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The ACM SIGGRAPH Nominating Committee has proposed the following candidates for the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH election and voting will begin on 14 June 2019 for all members in good standing:

DIRECTOR A:     

• Adam Finkelstein, Princeton, University
• Paul Kry, McGill University

DIRECTOR B:   

• Elizabeth Baron, Founder of Immersionary Enterprises (formerly Immersive Realities Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company)
• Mona Kasra, University of Virginia

DIRECTOR C:

• Adam Bargteil, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID / University Lisboa

To be a member in good standing, a person needs to be an ACM SIGGRAPH Member as of 31 May 2019.  Membership to ACM SIGGRAPH can be obtained online and through the myACM portal.

This is the first voting cycle for the new bylaw changes voted in by the ACM SIGGRAPH Membership last year.  Those new bylaw changes are as follows:

• All elected positions will be director positions and ACM SIGGRAPH officers will no longer be elected to specific positions through member elections. Every year, after the new Executive Committee (EC) takes office, it will select new officers from within the EC to serve one-year terms. Those officer positions will be Chair, Chair-Elect, Treasurer, and Treasurer-Elect. The Chair-Elect will become the Chair and the Treasurer-Elect will become the Treasurer after the next election. Electing officers to Chair, Chair-Elect, etc., will go into effect after the current president, Jessica Hodgins, completes her term on August 31, 2020.

• The EC can now appoint up to three voting members to its rank. This change allows the EC to increase representation from core constituencies, as needed, and allows key volunteers to make decisions for the organization. Marc Barr, the current Conference Advisory Group Chair, was appointed to one of these slots and now has full participation on the EC to better reflect his role in the organization.

• Finally, the third major change, enables members to elect directors to specific positions. For example, if three director positions are open in a given election — as is the case this year — the voters are to be presented with at least two candidates for each position, i.e., position A, position B, and position C. This change helps the Nominating Committee to achieve increased diversity in skillset, area of expertise, and geography.

Morgan & Claypool is pleased to announce the latest title in their series on Visualization:

Diversity in Visualization
Ron Metoyer, University of Notre Dame
Kelly Gaither, University of Texas at Austin

Paperback ISBN: 9781681734934
eBook ISBN: 9781681734941
Hardcover ISBN: 9781681734958

March 2019, 127 pages
http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1377

Abstract:

At the 2016 IEEE VIS Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, a panel of experts from the Scientific Visualization (SciVis) community gathered to discuss why the SciVis component of the conference had been shrinking significantly for over a decade. As the panelists concluded and opened the session to questions from the audience, Annie Preston, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Davis, asked whether the panelists thought diversity or, more specifically, the lack of diversity was a factor.

This comment ignited a lively discussion of diversity: not only its impact on Scientific Visualization, but also its role in the visualization community at large. The goal of this book is to expand and organize the conversation. In particular, this book seeks to frame the diversity and inclusion topic within the Visualization community, illuminate the issues, and serve as a starting point to address how to make this community more diverse and inclusive. This book acknowledges that diversity is a broad topic with many possible meanings. Expanded definitions of diversity that are relevant to the Visualization community and to computing at large are considered. The broader conversation of inclusion and diversity is framed within the broader sociological context in which it must be considered. Solutions to recruit and retain a diverse research community and strategies for supporting inclusion efforts are presented. Additionally, community members present short stories detailing their “non-inclusive” experiences in an effort to facilitate a community-wide conversation surrounding very difficult situations.

It is important to note that this is by no means intended to be a comprehensive, authoritative statement on the topic. Rather, this book is intended to open the conversation and begin to build a framework for diversity and inclusion in this specific research community. While intended for the Visualization community, ideally, this book will provide guidance for any computing community struggling with similar issues and looking for solutions.

• Table of Contents:
  • Editor’s Note
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Framing the Conversation
  • Diversity: A Sociological Perspective
  • Factors Hindering Diversity
  • Case Studies
  • Community On-Ramps
  • Retention
  • Building
  • Inclusive Communities
  • Marshaling the Many Facets of Diversity
  • Future of Diversity in Vis
  • Bibliography
  • Authors’ Biographies

Series: Synthesis Lectures on Visualization
Series Editors: David Ebert, Purdue University
Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland

Graphics Interface (GI) 2019, the 45th annual conference, will be held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada from May 28th – 31st, 2019. GI consistently attracts high-quality submissions on recent advances in computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and visualization.

We invite authors to submit posters that demonstrate late breaking research and work-in-progress covering all aspects of computer graphics, HCI, and visualization. We also invite authors of recent work that has been published elsewhere, but is relevant to the GI themes, to submit posters for presentation at the conference.

GI’s poster session focuses on peer-to-peer interaction and is coordinated with the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) conferences. This provides an excellent opportunity for discussion and networking with the attendees of all three conferences. There will also be a posters “fast-forward” session providing authors the opportunity to briefly summarize their work in front of a larger audience. Further details will be provided to authors of accepted posters.

Important dates

Note: this year we have TWO poster deadlines and author notification dates, you are free to choose one. If you need an early letter of acceptance, you are welcome to submit before deadline A (April 5th) and receive the notification by April 12th. Otherwise, you are invited to submit your poster by deadline B (April 26th) and receive the notification by May 10th.

• Poster deadline A: April 5th, 2019 (11:59 p.m. EST)
• Author notification A: April 12th, 2019
• Poster deadline B: April 26th, 2019 (11:59 p.m. EST)
• Author notification B: May 10th, 2019

Late submissions are welcome but are not guaranteed to receive the decision of acceptance before the conference.

Awards

Two best poster awards will be presented at the conference: one for the HCI track, and one for the graphics track. The awards will be given to best posters for unpublished work involving a student author. Authors of winning posters will also receive a CHCCS/SCDHM sponsored cash prize.

Submission details

Poster abstracts in PDF format can be submitted here: https://new.precisionconference.com/gi

Submissions should include authors’ names and affiliations and should not exceed 2 pages. If the work has been published elsewhere, the citation and venue should be identified in the abstract. Please format your abstract according to the GI formatting instructions.

Call for Papers

7th International Conference on Horizons for Information Architecture, Security and Cloud Intelligent Technology ( HIASCIT 2019 )

New York, USA, July 22 – 24, 2019

HIASCIT 2018 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, workshops, doctoral consortium, demo session, research-in-progress, parallel sessions and poster presentations.

Post-conference publishing Handbook of Research. IGI Global (Publications have been indexed in several prestigious indices such as Thomson Reuters, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, ERIC, and the Australian Education Index).

An academic CD proceedings version –not commercial (distribution in the room), with ISBN: 978.88.96.471.86.9 and DOI: 10.978.8896471/869 (Blue Herons Editions). The contributions are will be submitted for indexation by EI Compendex, Thomson Reuters, Scopus, IET Inspec, Amerindex and Dblp

International Magazine in Europe with IEEE format.

Proposals must be submitted following the instructions found on the submission of papers section.

All proposals, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance and impact. In the current international conference it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of formal and factual sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects Innovative Design for Information Architecture, Virtual Communities, Emerging Interactive Technologies, Mobile Computing, Intelligent Web-Based Business, Metrics and Quality Evaluation, Security, Social and Human Factors, Communicability, Computer Sciences, Systems and Software Engineering, and other computational areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order):

All submitted proposals will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference.

Very Important Information

1) Deadlines:
Works Submissions: Open. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the International Conference. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process.

Deadline: May, 20 – local time in Hawaiian Islands.

Authors Notification: One/two week/s after submission/s.

Camera-ready, full papers: July, 14.

2) The authors can present more than one work with only one registration (maximum 3 contributions) –see registration link.

3) Keynote speakers and relators with human and professional – super ‘High Quality’

4) Certificate of participation and conference proceedings.

5) Participation for the selection of the best paper and best research awards.

6) Discounts in official hotels.

7) Free excursions in New York City.

The international conference is organized by ALAIPO :: Latin Association of Human-Computer Interaction (Asociacion Latina de Interaccion Persona Ordenador) :: www.alaipo.com, and AInCI :: International Association of Interactive Communication (Asociacion Internacional de la Comunicacion Interactiva) www.ainci.com