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Posted on April 10, 2012
Cover Image on the Information Visualization Journal issue at April 2012
A figure from our paper Guiding the interactive exploration of metabolic pathway interconnections was selected to be the cover image of the Information Visualization Journal issue at April 2012; 11(2).
Posted on February 10, 2012
Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 12372
Prof. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 12372 on Biological Data Visualization.
Posted on February 1, 2012SIGRAD 2012 Conference
We will host the annual SIGRAD 2012 Conference at Linnaeus University, Växjö, in November 2012.
Posted on January 9, 2012Editorial Board
Prof. Andreas Kerren is an editorial board member of the Information Visualization Journal, SAGE Publications, since 2012.
Posted on January 9, 2012Information Engineering Center at LNU
The ISOVIS group is part of the Information Engineering Center (IEC) at LNU. Here, Prof. Kerren leads the interest group IG4 on Information Visualization.
The kickoff meeting for this center will take place on Jan 10-11, 2012, in Kalmar and Växjö. It will also be broadcasted via Internet.
Posted on December 19, 2011Best Paper Award
The ISOVIS group won a Best Paper Award of the VDA 2012 conference in Burlingame, CA, USA. The title of the contribution is Visualization of Mappings between the Gene Ontology and Cluster Trees.
Posted on December 19, 2011Licentiate Thesis Defense 
On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Ilir Jusufi will defend his licentiate thesis in Computer Science. The thesis is entitled "Towards the Visualization of Multivariate Biochemical Networks".
Posted on November 8, 2011Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 12081
Prof. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 12081 on Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.
Posted on October 19, 2011Special Issue: State of the Field and New Research Directions
Our Special Issue on Information Visualization: State of the Field and New Research Directions has been finally published in the Information Visualization Journal. Guest Editors were Andreas Kerren, Catherine Plaisant, and John T. Stasko.
Posted on March 25, 2011Organization of Dagstuhl-Seminar 13201
Prof. Kerren will organize the Dagstuhl-Seminar 13201 on Information Visualization - Towards Multivariate Network Visualization together with Helen C. Purchase (University of Glasgow, UK) and Matt Ward (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US). It will take place at Dagstuhl Castle - Leibniz Center for Informatics, May 12-17, 2013.
Posted on February 18, 2011Open PhD Position!
We have one open PhD position to be filled in the area of Information Visualization!
More information about prerequisites, merits and the application procedure is provided here.
Questions should be addressed via email to Prof. Andreas Kerren.
Deadline: March 15, 2011
Posted on December 13, 2010Demo
Daniel Cernea implemented a small Flash-based software demo to show the features of a typical InfoVis tool. The underlying data was taken from a database of mobile phones.
Posted on September 3, 2010Best Paper Award
Daniel Cernea, PhD student at ISOVIS (associated with the Computer Graphics and Visualization group at TU Kaiserslautern, Germany) won the Best Paper Award of the RoCHI 2010 conference in Bucharest, Romania. The title of his contribution is R3 - A Configurable Input Device for Free-Space Interaction. It was written in Romanian, and a postprint can be downloaded here.
Posted on September 1, 2010Guest Editor of the Information Visualization Journal
Prof. Kerren was appointed as a Guest Editor of the IVS Journal for a special issue on Information Visualization: State of the Field and New Research Directions [CFP].
Posted on June 4, 2010Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 10471
Prof. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 10471 on Scalable Visual Analytics.
Posted on March 16, 2010VisMaster
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