[Infovis] Final CFP and EA: AVI 2024 workshop on Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2024)

[Masood Masoodian]

*Call for Papers – Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2024)
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*AVI 2024 Workshop 
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*3 or 4 June 2024 – Arenzano, Italy*

*More info: http://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2024/*



*ABOUT THE WORKSHOP*
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Maps have been used for centuries as a tool for exploring the real and 
the imagined, the physical and the metaphysical worlds. Today, in the 
world of technology, maps also play an important role as an underlying 
representation tool, forming the basis for a wide range of digital 
devices, applications, and services. Despite this, there are hardly any 
venues for sharing of research and design expertise, learnings, 
practices, and experiences of the use of maps and map-like 
visualizations in the context of visual interfaces and interactions. 
This workshop aims to fill this gap by providing a much-needed 
interdisciplinary forum focusing on map-based interface and interactions.

This workshop is part of the 17th International Conference on Advanced 
Visual Interfaces, and is supported by the IFIP TC 13 Working Group on 
Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability.


*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*
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The main objective of this workshop is to create an interdisciplinary 
forum for sharing of research, design, and practical expertise, 
practices, and experiences that are currently dispersed across different 
disciplines. Therefore, the workshop aims to bring together participants 
from all the related disciplines, including visualization, visual 
design, interaction design, user interface design, and cartography, and 
by doing so support the participants’ research and design work in 
creating novel future map-based interfaces and interactions across a 
wide range of application areas.

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 are 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, games 
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 position papers with group 
discussions, aimed at assisting the authors and other participants with 
developing their research and design ideas. The workshop will include a 
hands-on group activity, as part of which the participants work in small 
groups to perform map-based design tasks and create visual sketches for 
an interactive map-based application tool.

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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The workshop short paper submissions should be of maximum 6 pages, and 
the extended abstracts should be 1-2 pages. Submissions should be in PDF 
format,and prepared according to the ACM Primary Article Template 
(https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

Submissions should be made through Easychair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapii2024).

The workshop programme committee will review the submitted short papers 
and extended abstracts, and select 10-15 submissions for presentation at 
the workshop based on their quality, relevance to the workshop topics, 
and potential to raise interesting discussions at the workshop.

Accepted submissions will be shared with the workshop participants. The 
authors of the submissions will be invited to contribute an extended 
version of their submission to a special issue of a peer-reviewed 
journal we are currently negotiating. In addition, the workshop will 
include a discussion session on future publications in, for instance, a 
co-authored report or journal article for dissemination of the workshop 
findings.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
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Submission deadline: 25 March 2024
Notification: 08 April 2024
Camera-ready: 29 April 2024
Workshop date: 03 or 04 June 2024


*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)


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