Schedule for: 18w2230 - Restructuring IEEE VIS for the Future

Note: the Lecture rooms are available after 16:00.

A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Panel chair: Hanspeter Pfister Panelists: Daniel Keim, Tamara Munzner, Stephen North, Hans Hagen

Participants introduce themselves (name and affiliation only) and mention the most crucial points from their pre-workshop one-pagers. One minute each (strictly enforced), no slides allowed.

Respond to panel and participant statements. At any point, write down a theme for afternoon breakout sessions (one theme per sticky note) and post them on side whiteboards.

Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!

Participants: Discuss and explore the goals and challenges you see for the future of VIS (series of 3 minute conversations). Organizers: create affinity diagrams from the previous session’s sticky notes.

Participants will discuss goals, scenarios, & challenges in small groups, which will be randomly assigned. Each group should identify a scribe and a facilitator.

Report back of break-out sessions 1 in plenary (return to main lecture hall), followed by the selection of next round topics.

Participants will discuss goals, scenarios, & challenges in small groups, which will be self selected. Each group should identify a scribe and a facilitator.

Report back of break-out sessions 2 in plenary (return to main lecture hall).

Discuss issues that surfaced today and that came up over informal dinner discussions. Unveil unexpected directions and insights, dig into controversies, and synthesize where to go from here.

2-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (Corbett Hall Lounge, TCPL, Reading Room) until 15:00 on Sunday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon, by going to the Banff Centre's Front Desk in the Professional Development Centre, where you checked in. There is no coffee break service on Sunday afternoon, but self-serve coffee and tea are always available in the 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall.

Review and reflect on previous day’s work and key scenarios.

Break-out sessions to refine the emergent key scenarios, and identify unresolved challenges within those scenarios.

Report back of break-out sessions in plenary (return to main lecture hall).

Where do we go from here? What is exciting? What was missed? What can be addressed now? Which issues cut across scenarios? Which are hard? Which are easily solved? Which aspects of scenarios have we achieved a rough consensus about and which remain controversial?