Description: The symposium features 4 high-quality speakers, who will each give a 50 minute talk on her/his thoughts about the future development of her/his area, followed by a 30 minute question & answer period. At the end of the day there will be a 70 minute plenum discussion with all speakers.
On 13th and 14th December 2012, Prof. Silvia Miksch visited the VIS Institute (Visualization und Interactive Systems) at Stuttgart University in Germany.
In this visit, Prof. Miksch attended the PhD defense of Eng. Steffen Koch titled
Visual Search and Analysis of Documents in the Intellectual Property Domain
On December 7th 2012, IEG member Theresia Gschwandtner has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled
Interactive Visualization of Effects of Medical Treatment on a Patient´s Condition
advised by Prof. Silvia Miksch (with Prof. Bernhard Preim as secondary advisor).
It is a great honor that our paper on Contingency Wheel++ was awarded with an honorable mention @ IEEE VAST 2012.
Contingency Wheel++ employs visual analytics methods to analyze large categorical data.
ACM's Computing Reviews journal features a review of our book "Visualization of Time-Oriented Data"
New research project EXPAND starting October 1, 2012, funded by "FIT-IT Visual Computing" of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, under grant no. 835937.
Die Vorbesprechungen für die kommenden LVAs finden im EI 2 Pichelmayer HS am 3. Oktober um 15:00 Uhr statt.
The new Doctoral College of Environmental Informatics is now funded by TU-Vienna. The consortium comprises 10 key faculty members from 7 institutes. From our institute, Prof. Silvia Miksch and Prof. A Min Tjoa are involved.
