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MIS4TEL 2022: Call for Workshop Proposals / 13-15 July 2022 / L’Aquila (Italy)

by Federica Caruso

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals Following the successful initiative from previous years, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2022 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Contact us: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission deadline: 11th February, 2022 - Workshop papers submission deadline: 22nd April, 2022 - Workshop camera-ready papers: 17th June, 2022 Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers. ====================================================================== The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference. Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2022 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings. Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process, and collecting the camera-ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management). For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference. ====================================================================== PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information: - Workshop title - Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information - Workshop description and topics - Relevance of the workshop to the conference - Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable) - Program Committee members (tentative) - Estimated number of submitted papers - Draft CFP ** Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info(a)mis4tel-conference.net (Subject: MIS4TEL 2022 Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. ** ====================================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS - Zuzana Kubincova, Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ======================================================================

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MIS4TEL 2022: Call for Workshop Proposals / 13-15 July 2022 / L’Aquila (Italy)

by MIS4TEL CONFERENCE

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals Following the successful initiative from previous years, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2022 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission deadline: 11th February, 2022 - Workshop papers submission deadline: 22nd April, 2022 - Workshop camera-ready papers: 17th June, 2022 Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers. ====================================================================== The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference. Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2022 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings. Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process, and collecting the camera-ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management). For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference. ====================================================================== PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information: - Workshop title - Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information - Workshop description and topics - Relevance of the workshop to the conference - Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable) - Program Committee members (tentative) - Estimated number of submitted papers - Draft CFP ** Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info(a)mis4tel-conference.net (Subject: MIS4TEL 2022 Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. ** ====================================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS - Zuzana Kubincova, Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ======================================================================

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ECSCW 2022: Call for Workshop and Masterclass Proposals

by Müller, Claudia, Prof. Dr.

Dear colleagues, The next ECSCW conference will take place at Coimbra, Portugal from June 27th to July 1st 2022. With our best wishes for peaceful and joyous holidays and a happy and healthy new year we would like to invite you for thinking about submitting exciting workshop and masterclass proposals. Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo! Kind regards, The workshop and masterclass co-chairs Claudia Mueller and Bryan Semaan The ECSCW 2022 conference is looking for workshop and masterclass submissions! Call for Workshop Proposals CSCW is a challenging and rapidly developing area of research where the exchange of ideas and discussion of concepts with other researchers provide an effective way of gaining new insights and identifying opportunities for possible collaborations. The ECSCW 2022 Workshops provide an opportunity to engage in discussions with other researchers, present and illustrate new developments on different themes within CSCW, provoke and reflect on novel perspectives and receive feedback on early ideas in a friendly and constructive manner. ECSCW 2022 invites workshop proposals addressing basic research questions, new methodologies and approaches, innovative technologies, and emerging research areas. Workshops are good venues for involving attendees in working together to share, reflect and develop new insights. Workshops may be half-day or full-day sessions. Outcomes might include journal special issues, blogs or new collaborations. We encourage accepted workshop organisers to create web-based resources for their workshops so that advertising, submission and organisation can be handled online. If you are submitting a workshop on accessibility or assistive technology, please refer to the SIGACCESS guidelines on writing about disability<https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/accessible-writing…>. Important Dates January 15th, 2022 System open for Submissions February 11th, 2022 Submission due for workshop proposals (23:59 AoE) February 28th, 2022 Notifications to workshop organizers March 14th, 2022 Deadline for the camera-ready version of the accepted proposals, workshop descriptions, and workshop website links. May 9th, 2022 Workshop organizers must notify Workshop Chairs with final workshop attendance numbers Monday/Tuesday June 27/28th, 2022 Workshops at ECSCW 2022 June 27th - July 1st, 2022 ECSCW 2022 Conference Submission Format & Process Workshops submissions should: * be no more than 3000 words, excluding references, * include all authors names, affiliations, and contact information, an abstract (150 words) as well as a detailed proposal including a description of the theme(s), activities and goals of the workshop, the maximum number of participants, the length of the workshops (half-day/ full-day), and the background of the organiser(s), * specify the means of recruiting and selecting participants. * specify any additional equipment needed (including laptops, tablets, speakers, headphones, projectors); unless explicitly confirmed by the Chairs, the additional equipment must be supplied by the workshop organisers, * be formatted according to the ECSCW template, available in LaTeX<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_latex/>, RTF<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_rtf/> or MS Word<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/> format, * - be sent via email to workshops(a)ecscw.eusset.eu<mailto:workshops@ecscw.eusset.eu> in pdf format. Workshops submissions are not anonymous. Call for Masterclass Proposals Masterclasses provide the opportunity to learn about specific CSCW methods, concepts and approaches from experts in the related field within small in-depth group discussions. Masterclasses facilitate a more focused discussion on any CSCW topic, and enable organizers to do theoretical input in lectures as well as engage participants in more hands-on workshop experiences. While masterclasses are open to a broad range of participants, these are particularly targeted at early career researchers and PhD students. Masterclasses may be half-day or full-day sessions. If you are submitting a masterclass on accessibility or assistive technology, please refer to the SIGACCESS guidelines on writing about disability<https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/accessible-writing…>. Important Dates January 15th, 2022 System open for Submissions February 11th, 2022 Submission due for masterclasses proposals (23:59 AoE) February 28th, 2022 Notifications to masterclasses organizers March 14th, 2022 Deadline for the camera-ready version of the accepted masterclasses May 9th, 2022 Masterclasses organizers must notify the Chairs with final masterclasses attendance numbers Monday/Tuesday June 27/28th, 2022 Masterclasses at ECSCW 2022 June 27th - July 1st, 2022 ECSCW 2022 Conference Submission Format & Process Masterclasses submissions should: * be no more than 1500-3000 words, excluding references, * include all authors names, affiliations, and contact information as well as a description of the theme(s) of the master class, the background of the organiser(s), the length of the masterclass (half-day/ full-day) and the maximum number of participants, * specify any additional equipment needed (including laptops, tablets, speakers, headphones, projectors). Unless explicitly confirmed by the Chairs, the additional equipment must be supplied by the masterclass organisers, * be formatted according to the ECSCW template, available in LaTeX<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_latex/>, RTF<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_rtf/> or MS Word<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/> format, * - be sent via email to workshops(a)ecscw.eusset.eu<mailto:workshops@ecscw.eusset.eu> in pdf format. Masterclass proposals are not anonymous and should include all authors names, affiliations, and contact information. Selection Process for Workshops and Masterclasses Proposals will be single-blind reviewed by the Workshops and Masterclass Chairs and selected members of the ECSCW program committee. Selection will be based on the relevance of the proposed topic for ECSCW and the organiser(s) expertise. For any queries, please, do not hesitate to contact the ECSCW 2022 Masterclasses Chairs at workshops(a)ecscw.eusset.eu<mailto:workshops@ecscw.eusset.eu>. Additional Information: To access this information via the web, please visit the ECSCW 2022 website: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2022/workshops/ https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2022/masterclasses/ Workshop and Masterclass Chairs, Claudia Mueller and Bryan Semaan Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller Ass. Prof. Information Systems, esp. IT for the Ageing Society Institute for Information Systems Office US-F 115, Kohlbettstr. 15, 57072 Siegen T +49 271 740 4036 (Sekr.), email: claudia.mueller(a)uni-siegen.de<https://mail.uni-siegen.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=pgIoMc7ilxb82QM99MDdt6G8X_oLdhk…> https://italg.wineme.uni-siegen.de/ Professor at Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland Department of Health Sciences/ Careum Research Pestalozzistr. 3, CH-8032 Zürich, www.careum.ch<https://mail.uni-siegen.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=9g_kpJY_oN2tEAZN3Lu0LT0Ntl3nVdo…>

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MIS4TEL 2022: 1st Call for Papers / 13-15 July 2022 / L’Aquila (Italy)

by MIS4TEL CONFERENCE

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AVI 2022 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi

(Apologies for multiple postings) AVI 2022 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces >>> 6-10 June 2022 <<< Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Workshop and tutorial proposals Sunday, January 16, 2022, 23:59, AoE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) - 30TH ANNIVERSARY Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2022 is under the patronage of Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI2022! Paolo Bottoni, AVI 2022 General Chair Emanuele Panizzi, AVI 2022 Program Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Coronavirus Pandemic and Human-Computer Interaction Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Interaction Design Tools Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held on June 6 or June 7, 2022, at the AVI2022 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted on this Google form: https://forms.gle/36gjYKp2xkH28MAu5 TUTORIALS We encourage the proposal of tutorials on specific topics related to AVI and general HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. Tutorial proposals must be submitted on this Google form: https://forms.gle/PkgzwFUwp2bzbN4z8 PROCEEDINGS Accepted full and short research papers, poster papers, demo papers, and workshop descriptions will appear in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. They will be available in the ACM Digital Library. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Program Chair Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Long Papers Chairs Célia Martinie, University of Toulouse 3, France Fabio Pittarello, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs David Bell, Brunel University London, UK Marco Romano, University of Salerno, Italy Poster Chairs Marianna Di Gregorio, University of Salerno, Italy Antti Knutas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Demo Chairs Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Silvio Barra, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Alan Serrano-Rico, Brunel University London, UK Publicity Chairs Mehdi Rizvi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Laura Maye, University College Cork, Ireland Online Experience Chairs Enrico Bassetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For any queries or details of other types of submissions contact us at avi2022(a)easychair.org or check out our website https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022

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[ACM HT 2022] Call for Papers

by Ujwal Gadiraju

Hi everyone! **** Apologies for cross-posting **** The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (ACM HT) Barcelona*, Spain, June 28 - July 1, 2022 https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/ *co-located with ACM UMAP 2022 ### Call for Papers ### Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed. ACM HT - Hypertext and Social Media conference - is a premium venue for high-quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, linked open data and knowledge graphs, information exploration and visualisation, dynamic and computed hypermedia, as well applications for digital arts, culture, and humanities. ACM HT is sponsored by ACM SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by the ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. Tracks: ================== HT 2022 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern hypertext studies, covering the following tracks chaired by leading researchers: * Social web content, language and network (chair: Marcelo Armentano) * Digital humanities, culture and society (chair: Jessica Rubart) * Information exploration and visualisation (chair: Claus Atzenbeck) * Personalized recommender systems (chairs: Markus Zanker, Eva Zangerle, Osnat Mokryn) Submissions: ================== HT 2022 will include high-quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the HT series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. * Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of HT and papers showcasing innovative use of HT and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying HT technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of HT. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for HT and beyond should be explicitly discussed. * Length: Papers should be at most 14 pages and will be reviewed according to the presented contributions. In other words, we don’t have a distinct category for short papers, which means that papers, no matter what page length, will be reviewed according to the same criteria. Publication: ================== Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference could be selected to appear in different special issues in international journals according to the specific tracks (see the web site for details). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Submission details will appear soon. Important Dates: ================== * 10 February 2022: Abstracts (mandatory) * 17 February 2022: Full Papers The submission time is 11:59pm AoE. Organization: ================== GENERAL CHAIRS Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari PROGRAM CHAIR Federica Cena, University of Torino We look forward to your submissions!

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ACM UMAP 2022 : First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Helma Torkamaan

Please accept our apologies in case of multiple receptions. Please send it to interested colleagues. -------------------------------------------------------- # **30th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP'22)** Barcelona, Spain, and Online 4 - 7 July 2022 https://www.um.org/umap2022/ Proposal Submission Deadline: January 27, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------- **BACKGROUND AND SCOPE** ============================ **ACM UMAP'22** is pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop and tutorial proposals. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop or tutorial topic. We welcome workshops and tutorials with a creative structure that may attract various types of attendees and ensure rich interactions. All the tutorials and workshops should support both virtual and physical attendance (although we hope physical to be the preferred option). -------------------------------------------------------- **Call for Workshop Proposals** ============================ The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. -------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates** ============================ - Proposals due: January 27, 2022 - Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022 - Workshop day(s): July TBD, 2022 All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). -------------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Formats** ============================ In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program, comprising workshops with different formats and addressing newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different schemas to organize the workshop are possible, such as: - Working group meetings around a problem or topic. - Mini-conferences on special topics, having their own paper submission and review processes. - Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation. - Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics. - Joint panels for different workshops. The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the responsibilities, the proceedings and the registration are provided at https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-workshops/. -------------------------------------------------------- **Call for Tutorial Proposals** ============================ Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions that provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. -------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates** ============================ - Proposals due: January 27, 2022 - Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022 - Tutorial day: July TBD, 2022 All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). -------------------------------------------------------- **Tutorial Topics** ============================ An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g., exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.). - User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot interaction etc.). - Application and impact of the user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems, including beyond-accuracy aspects (e.g., fairness). - Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users'; emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors. The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the responsibilities, the proceedings and the registration are provided at https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-tutorials/. -------------------------------------------------------- **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs** ============================ - Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy - Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania - Contact: [umap2022-wt@um.org](mailto:umap2022-wt@um.org)

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Call-for-Papers Special Issue "Explainable User Models" (Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal)

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — Special Issue "Explainable User Models" A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088). Important Dates & Facts: Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022 Notification to authors: March 15, 2022 Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models Benefits of submission: - Experienced Guest Editor - Open Access with quick processing time - High Visibility: Indexed within Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100945706>, ESCI (Web of Science)<https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>, Inspec<https://inspec-direct-app.theiet.org/>, and many other databases<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/indexing>. - Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (Computer Science Applications) Special Issue Information This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent. Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system. The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to: Detection and Modelling • Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences • Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.) • Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood) • Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities) • User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews) • Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models Ethics • Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation) • Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior) • User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits) Human understandability • Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations • Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models • Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring) • Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies) Effectiveness • Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance) • Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction) • Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security) Adaptive presentation of the explanations • For different types of user • Interactive explanations • Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction) Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev Ms. Oana Inel Guest Editors

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38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022): First Call for Contributions

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Contributions *** 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) 3–7 October, 2022, 4* Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/ Goals and Scope The IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order): • Change and defect management • Code cloning and provenance • Concept and feature location • Continuous integration/deployment • Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution • Evolution of non-code artifacts • Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution • Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods • Maintenance and evolution processes • Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps • Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems • Maintenance versus release process • Mining software repositories • Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution • Release engineering • Reverse engineering and re-engineering • Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration • Software and system comprehension • Software migration and renovation • Software quality assessment • Software refactoring and restructuring • Software testing theory and practice • Source code analysis and manipulation • Technical Debt ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. ICSME invites contributions to a number of different tracks. These are listed below with more information, including submission instructions, available on the conference web site (submission dates are midnight, AoE, UTC-12). The submission link for all tracks is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme2022 . Please use this link and choose the appropriate track for your submission. Research Track • Abstract Submission: March 25th, 2022. • Paper Submission: April 1st, 2022. • Notification: June 10th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 1st, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-research-track/ . Doctoral Symposium • Paper Submission: July 8th, 2022. • Notification: August 1st, 2022. • Camera-Ready: August 19th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-doctoral-symposium/ . Journal First Track • Paper Submission: June 17th, 2022. • Notification: July 8th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-journal-first-track/ . Tool Demo Track • Abstract Submission: June 13th, 2022. • Paper Submission: June 20th, 2022. • Notification: July 19th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 26th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/tool-demo-track/ . Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival • Artifact Submission: August 26th, 2022. • Notification: September 16th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-joint-artifact-evaluation-… . Industry Track • Full/Short Papers Abstract Submission: April 22nd, 2022. • Full/Short Paper Submission: April 29th, 2022. • Full/Short Paper Notification: June 15th, 2022. • Full/Short Camera-Ready: July 15th, 2022. • Extended Abstract Submission: May 20th, 2022. • Extended Abstract Notification: June 15th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 15th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-industry-track/ . News Ideas and Emerging Results Track • Abstract Submission: June 17th, 2022. • Paper Submission: June 24th, 2022. • Notification: July 18th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 31st, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/new-ideas-and-emerging-results/ . Registered Reports Track • Initial Report Submission: June 3rd, 2022. • Feedback from PC: July 8th, 2022. • Authors Response: July 22nd, 2022. • Notification for Stage 1: August 12th, 2022. • Submission of Accepted Report: August 19th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/registered-reports-track/ . Organisation General Chairs • Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland, USA Local Organising Chair and Industry Liaison • Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands • Christian Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Tool Demonstrations Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium Industry Track Chairs • Georgios Gousios, Technical University Delft and Facebook, The Netherlands • Shi Han, Microsoft Research Beijing, China Journal First Track Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Amjed Tahir, Massey University, New Zealand Doctoral Symposium • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand • Mark Hills, East Carolina University, USA Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival Chairs • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christoph Treude, University of Melbourne, Australia Most Influential Paper Awards Chairs • Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy • Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Diversity and Inclusion • Hadil Abukwaik, ABB Corporate Research, Germany • Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University, USA Registered Reports • Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy • Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Seminario Letizia Jaccheri

by Fabio Paternò

Da: Susanna Pelagatti <susanna.pelagatti(a)gmail.com <mailto:susanna.pelagatti@gmail.com> > Inviato: giovedì 9 dicembre 2021 11:53 A: Fabio Paternò <fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it <mailto:fabio.paterno@isti.cnr.it> > Carissimo Fabio, ti chiederei aiuto per diffondere il più possibile nella tua rete il seminario di LEtizia Avviso allegato (in presenza e online). La professoressa Jaccheri è visiting fellow del nostro dipartimento per il mese di dicembre e durante il seminario illustrerà numerose opportunità nell'ambito del progetto EUGAIN.(https://eugain.eu/). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker: Prof. Letizia Jaccheri NTNU Trondheim Title: Gender Issues in Computer Science Research, Education, and Society. When? Thursday 16/12/2021 at 15.00 For Whom? Researchers, PHD Students, Bachelor and Master Students, External actors Where? Aula Gerace Dipartimento di Informatica and Virtual Join Zoom Meeting https://NTNU.zoom.us/j/91413746078?pwd=a2NSMjRUSXZRRWV6YmVTSTRrZVNLdz09 Abstract: This lecture addresses gender issues in Computer science from Research, Education, Society perspectives. Jaccheri will start from UN Goal 5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls to contextualize the topic in an open and meaningful context. She presents research issues, some from her own projects, others from examples of biased technology, like smartphone voice assistants and data sets for job recruiting based on male population. Then, she presents statistics about female presence in education, research and industry. Further, the presentation goes in depth and presents specific projects for increasing gender balance among students and among professors. The presentation concludes with a list of International projects and resources. The goal is to start a dialogue with the local community and exchange best practice. The seminar will be as interactive as possible and will be offered as hybrid event. Letizia Jaccheri (Master in CS from University of Pisa, PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Italy) is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and adjunct professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Jaccheri's research is on software engineering, at the intersection with art, gender, and social innovation. Letizia has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and journals, has supervised PhD students and Post-doctoral students, and has acted as opponent for national and international defenses. Prof. Jaccheri has been teaching courses in software engineering at various levels since 1994, with a passion for the course Customer Driven Project (link https://sbs.idi.ntnu.no/tdt4290into). From 2015 to April 2018 she acted as one of the independent directors of Reply S.p.A., the largest Italian IT company with 9059 employees. From 2013 to 2017 she was department head for the Computer Science department at NTNU. She is ACM Distinguished speaker (link https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/jaccheri_10303) . In 2021 she got two prizes: the ODA Award Woman women prize and the NTNU prize for gender equality and diversity for her work in gender and computer science with the projects IDUN (link https://www.ntnu.edu/idun), EUGAIN (link https://eugain.eu/) and Kodeløypa (link https://www.ntnu.no/skolelab/kodeloypa). Prof. Jaccheri has plans to contribute to address the issue of diversity in computer science at local and international level.

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