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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special issue on human centric visual analytics: Journal of
Behaviour & Information Technology (2016 Impact Factor: 1.388)<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Currently, many visual analytics products and tools have
been developed. However, in developing those tools and products, much attention
has been paid on mining data patterns and making the hidden information visible
to users. Relatively less attention has been paid on how this information should
be presented for sense making decision making. This imbalance between human and
computer has resulted in the lack of theories and guidelines for system design
and evaluation and prevented systems and tools from being more useful in
practice.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To foster an incentive to address the issue and improve the
situation, this specie issue targets on new visualization theories, novel
design principles, analytics techniques and evaluation methodologies that are
to address issues surrounding human-centric visual analytics. The primary
objective is to foster focused attention in this emerging area and to serve as
forum for researchers and professionals all over the world to exchange and
discuss the latest advances. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To be precise, the aim of this special issue is to present a
collection of high-quality research papers on the state-of-the-art in the
emerging area of human-centric visual analytics. We are soliciting original
contributions that have not been published and are not currently under review
by any other journals or conferences. Papers to be submitted to this special
issue must focus on the human side of visual analytics. All submitted papers
will be peer-reviewed and papers will be selected based on their quality and
relevance to the theme of this special issue. Topics considered for this
special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Visual perception and cognition<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Design principle and guidelines for human-centric visual
analytics<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• New evaluation methodologies and metrics<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• New visualization and visual analytics theories.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Adaption and refinement of existing theories and
principles from HCI and Psychology in human–centric visual analytics<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Novel human-data interfaces, frameworks, reference models,
architectures, tools and systems<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• New human-data, human-computer and human-human interaction
methods in the context of visual analytics<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Human, social and cultural factors in collaborative visual
analytics<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Schedule:<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2018<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Review notification: June 30, 2018<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Revised paper submission: August 30, 2018<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Final notification: October 30, 2018<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publication: Late 2018<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more details, please see: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ueEuCL7rM7HRBQNvuq-OOi?domain=explore.tandfonline.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmj02888-tbit-si-human-centric-visual-analytics?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JMJ02888</a><span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest editors:<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Weidong Huang, Swinburne University of Technology,
Australia. <span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Yuhua Luo, University of the Balearic Islands,
Spain. <span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University, Canada<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Remco Chang, Tufts University, USA<span></span></p>





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