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:
The term for these positions are until 31 May 2027.
Publication chair (1 person)
You will help with the final step of publishing the papers that received endorsements from reviewers.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with authors and editors to gather the final materials (the article and the reviews).
- Hand over the materials to OJS technical chair for publication
Ideal candidates:
- Has some experience of reviewing processes (of any conferences or journals)
- Know your way around the Slack app
- Pay great attention to details
- Can volunteer in bursts of about 30 min – 60 min, on demand, around 1–2 times 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