Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. -------- Important Dates: Long papers: April 8, 2014 Short papers: April 8, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 -------- The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) will be held on August 5-8 in Sydney, Australia. VINCI14 aims to provide an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. -------- This year's edition of the conference features three exciting keynotes by Professor Peter Eades from University of Sydney, Professor Bruce Thomas from the University of South Australia and Dr. Helen Purchase from University of Glasgow. -------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Area 1: Visualization methodologies Information visualization Graph drawing and visualization Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Visual metaphors and symbols Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors Design theory in the digital age Aesthetics in visual communication and digital media Interaction methods (touch-based, haptic, vision-based, multi-modality Big Data Visual languages Diagrams Art + Science Area 2: Visualization applications Visual Analytics Sketching Graphical user interface design Software visualization Visual approaches to knowledge discovery Visualization on mobile devices Animation Game design Biological visualizations Area 3: Visual design and art Interaction design Interactive art Infographie and data-driven art Visual perception and cognition Multimedia Virtual actors Interactive storytelling Augmented reality and its applications Virtual reality and its applications Computational (or digital) aesthetics Wearable computers Ubiquitous / responsive environments Entertainment technology -------- Proceedings will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed). Further, it has been confirmed that a high number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). To submit: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2014 For more information, visit web: http://www.vinci-conf.org/ ------ VINCI14 Organizing committee August 5-8, 2014, Sydney Australia Email: info@vinci-conf.org