Call for Participation in a Workshop at the Second International
Conference on e-Social Science*
* User Requirements of Visualization in e-Research*
Organisers: Joanna Leng, Colin C. Venters, Tobias M. Schiebeck and Wes
Sharrock
Visualisation has been identified as a key enabling technology in
realizing the research vision of e-Social Science. Computational
visualization has been applied to many application areas and has been
defined both by users and developers of the technology. One useful
definition comes from Spence “Visualization is the process of
transforming information into a visual form in order to allow the viewer
to understand the relationships and findings that are not readily
evident from the raw data or to gain greater insight into data the has
been visualised at a primitive level”. This workshop is intended for
social scientists from all disciplines who are interested in the field
of visualization.
Aims:
The aim of this workshop is to enable an exchange of information between
those who are familiar with, experienced in or advocating the use of
visualisation technologies with potential users who have only limited
familiarity or understanding of how visualization can be applied in
their research. The workshop will provide the opportunity for those who
are unfamiliar with the techniques and technologies to engage with
practioners and advocates to understand how visualization can be
utilised in the field of social science.
* Is visualisation a wasted opportunity, or only a technology in
search of an application?
* Are visualisation techniques potentially very useful, but, as yet,
poorly adopted to user needs?
Presentations:
The format of the workshop will include a series of short positional
statements from invited speakers drawn from a cross-section of the
disciplines including anthropology, economics, geography, informatics,
and computer science. Amongst the speakers will be Rob Proctor, Simon
Peters, Mike Batty, David Zeitlyn and Nick Crossley.
Intended Audience:
The audience are invited to submit a short extended abstract stating
their interest. This is a user requirements capture exercise so
information from the abstracts will be used in a report resulting from
this workshop. However submitting an abstract is not a requirement to
attend. Abstracts will be included in the proceedings if it is submitted
before 14^th of May. Audience participants should state in their
abstract whether they will be showing examples of visualization on the
day. There will be a discussion session at the end of the day where the
audience are encouraged to contribute.
Full details of the submission process can be found at the NCeSS web
site http://www.ncess.ac.uk/ and submission should state that the paper
is for the workshop entitled: “User Requirements of Visualization in
e-Research”. There will be proceedings for the conference, which will be
provided in CD format. Informal enquiries about the mini-workshop can be
directed to Joanna Leng, [log in to unmask]
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