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