---------------------------------- WHAT IS NEW (since the 1st cfp): ---------------------------------- * Accepted papers will appear in the ACM digital library * There will be a special issue of the IVS Journal for invited papers * Position papers can now be between 1-8 pages long * We have a great PC (see below) * Format and submissions details added * We will be sponsored by Google and Microsoft (thanks!) * The paper deadline is just two weeks away! ---------------------------------- *** 2nd Call for Papers *** BELIV 2012: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization A Workshop at the VisWeek 2012 Conference *** October 14(/15), 2012 - Seattle, WA, USA *** WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://www.beliv.org/wiki/BELIV2012 DESCRIPTION Visualization has recently gained much relevance for its ability to cope with complex data analysis tasks and communication. While the overall use of visualizations is accelerating, the growth of techniques for the evaluation of these systems has been slow. To understand these complex behaviors, evaluation efforts should be targeted at the component level, the system level, and the work environment level. The commonly used evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors appear often insufficient to quantify the quality of a visualization system; thus the name of the workshop: "beyond time and errors ...". The BELIV workshop series is a bi-annual event focusing on the challenges of evaluation in visualization. While it has been focused on information visualization in the past, BELIV 2012 aims at gathering researchers in all fields of visualization to continue the exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the knowledge on evaluation in visualization around a schema, where researchers can easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps. This is the fourth edition of the BELIV workshop series. It will be held as an open full-day workshop with paper presentations and discussions on October 14th and continue on the 15th with focused discussion for attendees interested to follow-up on topics and challenges raised during the first day. The second day is meant as an extended opportunity for participants and organizers to re-engage most active discussion topics of the first day. The second day of the workshop will take place in the Seattle Public Library where we are kindly sponsored by Google and Microsoft. DATES Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2012 Camera ready papers due: October 1, 2012 Workshop: October 14/(15), 2012 HOW TO PARTICIPATE All registered attendees of VisWeek will be able to attend the workshop. In order to present a paper and participate as a panelist in the discussions, it is necessary to have a paper accepted. The panel discussion itself is open to everybody. PAPER TYPES We accept 2 types of submissions—research papers and position papers: * Research papers present new work and unpublished results on the topic areas of the workshop. Research papers will be selected according to their novelty, quality and relevance. * Position papers are problem discussions or statements describing the author's relevant experience and ideas that can contribute to the debate during the workshop. position papers will be selected according to their importance and relevance of their issues and the quality of their discussion. Both types of papers can be up to eight pages long but the length of a submission needs to correspond to its contribution. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee as well as the organizers. We are currently working on making sure that we will be able to publish all accepted papers in the ACM digital library including the assignment of DOIs to the papers. We also plan to invite a selected subset of the papers to contribute to a special issue of the Information Visualization journal. For past BELIV workshops and papers see these links: * BELIV 2006: published in the ACM DL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149 * BELIV 2008: published in the ACM DL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377966 * BELIV 2010: published in the ACM DL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110192 SUBMISSION To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2012/. Please clarify whether you are submitting a position or research paper. FORMAT All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submission, however, must be made in PDF format. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: * Evaluation in the visualization development lifecycle, * Utility characterization, * Evaluation metrics, * Insight characterization, * Synthetic data sets and benchmarks, * Taxonomy of tasks, * Computational evaluation, * Benchmark development and repositories, * Methods for longitudinal studies and adoption, * Evaluation of early prototypes, and * Evaluation heuristics and guidelines. ORGANIZERS Enrico Bertini (enrico.bertini@uni-konstanz.de): University of Konstanz Adam Perer (adam.perer@us.ibm.com): IBM Research Heidi Lam (heidi.lam@gmail.com): Google Inc. Petra Isenberg (petra.isenberg@inria.fr): INRIA Tobias Isenberg (tobias.isenberg@inria.fr): INRIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Remco Chang (UNC Charlotte, USA) Carla Dal Sasso Freitas (Instituto de Informatica UFRGS, Brazil) Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA, France) Jeffrey Heer (Stanford, USA) Nathalie Henry Riche (Microsoft Research, USA) Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota, USA) Silvia Miksch (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Tamara Munzner (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Chris North (Virginia Tech, USA) Jean Scholtz (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA) John Stasko (Georgia Tech, USA) Daniel F. Keefe (University of Minnesota, USA) Jarke Van Wijk (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) Robert Kosara (UNC Charlotte, USA) Chris Weaver (University of Oklahoma, USA) Niklas Elmqvist (Purdue University, USA) Melanie Tory (University of Victoria, Canada) Michael Sedlmair (University of British Columbia, Canada)