[General] First Call for Participation -Eurovis Education Papers

Call for Eurovis Education Papers We seek original contributions for presentation and publication in the inaugural Eurovis 2024 Education Papers track. The scope includes various topics related to education: 1. Teaching related areas such as Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Visual Analytics, 2. Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses: novel teaching methods, curriculum design, teaching to diverse audiences, tools and platforms for teaching, assessment techniques for evaluating learning outcomes, 3. Enabling and exploiting visualization tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines. 4. Classroom challenges in visualization, e.g. innovative and effective assessment, engaging student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations, 5. Incorporating modern technology in visualization courses (e.g. VR, AR, 3D printing, gaming, etc), 6. Bringing visualization research into the classroom, 7. Promoting undergraduate research in visualization, 8. Visualization Literacy - models and frameworks for evaluating data visualization literacy, strategies to enhance data visualization literacy in the classroom or with general audiences, case studies of data visualization literacy initiatives. We invite authors to submit their contributions that fall into one of the following categories: * Regular papers [max. 8 pages] describing the experience of educators in the topics listed above, bringing ideas on how to make the education process more efficient and funnier, attracting students to further research work, discussing innovative opportunities, etc. Whenever possible, we encourage authors to provide evidence of their effectiveness. * Innovative assignments [max. 4 pages] explaining real assignments, providing examples of handouts and starter code and examples of student work. Explanations and descriptions of when and how to implement and facilitate the assignments in a semester (e.g., orchestration details) are highly recommended. Providing a description of the assessment method is also suggested. Authors may provide all relevant artifacts as supplementary materials during submission, and agree to provide access to them online upon acceptance. * Outstanding student projects (individual or group) [max. 2 pages] should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student(s) brought creativity to their work. Upon acceptance, authors are expected to demonstrate the project during their presentation. The best regular papers may be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, Computer Graphics Forum<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659>59>, Computers and Graphics<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics>cs>, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg>cg>, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals. The best assignments may be invited to publish in CGEMS<https://education.siggraph.org/resources/cgems>ms>: Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source. Timeline All deadlines are in 2024. Submission deadline: 15 Feb Notification: 04 April Camera Ready Version: 18 April For more information please visit: https://event.sdu.dk/eurovis/education-papers Eurovis 2024 Education Paper Chairs * Elif E Firat, Cukurova University, Turkey * Robert S Laramee, University of Nottingham, UK * Nicklas Sindelv Andersen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Robert S Laramee Professor of Visualization http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/blaramee/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.