Topics include:

VAST

• Visual representations and interaction techniques including the principles for depicting information, new visual paradigms, statistical graphics, geospatial visualizations, the science of interaction, and approaches for generating visual analytic visualization and interactions
• Data management and knowledge representation including scalable data representations for high volume and stream data, statistical and semantic signatures, and synthesis of information from diverse data sources
• Analytical reasoning including the human analytic discourse, knowledge discovery methods, perception and cognition, and collaborative visual analytics
• Presentation, production, and dissemination methods including methods and tools for capturing the analytics process, and story telling for specific and varying audiences
• Applications of visual analysis techniques, including but not limited to applications in science, engineering, humanities, business, public safety, commerce, and logistics as far as they contribute to Visual Analytics are of particular interest
• Evaluation methods, security & privacy, interoperability, and technology practice & experience
• Discourse visualization and visual representations of the reasoning process
• Mathematical foundations of data transformations to allow interactive visual analysis
• Algorithms and technologies which are fundamental for visual analytics, including user and device adaptivity, web interfaces and mobile devices

InfoVis

• Information visualizations techniques for
• graphs and trees and other relational or structured data
• high-dimensional data and dimensionality reduction
• multi-variate data and heterogeneous data
• social and ambient information
• text and documents
• non-numeric data (categorical data, nominal data, etc.)
• non-expert audiences
• causality and uncertainty data
• time series data
• any other non-spatial data
• spatial data that is visualized with a new spatial mapping
• Techniques for interactive or dynamic information visualization including
• streaming or time-varying data
• focus + context methods
• animation and storytelling
• zooming, navigation and distortion techniques
• brushing and linking
• coordinated multiple views
• data labeling, editing and annotation
• scalability issues
• collaborative, co-located and distributed use
• Information visualization and comprehension issues
• visual design and aesthetics
• cognition and perception
• sonification
• presentation and dissemination
• mobile and ubiquitous
• public deployment and use
• Information visualization methodologies
• visualization systems
• design studies and case studies
• novel algorithms and mathematics
• taxonomies and models
• methodologies, discussions and frameworks
• Evaluation
• task and requirements analysis
• metrics and benchmarks
• qualitative and quantitative evaluation
• laboratory and field studies
• novel evaluation methods
• usability studies and focus groups
• Applied information visualization
• reports of information visualization in domains where it has impact

SciVis

• General Data Visualization
• scalar, vector and tensor fields
• irregular and unstructured grids
• point-based data
• temporal data
• volume modeling
• Visualization Techniques and Approaches
• extraction of surfaces
• volume rendering
• topology-based and geometry-based techniques
• PDEs for visualization
• Foundations
• collaborative and distributed visualization
• design studies
• mathematical theories for visualization
• scalability issues
• uncertainty visualization
• view-dependent visualization
• information theoretic
• machine-learning approaches
• Interaction Techniques
• user interfaces
• interaction design
• coordinated and multiple views
• data editing for validation
• manipulation and deformation
• Display and Interaction Technology
• large and high-res displays
• stereo displays
• immersive and virtual environments
• multimodal input devices
• haptics for visualization
• Evaluation
• user-centric (usability studies + task analysis)
• design studies
• numerical (error metrics and benchmarks)
• validation and verification
• Perception & Cognition
• perception theory
• color texture, scene, motion perception
• perceptual cognition
• Hardware for Visualization
• hardware acceleration
• GPUs and multi-core architectures
• CPU and GPU clusters
• distributed systems, grid and cloud environments
• volume graphics hardware
• Large Data Visualization
• time-varying data
• multidimensional multi-field, multi-modal, and multi-variate data
• streaming data
• multi-resolution
• compression
• petascale visualization
• applications - flow, biomedical
• Systems and Approaches
• visual design, visualization system and toolkit design
• glyph-based techniques
• illustrative visualization
• mobile and ubiquitous visualization
• integrating spatial and non-spatial data visualization
• data warehousing, database visualization and data mining
• Visualization in Science and Engineering
• visualization in mathematics
• physical sciences and engineering
• earth, space, and environmental sciences
• flow visualization
• terrain visualization
• geographic/geospatial visualization
• molecular, biomedical and medical visualization
• bioinformatics visualization
• software visualization
• Visualization in Social Sciences and Commerce
• business and finance visualization
• social and information sciences
• education, in the humanities, for the masses
• multimedia (image/video/music) visualization