CALL FOR PARTICIPATION====================== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016)(vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016========================================VINCI ’16 features high profile keynote speeches, state-of-the art technical sessions and entertaining social programs, which will surely be interesting and beneficial to our participants (detailed programs can be found on vinci-conf.org). 1. KEYNOTES =========== Keynote Speech 1: TITLE: Beyond the Two Cultures: A Crisis in Representation Prof. Malina Roger (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Abstract: As an astrophysicist, I have spent my career bathing in astronomical data, the data world is as real to me as the sensory physical world. Yet we are still in the stone age of representing digital data in forms that we can understand and feel. Three years ago I started the UT Dallas ArtSciLab where artists and scientists work side by side making trouble with data. I will present our work with neuroscientists, astronomers and geoscientists and also talk about the new born digital hybrids whose existence gives the lie to the very concept of C P Snow’s Two Cultures. Short Bio: Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, an art-science researcher, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair Professor, and Professor of Physics, at UT Dallas. He obtained his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Founded the ArtSciLab which hosts projects which involve collaboration between artists and scientists, resulting in art works, scientific data exploration tools, and public engagement activities involving the integration of the arts, design and humanities in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEAM). Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. "Laser d’or" Prize, from the International Video Art Organization. Keynote Speech 2: TITLE: Visual Analytics and the VAST Challenges: this year’s Challenge and a retrospective look at an influential international competition Prof. Georges Grinstein (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Abstract: The VAST Challenges are a decade old and have had large international participation. The challenge data sets are mostly synthetic with embedded ground truth and participants are asked stop solve a particular problem, which in many cases involves discovering that ground truth, which in turns makes it easier to objectively evaluate submissions. But submissions are also evaluated several other ways. I will discuss several key problems in Visual Analytics, provide examples of how the VAST Challenges were developed as an attack on these problems, and show award winning solutions. I will also discuss the importance of open source tools in solving these problems. Short Bio: Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was head of its Bioinformatics Program, Director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and is now Chief Scientific Officer of Weave Visual Analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978. His work is broad and interdisciplinary, covering the perceptual and cognitive foundations of visualization, very high-dimensional data visualization, visual analytics and applications. The emphasis is on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information data and systems. He has over 40 years in academia with extensive consulting, over 300 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, a book on interactive data visualization, founded several companies, been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He has given numerous keynotes and mentored over 40 doctoral students and hundreds of graduate students. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies and commercial organizations. For the last ten years he has co-chaired the IEEE VAST Challenges in visual analytics leading to new research areas. He has developed and taught new courses, one of which Radical Design focused on how to develop radical new products instead of evolutionary ones. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence CCICADA (Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), and directs the development of Weave, an open source web-based interactive collaborative visual analytics system incorporating numerous innovations. 2. PANEL ========Facilitating Visualization Capacity Building Organizers: Vetria L. Byrd (Purdue University) and Joseph A. Cottam (CREST/Indiana University) Panel Members: TBA Visualization plays an important role in discovery and insight. As a tool, visualization is often times utilized as a light in a sea of data providing insight to large, complex datasets. The scientific community and society at large are the beneficiaries of the utility visualization brings. As more and more data is created and consumed persons with knowledge of the visualization process, applications, methods and techniques will continue to be in demand in all fields with data visualization needs. The purposes of this panel are two-fold: (1) to discuss the need for facilitating visualization capacity building: incorporating visualization early and often into computing and other educational programs to equip students with transferrable skillsets that are in demand in the global workforce and (2) to facilitate a discussion on what knowledge base is needed to build and strengthen visualization capacity of users in visualization application domains. 3. ACCEPTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ============================== Full Papers: Visual Analysis of User-Driven Association Rule Mining Hui Lei, Cong Xie, Pingping Shang, Fan Zhang, Wei Chen and Qunsheng Peng Supporting Collaborative Political Decision Making - An Interactive Policy Process Visualization System Tobias Ruppert, Andreas Bannach, Jürgen Bernard, Hendrik Lücke-Tieke, Alex Ulmer and Jörn Kohlhammer Enhancing Infographics Based on Symmetry Saliency Kouhei Yasuda, Shigeo Takahashi and Hsiang-Yun Wu A User Study on Judging the Target Node in Partial Link Drawings Michael Burch, Rudolf Netzel, Marcel Hlawatsch and Daniel Weiskopf The Dynamic Call Graph Matrix Michael Burch Adaptively Tiled Image Mosaics Utilizing Measures of Color and Region Entropy Lina Zhang, Kwan-Liu Ma and Jinhui Yu BranchingSets: Interactively Visualizing Categories on Node-Link Diagrams Francesco Paduano, Ronak Etemadpour and Angus Forbes Visibility Widgets: Managing Occlusion of Quantitative Data in 3D Terrain Visualization Martin Röhlig and Heidrun Schumann Generation of Miro’s Surrealism Lu Xiong and Kang Zhang Eliciting Tacit Expertise in 3D Volume Segmentation Ruth West, Cindy Grimm, Max Parola, Meghan Kajihara, Anahita Sanandaji, Jeremy Deutsch, Luke Hillard, Brandon Lane, Kathryn Hays and Anne Carlew A Comparative Study on Inter-Device Interaction: One-Handed Interaction VS Two-Handed Interaction Zheng Huang, Jed Limke and Jun Kong What Makes You Think This Is a Map? Suggestions for Creating Map-like Visualisations Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai and Muye Yang How People Deploy Dimensional Information to Estimate Relative Values Yina Li and Dong-Jin Li A Guided Tour of Literature Review: Facilitating Academic Paper Reading with Narrative Visualization Yun Wang, Dongyu Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo and Huamin Qu Deep Exploration of Multidimensional Data with Linkable Scatterplots Quang Vinh Nguyen, Simeon Simoff, Yu Qian and Maolin Huang Short Papers: IDSPlanet: A Novel Radial Visualization of Intrusion Detection Alerts Yang Shi, Yaoxue Zhang, Fangfang Zhou, Ying Zhao, Guojun Wang, Ronghua Shi and Xing Liang Spatio-temporal Visual Information for Human Action Recognition Li Yao and Weixin Xu Bus Lines Explorer: Interactive Exploration of Public Transportation Data Rainer Splechtna, Alexandra Diehl, Mai El-Shehaly, Claudio Delrieux, Denis Gracanin and Kresimir Matkovic Do Defaults Matter? Evaluating the Effect of Defaults on User Preference for Multi-Class Scatterplots Casey Haber, Lyndon Ong Yiu, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Spatiotemporal Analytics of Topic Trajectory Jiangen He and Chaomei Chen A Hybrid Approach for Event Social Influence Visualization Wenqian Ji, Yan Tang, Pengju Ma, Shijie Tang, Zhipeng Fang, Xuan Li and Tianjian Chen Posters: EduVis: Visualization for Education Knowledge Graph Based on Web Data Kai Sun, Yuhua Liu, Zongchao Guo and Changbo Wang Visualizing Time-Variant Sets on a Handheld Device Iliesa S. K. Delai, Meilan Jin and Geoffrey M. Draper Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional YouTube Data Using the GPLOM Technique Seimei Matsusaki, Xi Han, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Visual Communication Power Construction and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tobacco Control Advertising Qian Wang and Bing Xiao The Effect of Color on Short-term Memory in Information Visualization Kang Xin Design for the future: Incorporating Cradle to Cradle Design into our street Yinan Li and Jian Wang Understanding Contagion Dynamics in Networked Populations Through Data Exploration and Visualization Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi SeaCove: accessing SEmAntic COVErage of queries for improved user experience when searching the web Haolin Ren, Guy Melançon, Benjamin Renoust and Marie-Luce Viaud VolSelectAware: Visual-Cognition Coupled Non-Visual Data-Driven Volume Selection for Immersive Scientific Visualizations Daniel Wilches and Amy Banic Performance Histogram Curve: Abstractive Visualization and Analysis of NBA Games Biao Zhu and Wei Chen 6. ORGANIZATION=============== GENERAL CHAIR:Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR:Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden PUBLICITY CHAIR: Jie Li, Tianjin University, China PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kostiantyn Kucher, Linnaeus University, Sweden LOCAL ORGANZATION CHAIR: Pushpa Kumar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA FINANCE CHAIR: Jey Veerasamy, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau Rita Borgo, Swansea University Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa Daniel Cernea, AGT International Jian Chen, University of Maryland Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Camilla Forsell, Linköpings Universitet Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University Liang Gou, IBM Research - Almaden Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University Theresia Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Karsten Klein, Monash University Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, University of Rennes 1 - IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Maximilian Schich, The University of Texas at Dallas Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu,Keio University Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University