[Infovis] CFP: IEEE VisWeek Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making

[Eser Kandogan]

IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for
Decision Making

 Dates: October 23-28, 2011
 Location: Providence, RI

 Important Dates:
 Papers Due: Sep 2, 2011
 Notification of Papers: Sep 16, 2011
 Final Papers Due: Sep 30, 2011

 Madness Participation Registration: Oct 10, 2011

 Analyzing text documents has become increasingly an important part of
decision making in large corporations, small businesses, and households.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry
practitioners interested in text visualization, text analytics, and visual
analytics, to define the emerging fields of visual text analytics, and to
discuss ideas, techniques, and applications to support decision making in
different domains.


Topics:
We invite paper submissions that address any topic related to visual text
analytics and application domains especially how interactive visual text
analytics can facilitate decision making. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:

 ·	Visual and interaction design for text analytics
 ·	Visual representation, structure, metaphors for text
 ·	Perception and cognition in text visualizations
 ·	Systems, languages, and architectures for text analytics
 ·	Methodologies, processes for visual text analysis
 ·	Collaborative analysis of text corpora
 ·	Real-time visualization of streaming text data
 ·	Visual text analytics in social media
 ·	Industry-specific applications of visual text analytics (e.g. Retail,
    Healthcare, Government, etc.)
 ·	Studies of analytic work on document collections
 ·	Evaluation of visualization techniques; Metrics and bench-marks
 ·	Datasets and tasks for visual text analytics to facilitate decision
    making
 ·	Representations of uncertainty in text analytics

 Submission:
 We are looking for research and industry papers related to visual text
analytics with a focus on facilitating human decision making. Papers are
limited to 4 pages. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for a
15 minute (plus 5 minutes for questions) oral presentation at the workshop.
All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster
session. Papers must be formatted according to VisWeek format (see
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html). Papers must be submitted
by email to the conference organizers (eser at us.ibm.com) by September 2,
2011. Final versions of the papers are due September 30, 2011.

 The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the
workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce
themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the
scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are
welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the
madness session by Oct 10, 2011.


 For   more   information   please   visit   the   workshop   web  page  at
http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/,  or send email to Eser Kandogan
(eser at us.ibm.com)


 If you are interested please connect through FaceBook at:
 http://www.facebook.com/pages/IEEE-Workshop-on-Interactive-Visual-Text-Analytics-for-Decision-Making/185453544848837

 Organizers :
 Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
 Eser Kandogan, IBM Research
 Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
 Michelle Zhou, IBM Research