Call for Papers


Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) at the
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12)

4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland

http://socmedvis.ucd.ie


Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields
into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are
varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For
industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps
with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena.


The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in
conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM'12) in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for
presentation of research and applications of visualization of social
media data.


The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry
practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social
media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social
sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss
novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics
approaches to social media data sources.


Important Dates

      Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012
      Notification: 16th March 2012
      Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012
      Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012
      Workshop: 4th June 2012


Topics

We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of
visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

      Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data
      Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception
      Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media
      Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies
      Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities
      Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media
      Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry
      Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media
      Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics
      Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis
      Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora
      Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data
      Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media
      Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks
      Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media
      Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics Submissions


Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization
or visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according 
to AAAI guidelines. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using EasyChair
by 2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for
oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be
presented as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session.


The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the
workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce
themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to 
the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you
are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot
in the madness session by 2nd April 2012.


We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and
humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the
application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where
visualization is needed to understand social media data.


For more information please visit the workshop web page at
http://socmedvis.ucd.ie or email socmedvis@ucd.ie.


Regards,


Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault@ucd.ie
Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, eser@us.ibm.com
Martin Harrigan, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan@ucd.ie