<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: </b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The 3rd Visualization for Communication Workshop (<a href="http://viscomm.io/" target="_blank">VisComm 2020</a>)<br>An <a href="http://ieeevis.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Visualization</a> Workshop<br>October 2<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5</span> or 2<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">6, online</span><br></b><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">VisComm moves online</span></i></b><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Due to the COVID pandemic, VisComm and IEEE Vis are moving online. While we will certainly miss seeing you all in person, we hope that this will make it easier for you to submit and attend! <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></i></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i></span><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Theme</span></i></b><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">While visualization research is still largely focused on data analysis, most people experience visualization in the media, where it may describe political topics, budgets, and sports. An independent community of visualization practitioners has sprung up, producing and deconstructing visualizations of broad interest. Free visualization tools are widely available and used.</span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>The VisComm workshop brings together practitioners and researchers from a broad range of disciplines to address questions raised by visualization’s new communicative role. We encourage participation from journalists, designers and others that do not typically attend the <a href="http://ieeevis.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Visualization</a> conference.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i><b>Participation</b></i></span></div>We invite contributions from any discipline, but particularly encourage those using visualization to communicate, such as journalists and designers. Scientific contributions addressing such use are welcome as well.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>VisComm seeks short research papers, short position papers, and posters. In addition, Viscomm accepts visual case studies, which allow visualization practitioners to present their visualizations, and discuss how they were designed and received by their audience. Practitioners may submit case studies as web sites or videos.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i>Submissions</i></b></span></div>Papers should be no more than 6 pages long excluding references, with the length matching its content. Posters should be in the form of extended abstracts, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1-2 pages in length</span>. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For publication information and further submission detail, see the <a href="http://viscomm.io/" target="_blank">workshop website</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font>Submit via <a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc" target="_blank">Precision Conference</a>. Choose the VGTC society, the VIS 2020 conference, and the VisComm track.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i>Dates</i></b></span></div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">D</span>eadlines are at 11:59 PM in the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=time+in+baker+island" target="_blank">last timezone on Earth</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Submission deadline:</i> <strike>June 15</strike><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strike></strike> July 16</span>, 2020<br><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Notification:</i> <strike>July 15</strike><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strike></strike> August 16</span>, 2020<br><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Camera-ready deadline:</i> August <strike>15</strike><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strike></strike> 27</span>, 2020<br><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Speaker schedule available:</i> October 1, 2020<br><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Workshop:</i> October 25 or 26, 2020<br><br><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i></span><i>Organizers</i></b><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The quickest way to contact VisComm’s organizers is via their shared email, <a href="http://viscomm_chairs@googlegroups.com/" target="_blank">viscomm_chairs@googlegroups.com</a>.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Adriana Arcia, Columbia University (</span><a href="mailto:aa2594@cumc.columbia.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">aa2594@cumc.columbia.edu</a><span class="gmail_default"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">)</span></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Alvitta Ottley, Washington University (<a href="mailto:alvitta@wustl.edu" target="_blank">alvitta@wustl.edu</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>)<br>Ben Watson, North Carolina State University (<a href="mailto:bwatson@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">bwatson@ncsu.edu</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>)<br>Robert Kosara, Tableau Research (<a href="mailto:rkosara@tableau.com" target="_blank">rkosara@tableau.com</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>)<br><br><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i></span><i>Welcome and details</i></b><br>We look forward to seeing you at VisComm, now online! For further details on our October workshop, see the workshop website: <a href="http://viscomm.io/" target="_blank">http://viscomm.io</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>.</div></div></div>