[Infovis] CFP: BELIV 2012 - Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (Workshop at VisWeek 2012)

Petra Isenberg petra.isenberg at inria.fr
Tue Aug 7 17:23:59 CEST 2012


*** Call for Papers ***
BELIV 2012: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for 
Visualization

A Workshop at the VisWeek 2012 Conference

*** October 14(/15), 2012 - Seattle, WA, USA ***

WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://www.beliv.org/wiki/BELIV2012

DESCRIPTION
Visualization has recently gained much relevance for its ability to cope 
with complex data analysis tasks and communication. While the overall 
use of visualizations is accelerating, the growth of techniques for the 
evaluation of these systems has been slow. To understand these complex 
behaviors, evaluation efforts should be targeted at the component level, 
the system level, and the work environment level. The commonly used 
evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors 
appear often insufficient to quantify the quality of a visualization 
system; thus the name of the workshop: "beyond time and errors ...".

The BELIV workshop series is a bi-annual event focusing on the 
challenges of evaluation in visualization. While it has been focused on 
information visualization in the past, BELIV 2012 aims at gathering 
researchers in all fields of visualization to continue the exploration 
of novel evaluation methods, and to structure the knowledge on 
evaluation in visualization around a schema, where  researchers can 
easily identify unsolved problems and research gaps.

This is the fourth edition of the BELIV workshop series. It will be held 
as an open full-day workshop with paper presentations and discussions on 
October 14th and continue on the 15th with focused discussion for 
attendees interested to follow-up on topics and challenges raised during 
the first day. The second day is meant as an extended opportunity for 
participants and organizers to re-engage most active discussion topics 
of the first day

DATES

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2012
Camera ready papers due: October 1, 2012
Workshop: October 14/(15), 2012

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

All registered attendees of VisWeek will be able to attend the workshop. 
In order to present a paper and participate as a panelist in the 
discussions, it is necessary to have a paper accepted. The panel 
discussion itself is open to everybody.

PAPER TYPES

We accept 2 types of submissions: position papers or research papers:

* Research papers are longer (4-8 pages) and present new work and 
unpublished results. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by members of 
the program committee and selected according to their novelty, quality 
and relevance. We are currently investigating whether we will, as in the 
past, be able to publish all accepted papers in a digital library 
including the assignment of DOIs to the papers. We plan to invite a 
selected subset of the research papers to contribute to a special issue 
journal publication in a major visualization journal venue such as TVCG.

* Position papers are short statements (1-2 pages) describing a 
participant's relevant experience and ideas that can contribute to the 
discussion during the workshop. They will be made available online.

For past BELIV  papers see these links:

* BELIV 2006: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149
* BELIV 2008: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377966
* BELIV 2010: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110192

SUBMISSION

Information on the submission procedure and submission system will be 
published on the website shortly.

FORMAT

Information on the paper format will be published on the website shortly.

Papers have to be submitted in PDF format.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Evaluation in the visualization development lifecycle,
* Utility characterization,
* Evaluation metrics,
* Insight characterization,
* Synthetic data sets and benchmarks,
* Taxonomy of tasks,
* Computational evaluation,
* Benchmark development and repositories,
* Methods for longitudinal studies and adoption,
* Evaluation of early prototypes, and
* Evaluation heuristics and guidelines.

ORGANIZERS
Enrico Bertini (enrico.bertini at uni-konstanz.de): University of Konstanz
Adam Perer (adam.perer at us.ibm.com): IBM Research
Heidi Lam (heidi.lam at gmail.com):  Google Inc.
Petra Isenberg (petra.isenberg at inria.fr): INRIA
Tobias Isenberg (tobias.isenberg at inria.fr): INRIA



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