2018-01-09: CFP: BDVA 2018: 4th International Workshop on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics, Konstanz, Germany (Deadline: June 24, 2018)

4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018)

2nd Call for Papers

Konstanz, Germany - October 17th to October 19th 2018

The BDVA 2018 Symposium is calling for contributions in the area of Visual Analytics and Immersive Analytics of Big Data. Submit your work and be part of a vibrant venue that will bring together an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and workshops: http://bdva.net

Visual Analytics plays a major role in the analysis and decision-making processes for science, industry, and government organisations. It is one of the best ways we have for making sense of large and complex data sets. Reflecting its history of encouraging research into less-traditional approaches to visual analytics, this year BDVA has broadened scope to include the emerging field of Immersive Analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to support data understanding and decision making everywhere and by everyone, working individually or collaboratively. It aims to make embodied tools that are intuitive, engaging, and make the best possible use of all sensory channels. This may be achieved through the use of immersive virtual environment technologies, natural interfaces or responsive analytics, but is not tied to the use of any particular technology. Immersive Analytics brings promising opportunities to interact with Big Data coming from geo-science, biomedical applications, collective behaviour, text mining, crime analysis, among other application domains.

Symposium topics include but are not limited to:

• Theoretical Foundations of Immersive Analytics
• Immersive Storytelling
• Collaborative Visual and Immersive Analytics
• Personalized Visual and Immersive Analytics
• Use of Mixed Reality for Analytics including Situated Analytics
• Visual, Audio, Haptic, and Multisensory Data Presentation including Data Physicalization
• Human-Computer Interaction including Use of Natural Interfaces for Analytics
• Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making of Big or Complex Data
• Scalable Visual and Immersive Analytics including HPC for Visualisation
• Responsive Analytic Algorithms for Interactive Data Exploration
• Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation
• Context-Semantics-driven Visual and Immersive Analytics
• Processes & Tools for Building Visual and Immersive Analytics Applications
• Applications and Case Studies

Submission Info

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished regular papers of 4 to 9 pages (+ 2 pages for references) that report novel and mature work. Paper quality versus length will be assessed based on a contribution-per-page judgment. The symposium proceedings will be will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. It is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one of the authors. All accepted papers will be presented during the symposium. Presenters must register before the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the symposium proceedings and programme. Abstracts are due on 20 June 2018 and full papers deadline is on 1 July 2018.

General Chair

Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany

Program Chairs

M. Eduard Gröller, TU Wien, Austria

Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia

Program Committee (Partial)

Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh

Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen

Tomasz Bednarz, UNSW Art & Design, CSIRO Data61

Silvia Castro, Universidad Nacional del Sur

Jian Chen, The Ohio State University

Maxime Cordeil, Monash University

Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland

Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO

Martin Falk, Linköping University

Carla Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Issei Fujishiro, Keio University

Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin

Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft

Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart

Tony Huang Swinburne, University of Technology

Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University

Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney

Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz

Steffen Koch, University of Ulm

Nils Kriege, TU Dortmund

Michael Krone, University of Tübingen

Bongshin Lee, Microsoft

Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis

G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center

Frank Maurer, University of Calgary

Quang Vinh Nguyen, Western Sydney University

Aruquia Peixoto, CEFET/RJ

Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University

Bahador Saket, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology

Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock

Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu

Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia

Manuela Waldner, Vienna University of Technology

Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University

Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University

Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas

Organising Chairs

Alexandra Diehl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Germany

Publicity Chair

Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King’s College London, UK