[ecoop-info] Call for Participation: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'15)

[Claudia Ermel]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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*IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing*
     October 18-22, 2015
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

*http://vlhcc.org/*

 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. We will hold the IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages and Human-Centric Computing October 18–22, 2015 in Atlanta,
Georgia, USA at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center.

With an estimated population of 500,000, Atlanta is the capital of and the
most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Atlanta's economy is
considered diverse, with dominant sectors including logistics, professional
and business services, media operations, and information technology.
Topographically, Atlanta is marked by rolling hills and dense tree coverage.

VL/HCC 2015 will present two keynote addresses by prominent speakers
and a selection of 18 technical research papers and 17 short papers
about emerging topics in visual languages and human-centric computing.
This year, a special emphasis is placed on education-oriented topics.
See the programme at the conference website
(http://vlhcc.org/preliminary-program). The event will also feature a
graduate consortium and a workshop.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Requirements for a Computing-Literate Society

* Franklyn Turbak, Wellesley College, USA
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Taking Stock of Blocks: Promises and Challenges of Blocks Programming 
Languages


WORKSHOP

* Blocks and Beyond: Lessons and Directions for First Programming 
Environments
(Thursday, October 22, 2015)
  http://cs.wellesley.edu/~blocks-and-beyond/


VENUE

VL/HCC 2015 will take place from October 18th through 22nd, 2015 in Atlanta,
Georgia, USA at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center
(http://www.gatechhotel.com/), located on the Georgia Tech campus in
Technology Square - the heart of Midtown Atlanta’s thriving retail 
neighborhood.
It can be easily reached from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport.

For further details see http://vlhcc.org/attending


REGISTRATION

The registration is open now at https://www.regonline.com/vlhcc2015.
Early registration with reduced fees ends on September 30, 2015.

Rooms for attendees of VL/HCC 2015 are reserved at the Georgia Tech Hotel
and Conference Center (Booking Deadline: 9/17/2015): 
http://vlhcc.org/attending


ORGANIZATION

General Chair
Eileen Kraemer, Clemson University, USA

Program Chairs
Claudia Ermel, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Scott D. Fleming, University of Memphis, USA

Publications Chair
Zhen Li, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Graduate Consortium Chair
Anita Sarma, Oregon State University, USA

Showpieces Chairs
Iman Avazpour, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA

Program Committee
Robin Abraham, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK
Chris Bogart, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno, Italy
Shaundra Daily, Clemson University, USA
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Robert DeLine, Microsoft Research, USA
Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Gregor Engels, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK
Judith Good, University of Sussex, UK
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA
Caitlin Kelleher, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Andrew J. Ko, University of Washington, USA
Thomas D. LaToza, University of California, Irvine, USA
Zhen Li, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, USA
Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Chris Parnin, North Carolina State University, USA
Marian Petre, The Open University, UK
Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA & INRIA Chile, France
Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand
David Redmiles, University of California, Irvine, USA
Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado, USA
Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Anita Sarma, Oregon State University, USA
Stefan Sauer, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Christopher Scaffidi, Oregon State University, USA
Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK
Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK
Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA
Franklyn Turbak, Wellesley College, USA
Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA

Steering Committee
Paolo Bottoni, Universita de Roma - Sapienza, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno, Italy
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
Andrew Ko, University of Washington, USA
Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

For further information, please visit the conference website at
http://vlhcc.org/

We all look forward to welcoming you at VL/HCC 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia!