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VisMaster, a European Coordination Action Project, Germany

The first annual EuroVAST was held on 8 June, 2010, in Bordeaux, France, with a goal of promoting and advancing the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for problem solving in a variety of application domains. This was the first international symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) to be held in Europe, and was co-located with the 2010 EuroVis Conference.

Sponsored by the European Coordination Action, VisMaster: Visual Analytics – Mastering the Information Age, in cooperation with EuroGraphics, the EuroVAST symposium focused on visual analytics research in domains such as engineering, business, public policy, medicine, security and sports industry.  Invited speakers represented research and academic organizations, industry and government personnel from all over Europe and the U.S.    Keynote speakers included David Ebert of Purdue University and the DHS VACCINE Center, USA; Jarke van Wijk of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands; Frank van Ham of IBM, France; and, Joe Parry of i2, Great Britain.

With active participation amongst all attendees, participants addressed interdisciplinary questions of how does the science of Visual Analytics relate to or connect with other sciences. During the Future of Visual Analytics Panel, panelists discussed the need to make the visual analytics story clear to the outside world and colleagues in other domains.  This collaboration would allow for more opportunities to learn from other domains, involve various end-users in the research process, and continue enhancing what visual analytics has offer.  All panelists emphasized the need for international and interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving in such big, global and complex environments.  

Conference Chairs:
Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany


Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany

Programm Committee:
Alan Dix, Lancaster University, United Kingdom


Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands


Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany


Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany


Enrico Bertini, University of Konstanz, Germany


Florian Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany


Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany


Guiseppe Santucci, Universitá di Roma, Italy


Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany


Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway


Jarke van Wijk, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands


Jean-Daniel Fekete, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France


Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany


Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, Netherlands


Kai Puolamaki, University of Helsinki, Finland


Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology , Austria


Peter Bak, University of Konstanz, Germany


Silvia Miksch, Danube University Krems, Austria


Wolfgang Aigner, Danube University Krems, Austria
 

Visual Analytics leaders and visionaries join for a panel, moderated by Jörn Kohlhammer (not pictured), at the EuroVAST symposium on 8 June, 2010, in Bordeaux, France.  Panelists (pictured left to right) included: Joseph Kielman, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Jarke van Wijk, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands; Daniel Keim, Universität Konstanz, Germany; Jim Thomas, National Visualization and Analytics Center, USA; David Ebert, Purdue University and DHS VACCINE Center, USA.