[Viz] conference of interest? (fwd)

[Barbara Tversky]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:05:10 +0100
From: Menno-Jan Kraak <kraak at itc.nl>
Subject: 04-179 Geovisualisation - options to publish

Dear all,

Some questions were asked in relation to our discussion of further
publication and activities in relation the GISciene conference and the
Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments.

We just send off the following call - and you are all invited as well.

Also have a look at http://www.itc.nl/personal/kraak/esf/ for the report
of our meeting on Greece. Some of you still have to send their links!

MJ

ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual Environments members:
+ other interested researchers 
(please circulate to those you think will be interested)

Call for participation: Workshop and Paper Sessions - distributed
geovisualization 

The 2004 meeting of the ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual
Environments is planned in conjunction with the GIScience-conference in
the United States (http://www.giscience.org/) which takes place October
20-23 in University College Maryland. 

The Commission will sponsor 2 kinds of activity. 

1. Geovisualization developers workshop. The Commission will organize a
geovisualization developers workshop on the 20th Oct. -- devoted to
demonstrations, presentations, discussion, and sharing focused on recent
geovisualization software developments. We invite abstracts for these
demo/presentation sessions -- deadline for receipt is June 28 -- e-mail
to: maceachren at psu.edu & kraak at itc.nl. Participation is not limited to
Commission members/non-members, so if you have developed innovative
geovisualization applications in any development environment, for any
platform, we welcome your submission.

2. Geovisualization paper sessions. During the main GIScience event, the
Commission will organize several parallel sessions on Distributed
Geovisualization. Entry to these sessions can be obtain via the
"extended abstract" channel of the main conference web site (deadline
for abstracts June 28 -- http://www.giscience.org/). The abstracts will
be judged as all other conference submissions. We anticipate inviting
authors of a selection from these papers to submit full papers for
inclusion in a special peer reviewed journal issue (with a deadline for
full papers in early Oct.).

For both of these activities, we are particularly interested in
stimulating discussion and idea sharing about distributed
geovisualization -- geovisualization distributed among components (in
component-oriented software), geovisualization that draws upon
distributed data resources, geovisualization that is distributed in
space (e.g., on mobile devices), and geovisualization distributed among
individuals (thus collaborative geovisualization). The activities above
are not, however, restricted to these topics. We welcome submissions
directed to any parts of the science goals within the current Commission
"terms of reference" (see below)

Beyond the Commission-organized activities at GIScience, you are (of
course) welcome to submit your geovisualization-oriented papers to
GIScience as full papers for their planned refereed publication
(deadline April 12). 

We hope to see many of you at the Commission Workshop and/or the
GIScience 2004 conference.

regards,
Alan MacEachren
Menno-Jan Kraak

ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual Environments Terms of
Reference -- scientific goals for 2003-2006

To study and report on the changing and expanding role of maps in
science, decision-making, policy formulation, and society in general due
to the continuing technological and conceptual advances that enable new
map forms used as visual thinking/decision-support tools. During this
term, particular attention will be directed to four cross-cutting themes
identified in research agenda setting activities of the Commission
during its previous term. These cross-cutting themes will serve as a
starting point for work - with Commission activities over the four years
expected to progress beyond initial goals. The themes and the initial
target problem within each are: (1) leveraging advances in display and
interface technology for cartographic representation - to develop the
understanding and integrated technologies that make it possible to take
advantage of the potential offered by increasingly experiential
representation technologies; (2) developing and extending
geovisualization methods and tools to support knowledge construction -
to develop extensible methods and tools that enable understanding of,
and insight to be derived from, the increasingly large and complex
geospatial data sets becoming available. (3) supporting multi-user
geovisualization - To develop a new generation of geovisualization
methods and tools that support group work; (4) understanding
geovisualization users and meeting their needs - to develop a
human-centered approach to geovisualization.
________________________________________________ 
Prof . dr. Menno-Jan Kraak 
ITC
International Institute of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
Department of GeoInformation Processing 
PO Box 6, 7500 AA  Enschede (postal) 
Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede (visiting) 
the Netherlands 
+31 53 4874463 / +31 53 4874335 (fax) 
kraak at itc.nl 
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