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Call for Poster: ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2020
by Isaac Cho 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Apologies for cross-posting. ACM Spatial User Interaction 2020: Call for Poster Submissions We invite you to showcase your demo at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2020, https://sui.acm.org/2020/) which will be held virtually from 31 October to 1 November 2020. Posters offer you the opportunity of engaging the audience of the Symposium at a personal level, elicit feedback on early stage work, and discuss potential collaborations in an informal manner. You will also be able to publicize your poster during the fast-forward session at the Symposium. We seek posters describing work in progress, novel ideas or systems, or late breaking results and application implementations from all areas of spatial user interaction. You can submit both a paper and a poster on the same topic, and some authors of otherwise rejected papers will be invited to present their work as a poster. Extra information such as videos may also be submitted. These will be taken into account during the review process and may be included in the final publication. This year, SUI will be co-located with the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2020) and CHI PLAY 2020. Topics of interest include: - Spatial interaction techniques - Spatial user interface metaphors - Spatial input devices and technology - Interaction on spatial, stereoscopic, and 3D displays - Evaluation methods for spatial user interaction - Collaborative interaction in 3D space - Design and user experience (UX) for spatial user interaction - Applications of human spatial perception to interaction - Adaptive and perceptual-inspired spatial user interaction - Applications of spatial UIs, such as games, entertainment, CAD, education - Gesture-based spatial interaction - Tangible spatial user interaction - Multi-touch technologies for spatial user interaction - Desktop interfaces for spatial interaction - Multisensory and other novel forms of spatial user interaction Important Dates - Submission Deadline: August 7, 2020, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) - Author Notification: August 28, 2020 - Camera Ready Deadline: September 4, 2020 Submission Instructions * Unlike paper submissions, poster submissions are not anonymous. Be sure to include the names and affiliations of all authors. Posters extended abstracts should be prepared as a two-page manuscript in the ACM SIG Proceedings format<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>. Please submit your extended abstract in camera-ready format and include an initial poster draft. For the LaTeX version, the correct template to use is sigconf. The poster abstracts will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * Submissions are expected to address topics within the scope of SUI, i.e., one or more of the topics listed in the Call for Papers page<https://sui.acm.org/2020/papers>. Unlisted but strongly related topics are also welcome. * At least one author of each accepted poster will be required to register to present at the symposium. The author is also required to be available during the poster viewing session. * SUI 2020 uses the new version of the Precision Conference System<https://new.precisionconference.com/sui20a/>. Supplementary videos are encouraged, but not required. * In addition to on-site presentation of posters, authors will be expected to submit a hi-res PNG of their actual posters before the event, in time for the organizers to incorporate them into a VR viewing platform that will be publicly accessible through this web site. Authors will be encouraged to provide videos or other content for incorporation into the VR viewer. For further information and questions please contact the Poster, Deme and Interaction Chairs: poster(a)sui.acm.org Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida, USA Isaac Cho, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Tham Piumsomboon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Isaac Cho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science The North Carolina A & T State University 1601 E Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411 Tel: 336-285-3700 | Office: 502 McNair Hall ------- NOTICE: This e-mail correspondence is subject to Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. --------

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Call For Demo: ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2020
by Isaac Cho 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Apologies for cross-posting. ACM Spatial User Interaction 2020: Call for Demo Submissions We invite you to showcase your demo at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2020, https://sui.acm.org/2020/) which will be held virtually from 31 October to 1 November 2020. Demos offer you the opportunity of engaging the audience of the Symposium at a personal level, elicit feedback on your work, and discuss potential collaborations in an informal manner. We seek exciting research demonstrations, interactive experiences or commercial products from individuals, laboratories or research groups (academic, government, or industrial) from all areas of spatial user interaction. We are also open to artists who are focusing on the intersection between artistic expression and the technological mediums enabling spatial interaction. You can submit both a paper and a demo on the same topic, and some authors of otherwise rejected papers will be invited to present their work as a demo. Extra information such as supplementary videos may also be submitted. These will be taken into account during the review process and may be included in the final publication. Topics of interest include: - Spatial interaction techniques - Spatial user interface metaphors - Spatial input devices and technology - Interaction on spatial, stereoscopic, and 3D displays - Evaluation methods for spatial user interaction - Collaborative interaction in 3D space - Design and user experience (UX) for spatial user interaction - Applications of human spatial perception to interaction - Adaptive and perceptual-inspired spatial user interaction - Applications of spatial UIs, such as games, entertainment, CAD, education - Gesture-based spatial interaction - Tangible spatial user interaction - Multi-touch technologies for spatial user interaction - Desktop interfaces for spatial interaction - Multisensory and other novel forms of spatial user interaction Important Dates - Submission Deadline: August 14, 2020, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) - Author Notification: August 28, 2020 - Camera Ready Deadline: September 4, 2020 Submission Instructions * Demo proposals should be prepared as a two-page abstract in the ACM SIG Proceedings format<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html> and submitted as PDF in camera-ready format. For the LaTeX version, the correct template to use is sigconf. The demo abstracts will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * Also, a mandatory explanatory video of the demo should be included in the original submission. The submission should include information about the overall architecture of the system, installation, exhibit or performance, interaction with the audience, foreseen benefits to audience members, as well as its relevance and impact on the SUI community, emphasizing on the novelty and rationale. In addition, a short paragraph with a description of the research lab or creators is strongly encouraged. * Unlike paper submissions, demo submissions are NOT anonymous and should include full names and affiliations of the authors. * Supplementary materials should include a schematic of the layout (showing components such as projectors/cameras) of the demo and a picture showing the demo in action, particularly for presenting the demo physically at the symposium. Demos should be presentable in a form of video presentation or online live demonstration during the symposium. * The authors of the accepted demos must provide a 30-sec brief video of the demo in action, including audio descriptions, for the final camera-ready version. The video should demonstrate how users will interact with the demo as well as any other relevant information about the demo. This video will be used as part of a teaser to publicize the demos in a fast forward type video presentation on the website and to the symposium. * Submissions should be made through the online submission system: Precision Conference System<https://new.precisionconference.com/sui20a/>. * At least one author of each accepted demo will be required to register to present at the symposium. The author is also required to be available during the demo session. For further information and questions please contact the Poster, Deme and Interaction Chairs: poster(a)sui.acm.org Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida, USA Isaac Cho, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Tham Piumsomboon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Isaac Cho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science The North Carolina A & T State University 1601 E Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411 Tel: 336-285-3700 | Office: 502 McNair Hall ------- NOTICE: This e-mail correspondence is subject to Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. --------

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[Call-for-Papers] IEEE VIS 2020 Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics, Oct 25/26 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah
by Nourani,Mahsan 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

We invite submissions for our IEEE Vis<http://ieeevis.org/year/2020/welcome> 2020 workshop: "TREX: Workshop on TRust and EXperience in Visual Analytics" that takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25/26th, 2020. For more information, please refer to the workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Please help us spread the news by forwarding this call-for-papers to those who will find it interesting and/or relevant. ------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Submission Deadline: July 20, 2020 Author Notification: August 12, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: August 21, 2020 Workshop Goals Visual analytics (VA) systems combine computational support and human cognitive and perceptual skills to explore and analyze data. Many of these systems have been incorporating machine learning (ML) models and algorithms to introduce some level of automation to the analytical process. However, within this relationship, there are a number of aspects that can impact the effectiveness of the human-machine teaming, including 1) people's domain and system expertise; 2) human biases, including cognitive and perceptual biases; 3) trust in ML models and visual representation of data. Expertise, bias, and trust are intrinsically intertwined. Additionally, visual analytics systems are used in different fields and by people from various backgrounds, with different levels of domain expertise and experience with machine learning and visual analytics tools. This variety of experience and domain expertise among human users has opened the door for new research directions and challenges in the fields of visual analytics and machine learning. Designers who fail to consider the aforementioned diversities might introduce problems to the analysis effectiveness and user experience. Furthermore, experience and domain expertise might affect user trust in visual analytics tools; although, how and why they affect trust is still an open question. Trust will eventually affect how much the users would rely on and use the tool. While users will take advantage of their prior experiences to make better decisions with the assistance of analytic support, they might carry many cognitive biases that can negatively influence their decision-making or analysis process. Recent research shows trust in and reliance on the visual analytics systems/tools as well as user strategies and biases can be directly influenced by domain and system expertise (or lack of expertise). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to discuss and discover challenges in ML supported visual analytics tools and set the stage for future research directions and collaborations regarding these issues by proposing design guidelines, empirical findings, and VA techniques. Topics of Interest The workshop suggested topics are as followed: 1. Trust considerations based on different areas of domain expertise (e.g., medical, security, scientific, financial domains). 2. Trust and bias considerations based on different levels of user familiarity with machine learning and visual analytics systems. 3. Detecting and preventing cognitive biases in visual analytics and machine learning for users. 4. User trust in machine learning models and visual explanations of model decisions in visual analytics systems. 5. The correlation between trust, domain knowledge, and potential cognitive biases. 6. The relationship between domain expertise and trust with model transparency, human interpretability, and model understandability in visual data analysis. 7. The relationship between model interpretability, domain expertise, and trust. Contribution Types We are looking for and open to diverse forms of research (as listed below) within the realm of VA and ML with appropriate emphasis and relation to human trust, expertise, and cognitive factors. We encourage submissions of research involving: 1. Human empirical research/findings 2. Design guidelines and surveys 3. Technique papers 4. Position papers 5. Case studies Submission Format The workshop will accept papers with 2 to 6 pages in length, plus 1 page of references. All submissions must be in the IEEE VGTC Conference Style Template format. (You can download the appropriate templates here<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html>.) We also encourage authors to submit a short 30-second video of their work when submitting their work, if applicable. For the camera-ready deadline, all the poster submissions must prepare a 30-second video for the poster fast-forward session. These videos might have audio for archival purposes, but the authors will only use the video as a visual tool while presenting their fast-forward in the workshop. The submissions are made through the PCS (Precision Conference Solutions<https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision…>) website. At least one author for an accepted paper needs to register for the conference (at least the workshop registration). The submissions are not required to be anonymized and may include the full name of authors, their email, and affiliation as well as an acknowledgment. Workshop Organizers Mahsan Nourani, University of Florida (https://mahsan.online<https://mahsan.online/>) Eric Ragan, University of Florida (https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~eragan/) Emily Wall, Georgia Tech (https://emilywall.github.io/) John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Lab (https://jgoodall.me/) Aritra Dasgupta, New Jersey Institue of Technology (https://aedeegee.github.io/) Kris Cook, Pacific North National Lab (https://www.pnnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=8639) Contact For more information, you can email us at TrexInVis(a)gmail.com<mailto:trexinvis@gmail.com> or visit our workshop website https://trexvis.github.io/Workshop2020/index.html. Best Regards, Mahsan --- Mahsan Nourani, Graduate Research Assistant, INDIE Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida

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Job posting: Assistant Director of Visual Communication (Rice University)
by Jennifer Wilson 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

The Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University (Houston, TX) is hiring a specialist in visual communication. The description and link to apply are below. All inquiries should be directed to Kyung-Hee Bae, the director of the CAPC, at kbae(a)rice.edu. *Assistant Director in Visual Communication *of the Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University (Application deadline: July 27, 2020) The Center for Academic and Professional Communication (CAPC) at Rice University invites applications for the position of the Assistant Director in Visual Communication of the CAPC. The Center for Academic and Professional Communication (CAPC) is a multimodal communication center that provides resources and support tailored for students and faculty across the campus. Link to read the full job description and to apply online: *http://jobs.rice.edu/postings/23924* Position summary: The responsibilities of the assistant director of visual communication in the CAPC include developing workshops and other resources for faculty and students, consulting with faculty and students (especially those in STEM fields) on visual projects, organizing a biennial symposium on visual and multimodal communication, helping the CAPC and the Program in Writing and Communication with in-house visual projects, and helping to assess the CAPC’s visual communication efforts. The assistant director also may teach one credit-bearing course on visual and multimodal communication per year. The application deadline is *July 27, 2020*. Education required: Master’s degree Education preferred: PhD degree Experience preferred: Related experience in the following areas: * Employment or attendance at a Tier 1 research university * Experience working with STEM researchers * Experience developing programs in visual and multimodal communication * Experience creating training/teaching materials for different academic audiences * Experience visualizing research and designing figures * Experience with event planning Skills required: * Proficiency in the use of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) * Excellent written and communications skills and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with diverse audiences * Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively with program staff, faculty and course teams and external contractors * Ability to work on multiple projects * Ideally, the candidate will have a working knowledge of Python or R. -- Jennifer Shade Wilson, Ph.D. Director, Program in Writing and Communication Senior Lecturer Rice University 200D Fondren Library 713-348-4924

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VizSec 2020 Final Deadline Extension
by Nicolas Prigent 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submissions to VizSec 2020 has been extended to the 22nd of July 2020. More information can be found online : https://vizsec.org/vizsec2020/#cfp

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VIS4DH Deadline Extension: 31 July 2020
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Dear Colleagues, In order to accommodate authors during what has been a difficult year, the deadline for the VIS4DH Workshop paper submission has been moved to the 31st July 2020. As the IEEE VIS conference will be held online this year, our VIS4DH Workshop will be online, too. Find submission information on http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

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Understanding how PhD candidates in visualization research handle failures
by shivam agarwal 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hi all, We hope you all are doing great. Facing paper rejections is not a pleasant experience. While there are many resources on how to do visualization research, we lack discourse on handling these rejections. Aiming to address this, we are working on a research project to understand how PhD students in visualization research handle failures in the form of paper rejections. We have created a questionnaire that is accessible via the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSrL00g5u0VjDBlhxPps7xqcRpkbRNch8… If you are/were pursuing a PhD in visualization research, it is our humble request to please participate in the above questionnaire. In case you supervise PhD students in the field of visualization research, kindly forward the message to your students. Participation is anonymous, and we do not ask for any personal information. Thank you for your time and effort in advance. Thanks and regards, Shivam Agarwal / Shahid Latif shivam.agarwal(a)paluno.uni-due.de shahid.latif(a)paluno.uni-due.de University of Duisburg-Essen

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[Job - Offer] King’s College London - Research Assistant Post - Deadline July 27, 2020
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

We have a two year research position available to support research concerned human factors in Explainable AI. The post is part of an innovative EPSRC/UKRI funded project THuMP: Trust in Human-Machine Partnerships. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting research around the interfaces to support explainability in the context of decision making in human-machine partnerships. Tasks will involve: building an interaction infrastructure for the project; developing a prototype interface for communicating with users; designing new visual layouts for prototype systems and designing and conducting experiments with human subjects based on the use cases co-created with the project partners. He/she will work closely with members of the THuMP project. We are seeking enthusiastic applicants with a background in any of the following (but not limited to): Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human Factors in Visualization, Interface Design/Development, etc. For further information please contact either Rita Borgo (rita.borgo(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:rita.borgo@kcl.ac.uk>) or Paul Luff (Paul.Luff(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:Paul.Luff@kcl.ac.uk>) For more details on the post refer to: https://thump-project.ai/visxai-job-post-details/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthump-pro…> (application direct link: KCL-THUMP-POST<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.corehr…>)

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Call for VGTC Dissertation Award: Deadline July 31, 2020
by Cook, Kristin A 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

DEADLINE EXTENDED: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: VGTC Dissertation Award DEADLINE: July 31, 2020 IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC http://vgtc.org/) seeks nominations for the 2020 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS (http://ieeevis.org/<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=c1a54a6b-9d1075d2-c1a5607e-0cc47adc5f…>) conference. All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15, 2018 and August 15, 2020 are eligible for the 2020 competition. There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. To nominate a dissertation, the student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC. For more information, see http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=d25cd62d-8ee9e994-d25cfc38-0cc47adc5f…> Contact vpg(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg@vgtc.org>

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VizSec 2020 Deadline Extension
by Nicolas Prigent 11 Jul '20

11 Jul '20

Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submissions to VizSec 2020 has been extended to the 16th of July 2020. More information can be found online : https://vizsec.org/vizsec2020/#cfp

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