VISSW 2009: Visual interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web

Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)

In conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009)

Sanibel Island, Florida
8th February 2009

Objectives

The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted in even more data created, published and consumed by users. This vast amount of data is available in various formats (text, image, video, etc.), can be presented on different platforms, and most importantly, contains linkages between different entities on the Web. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. In addition, the workshop also serves as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work as well as to identify potential collaborations with their peers.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Visual interfaces supporting exploration and/or navigation of unstructured or structured data on the Web
Visualizing and interacting with semi-structured/linked data on the Semantic Web or the Social Semantic Desktop
Ontology-based visualization of & interaction with collections of data
Novel paradigms to interact with textual data, photos, music, videos on mobile devices
Lightweight components for casual users to publish/share their own contents on the Web
Real-world use cases
Lessons learned from intelligent interfaces built to interact with Web-based contents

Submissions

We welcome three types of submissions:

Full papers which should be between 6 and 10 pages.
Short papers and position papers which should be up to 5 pages.
Demo papers - 2 page description with a screenshot of the working prototype or preferably a link to an online demo.

Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system . Accepted papers are published in CEUR-WS.org proceedings Vol-443. RDF data about the workshop is available here.

Important Dates

(Extended) Paper submission deadline: 24th November, 2008 (11:59pm Hawaii time)
Notification of acceptance: 15th December, 2008
Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 12th January, 2009

Registration

Workshop participants will have to register for both the IUI2009 conference and the workshop itself. Please refer to the main conference website for registration details.

Invited Talk

Speaker: David Huynh, Metaweb Technologies

Title: The Art of Building Compelling Semantic Web Research Prototypes
Abstract:
Compelling research prototypes can help communicate abstract, elusive big ideas and visions convincingly to everyone regardless of their technical backgrounds and interests, from conference reviewers, potential funders, potential usability subjects, to friends who want to know just what exactly you're working on so that they can share your enthusiasm. Compelling research prototypes can even enlist real-world users and let you test out ideas that are next to impossible to test in lab settings. But building compelling research prototypes is not a skill taught in school, and the general population has not found many Semantic Web research prototypes compelling. In this talk, I will share with you tips and tricks that have helped me build my research prototypes, particularly those that showcase Semantic Web ideas and technologies.

Program

9:00	Welcome and Workshop Introduction
09:10	Invited Talk and Discussion
10:00	Session 1: Interfaces to Structured Data 1
	Implementation and Evaluation of a Semantics-based User Interface for Web Gazetteers Krzysztof Janowicz (University of Münster), Mirco Schwarz (University of Münster) and Marc Wilkes (University of Münster)
	The Ontology Viewer: Facilitating Image Annotation with Ontology Terms in the CSIDx imaging Database Amalia Kallergi (Leiden University), Yun Bei (Leiden University) and Fons J. Verbeek (Leiden University)
	Configuring Semantic Web Interfaces by Data Mapping Michiel Hildebrand (CWI) and Jacco van Ossenbruggen (CWI)
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Session 2: Interfaces to Structured Data 2
	Experimenting with Explorator: a Direct Manipulation Generic RDF Browser and Querying Tool Samur Araujo (PUC-Rio), Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio) and Simone Barbosa (PUC-Rio)
	Interactive Visualization Tools for Exploring the Semantic Graph of Large Knowledge Spaces Christian Hirsch (University of Auckland), John Hosking (University of Auckland) and John Grundy (University of Auckland)
	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Session 3: Analysis and Extraction Applications
	Visual Sentiment Analysis of RSS News Feeds Featuring the US Presidential Election in 2008 Franz Wanner (University of Konstanz), Christian Rohrdantz (University of Konstanz), Florian Mansmann (University of Konstanz), Daniela Oelke (University of Konstanz) and Daniel A. Keim (University of Konstanz)
	GaChat:A chat system that displays online retrieval information in dialogue Satoshi Horiguchi (Keio University), Akifumi Inoue (Tokyo University of Technology), Tohru Hoshi (Tokyo University of Technology) and Kenichi Okada (Keio University)
	Rich Interfaces for Browsing News in Blog Posts Earl Wagner (Northwestern University), Jiahui Liu (Northwestern University) and Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University)
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Session 4: Visualising and Supporting Social and Mobile Interactions
	Interactively Visualizing Dynamic Social Networks with DySoN Georg Groh (TU München), Holger Hanstein (TU München) and Wolfgang Woerndl (TU München)
	CiteAware: Visual Group Awareness for a Reference Sharing System Dhruba Baishya (University of Pittsburg) and Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburg)
	Code Sharing on the Web - Two Approaches Kyle Buza (MIT) and Takashi Okamoto (MIT)
	Visual Interfaces for Improved Mobile Search Karen Church (Telefonica Research), Barry Smyth (University College Dublin) and Nuria Oliver (Telefonica Research)
	Discussion
17:30	Close