IMPORTANT NOTE: Submissions should be emailed as attachments to panels@ieeevis.org

IEEE VIS 2014 Panels should address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels including potential users of visualization technology (e.g. practitioners and industry professionals) or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g. perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) would also be welcome. Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a stimulating, interactive debate.

Panel proposals should describe the topic to be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of which should be limited to 500 words for each panelist, up to a maximum of four pages for the whole panel.

Panels are scheduled for the duration of an entire paper session; panel proposals should thus target one hour and 40 minutes total duration, including question and discussion periods. We strongly recommend that in order to keep to time, the chair of the panel is not one of the panel speakers.

Panel organizers should also submit a short description of the panel format and schedule (max. 1 page). This should be in a separate document from the proposal itself, and should describe the order of topics to be discussed, time to be spent on panelist presentations, and mechanisms for encouraging audience participation. Based on audience feedback, the duration of panelist presentations should allow ample time for intra-panel discussion and discussions between the panel and the audience.

We also note that submitting similar topics to multiple venues (e.g. panels and workshops) is likely to result in at most one accepted proposal so that a broad range of topics can be presented at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline: Sunday, June 29, 2014

For more information contact: Jo Wood, Jing Yang, and Daniel Keefe at panels(at)ieeevis.org.