[Infovis] 🎉Second call for participation for the workshop on VisActivities🍻🧠📊💡

[Samuel Huron]

Dear All,

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*🎉 Call for participation🍻🧠📊💡*VisActivities - Visualisation Activities
to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing, part of IEEE
VIS (Oct. 24/29, 2021, Virtual)  https://visactivities.github.io
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Given this year’s special circumstances 😷 VisActivities is now opening a
second call for participation.

These submissions are:
📝- Workshop Papers: deadline  24 August - On PCS
⚽️- Activity Descriptions: deadline 01 October 2021 -
https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9
😂- Challenges: deadline:deadline 01 October 2021 -
https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7

More information on the individual calls below.


*🔥Motivation:*Workshops, classes, or collaborations with domain experts
often include hands-on data visualization activities that involve analog or
digital tools and materials as well as more or less well-defined protocols.
Recent years have seen the emergence of such data visualization activities
in different contexts, including education, design, activism, and
interdisciplinary collaboration. While many of these activities naturally
take place in a group setting, due to the social distancing measures during
the Covid-19 more and more of these activities are now happening online.
The VisActivities workshop is a venue where researchers, practitioners, and
educators from within and outside of the visualization community discuss
goals, methods, audiences, materials and challenges they face when
conducting and organising activities. It is also an opportunity where we
can brainstorm, design and try novel activities collectively. (more detail
on the website)


*📝Workshop papers:*
We invite a wide range of research papers. Contributions can include:
visualization activities, online platforms for activities, learning
material, learning goals, taxonomies, visualization guidelines, critical
reflections on conducting visualization activities (teaching experience),
evaluation strategies for activities, teaching approaches, ethical and
critical considerations on activities and teaching.  Reports on activities
could include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many
teaching activities, including a protocol and material of activities
including results and reflections. Materials could include new teaching
material that supports teaching in general and which is ready for
application (slides, visualizations of schema/diagrams/design spaces, cheat
sheets, teaching tools), or targeted to support specific activities
(physical visualization, sketching templates, programming tutorials). We
are particularly interested in ideas about evaluations for both activities
and materials.



*⚽️ Activity description:*
In the 2nd VisActivities workshop, we want to give participants the
opportunity to share their activities in the way they were meant to be
disseminated: by running them. We therefore invite applications to run an
online activity regarding visualization education, design, activism,
interdisciplinary collaboration or beyond. Activities can include, for
example, sketching aids for idea generation, toolkits for visualisation
design, protocols with tangible tokens to help conceptualize quantities for
data visualization; sketching exercises to help activists or other
stakeholders better understand social issues etc.
*Requirements*: The suggested activity must be adapted to online settings,
could account for approximately  1 hour or less and expect a double digit
number of participants. The suggested activities do not need to be
polished: the workshop settings offer a great platform and audience from
which to build upon. Upon request the workshop organisers can help with the
facilitation.
Submission form:  https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9



*😂 Challenges :*
As part of the workshop program, we are collecting opinions and position
statements on visualization education and teaching. We are especially
looking to gather challenges and questions regarding experiences,
methodologies, activities that educators face when teaching data
visualisation concepts in light of Covid-19 but also more broadly.
These challenges will be collected and organised into themes to help
scaffold discussions during the workshop. Depending on participants’
interest these discussions could also form the basis for a shared viewpoint
publication of what the community could be working towards.
*Format:* 200 word text summarizing your positions about the main issues /
challenges about teaching visualization. Submissions can choose to stay
anonymous.
Submission form: https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7


❤️ Enjoy your summer ❤️


ORGANIZERS

Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh
Georgia Panagiotidou, KU Leuven
Mandy Keck, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Jonathan C. Roberts,  Bangor University
Sheelagh Carpendale, Simon Fraser University