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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We invite you to submit a paper to our
<b>Special Issue on "Ubiquitous and Immersive Analytics</b>", in </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics/"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">Informatics</span></em></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI. (ISSN 2227-9709, indexed by Scopus, ESCI and DBLP).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics/special_issues/UIA"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics/special_issues/UIA</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our thirst to find new ways to process and make sense of our data grows stronger and stronger. Data are pervading
every part of our lives, driving our decision making, our forecasting and in many ways our day-to-day activities. At the same time, the pervasiveness of consumer-grade interfaces such as smartphones and smartwatches have profoundly changed how, when, and where
we access and use information. In addition, the recent emergence of affordable interfaces, such as head-mounted displays, has democratized the development of immersive applications, which in the past were often restricted in research laboratories. Interaction
paradigms such as mixed and virtual reality, and ubiquitous computing offer many opportunities for presenting data in ways that are specific, timely, and suitable for the context of the decision that needs to be made. As we seek to make use of data-driven
decisions more frequently, and in a variety of scenarios, our reliance on omnipresent and
<i>in situ</i> data presentations will increase. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Within this theme, this Special Issue seeks contributions that provide an insight into the current state of the art
of “Ubiquitous and Immersive Analytics”. Topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Applications, interaction techniques, and evaluation methods for ubiquitous and/or immersive analytics</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Libraries, toolkits, and prototyping tools for data-driven XR</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Collaborative data-driven immersive and/or ubiquitous visualization environments</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Data-driven storytelling in XR and/or in ubiquitous visualization environments</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cross-device communications and techniques for supporting beyond-the-desktop and immersive data exploration and analysis</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Multisensory, physical, and tangible data representation</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Manuscript Submission Information</span></strong></p>
<p>Manuscripts should be submitted online at <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/">www.mdpi.com</a> by
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/">registering</a> and <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/">
logging in to this website</a>. Once you are registered, <a href="https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=informatics">
click here to go to the submission form</a>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue
website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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<p>Deadline for manuscript submissions: <b>31<sup>st</sup> August 2020</b></p>
<p>Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for
authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics/instructions">Instructions for Authors</a> page. Please visit this page before submitting a manuscript.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Informatics is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies.
Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. The </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Article Processing Charge (APC)</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
for publication in this </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">open access</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss
Francs). You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see:
</span><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We appreciate your consideration and sincerely hope you will accept our invitation to contribute to this special issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We look forward to hearing from you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">With best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panagiotis (Panos) D. Ritsos,
<i>Bangor University, UK</i> - Guest Editor</span></p>
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