We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization and visual analytics. The workshops venue at VisWeek provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas.

Workshops should:

• emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium, or
• bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions.

A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VisWeek are open to all registered attendees.

Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. If you wish to have your materials considered for printed publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia.

Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics.

Proposals should include:

• title
• contact details of the organizers
• brief description of organizers' background, related publications and research
• goals, technical scope, the mission, or proposed focus
• planned activities
• length (full or half day)
• statement of the organization and development of the list of participants (intended size, selection procedure)
• organization of facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format)
• intended result & impact of the workshop results.

The proposal should not exceed 4 pages, and should be submitted via email directly to the chairs at workshops@visweek.org.

The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research
• ability to attract people and make them excited about it
• appropriateness with visweek topics
• qualification of the organizers
• feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.)
• coherence of the proposed topic

In addition the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to have an heterogeneous program.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline: June 20, 2011

For further information, please email workshops@visweek.org.

Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines.