Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Evaluation in the visualization development lifecycle,

• Utility characterization,

• Evaluation metrics,

• Insight characterization,

• Synthetic data sets and benchmarks,

• Taxonomy of tasks,

• Computational evaluation,

• Benchmark development and repositories,

• Methods for longitudinal studies and adoption,

• Evaluation of early prototypes,

• Evaluation heuristics and guidelines, and

• Reflections on evaluation practice in visualization in the past, present, and future.

Topics that are not of interest:

• Evaluation results of a visualization system or technique