Proceedings of the 2011 Visual Information Communication - International Symposium

Abstract

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2011 Visual Information Communication - International Symposium (VINCI '11), which is held at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, among the most prestigious in Asia. Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. It has been successfully employed in knowledge discovery, end-user programming, modeling, rapid systems prototyping, education, and design activities by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and web technology, and electronic mobile devices. This event seeks to promote research exchanges that will benefit both researchers and industrial practitioners, and aims to bring together scientists and students working in main of the above mentioned research fields and applications of visual information communication. This year, we have received 34 submissions from 9 countries/regions. The program committee accepted 16 papers after a thorough review process, which you will be seeing presented over the next two days.