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- From: senay@seas.gwu.edu (Hikmet Senay)
- Subject: Workshop on Automated Design of Visualizations
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.180944.5131@seas.gwu.edu>
- Sender: senay@seas.gwu.edu (Hikmet Senay)
- Organization: George Washington University
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:09:44 GMT
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- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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- WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED DESIGN OF VISUALIZATIONS
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- Sponsored by IEEE Visualization '92 Conference
- October 19, 1992
- Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers
- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Visualization is becoming an essential part of data analysis and subsequent
- decision making in many diverse disciplines where data analysts and decision
- makers typically do not possess all the knowledge needed for designing
- effective visualizations. This situation is primarily attributable to the
- interdisciplinary nature of the design process. In addition to the knowledge
- of application domain, the design process involves the utilization of knowledge
- from such diverse fields as computer science, perceptual psychology, and visual
- arts. One possible approach to coping with this diversity requires a team
- effort which, however, tends to increase the design time. An alternative and
- perhaps more promising approach is to design systems that are capable of
- automating the design of visualizations.
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- This one-day workshop will focus on the latter approach and attempt to bring
- researchers and developers who are actively involved in automating the design
- of visualizations. The goals of this workshop are: (1) to establish a
- conceptual foundation for automating the design of visualizations; (2) to
- investigate alternative frameworks and models for automation; (3) to identify
- and model various types of knowledge necessary for visualization; and (4) to
- discuss how each knowledge type can be utilized within alternative frameworks.
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- WORKSHOP TOPICS
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- The following list of topics, that is not limiting by any means, outlines the
- workshop foci in some detail.
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- I. Foundations and Relation to Other Fields
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- - Scientific visualization design process
- - Purpose of automation: "default", "standard", "optimal",
- representations; high throughput, stimulus for developing
- cleaner and more structured approaches, etc.
- - Which phases of the design process can be automated?
- - How much automation is possible in visualization?
- - How much human intervention/involvement is required/needed?
- - Adaptive display design and automation approaches
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- II. Frameworks and Models
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- - Theoretical frameworks (theories/models/methodologies) vs.
- computational frameworks (practical systems)
- - How closely can methodologies be followed? What tools are
- missing?
- - Complete models of visualisation automation vs. component
- models - when do component compositions break down for
- cognitive/perceptual reasons?
- - How formal do we have to get to embed knowledge/intelligence?
- - Practical constraints: dependence of automation effectiveness
- on technology issues (tools, display resolution - spatial,
- spectral, temporal - etc.)
- - Relevant properties of data (data modeling issues)
- - Goal- and task-specific visualization
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- III. Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling
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- - Taxonomy of visualization knowledge (What types of knowledge
- are needed/used for visualization?)
- - How do we get this knowledge? (Methods for visualization
- knowledge acquisition)
- - The role of domain-specific knowledge in designing/choosing
- visualization techniques
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- IV. Application of Knowledge Within Frameworks
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- - Methods of automating decision making/support: rules, matching,
- optimisation, etc.
- - Context-sensitive automation (contexts: user, data, aims,
- representations)
- - Context-dependent and context-independent automation (contexts:
- users, data, aims, representations)
- - Standard characterizations of components of automation
- approaches
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- PARTICIPATION
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- Workshop participation will be limited to thirty people. It is expected that
- all participants are active researchers and/or developers in the area.
- Participants should submit position papers to the workshop organizers through
- electronic mail, airmail or fax by September 15. Position papers could be
- review, original research contributions, extensions of previous work,
- applications briefs, or other contributions of interest and value. Participants
- will be selected based on the merit of their position papers by a small
- committee including the workshop organizers. We plan to publish accepted
- position papers which will be revised and extended based on the workshop
- findings in a post-workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press.
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- FEE
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- There is a $50 workshop registration fee with which a lunch, snacks during
- breaks, and a bound copy of the participants position papers are provided.
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- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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- Philip K. Robertson
- CSIRO Division of Information Technology
- GPO Box 664
- Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
- Email : phil@csis.dit.csiro.au
- Phone : +61-6-2750933
- Fax : +61-6-2571052
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- Hikmet Senay
- EE&CS Department
- The George Washington University
- 801 22nd Street, N.W.
- Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
- Email : senay@seas.gwu.edu
- Phone : (202) 994-5910
- Fax : (202) 994-0227
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