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<p>IEEE VIS 2014</p><p>http://ieeevis.org</p><p>*************************************************************************</p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Call for Participation: Provenance for Sensemaking Workshop <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/prov4sense/<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*************************************************************************<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />November 2014, Paris, France<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">(Half Day, Part of IEEE VIS 2014)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Introduction ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />During complex analysis tasks, it can be valuable to maintain a history of the data and reasoning involved - referred to as "provenance" information. Provenance information can be a resource for "reflection-in-action" during analysis, supporting collaboration between analysts, and reporting to decision makers. It can also act as a resource after the event, supporting the interpretation of claims, audit, accountability and training. <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />There has been considerable work on capturing and visualizing of "data provenance", which focuses on data collection and computation, and "analytic provenance", which captures the interactive data exploration and reasoning process. However, there is limited work of utilizing such provenance information to support sensemaking, in terms of improving efficacy and avoiding pitfalls such as issues of data quality and human bias. <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in visual analytics and various aspects of sensemaking to consider emerging positions, questions, and findings related to the capture, processing, representation and use of provenance information to support complex sensemaking tasks. The emphasis is on discussion and collaboration, with a goal of collaboratively producing a paper describing the state-of-the-art of provenance for sensemaking following the workshop.<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />Email: prov4sense@easychair.org for any enquiry.<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Workshop Format (Half Day) ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />We solicit extended abstracts (statements of position or current work). Accepted authors will be asked to be present these as posters at the workshop. The abstracts will be used to stimulate discussion topics. This will form the basis of parallel breakout groups intended to explore and develop the thinking. We aim to collaboratively produce a paper covering these topics following the workshop. <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Example Topics ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Data/analytic/sensemaking provenance capture and visualization.<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Inferring sensemaking provenance from interaction data<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- User studies related to provenance recording and use<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Using provenance to support reasoning/argumentation/reporting<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Narrative construction and story telling<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Distributed sensemaking<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Uncertain and data quality provenance during sensemaking<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Cognitive bias and sensemaking <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Application of sensemaking and provenance in application domains<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Important Dates ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Submission: 31 Aug 2014<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Notification: 14 Sep 2014 <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Workshop: 10 or 11 Nov 2014 (TBC)<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Submission ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Extended abstract or position paper<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- 1 to 2 pages<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- IEEE TVCG format: <a href="http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html ">http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html </a><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />- Submission through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prov4sense <br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />=== Organizers ===<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />Simon Attfield, Middlesex University, UK<br style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;" />T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University, USA</span></span></p><BR><hr />Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/</HTML>