Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Visualization Application Areas:

• Statistical Graphics And Mathematics

• Financial, Security And Business Visualization

• Physical Sciences And Engineering

• Earth, Space, And Environmental Sciences

• Geographic/Geospatial/ Terrain Visualization

• Molecular, Biomedical, Bioinformatics And Medical Visualization

• Text, Documents And Software Visualization

• Social, Ambient And Information Sciences

• Education And Everyday Visualization

• Multimedia (Image/Video/Music) Visualization

• Any Other Non-Spatial Data Or Spatial Data That Is Visualized With A New Spatial Mapping

Data Focused Visualization Research:

• High-Dimensional Data And Dimensionality Reduction And Data Compression

• Multidimensional Multi-Field, Multi-Modal, Multi-Resolution And Multivariate Data

• Causality And Uncertainty Data

• Time Series, Time Varying, Streaming And Flow Data

• Scalar, Vector And Tensor Fields

• Regular And Unstructured Grids

• Point-Based Data

• Large Scale Data (Petabytes, ...)

Technique Focused Visualization Research:

• Volume Modeling And Rendering

• Extraction Of Surfaces

• Topology-Based And Geometry-Based Techniques

• Glyph-Based Techniques

• Integrating Spatial And Non-Spatial Data Visualization

• Machine-Learning Approaches

Graph And Network Visualization Research:

• Design And Experimentation Of Graph Drawing Algorithms

• Techniques, Interfaces And Interaction Methods For Graphs, Trees, And Other Relational Data

• Visualization Of Graphs And Networks In Application Areas (e.g., Social Sciences, Biology, Geography, Software Engineering, Circuit Design, Business Intelligence)

• Interfaces And Interaction Techniques For Graph And Network Visualizations

• Benchmarks And Experimental Analysis For Graph Visualization Systems And User Interfaces

Interaction Focused Visualization Research:

• Icon- And Glyph-Based Visualization

• Focus + Context Techniques

• Animation

• Zooming And Navigation

• Linking + Brushing

• Coordinated Multiple Views

• View-Dependent Visualization

• Data Labeling, Editing And Annotation

• Collaborative, Co-Located And Distributed Visualization

• Manipulation And Deformation

• Visual Data Mining And Visual Knowledge Discovery

Empirical And Comprehension Focused Visualization Research:

• Visual Design And Aesthetics

• Illustrative Visualization

• Cognition And Perception Issues

• Cognitive Studies On Graph Drawing Readability And User Interaction

• Presentation, Dissemination And Storytelling

• Design Studies, Case Studies And Focus Groups

• Task And Requirements Analysis

• Metrics And Benchmarks

• Evaluations Of All Types: Qualitative, Quantitative, Laboratory, Field, And Usability Studies

• Use Of Eye Tracking And Other Biometric Measures

• Validation And Verification Perception Theory Including Such Factors As Color Texture, Scene, Motion Perception, Perceptual Cognition

System Focused Visualization Research:

• Novel Algorithms And Mathematics

• Mobile And Ubiquitous

• Taxonomies And Models

• Methodologies, Discussions And Frameworks

• Visual Design, Visualization System And Toolkit Design

• Data Warehousing, Database Visualization And Data Mining

• Collaborative And Distributed Visualization

• Mathematical Theories For Visualization

Hardware, Display And Interaction Technology:

• Large And High-Res Displays

• Stereo Displays

• Mobile And Ubiquitous Environments

• Immersive And Virtual Environments

• Multimodal Input (Touch, Haptics, Voice, Etc.)

• Hardware Acceleration

• GPUs And Multi-Core Architectures

• CPU And GPU Clusters

• Distributed Systems, Grid And Cloud Environments

• Volume Graphics Hardware