[Ieee_vis] Call for papers: IVI special issue on Visualization Evaluation
Tobias Isenberg
isenberg at cs.rug.nl
Tue Dec 4 13:55:55 CET 2012
Visualization Evaluation
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A Special Issue of Information Visualization
(Please note that, while this is a call for the "information
visualization" journal, we of course also accept and specifically
encourage entries that are more in the SciVis or Visual Analytics area.)
Guest Editors: Enrico Bertini, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Heidi
Lam, Adam Perer.
Visualization has recently gained much relevance for its ability to cope
with complex data analysis and communication. Thanks to its ability to
convey complex concepts in an efficient manner it has been adopted in
many contexts; from scientific laboratories to newspapers.
While the overall use of visualization is accelerating, the growth of
techniques for the evaluation of these systems has been slow. How do we
measure the quality of a visualization? How do we decide on competing
designs? How do we know whether a visualization meets its goal? These
are only some of the questions researchers and practitioners are
confronted with when designing visualization systems.
To understand how, when and why visualization works, 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, when used in isolation,
appear to be insufficient to quantify the complex quality and usage of a
visualization system, therefore new metrics and methods to better
evaluate visualizations are needed.
This special issue calls for innovative ideas about how to evaluate
visualization and reflections about its state of the art. We call for
papers dealing with evaluation in the fields of scientific
visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics. We
explicitly discourage submissions describing exclusively the process and
outcome of a given evaluation unless the methodology itself is innovative.
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
Evaluation heuristics and guidelines
Evaluation of storytelling visualization
Evaluation of visualization as art
Paper Submission
Submissions due: Feb 8, 2013
Acceptance notices: Apr 15, 2013
Final revisions due: May 13, 2013
Publication: late 2013
Enquiries should be made to the guest editors by sending an email to
chairs at beliv.org
Electronic submissions of manuscripts in PDF should be made using the
online submission system and the papers should be formatted according to
the journal standards. For details on the submission process, please
visit the Journal’s instruction website at:
http://ivi.sagepub.com/
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