SG05: 5th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS http://www.smartgraphics.org 22-24 August 2005 Frauenwoerth Cloister, near Munich, Germany http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg05/venue.html Smart Graphics is grounded in a deep understanding of human abilities, activities, and desires. This understanding arises through the integration of fields such as art, design, and the social, cognitive, and perceptual sciences. Insights are realised in the form of novel methods for producing and interacting with rich graphical displays often utilising established techniques from computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and computer science in general. Such interfaces present content that: (1) engages the user and is esthetically satisfying; (2) participates in human cognition as external or distributed representations; (3) is sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available computational resources; and (4) adapts the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction devices. The 5th International Symposium on Smart Graphics will bring together researchers from computer graphics, vizualisation, graphics design, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, all working on different aspects of computer-generated graphics. This year's meeting will be held in the beautiful Frauenwörth Cloister near Munich, Germany. This year SG05 particularly encourages submission in the area of visual analytics -- the art and science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Visual analytic interfaces are based on cognitive and perceptual principles to support human information discourse using innovative interactive techniques and visual representations. These are augmented by the art of graphical design and interaction design and the use of Artificial Intelligence in partnership with biological intelligence. Testing these applications will require new methodologies that move beyond usability to quantify the impact of interactive visualization applications on perceptual, distributed, and embodied cognition. For a full description of the scope and details of previous events see the website: http://www.smartgraphics.org CONTACT: Andreas Butz (butz(a)ifi.lmu.de) SUBMISSIONS CATEGORIES: Full papers Posters System demonstrations and artwork DATES: April 24, 2005 Submission deadline May 23, 2005 Notification of review results May 31, 2005 Camera ready copy due Aug 22-24, 2005 Smart Graphics Symposium ORGANIZERS: Andreas Butz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany) Brian Fisher (University of British Columbia, Canada) Antonio Krueger (Saarland University, Germany) Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) COMMITEE: Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg) Marc Cavazza (Teeside University) Sarah Diamond (Banff Centre) Steven Feiner (Columbia University) Sid Fels (University of British Columbia) Knut Hartmann (University of Magdeburg) Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab) Shigeru Owada (University of Tokyo) W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design) Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg) Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg)) Stefan Schlechtweg (University of Magdeburg) Thomas Strothotte (University of Magdeburg) Sha Xinwei (Georgia Institute of Technology) Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento) Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)