A message from the program chairs

Welcome to the proceedings of the Pacific Visualization Symposium 2012 (PacificVis 2012) at CEWIT Korea in Songdo, Korea, from February 28th to March 2nd, 2012. After a series of successful events in Kyoto (2008), Beijing (2009), Taipei (2010), and Hong Kong (2011), this meeting in Songdo is the fifth Pacific Visualization Symposium sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC). The objective of this symposium series is to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.