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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 and Information 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 and Information 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:

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.

ISOVIS Group at VIS 2014 in Paris, France

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

Visual Text Visualization Survey is Online!

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.

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.

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.

ACM and IEEE Senior Member

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

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

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:

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)

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".

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 12372

Prof. Kerren received a personal invitation to the Dagstuhl-Seminar 12372 on Biological Data Visualization.

SIGRAD 2012 Conference

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

Editorial Board

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

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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].

Invitation to Dagstuhl-Seminar 10471

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

VisMaster

The VisMaster's video on YouTube:

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.

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.

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.

New textbook!

Our new textbook is available now:

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.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

New textbook!

Our new textbook is available now:

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

List of book corrections