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Rainer Oechsle, Thiemo Morth

• This paper describes the project “Visual Knowledge Communication”, a joint project that started recently. The partners are psychologists and computer scientists from four universities of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate. The starting point for the project was the fact that visualizations have attracted considerable interest in psychology as well as computer science within the last years. However, psychologists and computer scientists pursued their investigations independently from each other in the past. This project has as its main goal the support and fostering of cooperation between psychologists and computer scientists in several visualization research projects. The paper sketches the overall project. It then discusses in more detail the authors' subproject which deals with a peer review process for animations developed by students. The basic ideas, the main goals, and the project plan are described. This paper is a work-in-progress report. Therefore, it does not contain any results.