ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Global Outreach

Call for Eurographics 2018 EDUCATION Papers

wobbe — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:18:32 +0000

The 39th Eurographics conference will be held on April 16-20, 2018 in Delft, The Netherlands. The conference is organized by the Eurographics Association covering the wide field of Computer Graphics. Part of the conference is a track on Computer Graphics Education.

We are seeking original contributions for presentation and publication in the EG 2018 education track. We seek to build and enhance a vibrant community of computer graphics teachers who share their knowledge and experience of bringing computer graphics to the classroom and getting others excited about the field.

The scope of the track includes topics in education related to computer graphics, such as use in education, teaching/classroom experience, "nifty assignments" and outstanding student projects. Authors are invited to submit papers, panels and student projects.

We invite submissions related to the following topics:

Teaching computer graphics to diverse/mixed audiences (e.g. students in computer science, engineering, arts, etc.);
Designing curricula for computer graphics and related disciplines (e.g. image processing, visualization, animation and games, etc.);
Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses in computer graphics;
Classroom challenges in computer graphics (innovative and effective assessment, engaging student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations, etc.);
Enabling and exploiting visual tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines;
Incorporating recent technology in computer graphics courses (e.g. VR, AR, 3D printing, etc.);
Bringing computer graphics research into the classroom;
Promoting undergraduate research in computer graphics.

The best papers will be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, Computer Graphics Forum, Computers and Graphics and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals. The best nifty assignments may be published in the CGEMS.

Education papers and experience reports should provide new insights or experience that improve student learning and emphasize on how instructors can directly use them in the classroom.
Proposals for panels should state the problem to be discussed and include a short statement from proposed panelists.
Effective assignments should explain the assignment, provide examples of handouts and starter code and example student work. Authors may provide them as supplementary materials during submission, and agree to provide access to them online upon acceptance.
Outstanding student projects (individual or group) should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student(s) brought creativity to the work. Upon acceptance authors will be expected to demonstrate the project during their presentation.

Submission Details

Anonymous submissions of up to 8 pages for education papers or up to 2 pages for notes on nifty assignments or outstanding student projects must be formatted according to the Eurographics Author's guidelines. Submissions will be made electronically through the Eurographics Submission and Review Management (SRM) system and subject to a review process.

Eurographics 2018 - Education Papers

Proposals for education panels should be emailed directly to the education papers co-chairs at chairs-eg2018edu@eg.org.

Deadlines

Submission deadline for education papers is 23:59 UTC/GMT, Friday, January 12, 2018.
Notification to authors will be on Friday, February 9, 2018.

Education Papers Co-chairs

For any question concerning education paper submissions please contact the papers program co-chairs: chairs-eg2018edu [at] eg.org.

Jiri Zara
Frits Post

Call for Eurographics 2016 Education Papers

wobbe — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:03:20 +0000

Eurographics is seeking original contributions for presentation and publication in the EG 2016 education track. The scope of the track includes topics in education in computer graphics, computer graphics in education, effective teaching tips and techniques focusing on computer graphics course content, and outstanding student projects in computer graphics. Authors are invited to submit papers, panels and student projects.

Education papers should give new insights or experience that improve student learning and that instructors can take into the classroom. Proposals for panels should state the problem to be discussed and include a short statement from proposed panelists. Notes on teaching tips and techniques should describe proven ways to engage student interest or present difficult topics. Notes on outstanding student projects should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student brought individual creativity to the work.

The best papers will be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, CGF, C&G and IEEECG&A, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals.

We invite submissions related to the following topics:

teaching computer graphics in various curricula including computer science, engineering, and arts;
designing curricula for computer graphics and related disciplines including image processing, animation and games;
promoting undergraduate research in computer graphics;
creating educational programs combining computer graphics with other disciplines;
teaching the mathematical foundations of computer graphics and related disciplines;
exploiting visual tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines.

Submission Details

Anonymous submissions of up to 8 pages for education papers or up to 2 pages for notes on teaching tips and techniques or outstanding student projects must be formatted according to the Eurographics Author’s guidelines. Submissions will be made electronically through the Eurographics Submission and Review Management system and subject to a review process.
Proposals for education panels should be emailed directly to the education papers co-chairs at chairs-eg2016edu [at] eg.org.

Deadlines

The submission deadline for education papers is 23:59 UTC/GMT, Friday, January 8th, 2016. Notification to authors will be on Friday, February 12th, 2016.

Education Papers Co-Chairs

Beatriz Sousa Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal 
Jean-Michel Dischler, University of Strasbourg, France

International Activities Report (2012-2013)

wobbe — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:22:27 +0000

In this report we present several international educational activities, events and conferences in Computer Graphics and related areas in which our Committee members and International Representatives have been and/or are actively involved in 2012-2013, aiming at showing the scope and diversity of our international network.

Download the report (PDF, 115kb)

International Activities Report (2011-2012)

wobbe — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000

In this report we present several international educational activities, events and conferences in Computer Graphics and related areas in which our Committee members and International Representatives have been and/or are actively involved in 2011-2012, aiming at showing the scope and diversity of our international network.

Download the report(PDF, 597kb)

Academia Digital (Digital Academia)

wobbe — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Seminar held at Casa da Ciência, at Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University, on 25 May 2012.

Organized by the Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea (Advanced Program on Contemporary Culture).

The aim of the Seminar was to discuss possible networking and collaborative projects among major media labs and academic digital media centers in Brazil. A group of 20 outstanding digital media professors and industry professionals from different parts of Brazil was invited to present their current work and research activities. Participants included Alex Primo, Guto Nobrega, Sergio Amadeu, Silvia Laurentiz, Rita Lima, Eugenio Trivinho, Christo Nóbrega, Guido Lemos, Heloísa Buarque de Holanda, among many others.

In her role as SIGGRAPH Global Outreach Coordinator, Rejane Spitz encouraged participants to get involved and attend SIGGRAPH conferences.

Visualization Curriculum Workshop

wobbe — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

On May 19, 2012, a „Visualization Curriculum Workshop“ was held at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, sponsored by the SIGGRAPH Education Committee. It was a follow-up on the Visualization Curriculum Panel at Eurographics 2012. Participants were David Ebert, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Holly Rushmeier and Gitta Domik.

During the morning, workshop participants followed up on the issues as discussed at the Eurographics Panel “Visualization Curriculum Panel – or the Changes We Have Made to Our Visualization Courses over the Last 10 Years”. Since the early 1990s, teaching Visualization has been part of the Computer Science curriculum at many universities world-wide, but applications, methods and technologies have changed since then. It seems currently appropriate to make a distinction between

data visualization,
information visualization and
visual analytics

though many commonalities exist and all of these can be summarized under the heading of “visualization”. To shortly summarize some significant data differences,

in data visualization, data dimensions usually coincide with physical dimensions, such as in medical or remote sensing or flow data,
information visualization typically deals with multidimensional data as in finances, business intelligence, or large databases and mostly physical dimensions are not present
in visual analytics, data is characterized by large, complex, and heterogeneous data sets.

The rest of the workshop was spent in discussing the following proposed outline of the following 11 themes to teach “visualization”, where additions and distinctions must be used if focusing on a specific type of visualization.

The 10 themes were taken from previous curriculum suggestions and are as follows:

Definitions and History of Visualization.
Data. This includes models, transformations, data characterization as well as data manipulations
The User. This includes the human information processing limitations and capabilities as well as the task that a user brings to the visualization problems
Design stage. This stage describes a careful mapping of data components to visual attributes
Visual Presentation Techniques. This should include a wealth of visualization solutions, sorted by data characteristics, by application domain, and/or by task, and described by their various parameters. This theme can be presented at the breath-level by showing and discussing (interactive) visualizations. It can be trained by using available tools at the breadth-level or in-depth by developing interactive visualization techniques on a GPU, or in any breadth/depth stage in between, depending on the qualifications of students.
Interaction techniques. While interaction techniques are a demand per se for Visual Analytics, they are increasingly also present and demanded for data and information visualization, where GPU techniques can reach the necessary processing speed.
Communication. A focus on production, presentation and dissemination as part of the visualization process was raised by visual analytics, but needs to be observed as well for data visualization and information visualization.
Collaboration. Interactivity aids collaboration, but other issues are of concern in the collaboration among stakeholders.
Evaluation. Evaluation is seen as a continuous process, starting with the requirement analysis of the visualization problem, continuing as a constant awareness process of the human-in-the-loop of software processes towards a visualization goal, and ending with evaluation techniques to secure reaching this goal for the specific visualization problem.
Displays. Different capabilities of displays (size, memory, processors) pose problems on visualization techniques, interactivity and communicaton and need to be treated at least at the Mapping/ Design stage.

It was decided to have these preliminary discussions continued at the BOF "Visualization and Visual Analytics Curriculum" at SIGGRAPH 2012.

Eurographics Education Papers 2012

wobbe — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

The Eurographics Education Papers were held on May 17th, 2012, at Eurographics 2012 at Cagliari, Sardinia.

Giovanni Gallo and Beatriz Sousa Santos (co-chairs of the education program) put together an excellent program:

Visualization Curriculum Panel – or: The Changes We Have Made to Our Visualization Courses Over the Last 10 Years. Panelists: G. Domik (University of Paderborn), D. Ebert (Purdue University), J. Kohlhammer(Fraunhofer IGD), H. Rushmeier, (Yale University), B. Sousa Santos (University of Aveiro), D. Weiskopf (Universitaet Stuttgart).
Adaptation of Electrical Laboratory Systems though Augmented Reality for Optimization of Engineering Teaching University. J. Martin-Gutierrez (Universidad de La Laguna), B. Peña Fabiani (Universidad de La Laguna), M. D. Meneses Fernandez (Universidad de La Laguna), L. Abselan (Universidad de La Laguna), D. C. Pérez- López (Inter-University Research Institute for Bioengineering and Human Oriented Technology (UPV)).
Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Enhanced Tabletop System as a Collaborative Learning Tool: A Case Study on Mathematics at the Primary School. G. Salvador (ESET, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain), D. Pérez (i3BH), M. Ortega (i3BH), E. Soto(i3BH), M. Alcañiz (i3BH), M. Contero (i3BH)
Evaluation of a Curriculum for Technical Artists. V. Sundstedt (Blekinge Institute of Technology), M. Lanner (Blekinge Institute of Technology)
Teaching 3D acquisition for Cultural Heritage: a theory and practice approach. M. Dellepiane (Visual Computing Lab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy), R. Scopigno (CNR-ISTI)
Building a Serious Game to Teach Secure Coding in Introductory Programming Courses. N. Adamo-Villani (Purdue University), M. Oania (Purdue University), J. Brown (Purdue University), D. Whittinghill (Purdue University), S. Cooper (Stanford University)
Next Generation Handheld Graphics Edutainment for Learning in an Adaptive Student Centric Environment: Constraints and Benefits. I. Cheng (University of Alberta), O. Bilash (Department of Education, University of Alberta), W. F. Bischof (Computing Science Department, University of Alberta), A. Basu (Computing Science, University of Alberta)
TECHNI Photons: Evolution of a Course in Data Structures. A. Duchowski (Clemson University)
Evaluation of Students’ Skills in Remote Collaboration for Creative Problem Solving in Computer Graphics. T. McLaughlin (Texas A&M University), S. Keske (Texas A&M University)
Distance Learning in Computer Graphics. M. Fairen (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), A. Chica (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), N. Pelechano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Teaching a modern graphics pipeline using a shader-based software renderer. H. Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms), T. Weber (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms), M. Wimmer (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms)

SIIMI 2012

wobbe — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

1º Simpósio Internacional de Inovação em Mídias Interativas

(First International Symposium of Innovation in Interactive Media)

9-11 May 2012

A three-day symposium held at the Media Lab - Federal University of Goias (Goiania, Brazil).

As an invited speaker, ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee South America representative Rejane Spitz had a chance to promote the ACM SIGGRAPH educational activities during a talk she gave to approximately 300 attendees (mainly students and professionals in the area of Interactive Media) and surprisingly the majority of them were not aware of SIGGRAPH.

Other invited speakers of this Symposium were Derrick de Kerckhove (Canada), Hannah Drayson (UK), Maria Pia Rossignaud (Italy), Guto Nobrega (Brazil), Lucia Santaella (Brazil), Suzette Venturelli (Brazil), Guiherme Xavier (Brazil), among others.

More information can be found at http://www.medialab.ufg.br/siimi/?page_id=15/&lang=en;

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Education Panel

wobbe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Thursday, 15 December

Approaches and Challenges towards Animation Education

Weihua Gao (Animation School of Communication University of China and one of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee Asia Representatives) was one of the speakers on this panel that was describes as follows:

"Animation is being taught in schools all over the world at various levels of success. . In this panel we wish to explore current approaches towards animation education and share best practices as well as the challenges facing these schools. Aspects such as policies, enrolment and class management issues to curriculum structure, pedagogy and success stories can be brought up and discussed to find out how animation institutions are effectively educating their students and preparing them for their roles in the industry. Towards the end of the panel we can also explore future developments in animation education and possible challenges that lie ahead."

Moderator

Ahmad Al-Mahir Abu Bakar
Singapore Polytechnic

Education Panel on the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 website

SIGRADI 2011

wobbe — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000

November 16- 18, 2011

The XV SIGraDi conference took place in Santa Fe, Argentina.

It was organized by the School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo) of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral through its Center of Informatics and Design, CID.

The Conference’s theme was “Augmented Culture, and keynote speakers were Lev Manovich, Dale Herigstad, Ivan Ivanoff and Marcos Novak.

Most of SIGRADI’s attendees are educators.

ACM SIGGRAPH Ecucation Committee Global Outreach coordinator Rejane Spitz worked as a collaborator in the organization of the event, and had the opportunity to encourage attendees to join and attend SIGGRAPH conferences and its educational related events.

More information can be found at http://www.fadu.unl.edu.ar/sigradi2011

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International Activities Report (2012-2013)

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Academia Digital (Digital Academia)

Seminar held at Casa da Ciência, at Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University, on 25 May 2012.

Organized by the Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea (Advanced Program on Contemporary Culture).

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Visualization Curriculum Workshop

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Eurographics Education Papers 2012

The Eurographics Education Papers were held on May 17th, 2012, at Eurographics 2012 at Cagliari, Sardinia.

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SIIMI 2012

1º Simpósio Internacional de Inovação em Mídias Interativas

9-11 May 2012

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SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Education Panel

Thursday, 15 December

Approaches and Challenges towards Animation Education

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SIGRADI 2011

November 16- 18, 2011

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