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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *****<br>
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VL/HCC 2015<br>
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing<br>
<br>
October 18-22, 2015<br>
Atlanta, Georgia, USA<br>
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<br>
We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 2015 IEEE
Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
(VL/HCC), to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the Georgia Tech
Hotel & Conference Center, October 18-22, 2015.<br>
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SCOPE AND TOPICS<br>
<br>
We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on
efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate computing
technologies and languages for programming, modeling and
communicating, which are easier to learn, use or understand than
the state of the art. This includes languages and tools intended
for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers,
or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working
in healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). It encompasses
languages and tools for expressing forms of computation and
reasoning through any means (e.g., visual, textual, form-based,
haptic) and in any computing context (e.g., cloud, web, desktop,
mobile or pervasive computing).<br>
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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
* Design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages<br>
* End-user development and end-user programming<br>
* Novel representations and user interfaces for expressing
computation<br>
* Human aspects and psychology of software development and
language design<br>
* Debugging and program understanding<br>
* Crowdsourcing, as related to languages and tools<br>
* Computational thinking and Computer Science education<br>
* Model-driven development<br>
* Domain-specific languages<br>
* Software visualization<br>
* Query languages<br>
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SPECIAL EMPHASIS FOR 2015: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND CS EDUCATION<br>
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The push to enhance computational thinking and computing skills in
education has never been stronger, with a number of high-profile
movements actively working to establish computer science as a
foundation in education (e.g., Code.org) and to broaden
participation in computing among underrepresented groups (e.g.,
NCWIT). VL/HCC is well suited to this pursuit: learning and
education is inherently human-centered, and the potential of
visual languages to captivate users and remove barriers is well
recognized. Thus, for VL/HCC 2015, we seek to place a special
emphasis on education-oriented topics. To this end, we strongly
encourage the submission of works on visual languages and
human-centric computing that, for example, explore theories of
human learning, propose new methods and tools to enhance learning,
and empirically investigate and evaluate learning in a variety of
computing contexts.<br>
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PAPER SUBMISSIONS<br>
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We invite two kinds of papers (deadlines below under Important
Dates):<br>
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[***NOTE: The page limits have changed for 2015.]<br>
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* full-length research papers, up to 8 pages -- plus 1 additional
page that contains only references<br>
<br>
* short research papers, up to 4 pages -- plus 1 additional page
that contains only references<br>
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In addition to papers, we also invite contributions of other types
-- see below under Workshops, Showpieces (Posters & Demos),
and Graduate Consortium.<br>
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All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete
archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more
extensive than those from short papers. Work-in-progress, which
has not yet yielded a contribution, should be submitted to the
Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members
of the Program Committee. Submission and reviews for the technical
program are managed with EasyChair.<br>
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Accepted papers will be distributed at the conference and will be
submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/</a>). The proceedings are an official
electronic publication of the IEEE in Computer Science, with an
ISBN number. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper
format, which was changed in 2011:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a><br>
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Additionally, selected papers from VL/HCC 2014 and 2015 will be
invited for submission in expanded form to a special issue of the
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC). The topic of the
special issue will be programming and modeling tools. Further
instructions regarding formatting and the review/publication
process will be provided when the invitations are made.<br>
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The latest details are available at our website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vlhcc.org/">http://vlhcc.org/</a><br>
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EVALUATION<br>
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Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate
evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer
productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a
paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased
ease of use. However, not all claims necessarily need to be
supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For
example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was
clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the
existence of a functioning prototype. Moreover, there are many
alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for
claims, including analytical methods or formal arguments. Given
this criteria, we encourage potential authors to think carefully
about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would
adequately support these claims.<br>
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The evaluation process will proceed as follows:<br>
<br>
1. Initial review period: At least three members of the Program
Committee will review each paper. At the end of this period, these
initial reviews will be released to the authors.<br>
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2. Author response period: Authors will have an opportunity to
submit a 500-word response based on their initial reviews.
Responses should focus on answering reviewers' questions,
addressing reviewers' concerns, and clarifying any factual
misunderstandings.<br>
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3. Final review period: Taking the author response into account,
the original reviewers will revise their reviews as they deem
appropriate, and the Program Committee will reach a final decision
to accept or reject the submitted work. <br>
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WORKSHOPS, SHOWPIECES (POSTERS & DEMOS), AND GRADUATE
CONSORTIUM<br>
<br>
The conference also invites submissions for workshops and
tutorials, showpieces (e.g., demos and posters), and the Graduate
Consortium (GC). More information about these contribution types
will be posted on the VL/HCC 2015 web site at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vlhcc.org/">http://vlhcc.org/</a>.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES <br>
<br>
Fri 1 May: Deadline - Paper abstracts<br>
Fri 8 May: Deadline - Papers<br>
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Sat 9 May - Fri 12 June: Initial review period<br>
Fri 12 June: Preliminary notifications - Papers<br>
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Fri 12 June - Fri 19 June: Author response period<br>
Fri 19 June: Deadline - Author responses<br>
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Sat 20 June - Fri 26 June: Final review period<br>
Mon 29 June: Final notifications - Papers<br>
<br>
Fri 24 July: Deadline - Workshop papers, showpieces, and GC
applications<br>
Fri 14 Aug: Notifications - Workshop papers, showpieces, and GC
applications<br>
<br>
Fri 4 Sep: Deadline - All final camera-readies<br>
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Oct 18-22 VL/HCC in Atlanta, Georgia<br>
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ORGANIZERS<br>
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General Chair<br>
Eileen Kraemer - Clemson University, USA<br>
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Program Chairs<br>
Claudia Ermel - Technische Universität Berlin, Germany<br>
Scott D. Fleming - University of Memphis, USA<br>
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Publications Chair<br>
Zhen Li - Microsoft Corporation, USA<br>
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Graduate Consortium Chair<br>
Anita Sarma - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA<br>
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Showpieces Chairs<br>
Iman Avazpour - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<br>
Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University, USA<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
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Robin Abraham - Microsoft Corporation, USA<br>
Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge, UK<br>
Chris Bogart - Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>
Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy<br>
Margaret Burnett - Oregon State University, USA<br>
Maria Francesca Costabile - University of Bari, Italy<br>
Gennaro Costagliola - Università di Salerno, Italy<br>
Shaundra Daily - Clemson University, USA<br>
Juan de Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain<br>
Robert DeLine - Microsoft Research, USA<br>
Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa - PUC-Rio, Brazil<br>
Gregor Engels - Universität Paderborn, Germany<br>
Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK<br>
Judith Good - University of Sussex, UK<br>
John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<br>
Felienne Hermans - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands<br>
John Hosking - University of Auckland, New Zealand<br>
John Howse - University of Brighton, UK<br>
Chris Hundhausen - Washington State University, USA<br>
Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis, USA<br>
Andrew J. Ko - University of Washington, USA<br>
Thomas D. LaToza - University of California, Irvine, USA<br>
Zhen Li - Microsoft Corporation, USA<br>
Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany<br>
Emerson Murphy-Hill - North Carolina State University, USA<br>
Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>
Chris Parnin - North Carolina State University, USA<br>
Marian Petre - The Open University, UK<br>
Emmanuel Pietriga - INRIA & INRIA Chile, France<br>
Beryl Plimmer - University of Auckland, New Zealand<br>
David Redmiles - University of California, Irvine, USA<br>
Alexander Repenning - University of Colorado, USA<br>
Mary Beth Rosson - Pennsylvania State University, USA<br>
Anita Sarma - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA<br>
Stefan Sauer - Universität Paderborn, Germany<br>
Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University, USA<br>
Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK<br>
Simone Stumpf - City University London, UK<br>
Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington, USA<br>
Franklyn Turbak - Wellesley College, USA<br>
Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University, USA<br>
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