<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span 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style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Publication: November/December 2022</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:OpenSans,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This special issue of<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;font-family:OpenSans,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box">IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications</em><span 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This special issue invites submissions about any pandemic, including COVID-19, but also others such as bird flu. The</span><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:OpenSans,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">the predominant focus of the issue is on the use of computer graphics, visualization, virtual and augmented reality, and HCI in applications or methodologies that were or could be applied in pandemic scenarios.<br aria-hidden="true"></span></div><br aria-hidden="true"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;font-family:OpenSans,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box">Topics of interest include:</p><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;font-family:OpenSans,sans-serif;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Visualization, graphic simulation, and human-computer interaction approaches</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Graphic simulation or animation used in virus-spreading scenarios</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Visualization for communicating modeling processes and decision-making dependencies</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The development of visualization tools for the prediction or tracking of pandemic scenarios</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Industry and business applications in regulated environments</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">VR and AR applications to visualize the impact of our behavior on the spread of a virus to raise awareness and respect for restrictions imposed by rule-makers</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Crowd simulation during a pandemic, such as capacity limitations and environment design to improve transit</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Using graphics to communicate, work, play, and interact in a socially distanced world</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Visualization of cells, pathways, and molecular structures related to viruses and bacteria</li></ul></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">---------------------------------------------</span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Guest Editors</span><br aria-hidden="true"><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Soraia Raupp Musse, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Nuria Pelechano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><font size="1">-- ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Soraia Raupp Musse (<a href="http://www.inf.pucrs.br/smusse" target="_blank">www.inf.pucrs.br/smusse</a>) PUCRS – School of Technology (<a href="http://www.pucrs.br/politecnica/" target="_blank">http://www.pucrs.br/politecnica/</a></font>)</pre><pre cols="72"><font size="1">VHLAB - http://<a href="http://www.inf.pucrs.br/vhlab" target="_blank">www.inf.pucrs.br/vhlab</a></font></pre><pre cols="72"><font size="1"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/vhlabpucrs" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/vhlabpucrs</a> Av. 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