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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] 3-year PhD position at Aarhus
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<td>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:12:46 +0000</td>
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<td>Hans-Jörg Schulz via ieee_vis_open_positions
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<td>Hans-Jörg Schulz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hjschulz@cs.au.dk"><hjschulz@cs.au.dk></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please distribute this call for a 3-year,
fully funded PhD position at Aarhus University, Denmark
starting February 2018 to prospective candidates.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Focused-PVA: Progressive Visual
Analytics for Focus+Context Techniques<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Progressive Visual Analytics (PVA) is
currently revolutionizing big data analysis. Instead of
crunching a whole dataset at once, PVA breaks a dataset down
into smaller chunks and processes them in order of importance.
This way, after each chunk, we can already output an
in-progress result on which to base early analytical decisions
long before the dataset is processed in its entirety. You
probably know this concept from slowly transmitted images or
maps online that are already shown while still being refined.
PVA is like that, but for long-running data analysis and
visualization operations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This PhD project sets out to apply PVA to
visual analysis techniques that follow the focus+context
principle – i.e., by interacting with a visualization, users
specify a point or region of interest (the focus) and its
periphery of lesser interest (the context). Following the
focus+context principle yields a natural, user-driven starting
point for data partitioning and ordering strategies for PVA
that is expected to outperform sampling-based methods, which
partition the data without taking the user into account. It
will be your task to explore this new combination of
“Focused-PVA” to merge the swiftness and responsiveness of PVA
with the interactive, user-driven nature of the focus+context
principle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Research questions to pursue in this
project are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What can we imply from
the focus/context information in terms of suitable data
partitioning schemes and processing strategies for PVA? How
does the kind of visualization in which the focus is specified
influence these strategies?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In which way can we
leverage Focused-PVA to instantiate, for example, Progressive
Lenses, Progressive Portals, or Progressive Probes on top of
different visualizations?<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How to generalize the
above ideas from a binary distinction between focus and
context regions to a continuous distance-based concept of
importance? How to extend this concept to two or more focal
regions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Work on this PhD topic will be conducted in
close collaboration with the DABAI project (<a
href="https://dabai.dk" moz-do-not-send="true">https://dabai.dk</a>),
which provides the datasets and analysis scenarios on which
the developed visualizations are tested. In addition, this
research topic is embedded in a larger ongoing research effort
to develop a visual analytics concept and system that will
center on progressive visualizations using smart lenses or
locally inserted “in situ visualizations”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information please refer to <a
href="http://talent.au.dk/phd/scienceandtechnology/opencalls/calls-on-specific-projects/november-2018/focused-pva-progressive-visual-analytics-for-focus-context-techniques/"
moz-do-not-send="true">
http://talent.au.dk/phd/scienceandtechnology/opencalls/calls-on-specific-projects/november-2018/focused-pva-progressive-visual-analytics-for-focus-context-techniques/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Application deadline is 1 November 2018 at
11.59 PM MET.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Assoc. Prof. Hans-Jörg Schulz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aarhus University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Åbogade 34<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8200 Aarhus N, Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">eMail: <a href="mailto:hjschulz@cs.au.dk"
moz-do-not-send="true">hjschulz@cs.au.dk</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">web: <a href="http://hjschulz.net"
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