Call for Proposals

IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics (July/Aug 2015)

Guest Editors: Sheelagh Carpendale and Melanie Tory

DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2014

The July/August 2015 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications will be devoted to Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics. For this special issue, we solicit papers describing visualization and visual analytics applications designed for use in a personal context, plus discussions of fundamental issues important to the design, development, and success of Personal Visualization & Personal Visual Analytics tools.
 
For each and every one of us as individuals, "big data" impinges on our personal lives as well as our professional lives. This includes our social networks, our expanding photo collections, and our intentions to become more green. Application of Visualization and Visual Analytics research to our personal context offers substantial opportunity to help individuals gain insight and knowledge about themselves and their communities, ranging from health and fitness information, to music listening histories, to records of their interactions with others through social media. However, designing tools to support the analysis of data in one’s non-professional life brings a unique set of research and design challenges.

Personal Visualization (PV) involves the design of interactive visual data representations for use in a personal context. Personal Visual Analytics (PVA) is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by visual representations used within a personal context. Personal context implies a non-professional situation, where people may have different goals, priorities, role expectations, environments, or time and resource budgets than in professional aspects of their lives. PV & PVA aim to empower individuals in their everyday lives to develop insights and discover knowledge relevant to their personal lives.

We welcome papers on a variety of topics, including:

• fundamental issues important to the design of PV & PVA systems (including design issues for home and mobile use contexts, design for visualization and analytics novices, design for low-attentional demand, and so on);
• real-world experiences with designing, building, deploying and evaluating personal visualization and visual analytic systems;
• case studies describing success (and failure) of applying visualization and visual analytics in a personal context; and
• review and evaluation papers discussing or comparing current tools, techniques, and design considerations.

We welcome papers from both commercial and academic sources; from researchers as well as practitioners.

For details and submission guidelines, see
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cgacfp4
Full papers due Nov. 1, 2014.

For inquiries, please contact the guest editors:
Melanie Tory ([email protected])
Sheelagh Carpendale ([email protected])

We look forward to your submission!

About the CG&A

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications bridges the theory and practice of computer graphics. From specific algorithms to full system implementations, CG&A offers a unique combination of peer-reviewed feature articles and informal departments, including product announcements. Theme issues guest edited by leading researchers in their fields track the latest developments and trends in computer graphics. Tutorials and surveys provide a broad overview of interesting and timely topics in computer graphics. Regular departments emphasize areas of general interest including visualization, virtual reality, applications, and opinions. Each month, the story of our cover focuses on creative applications of the technology by an artist or designer. Created in 1981 and published six times a year, CG&A has been indispensable reading for people working at the leading edge of computer graphics technology and its applications in everything from business to the arts.

Sheelagh Carpendale

Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale is an internationally renowned and award-winning leader in information visualization and multi-touch tabletop interaction. A Professor in Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Dr. Carpendale currently holds the NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies and the Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization. Her work has earned her a 2012 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from NSERC; the 2013 ASTech Award for Innovation in Information and Communications Technology; a BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts Interactive Awards); and the 2013 CHCCS Achievement Award, which is presented periodically to a Canadian researcher who has made a substantial contribution to the fields of computer graphics, visualization, or human-computer interaction. She has served in such roles as Papers, Program, or Conference Chair for IEEE InfoVis, and ACM Tabletop and has received both the IEEE and ACM recognition of service awards. As a GRAND NCE researcher, Dr. Carpendale leads the AVID (Aesthetics, Visualization, Interaction, and Design) project investigating the interplay between aesthetics and personalization, generating appealing new ways to visualize and interact with data.

Melanie Tory

Dr. Melanie Tory is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where she conducts research in visualization and visual analytics. A UVic faculty member since 2006, Dr. Tory directs the university's Visual Interaction Design (VisID) research group focused on visualization, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work. She received her doctoral degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 2004 and held an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia from 2004-2006. Her research applies to a wide variety of areas spanning natural sciences and engineering, business, and personal informatics; for example, recent projects have focused on the domains of Business Intelligence and Building Design Engineering. She actively contributes to the visualization research community and is Papers Co-chair for IEEE InfoVis 2014-15. Dr. Tory co-leads the GRAND NCE's NMSL (New Media for Sustainable Living) project exploring how new technologies can promote awareness, encourage conservation, and enable control of energy and water use.