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<p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b></p><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IEEE VIS 2014 </span></div><p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://ieeevis.org/</span></span></a></div></b><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div> <div><b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">------------------------------<wbr></wbr>------------------------------<wbr></wbr>----------</span></b></b></div><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Visualization Literacy Workshop</span></b></b></p><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VisLit 2014 @ IEEE VIS 2014</span></div><p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">------------------------------<wbr></wbr>------------------------------<wbr></wbr>----------</span></b></p><p> </p> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_71368137" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Nov. 9</span></span> or 10, Paris, France</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">co-located with IEEE VIS 2014</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.visualizationliteracy.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>visualizationliteracy.org</span></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">------------</span></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We invite you to contribute to VisLit 2014, the international workshop on visualization literacy. In spite of substantial advance in various visualization techniques, our understanding on how well these advanced visualizations are comprehended by users, or what we call “visualization literacy,” is quite limited. As a sequel to the visualization literacy workshop in EuroVis (</span><a href="https://www.kth.se/profile/178785/page/eurovis-2014-workshop-towards-visualiza/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.kth.se/profile/<wbr></wbr>178785/page/eurovis-2014-<wbr></wbr>workshop-towards-visualiza/</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), this workshop will investigate the visualization literacy problem. Unlike other workshops that promote discussion around position papers, this workshop will be based on actual participation of creating visualization literacy measures. The organizers will prepare a web-based platform, and participants can actually create questions to test visualization literacy, solve others’ questions, and discuss around questions. We believe that such hands-on experiences will greatly promote the quality of discussion as well as come closer to having a tangible visualization literacy measuring tool. We will also recruiting world-leading panelists in this topic, so that participants are properly informed before actively participating in the workshop.</span></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please sign up for the Google Group if you are interested, so that we can inform you when the platform is available.</span></div> <br /> <div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vislit" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Join our group here</a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The platform will be available on the following URL.</span></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.visualizationliteracy.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>visualizationliteracy.org</span></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Important Dates</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b style="line-height: normal;"> <div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----------------------</span></div> </b></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_71368138" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 15, 2014</span></span>: Open platform on <a href="http://visualizationliteracy.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">visualizationliteracy.org</a></span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_71368139" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 9</span></span> or 10, 2014: VisLit workshop (full day)</span></div> <div> </div> <br /> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact:</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sung-Hee Kim, Purdue University, IN, USA</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremy Boy, </span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;">INRIA, France</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sukwon Lee, Purdue University, IN, USA</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niklas Elmqvist,</span><span style="line-height: 1.15; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA</span></div> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ji Soo Yi, Purdue University, IN, USA</span></div><BR><hr />Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/</HTML>