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ISOVIS Group at EuroVis 2021
Angelos Chatzimparmpas (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins, Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher, and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors) presented an article titled "VisEvol: Visual Analytics to Support Hyperparameter Search through Evolutionary Optimization" at EuroVis 2021 held online during June 14–18, 2021 due to the COVID-19 situation (originally planned to take place in Zurich, Switzerland).
Additionally, Daniel Witschard (with Dr. Ilir Jusufi and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors) presented a poster paper titled "SimBaTex: Similarity-based Text Exploration".
ISOVIS Group at Eurographics 2021
Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors) presented an education paper titled "Project in Visualization and Data Analysis: Experiences in Designing and Coordinating the Course" at Eurographics 2021 held online during May 3–7, 2021 due to the COVID-19 situation (originally planned to take place in Vienna, Austria). This education paper is based on the experiences related to the course 4DV807 Project In Visualization and Data Analysis which has recently been offered for the first time at LNU.
Member of the EuroVis Best PhD Award Committee 2021
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as a member of the EuroVis Best PhD Award Committee 2021. More information on rules and selection procedures can be found at Eurographics.
Invited Speaker at the CSCS23 Conference
Prof. Andreas Kerren will give a talk as an invited speaker at the 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS23) which will be organized as a virtual conference, May 26-28, 2021.
ISOVIS Group at IVAPP 2021
Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher presented a position paper titled "Towards Visual Sociolinguistic Network Analysis" at IVAPP 2021 held online during February 8–10, 2021 due to the COVID-19 situation (originally planned to take place in Vienna, Austria).
Additionally, Daniel Witschard (with Dr. Ilir Jusufi, Dr. Rafael M. Martins, and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors) presented a position paper titled "A Statement Report on the Use of Multiple Embeddings for Visual Analytics of Multivariate Networks" as part of the poster session.
ISOVIS Group at IEEE VIS 2020
Angelos Chatzimparmpas (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins, Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher, and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors) presented an article titled "StackGenVis: Alignment of Data, Algorithms, and Models for Stacking Ensemble Learning Using Performance Metrics" at IEEE VIS 2020 held online during October 25–30, 2020 due to the COVID-19 situation (originally planned to take place in Salt Lake City, US). A link to the online talk and further information is provided here.
Additionally, Angelos Chatzimparmpas presented an invited TVCG article entitled "t-viSNE: Interactive Assessment and Interpretation of t-SNE Projections" (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins and Prof. Andreas Kerren as co-authors). A link to the online talk and further information is provided here.
Short paper Co-Chair at EuroVis 2021
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as short paper co-chair of the 23rd EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2021 to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, June 14–18, 2021.
SentimentVis Survey Success at Wiley Online Library in 2019
According to the recent data from Wiley, our survey article The State of the Art in Sentiment Visualization was the most downloaded Computer Graphics Forum publication at Wiley Online Library in 2019!
ISOVIS Group at EuroVis 2020
Angelos Chatzimparmpas (assisted by his co-authors Prof. Fabrice Rossi, Prof. Andreas Kerren, and Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher for the Q&A session) presented a survey article titled "The State of the Art in Enhancing Trust in Machine Learning Models with the Use of Visualizations" at EGEV2020, the joint Eurographics & Eurovis conferences held online during May 25–29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 situation (originally planned to take place in Norrköping, Sweden).
Additionally, several further publications co-authored by our group members were presented. Elio Ventocilla presented a paper titled "Progressive Multidimensional Projections: A Process Model based on Vector Quantization" (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins as one of the co-authors), and Mateus Espadoto presented a TVCG article titled "Towards a Quantitative Survey of Dimension Reduction Techniques" (with Dr. Rafael M. Martins and Prof. Andreas Kerren among other co-authors).
TrustMLVis Browser is Publicly Available Online
TrustMLVis Browser, our visual survey in enhancing trust in Machine Learning (ML) models with visualization, is now publicly available online:
TVCG Publication and Online Access to t-viSNE
Our article on t-viSNE, a tool for interactive assessment and interpretation of t-SNE projections, has been accepted for publication in IEEE TVCG: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.2986996
The tool and its source code are now publicly available online, see the corresponding software page.
Short paper Co-Chair at EuroVis 2020
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as short paper co-chair of the 22nd EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2020 to be held in Norrköping, Sweden, May 25–29, 2020.
Upgraded Website
The website of the ISOVIS group has been upgraded to a new, modern version!
Associate Editor for Computer Graphics Forum
Prof. Andreas Kerren joins the editorial board of the journal Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) for a four-year term of service (2019–2022).
ISOVIS Group at EuroVis 2019 in Porto, Portugal
Dr. Kostiantyn Kucher and Prof. Andreas Kerren presented a poster paper "Text Visualization Revisited: The State of the Field in 2019" at EuroVis 2019 in Portugal, Porto during June 4–7, 2019.
Ross Maciejewski's Presentation at LNU
The ISOVIS group hosted a talk by Assoc. Prof. Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University) titled "Choropleth Map Classification and Design Under Uncertainty" at Linnaeus University on April 16, 2019. More information on Ross's research available at the webpage of the VADER Lab at ASU: http://vader.lab.asu.edu/
Visiting Professor in Paris
Prof. Andreas Kerren will spend one week as a visiting professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France, during May 12–18, 2019. He received an invitation through the Visiting Professors Programme of this university and will be hosted by Prof. Fabrice Rossi, a well-known expert in exploratory data analysis, data mining and machine learning.
PhD Thesis Defense
On Monday, April 15, 2019, Kostiantyn Kucher will defend his PhD thesis in Computer Science (Wicksell, Hus K, Växjö, 09:15). The thesis is entitled Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media. A popular science-style press release is available at the LNU website.
PhD Thesis Defense
On Thursday, January 31, 2019, Björn Zimmer will defend his PhD thesis in Computer Science (D1136, Hus D, Växjö, 09:30). The thesis is entitled Guided Interaction and Collaborative Exploration in Heterogeneous Network Visualizations.
ISOVIS Group at VINCI 2018 in Växjö, Sweden
ISOVIS Group has hosted The 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2018) at Linnaeus University in Växjö during August 13–15, 2018 with Prof. Andreas Kerren as the general chair, Rafael M. Martins as the local chair, Kostiantyn Kucher as the proceedings chair, and Angelos Chatzimparmpas as a student volunteer. Kostiantyn Kucher has presented a short paper "Analysis of VINCI 2009–2017 Proceedings". Additionally, Kostiantyn Kucher and Maria Skeppstedt have presented a poster paper "Application of Interactive Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction to Opinionated Social Media Texts", Björn Zimmer has presented a poster paper "Towards Uncertainty Visualization in Smart Production Environments", and Ilir Jusufi has participated as a co-author of a poster paper "Diabetes Information in Social Media".
Special Issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis
Prof. Andreas Kerren is co-editing a special issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Paper submission deadline is at February 15, 2019.
Best Poster Award at EuroVis 2018
Our poster paper "Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts" has received the Best Poster Award at EuroVis 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic during June 4–8, 2018.
ACM TiiS Blog Article on Medium
A blog article with a popular scientific summary of our 2017 article on ALVA has been published in the ACM TiiS blog on Medium.
ISOVIS Group at EuroVis 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic
Ilir Jusufi will present a short paper "TapVis: A Data Visualization Approach for Assessment of Alternating Tapping Performance in Patients with Parkinson's Disease", and Kostiantyn Kucher will present a poster paper "Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts" at EuroVis 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic during June 4–8, 2018.
Workshop Paper at VisLR III
On May 12, 2018, Maria Skeppstedt presented our paper Topics2Themes: Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction by Visual Analysis of Important Topics at VisLR III, the 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources held at LREC 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan.
Invited Speaker at Trivago
Prof. Andreas Kerren will give a talk on Visualization of Multidimensional Data: Possibilities, Pitfalls, and Practices as an invited speaker at Trivago, Düsseldorf, Germany, on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.
Popular Scientific Summary of StaViCTA
A popular scientific summary of the StaViCTA project has now been published.
Invited Article Presentation at ACM IUI 2018
Kostiantyn Kucher will present our article Active Learning and Visual Analytics for Stance Classification with ALVA published in ACM TiiS at the ACM IUI 2018 conference in Tokyo, Japan, March 7–11, 2018.
Short Paper at IVAPP 2018
Our short paper DoSVis: Document Stance Visualization has been accepted for IVAPP 2018 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Kostiantyn Kucher will present it during the text and document visualization session on January 29, 2018.
Open PhD Position in Visual Analytics!
We have one open PhD position to be filled in the area of Visual Analytics!
More information about prerequisites, merits and the application procedure is provided here under the reference number 2017/2251-2.2.1.
Questions should be addressed via email to Prof. Andreas Kerren.
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Graph Drawing 2018
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as program co-chair of the 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization GD 2018 to be held in Barcelona, Spain, September 26–28, 2018.
VINCI 2018 Conference in Växjö, Sweden
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as general chair of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction VINCI which will be held in Växjö, Sweden, at August 13–15, 2018. Dr. Rafael M. Martins will contribute as local organization chair.
Invited Speaker at the BOTI 2017 Conference
Prof. Andreas Kerren will give a talk as an invited speaker at the annual BOTI 2017 Conference of the Swedish Industrial Organization for Technical Communication which will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, November 15-16, 2017.
CGF Article
Recently, our survey article The State of the Art in Sentiment Visualization has been accepted for publication in the Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) and is already available online. The survey comes with an accompanying interactive visual survey tool, called SentimentVis Browser, accessible by following the link:
In addition to this great news, we received an invitation for presenting this survey article at EuroVis '17 to be held in Barcelona, June 12–16, 2017, within the STARs session ST2.
ISOVIS Group at EuroVis 2017 in Barcelona, Spain
The most members of the ISOVIS group will attend the EuroVis '17 conference in Barcelona, Spain. There, we will present one full paper (talk is given by our collaborators from the University of Groningen), one STAR report (our invited CGF survey article), one short paper, and one poster. Thus, we have accepted work in all submission categories offered by the conference!
IEEE VISSOFT 2018 Conference
Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as program co-chair of the 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2018 to be held in Madrid, Spain, September 2018.
Invited Speaker at the SeRC - Visualization Summer School 2017
Dr. Rafael Messias Martins will give an invited lecture on Information Visualization at the SeRC - Visualization Summer School 2017 which will take place on August 14–16, 2017 in Norrköping, Sweden.
Our Visual Guide to BioVis Techniques is Online!
We have developed an interactive, visual guide to biovisualization techniques, called BioVis Explorer:
In contrast to our other visual surveys, BioVis Explorer goes beyond these existing approaches by not just listing the literature in a specific order or providing standard filter features: we follow another layout strategy that spatially arranges the visual paper representations according to similarity.
Open PhD Position in Visual Analytics!
We have one open PhD position to be filled in the area of Visual Analytics!
More information about prerequisites, merits and the application procedure is provided here under the reference number 2017/2251-2.2.1.
Questions should be addressed via email to Prof. Andreas Kerren.
Deadline: June 1, 2017
Invited Speaker at EMNLP 2017 Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
Prof. Andreas Kerren will give a talk as an invited speaker at the EMNLP 2017 Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7, 2017.
Special Session at SPECOM 2017
We are co-organizing a special session on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis at the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM '17), held on 12–16 September in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, 2017.
Honorable Mention Award
Our article MobilityGraphs: Visual Analysis of Mass Mobility Dynamics via Spatio-Temporal Graphs and Clustering received a Honorable Mention Award for its "Impact on Business" at the 18. Darmstädter Computer Graphik Abend, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany, 2016.
New E-commerce Collaboration with Divvit
The ISOVIS group has recently started a collaboration with Divvit AB to improve visual analysis methods for e-commerce data. A press release has be published now at MyNewsDesk.
Open PostDoc Position in InfoVis and/or Visual Analytics!
We have one open PostDoc position to be filled in the areas of Information Visualization or Visual Analytics!
More information about prerequisites, merits and the application procedure is provided here under the reference number 2016/727-2.2.1.
Questions should be addressed via email to Prof. Andreas Kerren.
Deadline: March 31, 2016
VINCI 2016 Conference
Prof. Andreas Kerren serves as program chair of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction VINCI 2016 which will be held on 24–26 September 2016 in Dallas, TX, USA.
JVLC Article
The final version of our article A Survey of Technologies on the Rise for Emotion-Enhanced Interaction published in the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) with full bibliographic details is now available online. In order to help us to access and share our article, Elsevier provides free access to our article, which is valid for 50 days, until January 16, 2016:
EmoVis 2016 Workshop
We will organize a Workshop on Emotion and Visualization (EmoVis 2016) at March 10, 2016. The workshop is co-located with the ACM IUI 2016 conference that will take place in Sonoma, CA, USA. EmoVis 2016 is also on Twitter.
PhD Thesis Defense
On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Daniel Cernea will defend his PhD thesis in Computer Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. The thesis is entitled User-Centered Collaboration in Visualization.