*VL/HCC 2022: Call for Research Papers*
(Apologies for multiple postings)
*IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing*
*>>> 12-16 September 2022 <<<*
*Rome, Italy*
*https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022*
<https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022>
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*IMPORTANT DEADLINES*
Research Papers:
- Abstracts-Only: *Wednesday 23 March 2022*
- Submission Deadline: *Wednesday 30 March 2022*
(all deadlines are *23:59, AoE*)
*>>> Submission link: **https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022>
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*IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
2022*
From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to
learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant
moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical
UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and
understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge.
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the
premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in
1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory,
application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for
programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use,
and understand by people.
The 2022 symposium is scheduled to take place September 12-16 in Rome,
Italy.
Our special emphasis for 2022 is *Human-Centric AI*. VL/HCC 2022 is 100%
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia
Computing (TCMC).
*VL/HCC is indexed in Scopus, DBLP, IEEE Explore, WoS.*
*The Symposium is planned to be in presence. In any case, we are monitoring
the Covid situation and will act according to decisions of the authorities
to insure the safest and widest participation.*
We look forward to your participation in VL/HCC!
Paolo Bottoni, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair
Gennaro Costagliola, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair
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*Scope and Topics*
We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies
for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier
to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art.
Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate
those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for
general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public)
or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business
administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or
scientific domains).
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Visual Languages: Novel visual languages, Design, evaluation, and
theory of visual languages and applications, Development of systems for
manipulating and interacting with diagrammatic representations
- Human aspects and psychology of software development and language
design, such as supporting inclusion and diversity in programming
- End-user development: End-user development, adaptation and
programming, Creation and evaluation of technologies and infrastructures
for end user development
- Crowdsourcing design and development work
- Representations: Novel representations and user interfaces for
expressing computation, Software, algorithm and data visualization
- Modeling: Model-driven development, Domain-specific languages,
including modeling languages, Visual modeling of human behavior and
socio-technical systems
- Thinking more deeply about code: Computational thinking and Computer
Science education, Debugging and program understanding, Explainable ML/AI
If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to
email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contacts” below). We welcome those new to the
VL/HCC community to submit!
*Special Emphasis for 2022: Human-Centric AI*
This year’s special topic is “Human-Centric AI”. As AI and explainable AI
(XAI) experience explosive growth, many questions arise about how to ensure
that tools and explanations for AI fit the needs of the broad populations
they need to serve. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that
design, build, or evaluate technologies involving or relating to
human-centric AI and issues of human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness.
*Paper submissions*
We invite *two kinds of papers*:
- full-length research papers, up to 8 pages - plus unlimited additional
pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements
- short research papers, up to 4 pages - plus unlimited additional pages
containing only references and/or acknowledgements.
Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format.
Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated
in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
*>>> Papers should be submitted via the **EasyChair system*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022>*. <<<*
*>>> The submission link is: *
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022>* <<<*
To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper
abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper
submission deadline (see Important Deadlines above).
The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the
abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250
words.
All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete,
self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are
more extensive than those from short papers. Work-in-progress, which has
not yet yielded a contribution, should be submitted to the Showpieces
category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program
Committee in a single blind review process. Authors will then receive the
reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal
phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the
acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical
program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2022 and present the paper at the
conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel
restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution
after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper
is not presented by the author at the conference.
The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE
Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an
official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference
attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library (
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/).
*Evaluation and Justification*
Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For
example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected
to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to
use should demonstrate increased ease of use.
However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical
evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make
something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim
through the existence of a functioning prototype.
Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be
appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal
arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential
authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and
what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect
short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers.
*Special Issue of The Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)*
A select number of accepted papers will also be invited to optionally
submit a revised and extended paper to a special issue of the Journal of
Computer Languages (COLA). These papers will also go through the journal’s
normal reviewing process. Papers accepted at both would appear both in the
proceedings for VL/HCC 2022 and in COLA. Further instructions regarding
formatting and the review/publication process will be provided when the
invitations are made.
More information about COLA is available here:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-languages
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*VL/HCC 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*
General Co-Chair
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
General Co-Chair
Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy
Program Co-Chair
Michelle Brachman, IBM Research, United States
Program Co-Chair
Mark Minas, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Publicity & Social Media Chair
Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Finance Chair
Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Publications Chair
Kim Monch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Web Chair
Mattia De Rosa, University of Salerno, Italy
Graduate Consortium Co-Chair
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Graduate Consortium Co-Chair,
Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, United States
Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair
Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy
Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair
Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy
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*Contacts*
PC Co-Chairs:
- Michelle (Ichinco) Brachman (michelle.brachman(a)ibm.com)
- Mark Minas (mark.minas(a)unibw.de)
For more information or any queries, please see our website:
https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022