[ecoop-info] DUE FRIDAY: Posters, Demos, Grad Consortium for VL/HCC, Sept 18-22, Pittsburgh, PA

James Lin james.lin at acm.org
Tue Jun 14 07:43:39 CEST 2011


DEADLINE: Friday 17 June 2011

CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS, AND GRADUATE CONSORTIUM
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VL/HCC 2011
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

September 18-22, 2011
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://vlhcc.org/
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Poster, demo, and graduate consortium submissions: Friday 17 June 2011
* Notification of final decision for graduate consortium: 7 July 2011
* Notification of final decision for posters and demos: 22 July 2011

 From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways
to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this
meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines
to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express,
manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing
challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric
Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on
this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to
support the design, theory, application and evaluation of computing
technologies and languages for programming, modeling and
communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by
people.
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SCOPE AND TOPICS
We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on efforts
to design, formalize, implement, and evaluate computing languages and
development tools that are easier to learn, easier to use, and easier
to understand. This includes languages and tools expressed not only as
text, but through any other means (visual, sketch-based,
gesture-based, or otherwise). This also includes languages and tools
intended for a wide range of audiences, including professional
software developers, novice programmers, or other any other people who
find a need to express computational ideas. We also seek papers that
address cognitive, social, cultural, and theoretical aspects of
efforts to lower barriers to computing.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* The design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages
* End-user development, end-user programming
* Novel user interfaces for expressing computation
* Human aspects of software development
* Debugging and program understanding
* Computer science education
* Software development tools
* Model-driven development
* Domain-specific languages
* Software visualization
* Query languages
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POSTERS & DEMONSTRATIONS
Posters and demonstrations provide an interactive forum in which
authors can present work to conference attendees in the evening. This
venue provides an opportunity to describe new work or work that is
still in progress, and will be more lightly reviewed than papers.
Presentations may include any combination of a poster, video, or live
demonstration. Easels and boards will be available for posters, but
demonstrations and videos should use the presenter's personal laptop,
as no supporting equipment will be available from the conference.

Submissions must include a two-page abstract and a brief description
of the planned presentation.

ABSTRACT: The two-page abstract must be written in IEEE Conference
Proceedings format and submitted as a PDF file. Describe the research
problem, contribution, and value to VL/HCC attendees. NOTE: This
year's conference format is different from those of previous years, so
be sure you are using the new format.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The brief description of the presentation should be
submitted as a PDF document, separate from the abstract. Its contents
may vary depending on the type of presentation. Poster submissions
should include a sketch of the planned poster. Demonstrations and
video submissions may include a textual description of the
presentation; however, we encourage authors to also include a
preliminary video. Submitted videos should be at most 4 minutes long,
and they may be submitted either as a URL to a publicly accessible
site (i.e., without any password or login needed) or as an attached
file no larger than 20 MB.

E-mail submissions for posters and demos to vlhcc.posters at gmail.com

Abstracts will normally be printed in the proceedings and be included
in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, just like full and short papers.
However, authors may elect to withhold official publication in case
they want to avoid any possible conflict with another archival
publication.

Despite the restrictions on videos accompanying a submission, the
actual videos and demonstrations presented at the conference may be of
any length.

Posters should be printed in advance and brought to the conference. We
will provide poster stands with a solid backing and a method of
attaching the posters to the stands. We expect to be able to
accommodate posters of up to 30 inches by 40 inches (either vertical
or horizontal).

Please see http://vlhcc2011.cs.cmu.edu/submitting/posters-demos/ for
more information.
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GRADUATE CONSORTIUM
Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper
integration between computers and human society. People now are part
of numerous socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of
contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include
social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces
and massively multiplayer online games.

Yet as these socio-technical systems have grown in complexity, they
have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and
direct toward productive ends. For example, when users put data into a
system, they may be unable to anticipate and control how their data
will be used by other people or by software in the system. When users
take actions in the system, they often cannot foresee and manage
unintended effects on other users, software, or the system as a whole,
particularly because the software part of a system often contains
defects.

The goal of the 2011 VL/HCC graduate consortium is to explore ways to
help end users visualize, analyze, and tailor large socio-technical
systems. This may include development of novel methods, models and
tools, such as programming environments for end users. At a deeper
level, it may include developing new theory for predicting the
complicated, unstable, sometimes-emergent behavior that results when
large numbers of diverse, unpredictable humans are coupled to
unreliable software.

Please see http://vlhcc2011.cs.cmu.edu/submitting/graduate-consortium/
for more information, including eligibility and submission
instructions.
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SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
General Conference Chair
Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Co-Chairs
Gennaro Costagliola - University of Salerno, Italy
Andrew J. Ko - University of Washington, USA

Interactive Sessions Chairs
Allen Cypher - IBM, USA
Jeffrey Nichols - IBM, USA

Graduate Symposium Chair
Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University, USA

Publicity Chair
James Lin - Google, USA

Proceedings Chair
Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Robin Abraham - Microsoft, USA
Robert Biddle - Carleton University, Canada
Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Margaret Burnett - Oregon State University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile - University of Bari, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola - Universita di Salerno, Italy
Phil Cox - Dalhousie University, Canada
Robert DeLine - Microsoft Research, USA
Allen Cypher - IBM Research Almaden, USA
Gregor Engels - University of Paderborn, Germany
Claudia Ermel - Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA
Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK
Judith Good - University of Sussex, UK
John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Tracy Hammond - Texas A & M University, USA
John Hosking - University of Auckland, New Zealand
John Howse - University of Brighton, UK
Christopher Hundhausen - Washington State University, USA
Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Eileen Kraemer - The University of Georgia, USA
Andrew J. Ko - University of Washington, USA
Juan de Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
James Lin - Google, USA
Kim Marriott - Manash University, Australia
Mark Minas - Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
Robert Miller - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Mulholland - The Open University, UK
Emerson Murphy-Hill - North Carolina State University, USA
Marian Petre - The Open University, UK
Emmanuel Pietriga - INRIA, France
Mary Beth Rosson - Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University, USA
Andy Schuerr - University of Darmstadt, Germany
Jonathan Sillito - University of Calgary, Canada
Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK
Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington, USA
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen - MetaCase, Finland
Daniel Varro - Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary
Susan Wiedenbeck - Drexel University, USA
Kang Zhang - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Maria Francesca Costabile - University of Bari, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola - Universita di Salerno, Italy
Robert DeLine - Microsoft Research, USA
Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA
John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
John Howse - University of Brighton, UK
Mark Minas - Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Emmanuel Pietriga - INRIA, France
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