<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">(Apologies for cross posting) <br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">===========================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Call for Posters</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Konstanz, Germany - October 17th to October 19th, 2018</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The BDVA 2018 Symposium is calling for contributions in the area of Visual Analytics and Immersive Analytics of Big Data. Submit your work and be part of a vibrant venue that will bring together an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and workshops: <a href="http://bdva.net/"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">http://bdva.net</span></a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Visual Analytics plays a major role in the analysis and decision-making processes for science, industry, and government organisations. It is one of the best ways we have for making sense of large and complex data sets. Reflecting its history of encouraging research into less-traditional approaches to visual analytics, this year BDVA has broadened the scope to include the emerging field of Immersive Analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to support data understanding and decision making everywhere and by everyone, working individually or collaboratively. It aims to make embodied tools that are intuitive, engaging, and make the best possible use of all sensory channels. This may be achieved through the use of immersive virtual environment technologies, natural interfaces or responsive analytics, but is not tied to the use of any particular technology. Immersive Analytics brings promising opportunities to interact with Big Data coming from geo-science, biomedical applications, collective behaviour, text mining, crime analysis, among other application domains.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Symposium topics include but are not limited to:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Theoretical Foundations of Immersive Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Immersive Storytelling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Collaborative Visual and Immersive Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Personalized Visual and Immersive Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Use of Mixed Reality for Analytics including Situated Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Visual, Audio, Haptic, and Multisensory Data Presentation including Data Physicalization</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Human-Computer Interaction including Use of Natural Interfaces for Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making of Big or Complex Data</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Scalable Visual and Immersive Analytics including HPC for Visualisation</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Responsive Analytic Algorithms for Interactive Data Exploration</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Context-Semantics-driven Visual and Immersive Analytics</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Processes & Tools for Building Visual and Immersive Analytics Applications</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Applications and Case Studies</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Poster Submission Instructions</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit poster papers that report work in progress, explore new problem areas, and new angles on existing work of known approaches. In addition to every poster, a two-page summary (one additional page for references) of the work has to be submitted. Please use the VGTC conference template (<a href="http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html</span></a>) for the summary paper. The posters themselves have no predefined format. Dimensions of the posters must be A0 (841mm x 1189mm / 33.1’’ x 46.8’’), and only portrait format is acceptable. Posters are not archival publications. The two-page summary papers will be distributed to the conference attendees on a USB flash drive. Authors whose posters are accepted to the conference will be asked to revise the poster and the summary paper according to the reviewer comments. The poster itself needs to be brought to the poster session of the conference, and at least one presenter per poster has to attend the conference.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please submit your abstracts and manuscripts here:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdva2018" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdva2018</font></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Important Dates</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Submission of poster abstracts closes: <b>September 9, 2018</b><br></font></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Notification of poster abstracts acceptance: September 16, 2018<br></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submission of camera-ready poster papers: September 30, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Poster Chair</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Johanna Schmidt, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">General Chair</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Program Chairs</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">M. Eduard Gröller, TU Wien, Austria<br>Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Program Committee</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh<br>Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen<br>Tomasz Bednarz, UNSW Art & Design, CSIRO Data61<br>Silvia Castro, Universidad Nacional del Sur<br>Jian Chen, The Ohio State University<br>Maxime Cordeil, Monash University<br>Tim Dwyer, Monash University<br>Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland<br>Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO<br>Martin Falk, Linköping University<br>Carla Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul<br>Issei Fujishiro, Keio University<br>Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin<br>Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft<br>Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart<br>Tony Huang Swinburne, University of Technology<br>Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz<br>Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University<br>Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney<br>Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz<br>Søren Knudsen, University of Calgary<br>Steffen Koch, University of Ulm<br>Nils Kriege, TU Dortmund<br>Michael Krone, University of Tübingen<br>Bongshin Lee, Microsoft<br>Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis<br>G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago<br>Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center<br>Frank Maurer, University of Calgary<br>Quang Vinh Nguyen, Western Sydney University<br>Aruquia Peixoto, CEFET/RJ<br>Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University<br>Bahador Saket, Georgia Institute of Technology<br>Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology<br>Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock<br>Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu<br>Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia<br>Manuela Waldner, Vienna University of Technology<br>Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University<br>Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University<br>Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Organising Chairs</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Alexandra Diehl, University of Konstanz, Germany<br>Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Germany</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Publicity Chair</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King’s College London, UK</font></span></p>
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