Research PapersVL/HCC 2020

We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies and visual languages for modelling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes tools and visual languages intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). See Call for Papers and Accepted Papers.

Accepted Papers

Call for Papers

Scope and Topics

We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies and visual languages for modelling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes tools and visual languages intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains).

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Designing Technologies that Accelerate Human Learning
• Better Ways to Teach and Learn Computational Thinking
• Interfaces that Induce or Support Creativity
• AI/ML in Support of Human Cognition
• Designing for Inclusion and Diversity
• Cognitive Amplifiers for People with Special Needs
• Collaboration Support for Creative Work
• Understanding Dynamics of Technology-Empowered Teams
• Computer Techniques to Teach Creativity & Problem Solving
• Fostering Creativity Through Coding
• Understanding Coding as Creative Problem Solving
• Visual Languages to Support Workflows for Problem Solving


Special Emphasis for 2020: Amplifiers for Human Learning and Creativity

This year’s special topic is “Amplifiers for Human Learning and Creativity”.

Paper submissions

We invite two kinds of papers: * full-length research papers, up to 8 pages—plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements * short research papers, up to 4 pages—plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements. Papers must be submitted in a format suitable for anonymous review, and using the IEEE two-column conference paper format.

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2020

To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Dates below). The abstract must be no longer than 150 words, and must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper.

All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded a contribution, should be submitted to the Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Submission and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2020 and present the paper at the conference. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.

Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). The proceedings are an official electronic publication of the IEEE in Computer Science, with an ISBN number. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2018), and to select the “US letter” template:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Double blind reviewing

Double Blind Reviewing We follow a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Thus, submitted papers must not reveal the identities of authors. However, the author names will be known to the program committee in the rebuttal phase.

Both authors and reviewers are expected to make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. In case of questions, please contact the Program Chairs. Authors should ensure that the submission can be evaluated without it being obvious who wrote the paper. This means leaving author names off the paper and using terms like “previous research” rather than “our previous research” when describing background. However, do not hide previous work – papers must still reference all relevant research, including that by the current authors, so reviewers can evaluate novelty. It is important that authors specify all conflicts of interest with potential reviewers during the submission phase.

Reviewers should not undertake any investigation that might lead to the revealing of authors’ identity. If identities are inadvertently revealed, please contact the Program Chairs.

The Program Chairs will check all submissions for obvious signs of lack of anonymity and may ask authors to make changes and resubmit the paper within four days of the submission deadline.