Introduction

News

Information Visualization has a place as a core title of in your library's computer science collection and comes recommended by Library Journal as "an exceptionally-well designed, peer-reviewed journal". Download our library recommendation form to tell your library about this journal.

Call for Papers

GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change

Workshop at the AGILE 2008 Conference (Girona, Spain, May 2008) and Special Issue of Information Visualization (provisional issue Vol.7, No.3)

Submissions are requested for a Special Issue of Information Visualization.

Deadline for submission:

• abstracts: January 20th, 2008
• full papers: March 31st, 2008

Tentative date of publication: Volume 7 Issue 3 August, 2008

Highlights

IVS has established itself in its first five volumes as the dedicated forum for the theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization and its applications. Our content continues to further reach in a wide variety of subject areas.

Currently available with free online access is our special issue on Visual Analytics by Guest Editor: Pak Chung Wong.

Included in the Visual Analytics special issue:

• Interactive Wormhole Detection and Evaluation;
  Weichao Wang, Aidong Lu
• NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data;
  Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson
• ScentIndex and ScentHighlights: Productive Reading Techniques for Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes and Highlighting Passages;
  Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Julie Heiser, Stuart K. Card, Michelle Gumbrecht
• Ewall: A Visual Analytics Environment for Collaborative Sense-Making;
  Paul E. Keel
• A Visualization Testbed for Analyzing the Performance of Computational Linguistics Algorithms;
  Stephen G. Eick , Justin Mauger, Alan Ratner
• An Automated Approach for the Optimization of Pixel Based Visualizations;
  Jörn Schneidewind, Mike Sips, Daniel A. Keim
• Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visits;
  Chris Weaver, David Fyfe, Anthony Robinson, Deryck Holdsworth, Donna Peuquet, Alan M. MacEachren

Information Visualization has been accepted for indexing by both IBZ (the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences) and IBR (the International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences).

Audience

The journal is essential reading for researchers and practitioners of information visualization and is of interest to computer scientists and data analysts working on related specialisms.