Workshop on Collaborative Information Visualization on Interactive Surfaces - CIVIS'09 http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/civis09 February 8th, 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida In conjunction with Intelligent User Interfaces conference (IUI2009): http://www.iuiconf.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: November 14th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 7th, 2008 Final camera ready submissions: December 14th, 2008 Workshop: February 8th, 2009 SUBMISSIONS Prospective participants are invited to submit position papers of up to four pages in length which outline one or more potential topics/solutions to discuss during the workshop. Accepted Papers will be published in the technical report series of LMU Media Informatics. This means that they will receive an ISSN number. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM IUI format: http://www.iuiconf.org/cfp.html Submissions should be sent to: Dominikus Baur: dominikus.baur(at)ifi.lmu.de TOPICS The amount and complexity of data we collect has drastically increased in the last number of years. As a result, a whole team of analysts is often required to make informed decisions in information-rich environments. Teams often gather formally or informally to discuss and analyze data in face-to-face meetings in order to effectively evaluate and interpret information. As such, the design of collaborative interfaces for data analysis and visual analytics is an emerging area in intelligent user interfaces. Interactive tabletops and display walls lend themselves especially well to co-located collaboration. The design of collaborative systems that offer computational support for these types of analysis scenarios, however, poses new challenges for tool designers, including: * Design of information visualization or visual analytics interfaces and environments for co-located collaborative work, * Design of visual representations for co-located collaborative work, * The use of interactive tabletop and wall displays to visualize and interact with information, * Social components in collaborative visualization environments, * Aspects of cognition in multi-user information visualization environments, * Evaluation of collaborative information visualization and visual analytics systems, * Multiple and coordinated views for collaborative data analysis systems, * Design of multi-display environments, * Collaborative visualization applications, * Experience with traditional collaboration in information intensive fields. These are the key challenges we would like to discuss in this workshop, although we welcome submissions in other related areas as well. OBJECTIVES The main objective of the workshop is to bring people from academia and industry with relevant backgrounds (e.g. information visualization, visual analytics, CSCW, HCI) together to discuss ongoing research work in the field of multi-user collaborative visualization. This includes the analysis of problems encountered in the field, the presentation of specific solutions, and the discussion of special characteristics compared to the core research areas. The workshop is intended to be a platform to exchange information and experiences, to stimulate discussion, and to identify novel aspects and ideas to the topics above. During this workshop, we would like to identify a number of open problems that need further investigation and identify priorities to target research in this direction. We would like to put an emphasis on the following two (interrelated) questions: * What are the existing challenges inherent in designing interfaces for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing data in a collaborative fashion? * What unique challenges exist in building visualization systems for collaborative environments? ORGANIZERS Dominikus Baur, University of Munich (Primary Contact) Petra Isenberg, University of Calgary Michael Sedlmair, BMW Group - Research and Technology Andreas Butz, University of Munich PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo Anastasia Bezerianos, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Nathalie Henry, Université Paris-Sud Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Johannes Schöning, University of Münster Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guerike University CONTACT US If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: dominikus.baur(at)ifi.lmu.de For more information, please see the workshop web site: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/civis09