JoVI https://journalovi.org/news.html https://journalovi.org/images/jovi_wordmark_white_bg.png JoVI https://journalovi.org/news.html 76 144 quarto-1.9.37 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Call for Student Volunteers JoVI Organizing Committee https://journalovi.org/posts/2025-04-29-student-volunteers/ Want to help promote open and transparent practices in HCI and VIS? Curious about the inner working of academic publication processes?

The Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI) is looking for volunteers at the level of PhD students or post-docs to fill in the following positions:

Assistant to the journal organizers

You will help make the JoVI’s reviewing and publication process smoother for everyone!

Responsibilities:

  • Monitor status of the reviewing processes and keep spreadsheets up to date.
  • Facilitate JoVI organizer meetings by preparing agenda and taking notes
  • Collect feedback to the processes in JoVI and help improving them

Ideal candidates:

  • Pay great attention to details
  • Know their way around Google Sheets
  • Can join the organizers’ meeting on Mondays 10:00 (Chicago time)
  • Great at processing conversations and bringing clarity
  • Naturally thinking about how to organize and optimize processes

Technical co-chair (Open Journal Systems: OJS)

You will help improve the experience of authors and reviewers in the PDF track.

Responsibilities: You will help us figure out how to customize Open Journal Systems (OJS) to align to JoVI processes.

Ideal candidates:

  • Like to tinker around IT systems and websites
  • Has some experience of reviewing processes (of any conferences or journals)
  • Can volunteer in bursts of about 2–3 hours, once per month

Assistants to the accessibility chair (2 persons)

You’ll help ensure that scholarly publications are accessible to anyone, regardless of their abilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Review accessibility aspects of articles in the experimental (Github) track
  • Help improving the process (and possibly tools) to make interactive articles accessible

Ideal candidates:

  • Has experience or interest in web accessibility
  • Familiar with tools for inspecting web accessibility
]]> News https://journalovi.org/posts/2025-04-29-student-volunteers/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT SIG @ CHI 2024 JoVI Organizing Committee https://journalovi.org/posts/2024-04-04-chi-sig/ Are you going to CHI 2024 and interested in experimenting with new review methods, open practices, and interactive publications in HCI? Join us in a SIG meeting hosted by JoVI (the Journal of Visualization and Interaction). We will specifically discuss topics surrounding the following question:

How can we - and how should we - change the reviewing and publishing culture in HCI?

We want to hear from you: what would your ideal HCI publishing process look like? We will also share our experiences from the first year of JoVI, a diamond open-access, open review journal in HCI with an explicit mission to continually experiment with new review processes and publication models.

The main event will be a Special Interest Group meeting (SIG) at the CHI 2024 conference on 16 May 11:00 (Hawaiʻi time) in room 318A. We will also organize an online event synchronously at the same time.

Goals of the event

As part of this SIG, we want to reflect on the first year of JoVI, which was first announced at CHI 2023. We will present some initial lessons learned from reviewing our first few submissions (including two traditional articles and five interactive articles), as well as current challenges we face.

We want to better understand current situations, issues, opportunities, and perspectives around open publishing and reviewing in HCI. We aim to gather diverse perspectives from stakeholders representing various roles in the publishing process (academics, industry researchers, authors, editors, reviewers, and students) to help brainstorm about what HCI publication could look like.

Attendees’ input will be gathered into a public document to be discussed by the JoVI advisory board at their annual meeting, and will inform the future directions of JoVI.

How to attend

  1. SIG meeting:
    • In-person: If you want to participate in person at CHI 2024 in Hawaiʻi on Thursday 16 May 11:00 (Hawaiʻi timezone) at room 318A, you can just drop by!
    • Online: If you want to participate online, please register here.
  2. Regardless of your participation, if you have any thoughts on open publishing or reviewing in HCI, or pointers to other works (e.g., papers, blog posts, newsletter articles, opinion statements) about open publishing and reviewing in HCI which you would like us to consider, please share with us by emailing to organizers@journalovi.org or by joining the Slack (see here)

Please spread the word

If you know of other academics, researchers, students, or industry people who might be likely to give valuable input to this event, please let us know.

If you think your students or colleagues might be interested in attending this event, please forward them this post.

]]> News Events CHI https://journalovi.org/posts/2024-04-04-chi-sig/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Summer 2023 Updates JoVI Organizing Committee https://journalovi.org/posts/2023-08-26-summer-2023-updates/ The summer break is winding down, and we would like to give you an update about what’s going on at the new Journal of Visualization and Interaction.

First of all, we have our very first submission for the experimental track currently being reviewed. As the experimental track also exists to experiment with open reviews (among other things), you can follow the process along at Github. The interactive article draft can also be found online.

In addition, we have agreed with two external academic venues, namely the VISxAI workshop at IEEE VIS 2023 and the Information+ Conference 2023, to act as publication venue for the extended versions of their proceedings. These articles will be subject to the same openness requirements as other JoVI submissions, and will go through a second round of reviews before being accepted into the corresponding special issue.

If you have further questions about JoVI, feel free to contact us via email, join our Transparent Research Slack channel, or ping us on Twitter and Mastodon.

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