VINCI 2010

The 3^rd Visual Information Communication - International Symposium

September 28-29, 2010, Beijing, China

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

VINCI 2010 provides an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process.

Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:

•         Visual Analytics

•         Aesthetics in visual communication

•         Graphical user interface design

•         Influence of visual arts and design

•         Visual approaches to knowledge discovery

•         Visual interaction through multi-modality

•         Visual programming languages

•         Information visualization

•         Graph drawing and visualization

•         Software visualization

•         Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors

•         Visual communication metaphors

•         Visual modeling languages and UML

•         Visualization on mobile devices

•         Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension

Invited speakers：

– Professor James D. Hollan         University of California, San Diego

– Professor Benjamin B. Bederson    University of Maryland

– Dr. Cecile Paris                  CSIRO ICT Centre

– Dr. Shengfeng Qin               Brunel University, UK

Venue :  Lecture Room, 4th Floor, Building 5，4# South  

                FourthZhongguancun Street,  Beijing

Website ：http://iel.iscas.ac.cn/vinci10/

Free for students