[Infovis] CFP: AAAI ICWSM Workshop on Social Media Visualization

[Eser Kandogan]

Call for Papers


Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis)
at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12)

4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland

http://socmedvis.ucd.ie




Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a
single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data
visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and
academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis
formation and supports the explanation of phenomena.


The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in
conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM'12) in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for
presentation of research and applications of visualization of social media
data.


The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry
practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social
media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social
sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss
novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics
approaches to social media data sources.


Important Dates
      Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012
      Notification: 16th March 2012
      Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012
      Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012
      Workshop: 4th June 2012
Topics


We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of
visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:
      Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data
      Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception
      Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media
      Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies
      Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities
      Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media
      Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry
      Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media
      Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics
      Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis
      Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora
      Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data
      Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media
      Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks
      Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media
      Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics
Submissions


Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization or
visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according to
AAAI guidelines. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using EasyChair by
2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for oral
presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented
as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session.


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 2nd April 2012.


We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and
humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the
application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where
visualization is needed to understand social media data.


For more information please visit the workshop web page at
http://socmedvis.ucd.ie or email socmedvis at ucd.ie.


Regards,


Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault at ucd.ie


Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, eser at us.ibm.com


Martin Harrigan, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan at ucd.ie