CeDEM 2014

• Title: CeDEM 2014, Track: Rethinking Information Visualization for the People
• Date: May 21 - 23, 2014
• Location: Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
• Proceedings Publisher: Edition Donau-Universität Krems
• Homepage: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

Call for Papers: From its early pioneering days to its current mass application as statistic data visualizations or interactive infographics, information visualization has been striving for academic elaboration, discussion of the methods and the broadening of the target audiences. This topic, found between communication science, information design, computer science, visual analytics, image science, and journalism, is to be explored with case studies, applications and evaluations, as well as conceptual or theoretical contributions.

• Translational work between these fields (cf. Danziger, 2008; Zambrano & Engelhardt, 2008);
• Optimizing graphic representations so as to provide insights into complex subject matters;
• The extent to which non-expert audiences be adressed effectively, and the levels of visual literacy that need be developed;
• Learning from the past: success, pitfalls and relevant criteria;
• Current and future developments in the emerging field of data journalism or other public communication domains;

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 06, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: 7 February 2014
• Submission site: [EasyChair CeDEM14]