[Infovis] 2nd CFP: IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)

[Axel Soto]

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics  
(ESIDA)
https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home
13 April 2021, Virtual

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: December 23, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time)
Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021
Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021
Workshop:  April 13, 2021

Workshop Description:
This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021  
Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/). The workshop focuses on systems  
that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting  
interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with  
tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user  
needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to  
bring together researchers and practitioners working on different  
personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and  
interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1)  
propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale  
behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead  
to specific (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and  
personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data  
analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of  
systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a  
set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The  
workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of  
personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search:

Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics:
– personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search.
– cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems.
– interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall  
information retrieval.
– new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics.
Data analytics:
– interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms.
– interaction degrees of freedom.
– preprocessing vs. online processing.
– interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for  
exploratory search and data analytics.
Metrics for explainable intelligent systems:
– metrics for explainable exploratory search.
– explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems.
– human-in-the-loop analytics systems.
– efficient vs. explainable analytics.
– user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive  
intelligent systems.

Organisers:
Dorota Glowacka,
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland),  
glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi
Evangelos Milios,
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada),  
eem[at]cs.dal.ca
Axel J. Soto,
Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina),  
axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar
Fernando V. Paulovich,
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada),  
paulovich[at]dal.ca
Denis Parra,
Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) ,  
dparra[at]ing.puc.cl
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn,
Department of  Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa   
(Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il

Submission Information:
We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case  
studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD  
dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material  
that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors,  
encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on  
promising research directions, in one of the following formats:
-full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented  
either as contributed talks or posters
-extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be  
presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo.
Papers can be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21