Call for Workshop Participation
Visualization Technologies to Support Research on
Human Environment Interactions
Who should apply: Social scientists, natural
scientists, computational scientists, and
humanities scholars who need to visualize spatial
data as they solve research problems
July 23-24, 2012
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
Annapolis, Maryland.
The <http://www.sesync.org>National
Socio-Environmental Synthesis (SESYNC) center is
the newest national synthesis center funded by
the National Science Foundation, with the main
vision to foster synthetic, actionable science
related to the structure, functioning, and
sustainability of socio-environmental
systems. The center supports research on diverse
aspects related to the linkage between humans,
societies, and the environment but is
particularly encouraging work on the social
dimensions of environmental change and environmental sustainability.
One of SESYNCs strategic goals is to foster the
development of computational tools and services
in support of researchers including scholars
studying human-environment interactions.
SESYNC is hosting this workshop to focus
especially on the visualization and use of
spatial datasets from the social and
environmental sciences. The workshop will
discuss and identify some of the current
visualization challenges and emerging
opportunities in using spatial datasets to study
human-environment interactions. We expect the
meeting to be a problem-solving workshop
wherein domain scientists from the social and
environmental sciences can learn about
visualization tools and resources available for
their work and computational scientists can learn
about the as-yet unmet visualization needs in the domain sciences.
More specifically, the workshop will bring
computational and domain scientists together to:
(i) discuss some of the visualization challenges
associated with using spatio-temporal datasets;
(ii) recommend possible collaborative IT efforts
that could be supported under the SESYNCs
programs or through other funding mechanisms; and
(iii) set up a network of researchers to interact
on a regular basis, share information, and
exchange ideas about the priorities identified during the workshop.
The following keynote speakers have already
agreed to participate in the workshop:
· Dr. Daniel Aliaga, Computer Graphics
and Visualization Lab, Department of Computer
Science, Purdue University
(<http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga>http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga)
· Dr. Stephen Sheppard, Director of
Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning,
Department of Forest Resources
Management/Landscape Architecture, University of
British Columbia
(<http://www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/people/stephen/>http://www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/people/stephen/)
· Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Human-Computer
Interaction Lab, Department of Computer Science
and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
University of Maryland (<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben>http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben)
SESYNC invites interested computational and
domain scientists to submit abstracts (at most
one page) related to the main goals of this
workshop. Abstracts will be reviewed by a SESYNC
Committee and a subset will be invited to
participate in the workshop, subject to meeting capacity.
Travel expenses of the lead authors of accepted
abstracts will be covered by SESYNC.
A small subset of the accepted abstracts will be
invited for oral presentations while the rest
will have poster presentations during the
afternoon of the first day of the workshop.
Please submit your abstract in PDF format by April 20, 2012 to:
[email protected]
SESYNC | 1 Park Place, Suite 300 | Annapolis, MD 21401 | 410.919.4810
www.sesync.org
