[Infovis] CFP: AVI Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for Data Visualization

[John Stasko]

Call For Participation
AVI 2018 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for Data Visualization
https://sites.google.com/view/multimodalvis/
May 29, 2018

Workshop Overview
Multimodal interaction offers many potential benefits for data 
visualization to help people stay in the flow of their visual analysis 
and presentation. Often, the strengths of one interaction modality can 
offset weaknesses of another. However, existing visualization tools and 
interaction techniques have mostly explored a single input modality such 
as mouse, touch, pen, or more recently, natural language and speech. 
Recent interest in deploying data visualizations on diverse display 
hardware including mobile, AR/VR, and large displays create an urgent 
need to develop natural and fluid interaction techniques that can work 
in these contexts. Multimodal interaction offers strong promise for such 
situations, but its unique challenges for data visualization have yet to 
be deeply investigated.

This workshop will bring together researchers with expertise in 
visualization, interaction design, and natural user interfaces. We aim 
to build a community of multimodal visualization researchers, explore 
synergies and challenges in our research, and establish an agenda for 
research on multimodal interactions for visualization.


Important Dates
March 9, 2018: Position paper submission deadline
March 16, 2018: Notification of acceptance
May 11, 2018: Final position papers due
May 29, 2018: Workshop


Submissions
We invite 2-4 page position papers (in the CHI Extended Abstracts 
format, with page limit including references) on any topic related to 
multimodal interaction for data visualization. Position papers should 
outline experiences, interests, and challenges around multimodal 
interaction for visualizations including pen, touch, gesture, speech, 
and natural language. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Visualization on various displays beyond the desktop, including 
mobile, large screen, and AR/VR.
- Visualization designs to leverage specific interaction modalities 
including natural language interaction (text and voice), pen, touch, mouse.
- Libraries and toolkits to support specific interaction modalities
- Evaluation methods
- Use cases and motivating scenarios of multimodal interaction for data 
visualization


Organizers
Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research
Arjun Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology
John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology
Melanie Tory, Tableau Software
Vidya Setlur, Tableau Software