[Infovis] CFP: INTERACT 2023 workshop on Designing Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2023)

[Masood Masoodian]

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Call for Papers – Designing Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 
2023)


INTERACT 2023 Workshop 


28 August 2023 – York, UK

More info: http://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2023/

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
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Maps, in their many forms, have long been used to guide and coordinate 
different human activities, ranging from local to global, and small 
scale to large scale. As such, maps continue to play a central role as 
the basis for a wide variety of interactive tools and applications in 
our modern digital age as well. This workshop aims to bring together 
researchers, designers and practitioners interested in maps and map-like 
visualizations as the underlying physical, theoretical, or metaphorical 
framework for designing interfaces and interactions. This workshop will 
create a common ground and a collaborative space for sharing design, 
research, and practical expertise to aid its participants with creating 
novel future map-based designs in different fields, including 
visualization, visual design, interaction design, user interface design, 
and cartography.

This workshop is part of INTERACT 2023, and is supported by the IFIP TC 
13 Working Group on Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability (WG 13.10).


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The primary objective of this workshop is to create common ground and a 
collaborative space for sharing design, research, and practical 
expertise, practices, learnings, and experiences to help its 
participants with creating novel future map-based designs in different 
fields, including visualization, visual design, interaction design, user 
interface design, and cartography.

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a short paper 
describing their interests and work related to the topics of this 
workshop. Some of the main topics to be covered by this workshop will 
include, but not limited to, the following:

– Research and design foundations of map-based interfaces and interactions.

– Theories, principles and practices guiding the design of map-based 
interfaces and interactions.

– Applications of map-based interfaces and interactions, in areas such 
environment, sustainability, epidemiology, healthcare, education, and 
entertainment.

– User evaluations of map-based interfaces and interactions.


WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
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This one-day workshop will be informal and interactive, combining short 
presentations of the accepted workshop papers with group discussions, 
aimed at assisting the authors and other participants with developing 
their research and design ideas. The workshop will also include a 
hands-on group activity. As part of this, the workshop participants will 
work in small groups to perform map-based tasks and create design 
sketches for an interactive application. The designs will then be shared 
at the main conference.

We hope to run the workshop in person at the conference. Provisions 
will, however, be made to run the workshop in remote or hybrid mode if 
necessary.


SUBMISSIONS
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Workshop paper submissions should be of maximum 10 pages, and prepared 
according to the Springer LNCS format, using the templates provided for 
CS Proceedings and other Multiauthor Volumes 
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Submissions should be made through Easychair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapii2023.

The workshop programme committee will review the submitted position 
papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based 
on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics.

In addition to sharing the accepted workshop papers with its 
participants, the authors will be invited to submit extended version of 
their papers for inclusion in an edited volume, to be published by 
INTERACT 2023 organizers. Furthermore, the workshop will include a 
discussion session on future publications in, for instance, a special 
issue of an international journal and/or a co-authored report for 
dissemination of the workshop findings.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 24 April 2023
Notification: 08 May 2023
Camera-ready: 22 May 2023
Workshop date: 28 August 2023


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Shane Sheehan, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Artemis Skarlatidou, University College London (UK)
Thomas Rist, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)


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Prof. Masood Masoodian
Visual Communication Design
Aalto University
avcd.aalto.fi