New Directions in Geovisual Analytics: Visualization, Computation, and Evaluation

A GIScience 2018 Workshop sponsored by the ICA Commission on Visual Analytics 

Date: August 28, 2018

Location: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Organizers: Anthony Robinson (Penn State) & Tony Moore (University of Otago)

Worskhop Website: http://viz.icaci.org/GVIZ2018

Theme:

This workshop focuses on eliciting and sharing nascent challenges in visual design, evaluation, and computation in geovisual analytics. The core concept of this workshop is to focus on exploring ideas for new approaches – not simply to recap what has already been accomplished. Toward that end, participants will be asked to submit extended abstracts that describe new research directions in visualization, computation, or evaluation (and may synthesize across these as well). We especially encourage high-risk ideas that have a potentially high-return in terms of scientific and social impact. Potential topics may include:

-          New visual representation types in geovisual analytics

-          Novel computational and visual methods for handling massive, streaming, spatiotemporal data

-          Opportunities for integrating immersive environments and geovisual analytics

-          Artistics approaches for expressing or interacting with big spatial dat

-          New approaches for integrating users in the design of geovisual analytics systems

-          Ideas for integrating sensemaking into geovisual analytics

This workshop will have a discussion-centric format. Accepted talks will be given in short sessions (10min or 5min long) with an emphasis on have ample discussion and networking time connected to each series of talks.

This workshop emphasizes new ideas, not incremental work. One of the review criteria for submissions will be the extent to which a contribution represents a new direction in GIScience. We strongly encourage creative ideas from students and junior faculty, in addition to established scholars.

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts (no longer than six pages in the GIScience 2018 format) by April 27, 2018 to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gvis2018

Review decisions will be communicated to authors on May 27, 2018. Please contact the organizers if you have questions or ideas for proposing workshop activities that would improve the impact of our meeting.