The workshop organisers plan to collect as many ideas as possible in order to define the landscape of Visualization Psychology. This collection will be presented to the community as an edited book. If you are interested in contributing a chapter or chapters to the book, please complete the form of Expression of Interest (EoI) (https://tinyurl.com/vp2020-BookEOI) by November 25, 2020. The EoI phase is closed. Nevertheless, potential authors can still contact the book editors to explore any opportunities that may available. 

Visualization Psychology

We hope that many contributors will be from the field of psychology as well as visualization and visual analytics. Since the scope of visualization psychology is not limited to controlled empirical studies on cognition, we especially encourage colleagues who have participated in VISxVISION and BELIV events to help define a broader landscape. We also encourage colleagues in different areas of VIS (e.g., VIS Pedagogy and VAHC) to connect their work with the corresponding branches of psychology (e.g., educational psychology, health psychology), exploring such interdisciplinary scopes.  

Book Structure

The currently planned structure of the paper includes a Foreword, a Preface, an Acknowledgement, a list of Contents, a list of Contributors, and some 20-30 chapters. Each chapter is expected to have at least 5,000 words plus references. We currently plan to group chapters into five Parts:

• Part I. VIS Theories and Psychology:
  This part examines VisPsych through the lens of different VIS theories (including mathematical theories, as well as qualitative guidelines and wisdom) and discusses whether such theories have been supported by theoretical and empirical evidence in Psychology.

The position papers in the VisPsych 2020 Program:

• • • A Psychology of Visualization or (External) Representation?

    • Task Matters When Scanning Data Visualizations

may fit well with the scope of this Part. See also Call for Papers for some example topics.

• Part II. Topics in Psychology
  This part examines VisPsych through the lens of different theories in Psychology, and discusses how such theories can be applied to visualization and can be validated or falsified using empirical evidence in visualization processes.

The position papers in the VisPsych 2020 Program:

• Using Resource-Rational Analysis to Understand Cognitive Biases in Interactive Data Visualizations 

• The Development of Visualization Psychology Analysis Tools to Account for Trust

may fit well with the scope of this Part. See also Call for Papers for some example topics.

• Part III. Branches in Psychology
  This part examines the connections between Visualization and different branches in Psychology.

The position paper in the VisPsych 2020 Program:

• • • Developing Effective Community Network Analysis Tools according to Visualization Psychology 

may fit well with the scope of this Part. See also Call for Papers for some example topics.

• Part IV. Cognition, VA and AI
  This part focuses on the interfacing role of visualization between human mind and machine intelligence.

The position papers in the VisPsych 2020 Program:

• Did You Get The Gist Of It? Understanding How Visualization Impacts Decision-Making 

• How do Visualization Designers Think? Design Cognition as a Core Aspect of Visualization Psychology

may fit well with the scope of this Part. See also Call for Papers for some example topics. 

• Part V. Subject Development
  This part focuses on the development of VisPsych as an interdisciplinary subject.

The position papers in the VisPsych 2020 Program:

• The Huge Variable Space in Empirical Studies for Visualization - A Challenge as well as an opportunity for Visualization Psychology 

• What We See and What We Get from Visualization: Eye Tracking Beyond Gaze Distributions and Scanpaths

may fit well with the scope of this Part. See also Call for Papers for some example topics. 

Book Editors

(in alphabetical order)

• Danielle Albers Szafir, University of Colorado Boulder, USA --- Part I Editor

• Rita Borgo, King’s College London, UK --- Part V Editor

• Min Chen, University of Oxford, UK --- General Coordination and Latex Editor

• Darren J. Edwards, Swansea University, UK --- Part III Editor

• Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University, Canada --- Part IV Editor

• Lace M. K. Padilla, University of California at Merced, USA --- Part II Editor

Timeline

• October 24, 2020: The online form for Expression of Interest (EoI) formally opens 

• October, 26 2020: The call for book chapters is announced at the Closing of VisPsych 2020

• November 25, 2020: The online form for Expression of Interest closes

• November 30, 2020: The editors informs the publisher of the planned book structure, including the details of chapter titles

• December 15, 2020: Detailed writing instructions for authors are available

• January 10, 2021: Collection of meta data from the Google folder for each chapter: chapter title, author names, institutions, emails, abstract, and section titles.  

• January 31, 2021: The first draft of each chapter is avilable for Stage 1 Review (mostly reviewed by book editors and authors of chapters within each part)

• February 28, 2021: Stage 1 Review completes

• April 30, 2021: Each chapter is completed, and available for Stage 2 Review (similar to a paper review process)

• May 31, 2021: Stage 2 Review completes

• June 30, 2021: All chapters are completed.

• July 15, 2021: The integration of chapters within each part completes 

• July 31, 2021: The integration of the whole book completes

• August 1, 2021: Submission to the publisher for final typesetting

• <Date>: Announcing the book in VisPsych 2021

The publisher may take several months to complete the book, but is usually able to announce the book with some details, such as the ISBN number, the cover page, etc. 

Operational Matters

1. Google folders for collecting authors writings.

We have created a Google folder for each chapter based on your EoI. For example, if one ticks the boxes of Parts I, III, and V, we will create three chapter folders under the folders for Parts I, III, and V. If you would like to contribute an additional chapter, please let Min Chen know and he will create an addition folder for you.

You do not need to use such a folder to work on your writing, but should update it with the latest version frequently, at least according to the major dates listed at https://sites.google.com/view/vispsych/call-for-book-chapters

Please include in each chapter a simple Goodle doc, README, to indicate any significant updates of the chapter and notes for the editors. If one includes multiple versions of a chapter in the folder, please use an appropriate file name to indicate the latest version.

2. Latex and Word Templates and the interim versions of the book

You will also have access to a Generic folder, where you can find Latex and Word Templates and the interim versions of the book.

You can use either Latex or MS Word to write your chapter. For MS Word users, we recommend the SimpleWordChapter.doc. We will convert the text in the MS Word to Latex.

Please also include all the images/figures in separate files. Extracting images from a Word document may likely reduce the quality of the images. If any figure is drawn using a vector-drawing tool, please store the figure as a PDF file (preferred) or .eps file.

We will "harvest" all texts after major deadlines (as well as between them) and combine them into an interim book, which will also be kept in the Generic folder.

3. Metadata collection: 10 January 2021

We will collect the metadata of each chapter immediately after 10 January 2021. We ask all authors to create an outline chapter with the metadata, using either the Latex template or MS Word template in the Generic folder. The metadata includes

• Chapter Title

• Author Name(s)

• Abstract

• Author Institution(s)

• Contact Email(s)

• Section Headings

Please try to start this action as soon as you can as this should not take long, you can still change such metadata later, and some authors may have a CHI deadline.

For those authors who have already some texts (e.g., their VisPsych papers), please feel free to add those texts into the chapter. We plan to provide the first version of the interim book before 20 January 2021.

4. Sharing the chapter folders and the generic folder

We have shared the chapter folders and the generic folder using you email addresse in the EoI form. If you wish to use your gmail for accessing the folders, please let Min Chen know. 

5. Additional notes for Latex users

• Please make sure that all labels in each chapter include a unique-identifier(s) to help avoid label-clashes among chapters. For example, Darren Edwards (DE) may use "\label{sec:P3DE-Intro}" and "\label{fig:P3DE-Draw}" in his chapter in Part 3, where the unique-identifier is P3DE. 

• At the moment, we are using the "abbrv" style for references.