Conferences: Making Visible the Invisible

Call for Papers

University of Huddersfield, UK, March 10th-11th 2011

1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010

Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation, sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, ecology

A two-day conversational* conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation.

In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and abstract clear and visual, others focus on the aesthetic quality of the experience. What many of the works have in common is being the outcome of collaboration across disciplines.

This event seeks not only to contribute to the debate around data visualisation but also to a better understanding of what makes interdisciplinary collaborations successful. We wish to provide a platform for open dialogue and discussion across disciplinary cultures and seek a better understanding of the critical requirements for interdisciplinary collaboration. We ask what are the most fruitful conditions for interdisciplinary collaboration? How can trans-disciplinary understanding be best facilitated?

We are seeking contributions that advance the state of data visualisation through interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular approaches which include:

Sensual, aesthetic, poetic and conceptual approaches
The role of inter-, trans-, or meta-disciplinary collaboration
Methods, case studies or frameworks that facilitate dialogue and exchange across disciplines
Themes around sustainability, ecological literacy or climate change
Physical installations that transcend screen-based modalities
Sonic visualisation and sonification
Interactive and immersive visualisation
Affective visualisation (real time representation of affective data)
Aesthetic and semantic investigation of data sets
Novel interfaces for navigation of data
Human statistical data (such as bio-signal, biological, birth-rates, energy consumption)
Astrophysical data (such as solar wind, cosmic radiation, planetary motions)
‘Displays’ that make use of natural forces such as light, water, fog, wind etc. as outputs
Pollution and environmental data (weather, gravity, volcanoes, earthquakes)
Live data (local and remote)
Neuro-plastic applications
Open APIs, open platforms, open formats, open hardware

Other relevant works concerning the processes of interdisciplinary exchange and scientific data visualisation not directly included in the above categories are also welcome for submission.

Abstract submissions:

Your abstract should not exceed 300 words, be in rtf format and include up to six keywords.
Please write so that everyone can understand. Reviewers will be from multiple disciplines.

Please submit your abstract via Easychair > ADS-VIS2011:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsvis2011
Abstract submission deadline is December 6th, 2010, 24:00 h GMT

All submissions will be reviewed and feedback given to the authors.
Notice of acceptance will be given December 20th. Once accepted, final submission date of a 3000 word (short) paper is February 16th.

Timeline:

6-12-02010 | Your abstract 300 words
20-12-02010 | Notification of acceptance
16-02-02011 | Paper submission, 3000 words

Publication:

Submissions of final papers (3000 words) will be considered for a publication under the University of Huddersfield imprint after peer-review. Each primary author of a peer-reviewed & accepted submission will receive a printed copy. A digital copy of accepted submissions will also be made available on the University of Huddersfield repository.

Journal Publication:

In 2011 The Intellect Journal "Studies in Culture and Innovation" will consider extended papers of up to 7000 words for publication after peer-review.

* Conversational conferences are described here: http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Integrating-the-conversational-format-.pdf

Find more information at: http://www.hohlwelt.com/en/conferences/visible.html

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