Dear all, What influence do our visualizations have? How can we improve the influence of our visualizations? These are just a few among the many questions that can derive from the call below. If you have have an idea, please submit your paper (below the details as well). Have great days, piero *_call for papers - VISUAL INFLUENCE AND INFLUENTIAL VISUALIZATIONS _* VINCI 2020 - International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction this year, both on line and in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 8-10 December 2020 details below or here: https://vinci-conf.org/workshop.html (workshop 5) - *submission deadline: September 15th, 2020* - length: short papers (4 pages limit) - early work and prototypes are welcome - submission guidelines: https://vinci-conf.org/submissions.html <https://vinci-conf.org/submissions.html> (end of the webpage) - extra information for authors (see below)_ The call:_ A visualization can influence and be influential, defining influence as the quality to change mindsets and behaviours without imposition. Influence of/in visualizations helps to shape ideas, create opinions, spread information or foster debates, often beyond the community of viewers it is devised. The most influential visualizations are recalled, mentioned, or imitated over time; mostly, they generate new knowledge or inspire new visualizations. Although we are all touched by influential visualizations, the topic of influence is still little explored by scholars of visual analysis/communication. For instance, defining, quantifying, and measuring influence in visualizations need to be verified. Equally, thorough investigations are required to define the visual elements that characterize influence or understand how producing more influential visualizations. In this workshop we will discuss ideas, concepts, problems, and challenges around important research questions that focus on influence in visualization and visual communication. _The relevant topics for this call/workshop are: _Visual encoding Visual elements (featuring/improving influence) Measurements (of influence) Visual system and perceptions (e.g. eye tracking) Emotional response and reactions Aesthetics of influential visualizations Memorability Visualization criticism Visual communication and analysis Close reading, active reading Paper Chair: Piero Morseletto, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Lisette van Beek, Utrecht University _EXTRA INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS_ * Each submitted paper is peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers selected by the program committee. If accepted, the papers have further check for readability and quality assurance. Accepted papers are published in the ACM Digital library, which is listed in DBLP and also appears in Google Scholar. The papers will be presented at the conference as a 10 minutes talk. The conference will be held both physically and virtually, then, the participants can attend and present online. * Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, and a special issue of the Journal of Visualization (SCI and Scopus indexed).