We accept 2 types of submissions—research and position papers. The workshop focuses on contributions from all areas of visualization, including Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, and Scientific Visualization:

Research papers aim to make progress toward novel evaluation methods in visualization and to discuss their benefits and limitations compared to traditional methodologies. As in past editions of Beliv, we will not accept papers that merely report on the evaluation of a system or technique unless the focus of the contribution is on lessons learned about applying a novel evaluation method or methodology and new insights on the evaluation itself are presented. Research papers present new work and unpublished results on the topic areas of the workshop. Research papers will be selected according to their novelty, quality and relevance.

Position papers are problem discussions or statements describing the author's relevant experience and ideas in regards to evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Position papers will be selected according to their importance and relevance for the workshop topics and how well they will fit the planned discussions.

Both types of papers can be up to eight pages long but the length of a submission needs to correspond to its contribution. For survey-style papers, an additional 9th page for references is allowed. Note that this extra page can only contain references.

All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee as well as the organizers.

Publication

We are currently working on making sure that we will be able to publish all accepted papers in the ACM digital library including the assignment of DOIs to the papers. We also plan to invite a selected subset of the papers to contribute to a special issue in a major visualization journal venue such as the Information Visualization Journal.

Submission

To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2014/. Please clarify whether you are submitting a position or research paper.

Format

All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html/. The submission, however, must be made in PDF format. Authors can decide whether they want to reveal their names on the submission (single-blind) or submit it anonymously (double-blind).

Topics of Interest

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

Important Dates

Jul 7, 2014: Paper submission due
Aug 5, 2014: First notification
Sept 1, 2014: Revisions due
Sept 11, 2014: Final notification
Sept 18, 2014: Camera-ready due
Nov 10, 2014: BELIV workshop (1-day)

Papers from previous BELIVs

For past BELIV workshops and papers see these links:
BELIV 2006: published in the ACM DL
BELIV 2008: published in the ACM DL
BELIV 2010: published in the ACM DL
BELIV 2012: published in the ACM DL