Collaborative Research - Visual Analytics Science and Technology Challenge Workshop

该奖项支持2009年视觉分析科学与技术(Vavast)挑战研讨会。这次研讨会汇集了参加2009年2月至2009年7月举行的2009年挑战大赛的个人，展示他们的结果并讨论他们的经验。视觉分析的研究非常及时，显然吸引了研究界的许多兴趣。预计Vavast 2009将有助于实现以下目标：(1)将社区集中在有用和现实的视觉分析问题上；(2)比较和对比参与者开发或使用的系统；(3)收集从测试新方法和指标中吸取的经验教训，以便进行评价。研讨会将把视觉分析开发人员和评估员聚集在一起一整天，展示挑战赛的结果，并讨论从评估中学到的经验教训。它将使许多研究人员--特别是学生--面临评估复杂系统以供分析员使用的挑战。总结挑战和研讨会结果的论文将被广泛传播，包括庞大的2009年网站(http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09/).

This award supports the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge Workshop 2009. This workshop is bringing together individuals who participate in the VAST 2009 Challenge Competition taking place from February 2009 to July 2009 to present their results and discuss their experiences.Research on visual analytics is very timely, and it is clearly attracting a lot of interest in the research community. VAST 2009 is expected to contribute to the following goals: (1) focus the community on working on useful and realistic visual analytics problems, (2) compare and contrast systems developed or used by the participants, and (3) gather lessons learned from testing novel methodologies and metrics for evaluation. The workshop will bring visual analytics developers and evaluators together for a full day to present the results of the Challenge, and discuss lessons learned about evaluation. It will expose many researchers -- in particular students -- to the challenges of evaluating complex systems for use by analysts.Papers summarizing the challenge and workshop results will be widely disseminated, including the VAST 2009 Website (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09/).