The Itinerary Planner lets you bookmark Sessions, Talks, and Posters of interest so you can create a personal Itinerary of sessions you want to attend at the VSS Meeting. You must be logged in to your MyVSS account and be registered to attend the VSS Meeting to use the Itinerary Planner.

How to Bookmark Items

If you are logged in and a VSS registrant, you will see bookmark icons preceding session times and talk and poster titles. Clicking the bookmark icon will add, or remove, the item from your Itinerary. The icon indicates an unbookmarked item and the icon indicates an item you have already bookmarked. All bookmarked items will appear on your My Itinerary page.

Bookmarking Hierarchy

If you bookmark a Talk or Poster session, all of the talks or posters in that session are automatically bookmarked and added to your Itinerary. Similarly, if you unbookmark a Talk or Poster session, all of the talks or posters are removed from your Itinerary. Use with Caution so you don’t accidentally remove all of the talks/posters in a session that you have meticulously added individually.

Talks and Posters may also be added or removed individually with no effect on the parent session or other talks/posters.

Removing Items from your My Itinerary Page

When you click a green bookmark icon on your My Itinerary page, the icon will change to white indicating that you have removed the item from your Itinerary. The item itself will disappear the next time your refresh your My Itinerary page.

If the item you remove is a Talk or Poster session with talks/posters listed beneath, the icons for those talks/posters will not change color, but they will be removed the next time your refresh your My Itinerary page.

Viewing Your Itinerary Offline

You can use the  button at the top of your My Itinerary page to print a copy of your itinerary or save it as a PDF of offline viewing.

We are pleased to announce that we will host an online Mind Matching session (powered by Neuromatch) ahead of the VSS conference. It’s a great opportunity to make new connections online through VSS before the conference begins. Those who want to continue the conversations can later arrange to meet up in person at the conference. The event is open to all members. Everyone is invited and encouraged to join – graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, professors, researchers, and industry professionals.

WHEN: May 2nd, 11 am EDT (that’s the time in St Pete’s Beach, FL; (Time zone converter!!)

WHERE: Zoom link sent to participants.

Sign Up For VSS Mind-Matching Event

Sign-ups close on or before April 25th (registration will be capped at 300 attendees)

What is Mind Matching? Mind Matching pairs you with attendees with similar interests, explicitly ruling out people you already collaborate with.

How does Mind Matching work? You provide recent abstracts (something you’ve written or abstracts you didn’t write that you find interesting). You also provide your ORCID id (if you don’t have one, you can make one here) and a list of people you don’t want to be matched with (collaborators, advisors, friends, labmates). Neuromatch uses that information to do groupwise matching based on the abstracts you submitted while also using your ORCID id to avoid people you already know and collaborate with.

What happens during the event? The event will happen on zoom. During the event, there will be 2 rounds of matching. For each round, you will have been matched into a small group that is assigned to a particular breakout room. Each small group will also be provided a set of conversation prompts in the form of a word-cloud that was generated based on the group’s collective abstracts.

Code of Conduct: As with all VSS events, participants must follow the Society’s Anti-Harassment Policy

Sign Up For VSS Mind-Matching Event

Each year, VSS solicits its membership to submit creative visual images related to the field of vision science, the Society, or the VSS meeting. There are two competitions,Website Banner Competition and the T-Shirt Design Competition. Winning graphic images are featured on the program, abstracts book, signage, and t-shirts.

The Vision Sciences Society is pleased to recognize Karissa Payne and Evi Hendrikx, as the winners of the 2023 Graphics Competition.

Website Banner Competition

Winner: Karissa Payne, Kansas State University

This design takes inspiration from the technologies and statistical methods we use every day to make our science happen. The VSS logo is depicted as the pupil within an eye shape constructed with angled lines, making a camera aperture shape for the iris. The background design takes inspiration from the statistical models we create to explore connections in our data. Dots and lines indicative of parameters and weightings are remixed, creating an abstract pattern evocative of the complex nature of the elements we study.

T-Shirt Design Competition

Winner: Evi Hendrikx, Utrecht University

This year’s t-shirt design uses the letters of VSS to create the contours of illustrations. The front image is an eye, to make the explicit link to the topic of the conference: vision science. The back image combines the letters of VSS with the numbers of 2023 to mimic VSS’ beautiful setting, with a wink to the eye on the front. This image also playfully demonstrates the interaction between bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception: as soon as you spot the dolphin, you will continue to see it!

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 12:30 – 1:00 pm, Talk Room 2

We encourage you to join the VSS Board of Directors for the Annual Business Meeting. During this meeting, the VSS leadership will provide an overview of the Society and the outlook and priorities. This year’s meeting will include a discussion of options for the conference locale from 2026 onwards.

The Business Meeting is an opportunity for VSS members to ask questions of the VSS Board of Directors and bring up issues of concern to the general membership.

You may send questions before the start of the Business Meeting to vss@visionsciences.org.

VSS is seeking outstanding creative visual images for the 2023 meeting. There are two separate graphics competitions: the Website Banner Competition and the T-Shirt Design Competition.

The winning image of the Website Banner Competition will also be used for the program covers, onsite signage, PowerPoint slides, bulk emails, printed materials, and other places where needed.

The winning image of the T-Shirt Design Competition will be used on the VSS 2023 T-shirt and may also be used for other purposes, such as tote bags, pens, hats, and mugs/water bottles.

You may submit more than one image for consideration and you are allowed to enter images in both competitions. You may submit the same image to both competitions as long as the file format requirements can be met.

Images may be related to scientific content, the Vision Sciences Society, or St. Pete Beach and the surrounding area. The image may include the VSS logo or be an alteration of the VSS logo.

The winner of each competition grants VSS unlimited rights to copy, publish, edit, print, and use the images for any purpose, including publishing images online and on other electronic and hard-copy media.

Winning images are chosen by a vote of the VSS Board of Directors. Winners will be notified by September 22, 2022.

Submissions for Website Banner Competition must be received no later than September 1, 2022.
Submissions for the T-Shirt Design Competition must be received no later than January 10, 2023.
You must be a current VSS member to submit an image for consideration.

Website Banner Competition

The Website Banner Competition is a contest to select an image that will serve as the brand, or theme, of the annual meeting by providing imagery that will be used throughout the VSS meeting. Although the winning image will be used for many purposes, to enter the competition you need to submit proposed images for the primary website banner and the secondary page website banner. Other items will be created using variations of the winning image.

Your proposed primary website banner design will replace the current banner on the VSS website home page. Your secondary page website banner will replace the banner shown at the top of this page. At a minimum, your proposed banner image should include the name of the society and the dates of the meeting.

To enter the Website Banner Competition, please submit two full-color raster image in .jpg or .png format.

The primary website banner image must be 3070 pixels by 534 pixels.
The secondary page website banner must be 3070 pixels by 178 pixels.

If your image is chosen as the winning design, in addition to the banner image, you will be asked to provide variations of your image for use on the printed program cover, signs, and other purposes.

The winner of the Website Banner Competition will be awarded $500 USD and will be recognized in the meeting program, on the meeting website, and at the Awards session at the VSS meeting.

Deadline to submit an image for the Website Banner Competition is September 1, 2022.
You must be a current member to submit an image.

View Previous Program Covers and Banners

T-Shirt Design Competition

The T-Shirt Design Competition is a contest to select an image for the VSS t-shirt. The image may also be used on other items that require line art.

Two images are needed for the t-shirt: one for the back and one for the breast. The maximum print area for the back image is approximately 11 inches square; the breast image print area is 3″ square. You can submit one image for both purposes or separate images. The images will be printed on black t-shirts and white t-shirts, so the image must be usable on both black an white backgrounds.

The images should include at least the name and year of the meeting (eg: VSS 2023), but may also include other information, such as the meeting dates and location.

T-shirts are printed using a silkscreen process, so the image must be line art that uses a maximum of four spot colors (solid colors, not composite colors). Large areas of solid colors are discouraged as these are more difficult to print and result in an image with a plastic feel that is not comfortable to wear.

To enter the T-Shirt Design Competition, please submit a PDF of your proposed design showing your images as they would appear on a white background and a black background.

If your image is chosen as the winning design, you will be asked to provide your artwork in a scalable vector graphic file, such as Adobe Illustrator or compatible.

The winner of the T-Shirt Design Competition will be awarded $500 USD and will be recognized in the meeting program, on the meeting website, and at the Awards session at the VSS meeting.

Deadline to submit an image for the T-shirt Design Competition is January 10, 2023.
You must be a current member to submit an image.

View Previous T-shirt Designs

How To Enter

Email your images to vss@visionsciences.org as an attachment. One email per submission, please. Specify which competition you are entering. You may optionally include a brief description of your image that the board will consider when reviewing the submitted images.

Schedule
Deadline to submit an image for Website Banner Competition: September 1, 2022
Website Banner Competition image chosen: by October 3, 2022
Deadline to submit an image for T-shirt Design Competition: January 10, 2023
T-shirt image chosen: by January 31, 2023

Jes Parker, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2023 – 2025
Akihito Maruya, State University of New York, 2023 – 2025
Claudia Damiano, University of Toronto, 2023 – 2024
Rebecca Hornsey, University of Stirling, 2023-2024
Stephanie Shields, University of Texas at Austin, 2023 – 2024
Avi Aizenman, University of Giessen, 2024
Doug Addleman, Dartmouth College, 2021 – 2023
Takuma Morimoto, University of Oxford, 2021 – 2023
Maruti Mishra, University of Richmond, 2022 – 2023
Stacey Aston, Durham University, 2020 – 2022
Cristina R. Ceja, Northwestern University, 2020 – 2022
Björn Jörges, York University, 2020 – 2022
Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, Icelandic Vision Lab, 2021 – 2022
Kathryn Bonnen, New York University, 2020 – 2021
Brendan Ritchie, KU Leuven, 2020 – 2021
Matthew Boring, University of Pittsburgh, 2020 – 2021

Dear VSS 2022 attendee,

We hope that you enjoyed our return to an in-person conference, and made it home safe and sound.

We would like to do a brief survey of attendees to help evaluate the effectiveness of the health protocols used at the meeting. The more responses we get, the better the assessment. The survey has been set up to preserve anonymity.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

My Itinerary

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The Vision Sciences Society (VSS) is dedicated to the open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression. We are committed to running a successful meeting that fosters collegiality and celebrates the international and interdisciplinary nature of the Vision Sciences community. These aims and goals require an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group, and that fosters tolerance, dignity, understanding, and mutual respect.

To help ensure these goals, each presenter, speaker, and attendee must adhere to the following code of conduct. The expected behavior extends to all sessions, activities, events, and informal gatherings during the conference and to any other activities, in-person or virtual, sponsored or managed by VSS.

Participants who do not comply may be barred from attending the remainder of the VSS conference or barred from participating in other VSS activities or meetings, in-person or virtual. The home institution or employer may be informed of allegations against or violations by their faculty members, trainees, employees, or affiliates.

General Behavior

Participants are expected to respect one another and behave in a civil fashion. Members should respect common sense rules for public behavior, personal interaction, common courtesy, and respect for all meeting participants.

Anti-Discrimination

VSS prohibits discrimination at its meeting against individuals on the basis of factors such as race, sex, age, marital status, religion, national origin, ancestry, socio-economic status, physical appearance, or different abilities.

Anti-Harassment

To promote an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group, VSS is dedicated to providing its members and meeting attendees a harassment-free experience. Harassment is unwelcome or hostile behavior, including speech that intimidates or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation in a conference, event, or program.

Harassment in any form, including but not limited to, harassment based on national origin, race, religion, sex, or any other protected status will not be tolerated. Harassment includes the use of abusive or degrading language or gestures, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Other Unacceptable Behavior

• Publicly sharing screen shots, photographs, video, or audio recording of oral or poster presentations, slides, or question periods without the consent of presenters and/or contributors.
• Making VSS events and resources available to others outside one’s immediate laboratory when membership or registration is required for access. When participating in events, in-person or virtual, attendees must use their own name and not attempt to misrepresent themselves in any way.
• Gaining unauthorized access or making malicious changes to the conference website, conference hosting tools, or any related systems.
• Collecting data without ensuring protocols are in accordance with governing ethical and legal standards.
• Fabrication or misrepresentation of data presented at the conference.
• Inappropriate use of nudity, sexual images, or images that would be reasonably found offensive by the membership.
• Real or implied threat of professional or financial damage or harm.

Violations of code of conduct can be reported to any of the members of the VSS Board of Directors or to Shauney Wilson, the VSS Executive Director and Event Director. Any reports will be handled in the strictest confidence.

Policies have been adapted from other sources including SIGGRAPH and Association for Psychological Sciences.