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Paper abstract: 21 February 2008
Paper submission: 6 March 2008

----------------------- Keynote Speakers -----------------------

Professor Dr Wilhelm Schäfer, University of Paderborn
Professor John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology

---------------------- Submission Now Open ----------------------

For full details on preparing and submitting your paper see:

http://vlhcc08.cs.unibw.de/submission.php

VL/HCC 2008 submission will be via EasyChair.

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2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
(VL/HCC'08)

http://vlhcc08.cs.unibw.de/

Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany (close to Munich)
16-20 September 2008, just before this year's Oktoberfest (*)

(*) http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/7548/index.html
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 From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing
practitioners
have sought ways to make interactions with computers more human-
oriented. For
example, visual languages have long been used to provide effective
communication
between humans and computers. Visual languages have been successfully
employed
for end-user programming, modeling, and rapid prototyping; they have
supported
design activities by people of many disciplines and backgrounds
including
architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition,
visual
languages and technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate
human-human
communication through Internet/Web technology and electronic mobile
devices.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/
HCC) is
the premier international forum for researchers and industrial
practitioners to
discuss the theory, applications and evaluation of technologies,
visual and
otherwise, that enhance the role of humans in the computing process.

Established in 1984, the mission of the IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages and
Human-Centric Computing ("VL/HCC") is to support the design,
formalization,
implementation, and evaluation of computing languages that are easier
to learn,
easier to use, and easier to understand by a broader group of people.

This includes all research aimed at the above mission, regardless of
whether it
uses entirely visual technology, text, or instead uses sound, taste,
virtual
reality, the web, or any other technologies. Examples of research
addressing
this problem include, but are not limited to, language/environmental
design
aspects, theory that supports the many media used toward this goal,
implementation aspects, empirical work, software comprehension aspects
(including software visualization), and software modeling and/or
software
engineering aspects.

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SCOPE AND TOPICS
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We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on one or
more
aspects of human-centric computing technology, for instance visual
programming
or interaction, text, sound, virtual reality, the Web, or other
multimedia
technologies.

Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying
theories,
formal methods, taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and
empirical
studies. We also solicit short papers that present work in progress or
demonstrations of tools. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the
following:

• Design, theory, and application of visual languages for programming, modeling, and communication
• Domain-specific languages (DSL)
• Computer-mediated human-human communication
• Empirical studies of human-centric software technologies
• Languages and tools for end-user software development
• Languages and tools for domain-specific software development
• Model-driven development of interactive systems
• Multimedia systems
• Multi-modal interaction
• Software visualization and algorithm animation
• Visual or multidimensional model-driven development

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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We invite two different types of paper submissions:

    Full-length papers reporting on research or experience,
    Short papers describing work in progress or tool demonstrations.

Standard papers may be up to eight pages in IEEE double-column format;
short
papers may be up to four pages in IEEE double-column format. Papers
must be
submitted electronically. All submissions will be reviewed by members
of the
international Program Committee.

Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'08, published
by the
IEEE Computer Society. The paper submission deadline is March 6, 2008;
to aid in
reviewer assignments, we also request that prospective authors submit
abstracts
and titles by February 21, 2008.

Note that the conference is also inviting submissions for workshops and
tutorials to be held in conjunction with the symposium; more
information about
these submission types can be found on the VL/HCC’08 web site.

Authors of the best papers accepted for the conference will be asked
to submit
revised versions of their work for a special issue of the Journal of
Visual
Languages and Computing.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop/Tutorial proposals: 17 February 2008
Workshop/Tutorial decision: 3 March 2008

Paper abstracts: 21 February 2008
Paper submission: 6 March 2008
Notification of decision: 16 May 2008
Camera-ready copy: 12 June 2008
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SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CHAIR

Mark Minas, Universität München, Germany

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome, Italy
Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France

WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR
Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE

Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome, Italy
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
Mark Minas, Universität München, Germany
Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Andy Schürr, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Laura Beckwith, Microsoft, USA
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola University of Salerno, Italy
Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, Spain
Rob De Line, Microsoft Research, USA
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Peter Eades, University of Sydney, Australia
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA
Kim Marriott, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Nikolay Mirenkov, University of Aizu, Japan
Paul Mulholland, The Open University, UK
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Marian Petre, The Open University, UK
Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France
David Redmiles, University of California, Irvine, USA
Alex Repenning ,University of Colorado, USA
Pablo Romero, University of Sussex, UK
Stefan Sauer, University of Paderborn, Germany
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
Gabriele Taentzer Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Shin Takahashi University of Tsukuba, Japan
Juha Pekka Tolvanen U. of Jyväskylä / MetaCase, Finland
Kang Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas, USA