EuroVA 2021

Workshop

EuroVA 2021 is the twelfth international EuroVis workshop on Visual Analytics.

It will take place on Monday, June 14, 2021 in the online world around Zurich, Switzerland and is co-located with Eurovis 2021 the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (https://www.eurovis.org/).

Visual Analytics is a problem-solving and sense-making approach that integrates analytical computations, visual representations, and interaction. It includes the analysis of complex (massive, heterogeneous, dynamic, uncertain, …) data and information for gaining understanding, building knowledge, and inferring insight. Visual Analytics aims at a synergistic collaboration of humans and computers mediated through interactive visual interfaces. As such, Visual Analytics is an interdisciplinary field of research, including aspects of visualization, human-computer interaction, data science, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences.

EuroVA 2021 is the premier workshop in Europe to present and discuss fresh ideas on new methods and theories, novel applications, designs, and studies on the use of Visual Analytics methods and systems. The workshop will accept a wide range of contributions within the broad area of Visual Analytics, including novel techniques, systems, applications, evaluation studies and methods, and theoretical foundations, as well as fresh viewpoints on future challenges and critical reflections. 

EuroVA proceedings will be published in EG Digital Library. From 2020 EuroVA is also included in Scopus. Following the workshop, selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue  of the Elsevier journal Computers and Graphics..

Call for Submissions

EuroVA seeks to attract innovative, fresh and creative ideas with a high potential of becoming significant contributions to the Visual Analytics community. 

We welcome contributions within the broad area of Visual Analytics, including:

  • research papers presenting novel techniques or systems, evaluation studies and methods, and theoretical foundations, 
  • application papers that describe success stories of Visual Analytics in practice, as well as fresh 
  • position papers expressing novel and potentially controversial viewpoints on Visual Analytics. 

Topics

The workshop covers topics in the area of Visual Analytics including, but not limited to:

  • Immersive analytics
  • User-centered aspects in Visual Analytics
  • Decision making through Visual Analytics
  • Explainable AI through Visual Analytics
  • Scalable Visual Analytics
  • Visual Analytics for machine learning & machine learning for Visual Analytics 
  • Uncertainty-aware Visual Analytics 
  • Visual Analytics in Data Science
  • Interaction techniques 
  • Novel data representations
  • Visual analysis of analytical processes and provenance
  • Infrastructures, systems, frameworks, and architectures
  • Evaluation and user studies
  • Methodologic and theoretical foundations of Visual Analytics
  • Visual Analytics applications, including but not limited to sports, medicine, biology, finance, security, telecommunication, travel, humanities …

Of special interest this year are papers relating to:

  • Visual Analytics for Social Good
  • Visual Analytics of sets
  • Human factors in decision making through Visual Analytics
  • Mixed-initiative approaches and learning from user interaction
  • COVID-19

Important Dates

  • Submission: February 26, 2021 February 28, 2021
  • Notification: April 12, 2021
  • Camera-ready: May 10, 2021
  • Workshop: June 14, 2021

All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated.

Submission Guidelines

Papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVA LaTeX template, which can be downloaded here: download link

Papers are to be submitted via the new PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/eurova21a 

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop to present the accepted work. 

Publication and Special Issue Papers

The EuroVA 2020 Workshop Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association, and be stored on the Eurographics Digital Library.

Following the workshop, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of  Computers and Graphics. Further details will be announced soon.

Organizers

Program chairs

  • Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Jürgen Bernard, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Publicity chair

  • Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Steering Committee

  • Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Germany
  • Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany

International Program Committee

NataliaAndrienkoFraunhofer Institute IAIS
MarcoAngeliniUniversity of Rome “La Sapienza”
PeterBakIBM Haifa Research Lab
DavidBorlandUNC-Chapel Hill
NadiaBoukhelifaINRAE
JaegulChooKAIST
MatthewCooperLinköping University
MichaelCorrellTableau Software
R. JordanCrouserSmith College
MennatallahEl-AssadyUniversity of Konstanz
GeoffreyEllisUniversity of Konstanz
FlorianHeimerlUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
ChristophHeinzlUniversity of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
PetraIsenbergUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LRI
JimmyJohanssonLinköping University
SteffenKochUniversity of Stuttgart
RobertKrügerJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
MartinLuboschikUniversity of Rostock
RossMaciejewskiArizona State University
G. ElisabetaMaraiUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
KresimirMatkovicVRVis Research Center
LauraMcNamaraSandia National Laboratories
TomaszOpachNorwegian University of Science and Technology
PaulParsonsPurdue University
BernhardPreimUniversity of Magdeburg
AlexanderRindSt. Poelten University of Applied Sciences
PanagiotisRitsosBangor University
JonathanRobertsBangor University
RoyRuddleUniversity of Leeds
GiuseppeSantucciSapienza University of Rome
TobiasSchreckGraz University of Technology
AidanSlingsbyCity, University of London
MarcStreitJohannes Kepler University Linz
ChristianTominskiUniversity of Rostock
ThomasTorsney-WeirSwansea University
CagatayTurkayUniversity of Warwick
XiaoruYuanPeking University