Hotel information: The Minneapolis Hilton is SOLD OUT! Please refer to the Vis2005 page on hotels for locations and phone numbers of other hotels nearby the conference venue. We also have available transport and travel directions from and to the airport and around Minneapolis.
Registration: Preregistration has ended. Please register on site.

We thank all who submitted papers, posters and contest entries for InfoVis 2005, the eleventh annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. InfoVis is the primary meeting in the field of information visualization, and is held in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2005 (Vis05) conference in Minneapolis, MN.

Computer-based information visualization, or "infovis", centers around helping people explore or explain data through systems that include static or interactive visual representations. The central design challenge in infovis is designing a cognitively useful spatial mapping of a dataset that is not inherently spatial. There are many possible visual encodings, only a fraction of which are helpful for a given task. We draw on the intellectual history of several traditions, including computer graphics, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, semiotics, graphic design, statistical graphics, cartography, and art. The synthesis of relevant ideas from these fields is critical for keeping pace with the torrents of data that confront us all.

General Symposium Chair:
Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology

Program Chair, Vis05 Liason:
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Papers Chairs:
Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
John Stasko, Georgia Tech

Co-located with Infovis 2005 are:

Vis 2005	IEEE Visualization Conference October 23 - 28, 2005 http://vis.computer.org/vis2005/
VisSEC 2005	Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security October 26, 2005 http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/VizSEC05/

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