VINCI 2014 - The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. It has been successfully employed in knowledge discovery, end-user programming, modeling, rapid systems prototyping, education, and design activities by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and Web technology, and electronic mobile devices.
Papers and Posters
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of visual communication and interaction across a wide spectrum of interests and disciplines, including computer science, design, arts, sociology, anthropology and psychology. We are particularly interested in work that bridges the divide between technology, art and design. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Area 1: Visualization methodologies
Information visualization
Graph drawing and visualization
Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension
Visual metaphors and symbols
Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors
Design theory in the digital age
Aesthetics in visual communication and digital media
Interaction methods (touch-based, haptic, vision-based, multi-modality
Big Data
Visual languages
Diagrams
Art + Science
Area 2: Visualization applications
Visual Analytics
Sketching
Graphical user interface design
Software visualization
Visual approaches to knowledge discovery
Visualization on mobile devices
Animation
Game design
Biological visualizations
Area 3: Visual design and art
Interaction design
Interactive art
Infographie and data-driven art
Visual perception and cognition
Multimedia
Virtual actors
Interactive storytelling
Augmented reality and its applications
Virtual reality and its applications
Computational (or digital) aesthetics
Wearable computers
Ubiquitous / responsive environments
Entertainment technology
Papers can be submitted as long papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers, including workshop papers, will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (to be confirmed), as has been the case in previous years. Like VINCI 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 papers, accepted 2014 papers will be EI-indexed. Selected papers will be published in special issues of appropriate journals including the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) and International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). Papers must be written in English.
Workshops and Tutorials
VINCI14 is also soliciting proposals for full-day and half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Workshops and tutorials will be held on August 5, 2014. Proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages and should include:
Outline of the topic
A proposed agenda
A brief bio of the convenors
A list of any requirements for running the workshop or tutorial, such as access to computer labs, data projectors, group work-tables
Proposals, and any related queries, should be sent by email to: vinci2014-AT-easychair.org