EDUCATION PAPERS

We seek original contributions for presentation and publication in the inaugural Eurovis 2024 Education Papers track. The scope includes various topics related to education:

1. Teaching related areas such as Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Visual Analytics,
2. Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses: novel teaching methods, curriculum design, teaching to diverse audiences, tools and platforms for teaching, assessment techniques for evaluating learning outcomes,
3. Enabling and exploiting visualization tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines.
4. Classroom challenges in visualization, e.g. innovative and effective assessment, engaging student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations,
5. Incorporating modern technology in visualization courses (e.g. VR, AR, 3D printing, gaming, etc),
6. Bringing visualization research into the classroom,
7. Promoting undergraduate research in visualization,
8. Visualization Literacy - models and frameworks for evaluating data visualization literacy, strategies to enhance data visualization literacy in the classroom or with general audiences, case studies of data visualization literacy initiatives. 

We invite authors to submit their contributions that fall into one of the following categories:

• Regular papers [max. 8 pages]
  describing the experience of educators in the topics listed above, bringing ideas on how to make the education process more efficient and funnier, attracting students to further research work, discussing innovative opportunities, etc. Whenever possible, we encourage authors to provide evidence of their effectiveness.
• Innovative assignments [max. 4 pages]
  explaining real assignments, providing examples of handouts and starter code and  examples of  student work. Explanations and descriptions of when and how to implement and facilitate the assignments in a semester (e.g., orchestration details) are highly recommended. Providing a description of the assessment method is also suggested. Authors may provide all relevant artifacts as supplementary materials during submission, and agree to provide access to them online upon acceptance.
• Outstanding student projects (individual or group) [max. 2 pages]
  should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student(s) brought creativity to their work. Upon acceptance, authors are expected to demonstrate the project during their presentation.

The best regular papers may be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, Computer Graphics Forum, Computers and Graphics, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals. The best assignments may be invited to publish in CGEMS: Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source.

All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated.

Author Guidelines

Submissions for the EuroVis Education papers track should be at most 8 pages in CGF latex style, with an additional page allowed for references. All submissions must be original and are not published previously in any conference proceedings, magazine, journal, or edited book. Education papers are peer-reviewed in a one-stage process by an international program committee. Authors have the option to submit their papers anonymously. In contrast to previous years, double-blind reviewing is optional, not required: authors may choose to disclose their identities to the reviewers. The reviewing process does not consider anonymity as a factor. The process will attempt to preserve anonymity of authors of blind submissions. However, the program committee, which is responsible for all the reviews, will know the authors of submissions reviewed by them. You need to provide a complete list of authors when submitting your short paper so that members of the program committee can avoid conflicts of interest during reviewer assignment. All authors must be specified in the submission system (but not in the paper) at the time of the submission.  Education papers will be electronically archived and are fully citable publications. All accepted Education papers will be presented orally at the conference.  For detailed paper preparation and submission instructions please refer to the submission guidelines below.

Submission and Formatting Instructions

In order to submit to Eurovis Education Papers, authors prepare their submissions as a PDF file using the Eurovis LaTeX2e Style (including a document class, a style file, a sample source file, and a corresponding PDF output file). Use EGauthorGuidelines-eurovis25-education.tex for your submission.  Please make sure that an image embedded in your paper does not contain transparent pixels (i.e., an alpha channel of a transparent color) because this will lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed or printed.

Submissions can also include supplementary material such as videos or executable programs. The server will accept uploads of at most 200 MB, so multiple files of over 200 MB must be submitted separately. We encourage the use of digital videos to support paper submissions, particularly if part of, or all of the work covers interactive techniques. Please use only the most common video codecs (e.g., MP4 format using the H.264 codec) to maximize the chances that the reviewers can see it.  Education papers are limited to a maximum length of 8 pages (plus an optional page for references only).  Education papers are submitted using the Precision Conference System (PCS).

 Education Paper Chairs

• Jillian Aurisano, University of Cincinnati, US
• Robert S Laramee, University of Nottingham, UK
• Carolina Nobre, University of Toronto, Canada