VisGuides

Submission Information

The VisGuides workshop features 3 types of submissions: short papers, long papers, and guideline reports. Please carefully read the respective instructions below. Submission topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Comparative analysis of guidelines for visual representation, requirements, and gap analysis of principles and guidelines for one or more visualization tasks (or application domains)

  • Evidence-based critique of a principle or a guideline

  • Case studies of a principle in relation to a task, a visual design, and a group of users

  • Proposal of a new principle or a guideline, or a major revision of an existing one

  • Proposal of a mechanism for curating principles and guidelines

  • Proposal of a framework for the critique of principles and guidelines

  • Proposal of a mechanism for disseminating and deployment of established principles and guidelines

  • Proposal of a mechanism for prioritizing and ranking established principles and guidelines

  • Discourse on a long-term sustainable mechanism for creation, curation, critique, and conditioning activities

  • Discourse on the relationships and transformations between principles and guidelines and other theoretical aspects, such as taxonomies, conceptual frameworks and models, and quantitative laws

Submission website: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions

Please select the following on the submission website: Society: “VGTC”, Conference: “VIS 2022”, Track: “VIS 2022 VisGuides”

Review process: 2-3 peer reviews each. Single-blind mandatory, double-blind optional.

Presentation: ~3-5 minutes plus plenary discussion.

Registration: Participants must be registered for the specific day at the VIS conference.

Short Paper

Size: 2 pages + references, in the IEEE VIS Style

Please add the [SHORT] label to your submission title in PCS.

Submission deadline: August 5 (Sunday, midnight PDT)

Notification: August 15 (Monday, midnight PDT)

Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT)

Publication through ArXiv and the workshop website

Long Paper

Size: 6 pages + references, in the IEEE VIS Style

Please add the [LONG] label to your submission title in PCS.

Submission deadline: August 5 (Friday, midnight PDT)

Notification: August 15 (Monday, midnight PDT)

Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT)

Publication through IEEE Digital Library

Guideline Report

6 pages + references, in the IEEE VIS Style

Please add the [REPORT] label to your submission title in PCS.

Submission deadline: August 5 (Sunday, midnight PDT)

Notification: August 15 (Monday, midnight PDT)

Camera ready: August 21 (Sunday, midnight PDT)

Published on ArXiv and the workshop website

Report example format:

  • Title of the guideline that is proposed or discussed.
  • Guideline description
  • Background
  • Supporting elements
    • Arguments (common sense)
    • Study evidence
    • Design examples
  • Rejecting elements
    • Arguments (common sense)
    • Study evidence
    • Design examples
  • Discussion
    • Implications / Considerations
    • Ethical
    • Practical
    • Technical
  • Conclusions
  • Summary-box
    • Title
    • Description
    • Supporting (max 3 bullet points)
    • Contra (max 3 bullet points)
    • Discussions (max 2 bullet points)
  • References