IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities

This workshop focuses on visualization education, literacy, and activities and will be held in October 2023 at IEEE VIS in Melbourne, Australia. It intends to bring together scholars to share research and experience and discuss novel activities, teaching methods, and research challenges. The workshop aims to serve as a platform for scholars within and beyond the visualization community such as education, learning analytics, science communication, psychology, or people from adjacent fields such as data science, AI, and HCI. It will include presentations of research papers and practical sessions with hands-on activities. In addition, the workshop will allow participants to discuss challenges they face in data visualization education and outline a research agenda of visualization education, literacy, and activities.

See the full proposal here.

Workshop goals and scope of topics

With this workshop, we want to achieve the following goals:

• build a forum and interdisciplinary community around teaching data visualization, open to researchers, students, and practitioners outside the traditional VIS community
• share research on visualization literacy, education and teaching, and practices
• collect, test, and systematize learning activities
• discuss best practices and challenges concerning visualization education and literacy

The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

• Visualization literacy
• Learning goals and learning methods
• Evaluation methods and learning analytics
• Educational tools
• Visualization activities
• Pedagogy in visualization
• Teaching in different scenarios (onsite, online, hybrid)
• Reflective and research practices
• Understanding and teaching to diverse audiences (e.g., children/adult learning, data journalists/data scientists/computer scientists/designers)
• Guidelines, strategies, and guidance for education
• Debate and discussions on visualization guidelines and well-established knowledge
• Knowledge dissemination
• Challenges and personal experiences
• Informal learning
• Experiential learning (hands-on learning & physicalization)
• Visualizations for public education (e.g., health education, science communication)
• Engagement with visualizations
• Teaching approaches that encourage creativity and design critique
• Accessibility of visualization learning resources

Call for Submission

The workshop accepts two types of submissions:

• Research papers: authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution (submissions are expected to be minimum of 2 pages to a maximum of 8 pages excluding references, intended for publication through the IEEE Xplore DL)
• Activities: practical reports that describe how an activity is conducted and how it could be reused by others and in other contexts; these activity reports will be published on the workshop website (not for publication in IEEE Xplore DL).

Full and short papers must follow the formatting guidelines for IEEE VIS TVCG Journal submissions. We will use the Precision Conference System (PCS) for the submission and reviewing process.

At least one author per accepted paper must register for IEEE VIS and present the work at the workshop, which will take place on 22 or 23 October 2023 during the conference in Melbourne, Australia. There is no online or hybrid participation planned this year.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 11:59pm (23:59) AoE Anywhere on Earth

• July 1, 2023: Submission Deadline
• July 25, 2023: Reviews Collected
• July 30, 2023: Author Notification
• August 15, 2023: Submission Camera Ready Deadline
• September 20, 2023: Deadline for Activity Submission
• October 22-27, 2023: IEEE VIS in Melbourne, Australia (the workshop day will be announced later)

Program Committee

• Wolfgang Aigner (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
• Jan Aerts (Amador Bioscience – Hasselt, Hasselt University & KU Leuven)
• Lyn Bartram (Simon Fraser University)
• Enrico Bertini (NYU Tandon School of Engineering)
• Rahul Bhargava (Northeastern University)
• Magdalena Boucher (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
• Alexandra Diehl (Universität Zürich)
• Marian Dörk (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Jason Dykes (City – University of London)
• Yuri Engelhardt (University of Twente)
• Kyle Hall (TD Bank)
• Uta Hinrichs (University of Edinburgh)
• Xavier Ho (Monash University)
• Dietrich Kammer (University of Applied Sciences Dresden)
• Doris Kosminsky (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
• Søren Knudsen (IT University of Copenhagen)
• Robert S Laramee (University of Nottingham)
• Tatiana Losev (Simon Fraser University – Burnaby)
• Areti Manataki (University of St Andrews)
• Isabel Meirelles (The Ontario College of Art and Design University)
• Luiz Morais (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
• Till Nagel (Hochschule Mannheim)
• Arran Ridley (University of Leeds)
• Panagiotis Ritsos (Bangor University)
• Jon Schwabish (Urban Institute)
• Yalong Yang (Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech)
• Wesley Willett (University of Calgary)

Organizers

• Mandy Keck, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• Georgia Panagiotidou, UCLIC, University College London
• Christina Stoiber, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
• Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Carleton University
• Charles Perin, University of Victoria
• Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University
• Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh