Every­body com­plains that art, design and research in infor­ma­tion visu­al­iza­tion should be talk­ing more to each other.

Here is a unique oppor­tu­nity: Andrew Vande Moere and I will be host­ing a sym­po­sium at IV10: DAVis, the 5th Inter­na­tional Sym­po­sium on Design and Aes­thet­ics in Visu­al­i­sa­tion.

From the call:

“This sym­po­sium aims to bring together researchers and prac­ti­tion­ers of design, art and related dis­ci­plines. The goal is to share their sto­ries and expe­ri­ences on how the needs and goals of both users and busi­nesses are met through infor­ma­tion visu­al­i­sa­tion.

It sup­ports the pub­li­ca­tion of research in two gen­eral domains: Design and Aes­thet­ics. Design refers to the devel­op­ment of visu­al­i­sa­tion as a cre­ative design process. Aes­thet­ics refers to the role of user expe­ri­ence in visu­al­i­sa­tion, as under­stood in three dis­tinct com­po­nents: aes­thetic expe­ri­ence, expe­ri­ence of mean­ing, and emo­tional expe­ri­ence.

This sym­po­sium presents an oppor­tu­nity to explore these issues and their con­se­quences for the field of infor­ma­tion visu­al­iza­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, we encour­age the sub­mis­sion of design cri­tiques; case stud­ies, pos­si­bly with accom­pa­ny­ing eval­u­a­tion stud­ies or crit­i­cal reflec­tions; posi­tion papers; or reports on the impact that visu­al­iza­tion research or visu­al­iza­tion use has had on the work and life of peo­ple. In this con­text, the story of fail­ures or aban­doned approaches can be as infor­ma­tive as descrip­tions of suc­cess. The fields of appli­ca­tion are open, and can reach from tra­di­tional screen-based graphs, over inno­v­a­tive multi-touch inter­faces, to dynamic media archi­tec­ture displays.”

So — design­ers, coders, artists, visu­al­iz­ers — go forth and write!

Update: make sure to check out the sub­mis­sion require­ments and pro­ce­dure up at the IV main page.

Beware: the dead­line is tight: March 1. March 21 But hon­estly, you would not have started ear­lier, any­ways — right? Feel free to get in touch if you have any ques­tions, and we are really look­ing for­ward to your submissions.