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Posted on Nov 19, 2014

ISOVIS Group at VIS 2014 in Paris, France

ISOVIS @ VIS14 The most members of the ISOVIS group attended the VIS 2014 conference in Paris, France. There, several posters and one workshop paper were presented.

Posted on Aug 1, 2014

Visual Text Visualization Survey is Online!

TextVis We have developed an interactive, visual survey of text visualization techniques, called Text Visualization Browser. This web-based system supports, for instance, the identification of related work or open research questions which are uncovered so far. All contained text visualization techniques were manually classified, and the tool provides features for searching and filtering.

Posted on May 27, 2014

PhD Supervisor of the Year 2014 at LNU

At LNU's Academic Ceremony on May 23, 2014, Prof. Andreas Kerren received this year's distinction as outstanding PhD supervisor and pedagogue at Linnaeus University.

Posted on March 18, 2014

IVAPP 2015 Conference

Prof. Andreas Kerren will again serve as program co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2015 at Berlin, Germany, 2015.

Posted on January 15, 2014

ACM and IEEE Senior Member

Prof. Andreas Kerren received Senior Member Awards from both ACM and IEEE.

Posted on September 23, 2013

IVAPP 2014 Conference

Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as program co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2014 at Lisbon, Portugal, 2014

Posted on June 25, 2013

Springer LNCS 4950 Download Figures

The Springer book on Information Visualization (LNCS 4950) edited by Prof. Kerren et al. is one of the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant Springer eBook Collection in 2012! There has been a total of 8,874 chapter downloads for our book on SpringerLink:
Springer Figures 2013

Posted on May 27, 2013

Dagstuhl-Seminar 13201

From May 12 to 17, 2013, Prof. Andreas Kerren co-organized a Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization - Towards Multivariate Network Visualization in Wadern, Germany. The integration of multivariate data into complex networks and their visual analysis is one of the big challenges not only in visualization, but also in many application areas. 41 researchers from 9 different countries discussed the state-of-the-art, new directions, and open challenges of multivariate network visualization.

  • Press release (PDF, in German)
  • Radio interview with the radio station SR2 given by Prof. Kerren (in German)

Posted on May 27, 2013

PhD Thesis Defense   

On Friday, June 7, 2013, Ilir Jusufi will defend his PhD thesis in Computer Science. The thesis is entitled "Multivariate Networks: Visualization and Interaction Techniques".

Posted on March 18, 2013

Keynote Speaker at VINCI 2013

Prof. Andreas Kerren will be a keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '13), Tianjin, China, August 17-18, 2013.

Posted on January 24, 2013

Two Open PhD Positions in Computer Science!

We have two open PhD positions to be filled in the areas of Information Visualization / Visual Analytics and Computer Linguistics!
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, 2013

Posted on November 8, 2012

Research Funding for StaViCTA Project

At November 1st, we received a framework grant of more than 15 Mio SEK (about 1,75 Mio EUR) from The Swedish Research Council for the research project StaViCTA - Advances in the Description and Explanation of Stance in Discourse Using Visual and Computational Text Analytics. Project partners are Carita Paradis (Lund University) and Magnus Sahlgren (Gavagai AB).

This interdisciplinary project across semantics, computational linguistics and information visualization investigates stance in human communication. Stancetaking is the expression of attitudes, feelings, perspectives, judgements, doubts, trust and certainty, and is crucial for the social construction of meaning. Stancetaking is a forceful factor in the communicative dynamics of Web-based social media such as websites, blogs, communities or forums. This project focuses on analyzing stance in such real-world streaming language data. Our goal is to identify the resources that language offers, how these resources act together and how they evolve in large amounts of digital text over time. This goal is achieved through the development of innovative, computational and interactive information visualization techniques. We propose a visual text analytics approach for the description, explanation and interpretation of stance in digital text media that includes automatic analyses seamlessly interwoven with interactive visualizations. This combination will make it possible for human beings to make sense of large and dynamic text data and allows for exploration, control and final evaluation of the analysis processes and results. Such an approach for analyzing stance is crucial for many application fields, including intelligence and security analytics, early warning and crisis management systems, financial analytics and business intelligence, or social media monitoring.

Posted on November 8, 2012

IEEE VISSOFT 2013 Conference

Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as program co-chair of the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT 2013 at Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2013

Posted on September 26, 2012

IVAPP 2013 Conference

Prof. Andreas Kerren will serve as program co-chair of the 4th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications IVAPP 2013 at Barcelona, Spain, 2013

Posted on April 10, 2012

Cover Image IVS 11(2)

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, 2012

SIGRAD 2012 Conference

We will host the annual SIGRAD 2012 Conference at Linnaeus University, Växjö, in November 2012.

Posted on January 9, 2012

Editorial Board

Prof. Andreas Kerren is an editorial board member of the Information Visualization Journal, SAGE Publications, since 2012.

Posted on January 9, 2012

Information 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 here.

Posted on December 19, 2011
Best Paper Award

Best 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, 2011

Licentiate 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, 2011

Invitation 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, 2011

Special 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, 2011

Organization 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, 2011

Open 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, 2010

Demo

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, 2010

Best 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, 2010

Guest 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, 2010

Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 10471

Prof. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 10471 on Scalable Visual Analytics.

Posted on March 16, 2010

VisMaster

The VisMaster's video on YouTube:

Posted on August 3, 2009

VisMaster

We are happy to announce that the ISOVIS Group is participating in the EU coordination action project VisMaster to establish the emerging research field of Visual Analytics in Europe.

Posted on January 28, 2009

Organization of Dagstuhl-Seminar 10241

Prof. Kerren will organize the Dagstuhl-Seminar 10241 on Information Visualization together with Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA) and John T. Stasko (Georgia Tech, USA). It will take place at Dagstuhl Castle - Leibniz Center for Informatics, June 13-18, 2010.

Posted on January 26, 2009

Open PhD Position!  

We have one additional PhD position to be filled in the area of Collaborative Information Visualization!
We are looking for a well qualified candidate for a common research project between Växjö University and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The position is primary funded by the CS Department (AG Hagen) of TU Kaiserslautern and is available immediately. It should be filled as soon as possible!
Questions and applications should be addressed directly via email to andreas.kerren @ vxu.se. Please attach your complete CV including cover letter, publication list and/or a brief abstract of your Master's Thesis, and the name of at least one referee.

Posted on July 31, 2008

New textbook!

Our new textbook is available now:

LNCS4950 Information Visualization - Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives
A. Kerren, J. T. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, and C. North (Eds.)
Volume 4950 of LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey, Springer, 2008.

Posted on June 3, 2008

Open PhD Position!  

We have one additional PhD position to be filled in the area of Information Visualization!
We are looking for a well qualified candidate for a common research project between Växjö University and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The position is primary funded by the CS Department (AG Hagen) of TU Kaiserslautern and is available immediately. It should be filled as soon as possible!
Questions and applications should be addressed directly via email to andreas.kerren @ vxu.se. Please attach your complete CV including cover letter, publication list and/or a brief abstract of your Master's Thesis, and the name of at least one referee.

Posted on April 30, 2008

Guest Editor of the Information Visualization Journal

Dr. Kerren was appointed as a Guest Editor of the IVS Journal for a special issue on Human-centered Information Visualization [CFP].

Posted on January 31, 2008

TPC Member of ACM Multimedia 2008

Dr. Kerren was appointed as a Technical Program Committee member of the Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM) track of the ACM Multimedia 2008 conference.

Posted on January 16, 2008

Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 08191

Dr. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 08191 on Graph Drawing with Applications to Bioinformatics and Social Sciences.

Posted on January 15, 2008

Open PhD Position!  

We have one additional PhD position to be filled in the area of Information Visualization!
We are looking for a well qualified candidate for a common research project between Växjö University and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The position is primary funded by the CS Department (AG Hagen) of TU Kaiserslautern and is available immediately. It should be filled as soon as possible!
Questions and applications should be addressed directly via email to andreas.kerren @ vxu.se. Please attach your complete CV including cover letter, publication list and/or a brief abstract of your Master's Thesis, and the name of at least one referee.

Posted on July 31, 2007

New textbook!

Our new textbook is available now:

LNCS4417 Human-Centered Visualization Environments
A. Kerren, A. Ebert, and J. Meyer (Eds.)
Volume 4417 of LNCS Tutorial, Springer, 2007.






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