================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================ *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* September 4–7, 2016 Cambridge, UK * Early registration deadline 31st July 2016 * *www.vlhcc.org*

From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. We will hold the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing September 4-7, 2016 in Cambridge, UK at the St Catharine's College<http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/>. VL/HCC 2016 will present two keynote addresses by prominent speakers and a selection of technical research papers and short papers about emerging topics in visual languages and human-centric computing. See the programme at the conference website (https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2016/keynotes). The event will also feature a graduate consortium and will be co-located with PPIG 2016: The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * David Dernie, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, UK * Michael Kölling, Professor at the School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK VENUE The city of Cambridge, an hour by train from London, is one of the leading technology innovation centres in Europe. Its vibrant cultural and business environment has developed around the 800 year-old university and medieval city centre. Cambridge is the bicycling capital of the UK, with a wide range of science museums, art galleries and historic churches distributed among the tourist attractions of the scenic parks and river. Cambridge has been a regional market town for 2000 years, and still has a traditional market square at the centre of a charming district that mixes pedestrian precincts with student accommodation, university departments and fashionable shopping. The venue for all conference sessions will be St Catharine’s College, which is located next to King’s College in the historic centre of Cambridge. The college provides on-site accommodation, with the major attractions of the city only a 1-2 minute walk from the front gate. Like most Cambridge Colleges, St Catharine’s provides modern conference facilities in a scenic and historic setting. For further details see http://vlhcc.org/attending REGISTRATION The registration is open now at https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/vlhcc-and-ppig-2016. Early registration with reduced fees ends on July 31st, 2016. ORGANIZATION General Chair Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge, UK Program Chairs Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK Beryl Plimmer - University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) Publicity Chair Alessio Malizia - Brunel University London, UK Finance Chair Peter Rodgers - University of Kent, UK Graduate Consortium Chair Anita Sarma - Oregon State University, USA Showpieces Chair Advait Sarkar - University of Cambridge, UK Publications Chair Peter Chapman - University of Brighton, UK Social Media Chair Scott Fleming - University of Memphis, US Program Committee Robin Abraham - Microsoft Corporation Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza University of Rome Peter Chapman - Edinburgh Napier University Gennaro Costagliola - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno Jacome Cunha - Universidade Nova de Lisboa & HASLab/INESC TEC Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa - PUC-Rio Gregor Engels - University of Paderborn Claudia Ermel - Technische Universität Berlin Martin Erwig - Oregon State University Joao Paulo Fernandes - University of Beira Interior Andrew Fish - University of Brighton Scott Fleming - University of Memphis Judith Good - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology Felienne Hermans - Delft University of Technology John Hosking - University of Auckland John Howse - University of Brighton Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis Sandeep Kuttal - University of Tulsa Edward Lank - University of Waterloo Thomas D. Latoza - George Mason University Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University Chris Parnin - NCSU Alexander Repenning - University of Colorado Peter Rodgers - University of Kent Joao Saraiva - Universidade do Minho Anita Sarma - Oregon State University Stefan Sauer - University of Paderborn, s-lab - Software Quality Lab Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University T. Metin Sezgin - Koc University Simone Stumpf - City University London Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington Franklyn Turbak - Wellesley College Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University Steering Committee Paolo Bottoni - Universita de Roma - Sapienza, Italy Gennaro Costagliola - Università di Salerno, Italy Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Howse - University of Brighton, UK Eileen Kraemer - Clemson University, USA Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA For further information, please visit the conference website at http://vlhcc.org/ We all look forward to welcoming you at VL/HCC 2016 in Cambridge, UK! 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