[Ieee_vis] Call for Participation: IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm)

[Ben Watson]

*IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop:*
*VISUALIZATION FOR COMMUNICATION (VisComm)*


*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Date and Location: *October 21 or 22, 2018 at IEEE VIS in Berlin, Germany
<http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>

*Website: *https://viscomm.io

While visualization research is still largely focused on data analysis,
most people’s experience with visualization is in the form of communication
and presentation. The New York Times and other publications regularly
release interactive visuals depicting complex datasets including political
topics, budgets, and sports. An independent community of visualization
practitioners and bloggers has also sprung up, producing and deconstructing
visualizations of data of broad interest. Free visualization tools such as
D3, Data Wrapper, Tableau Public, and others are available and widely used.

The VisComm workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from
a broad range of disciplines to address the questions raised by
visualization’s new communicative role. We encourage participation from
journalists, designers and others that do not typically attend IEEE VIS
<http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome> and write academic manuscripts.
Accordingly, we seek not only short papers but also visual case studies:
one-page abstracts with video walkthroughs of communicative visualizations.


*WORKSHOP TOPICS*

VisComm seeks contributions addressing questions including:

   - How should visualization adapt to its new, more diverse audience?
   Visualization for communication addresses an audience that is much more
   varied in demographics and literacy than visualization for analysis.
   - When do visualizations communicate successfuly, and how can we measure
   that success? This might include web analytics, eye tracking, or even
   galvanic skin response.
   - How can practitioners build visualizations that communicate
   successfully? Are there models that can guide effective communicative
   visualization, possibly derived from theories of aesthetics, memory,
   metaphor, or persuasion?
   - Are there certain visualization techniques (like “chart junk”) that
   are particularly helpful for communication? How well do they work in
   concert?
   - What tools do practitioners need to help them build visualizations for
   communication? What are typical practioner workflows, and which parts of
   them are most challenging?
   - Which application areas are still emerging for communicative
   visualization, and how should visualization respond to them?

We particularly encourage contributors to address and illustrate issues
like these with visual case studies that demonstrate the success or failure
of communicative visualization projects in data journalism, public health
and more. Our goal is to consider a broad range of examples and learn from
their design decisions and process.


*SUBMISSIONS*

We have two submission tracks: short papers and visual case studies.

*Short Papers*

We invite submission of traditional research and position papers between 2
and 6 pages long, with length matching content. Format submissions using
the VGTC conference style template
<http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> (not the full paper
journal style). Submit papers online through the Precision Conference
System (details TBA). Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore and
linked from the workshop website. Papers should contain full author names
and affiliations. Links to short videos (up to 5 minutes) may also be
submitted.

The papers will be juried by the organizers and program committee, then
chosen according to relevance, quality, and interest to attendees. At least
one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, and
present its contents. Registration information will be available on the IEEE
VIS website <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>.

*Visual Case Studies*

We also invite submission of visual case studies, which are primarily
audio-visual descriptions of compelling communicative visualizations. These
case studies should describe the communicative message, the choices made in
crafting the visualization to deliver that message, and how that
visualization succeeded (or failed) in practice.

Visual case studies consist of extended abstracts and a mandatory
accompanying video. Abstracts briefly introduce the case study and should
be formatted similarly to short papers (see above), but be no more than one
page in length. Videos should carry the bulk of case study content and
consist largely of a walkthrough of the visualization illustrating its
design choices and their contributions to the visualization’s success (or
failure). Case study videos should be no more than 5 minutes in length.
Both abstract and video should be submitted online through the Precision
Conference System (additional details TBA).

The organizers and program committee will evaluate the relevance, quality
and anticipated attendee interest of submitted case studies. All case
studies accepted for presentation will be published on IEEE Xplore and
linked from the workshop website. At least one author of each accepted
visual case study must register for the workshop, and perform a live
walkthrough of their visualization. Registration information will be
available on the IEEE VIS website <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome>.

*Important Dates*

*Submission deadline:* July 13, 2018
*Author notification:* August 3, 2018
*Camera-ready deadline:* August 10, 2018
*Speaker schedule available: *September 15, 2018
*Workshop:* October 21 or 22, 2018


*ORGANIZERS*

Ben Watson <https://watson.csc.ncsu.edu/>, North Carolina State University (
bwatson at ncsu.edu)
Robert Kosara <https://eagereyes.org/>, Tableau Research (
rkosara at tableau.com)


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research
Steven Franconeri, Northwestern University
Heather Krause, Datassist
Paul Parsons, Purdue University
Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University
Ron Rensink, University British Columbia
Noeska Smit, University of Bergen (Norway)
(More names to be added soon)
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