the reviewers how authors envision their demonstration to the live audience at the conference. The video must be no longer than 5 minutes must be less than 100 MB in size. Please make sure that your video is playable on standard PC and Macintosh computers. We recommend that you encode your video as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. Submitted videos may be used on the ISS website during and after the virtual conference. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks. SELECTION PROCESS Demo submissions will be reviewed by the ISS demos co-chairs for the suitability of ISS and this year’s virtual format. Due to the nature of this year’s conference format, submissions will be particularly evaluated on the quality of the accompanying video and the potential for remote demonstration. Review comments will be lightweight and justify the outcome. There will be no rebuttal phase. Novelty Resubmitting a demonstration shown at a previous venue is allowed. Authors are requested to mention that the work has been demonstrated at other venues in the PCS submission. UPON ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR DEMONSTRATION For each accepted demo, at least one author must register for the ISS 2020 conference. Authors will also be required to upload a still image as well as a 30 second preview video that will both be used to advertise the demonstration before and during the conference. More details will be provided in the following weeks regarding organisation during the conference and the adaptation that will be implemented due to the virtual format of this year’s ISS conference. Demonstration Co-Chairs If you have questions about Demos for ISS 2020, contact the Demo Chairs: Christian Holz, ETH Zurich Sylvain Malacria, Inria demos2020(a)iss.acm.org Poster Quick Links Formatting instructions: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow Precision Conference Submission: https://new.precisionconference.com General Information We invite submissions to the poster category of ISS 2020. The ISS 2020 poster program offers an engaging venue to present and discuss new and developing research. Posters provide the opportunity for researchers to get feedback on early-stage work and work-in-progress, to establish potential collaborations and to discuss the burning issues in ISS 2020 in an informal manner with the larger community during the interactive poster session. Work that is best suited for a poster submission includes - but is not limited to - preliminary results, thought-provoking and current topics, novel experiences and/or prototypes that have not been fully tested but show great promise, summaries of small-scale studies, design-led explorations of interactive tabletops, surfaces and spaces. A poster submission will allow you to: Introduce your poster online to an international audience. There will also be a Best Poster Award at the conference. Publish an extended abstract of the poster in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Publish an optional video of up to 5 minutes long in electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Preparing the Submission All submissions must include: An extended abstract with a maximum of 6 pages in the ACM Master Article Submission Template. A poster design - each poster will have a display space of approximately 48 inches wide x 48 inches high in A0 portrait format, so your poster may not be any larger than this size. A short video of up to 5 minutes long and at most 100MB in size presenting the research displayed in the poster (optional). 1. Document submission The submission document should not be longer than 6 pages. It must include all figures and references, and use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates. The submission should include a description of the relevance of the work to the immediate ISS conference community, as well as to the broader ISS community, emphasizing its novelty, uniqueness, and rationale. The extended abstract should include a concise description of the idea, the results or findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implications of the work to the selected domain. Full literature reviews are not expected, although relevant citations should be included. 2. Poster Design Your poster should be designed to effectively communicate your research problem, technique, and results. In particular, you should highlight what is novel and important about your work. The reviewers will provide feedback and guidance on your poster design, so it is in your best interest as an author to put effort into your poster design. However, note that only the extended abstract and video (if submitted) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. 3. Video A video presenting the research displayed in the poster may be submitted along with the written document. The video must be no longer than 5 minutes and must be less than 100 MB in size. Please make sure that your video is playable on standard PC and Macintosh computers. We recommend that you encode your video as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. Submitted videos may be used on the ISS website during and after the virtual conference. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks. Submissions should not be anonymized. Accepted submissions will be published in the ACM digital library. The reviewing of abstracts will be single-blind -- that is, your submission should *not* be anonymized but reviewers will remain anonymous to you. As there is a short time after notifications to the final camera-ready deadline, it is not possible to make large changes before the camera-ready deadline. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be accompanied by a signed copyright form which will be provided to accepted authors. All submissions conflicting with one or more guidelines will be removed before the reviewing process to assure that all posters can be reviewed and published on-time (desk-rejection). Your extended abstract, poster design, and optional video should be submitted by September 4, 2020, to the Precision Conference System. Selection Process Posters will be reviewed by the poster chairs with the help of members of the ISS 2020 Posters Committee. Upon acceptance of your poster Upon acceptance, ACM will send you a copyright form, which you have to complete. Once completed, we will provide you with the new copyright information to be put on your paper. You can then submit the final version (including the new copyright notice) through the Precision Conference System by October 9, 2020. For each accepted poster, at least one author must register for the ISS 2020 conference. The authors are expected to present the accepted posters at the conference throughout the poster session. Authors will also be required to upload a still image as well as a 30-second preview video that will both be used to advertise the demonstration before and during the conference. More details will be provided in the following weeks regarding the organization during the conference and the adaptation that will be implemented due to the virtual format of this year’s ISS conference. Posters Co-Chairs Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington Can Liu, City University of Hong Kong Alexandre Siqueira, University of Florida Ruolin(Violynne) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/ Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/violynne

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Call for Participation: GD Contest 2020 with Remote Live Challenge
by Philipp Kindermann 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Dear Colleagues, the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will be held online from September 16 to 18 due to the uncertainty regarding future travel and physical meeting restrictions caused by the Corona virus outbreak. Nevertheless, as has been tradition since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. The contest has two parts: the Live Challenge and the Creative Topics. 1) Live Challenge Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held the day before the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the number of crossings in a straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. This year, remote participation will be possible for both categories! The live challenge will take place on September 15, 2020, 09:00 PDT To solve the instances and submit your solutions, you are provided with a dedicated tool: https://graphdrawingcontest.appspot.com/tool.jsp For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/challenge.html 2) Creative Topics For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs that you may draw with full artistic freedom. 1. Hrafnkels Saga: This is an Icelandic saga which tells of struggles between chieftains and farmers in the east of Iceland in the 10th century. The provided Hrafnkel Saga Network models relationships between the actants of the saga. This graph consists of 43 vertices and 117 edges. 2. K-Pop: K-pop, short for Korean pop, is an umbrella term for popular music originating from South Korea. The provided K-pop network models relations between Korean artists, bands (groups), and management & recording companies (labels). This is a larger graph with 4675 vertices and 5094 edges. In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality. The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=gdc2020 For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/topics.html Submission deadline: September 08 (23:59 PDT) 3) Awards Due to the Corona crisis and the conference being hosted completely online, this year there will unfortunately not be any monetary prizes (except eternal fame on the contest website). We are looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, the Graph Drawing Contest Committee, Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, Wouter Meulemans, and Ignaz Rutter

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ACM IUI 2021 - Call for tutorial proposals
by Axel Soto 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

ACM IUI 2021 - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, Texas April 13-17, 2021 https://iui.acm.org/2021/ Tutorial co-chairs Osnat Mokryn, University of Haifa Vijay Drajanna, Sensel Emails: ossimo(a)gmail.com vijay.drajanna(a)gmail.com CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (emails above), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of tutorials, including but not limited to: - "Hands-on" or “project-centric” tutorials around a specific problem or topic. - Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc. Tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the tutorial chairs. We encourage you to consider virtual and semi-virtual options for the tutorial in the submission. The organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Tutorial organizers are also required to set up their own website with information about the tutorial and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to this website. PROPOSAL FORMAT Tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the LaTex sigconf template. The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. - Description of tutorial topic: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the tutorial is of particular interest. - Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Also please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the tutorial. -Tutorial format: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc. - Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial. - Length: Half-day or Full-day. Please submit your proposal via https://new.precisionconference.com/ selecting the IUI 2021 Tutorials track. IMPORTANT DATES Discuss your topic with the workshop and tutorials chairs: ASAP Proposals due: 23 October 2021 Reviews Sent: Monday, 30 November 2021 Revised Proposal Submissions: 20 December 2021 Notifications to authors: Tuesday, 14 January 2021 Camera-ready for Tutorial summary: February 10, 2021 Tutorials held: 13 April 2021

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IEEE AIVR workshop on Immersive Analytics (ImAna 2020)
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

IMMERSIVE ANALYTICS workshop (ImAna 2020) In conjunction with IEEE AIVR Dec 14-18, 2020, http://ieee-aivr.org ========================================= Immersive analytics (IA) is an interdisciplinary research field that uses VR/AR to create truly immersive and interactive representations of big data for a better analysis and understanding. In this Immersive Analytics workshop (ImAna), we want to explore the state of the art in IA, identify problems and major challenges, and look into recent improvements and promising ideas. We are inviting contributions in the form of scientific papers and video demonstrations in all domains related to immersive analytics. We are particulary interested in examples that show how AI and VR/AR can be brought together to create and improve IA. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * IA systems, system design, implementation, toolkits * IA applications, use cases, case studies, experiences * Innovative VR/AR usage for IA (ideally with potential for including AI techniques) * Innovative AI usage for IA (ideally with potential for integration into VR/AR systems) * IA interaction, authoring and creation of IA systems, collaboration * Human factors, multimodality, social aspects, evaluations * Theoretical frameworks, models, position statements, surveys For details about submission please refer to the workshop's website at https://aivr.science.uu.nl/ImAna2020/ IMPORTANT DATES: * Sep 24, 2020: submission deadline * Oct 16, 2020: author notification * Oct 30, 2020: camera ready and registration deadline The workshop will be integrated into the IEEE AIVR 2020 conference, which takes place online from Dec 14-18, 2020. Accepted submissions will be included into the conference proceedings and published in IEEE Xplore.

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