[Sigvis-l] International Symposium on Collaborative Information Visualization Environments

[Katy Borner]

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International Symposium on Collaborative Information Visualization
Environments, IV03-CIVE
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/CIVE.htm
See also http://vw.indiana.edu/cive03
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16 - 17 - 18 July 2003
SOAS, University of London
LONDON ENGLAND
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Call for Papers and Participation

An increasing number of commercial, research, and educational projects
are collaborative efforts that bring together people with different
skills and expertise. Computers are evolving into mediators of
human-to-human and human-to-data interaction. Domain experts are often
spread out in space and across time zones and consultation and
collaboration has to proceed remotely instead of face-to-face.
Distributed teams need to collaborate and access shared data while some
of their team members are outside of their office environments,
presenting a new set of challenges in terms of data usage and share.
Collaborative information visualization environments (CIVEs) enable
users to interact both with visualizations of data -- e.g. access,
explore, visualize and manipulate data -- as well as enabling them to
interact with one another. Such user-user interactions may involve
referring to the data visualizations: e.g. users can chat with one
another and, in the process, be able to refer to elements of the
visualization; and/or users can annotate a part or state or even
recorded segment of the visualization so that others can see and comment
on it later. In addition, CIVEs often visualize user interactions
themselves to facilitate information access, collaboration, and
decision-making.

Currently, research on CIVEs is published in diverse subject areas such
as:
* Visual interfaces to digital libraries
* Collaborative filtering, problem solving, or learning
* Organizational memory / collective intelligence / collaborative memory
palaces
* Mobile computing
* Communicative environments
* Digital cities
* Social computing / distributed meetings
* Social visualization
* (Usability) studies of CIVEs

In organizing this symposium, we wish to bring together original CIVE
research pertinent to the design and/or evaluation of CIVEs from these
different subject areas.

OBJECTIVES
The symposium is a forum for discussion about CIVEs designed for various
user groups, application domains, and interfaces such as 2-D desktop
interfaces, 3-D virtual environments/virtual worlds, handheld devices,
etc. that utilize different information Visualization algorithms,
interaction techniques, and modes of collaboration (e.g. Synchronous,
asynchronous). Main objectives include, but are not limited to:
* Increase our understanding of the design requirements for CIVEs.
* Closely examine long-term use of particular CIVEs.
* Identify collaborative practices in collocated visualization processes
that might be supported in CIVEs.
* Gain a better understanding of architectural and infrastructure
requirements for CIVEs.

You are invited to participate in the discussion by submitting papers
and attending the Symposium.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their work for review and publication in a special journal issue on
this topic.
Last years papers are available online at http://vw.indiana.edu/cive02/.

Supported by:
GraphicsLink
VGRU, SCISM, South Bank University, UK
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, USA
Department of Visual Art, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Computer Graphics & Modelling Group - DMU Milton Keynes, UK
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
Motorola UK Research Lab
Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, SA
Mixed Reality Ltd, UK
Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of
Bradford, UK
University of Balearic Islands, Spain
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Technical University Graz, Austria

Co-operated by:
Information Visualisation Society

PreConference Workshop and Tutorials on 15 July 2003:
Workshop: CMV 2003 - International Symposium on Co-ordinated & Multiple
Views in Exploratory Visualization associated with IV'03, London, UK

Tutorial: Mapping Scientific Frontiers, Chaomei Chen, Ph.D, Drexel
University, USA

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Important Dates:
7 March 2002 -  Submission of papers and  Submission of tutorials &
pre-conference courses
05 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes

Further details and registration form are available at the conference
website:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/CIVE.htm

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Dr Katy Börner
Information Science & School of Informatics, Indiana University, 10th
Street & Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Phone: +01 812 855-3256, Fax: +01 812 855-6166
E-mail: katy at indiana.edu

OR

Dr. Raquel Navarro-Prieto, Motorola UK Research Lab
Viables Industrial Estate, Jays Close, Basingstoke RG22 4PD, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1256 484037, Fax: +44 (0) 1256 471383
E-mail: Raquel.Navarro-prieto at motorola.com


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Katy Borner, Assistant Professor
Information Science & Cognitive Science
Indiana University, SLIS
10th Street & Jordan Avenue     Phone:  (812) 855-3256   Fax: -6166
Main Library 019                E-mail: katy at indiana.edu
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy