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Call for Papers:
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries - Its Past, Present, and Future
http://vw.indiana.edu/visual01/
a workshop at the First ACM & IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
http://www.jcdl.org/
June 28th 2001, Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, VA, USA

*** Expected audience:
The workshop is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate
students in the areas of information visualization, digital libraries,
human-computer interaction, library and information science,
and computer science.

*** Description:
The primary aim of the workshop is to raise the awareness of several
interconnected fields of research related to the design and use of visual
interfaces to digital libraries, especially in information visualization,
human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology. This
workshop also aims to stimulate participants to reflect on the state
of the art in their own fields by identifying challenging issues
concerning visual interfaces and thereby fostering a multidisciplinary
research agenda for future research and development.

*** Objectives:
To provide a stimulating forum for researchers in information
     visualization and digital libraries to share their views, experiences,
     and plans.
To raise the awareness of the state of the art in related fields of research.
To identify a research agenda concerning the role of visual interfaces
     in digital library research.
To exploit potentially useful theories, methodologies, and technologies.
To establish long-term interdisciplinary collaboration between
     researchers from different fields.

*** Important Dates
May 1st: Submissions of 2-page position paper
May 10th: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers
May 15th: Early registration deadline for JCDL
June 15th: Submission of camera-ready copy of papers (max 6 pages)
June 28th: Workshop

*** Submission & Selection
You are invited to submit a 2-page position paper by May 1st.
The camera-ready copy of accepted papers can be up to 6 pages long.
Paper format  of accepted papers has to follow the guidelines
in the ACM templates given under 'Submissions' on the
main JCDL webpage at http://www.jcdl.org/.

*** Planned publications: Workshop participants will be invited to produce
an extended version of their work for publication in an edited book in
the Springer Book Series on Information Visualization to provide a
comprehensive coverage of the topic to a wider audience.

*** Chairs:
Katy Börner
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA
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Chaomei Chen
Department of Information Systems
Brunel University, UK
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*** Program Committee:
Ann Blandford, Middlesex University, UK
Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Martin Dodge, University College London, UK
Xia Lin, Drexel University, USA
John MacColl, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sougata Mukherjea, Bea systems, USA
Sue O'Hare, Research Group, Consignia, UK
Henry Small, Institute for Scientific Information, USA

For more information, connect to:
http://vw.indiana.edu/visual01/


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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: [log in to unmask]
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy