Hcitaly March 2024

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AVI 2024 Student Travelling Support Grants

by Ilaria Torre

***Student Travel Support by ACM SIGCHI*** ================================================= International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ================================================= The SIGCHI Development Fund Committee awards a grant to support Student participation to AVI 2024. Preference in financial support will be given to students presenting at the Doctoral Consortium and to students who are first authors and will present the paper at the conference. Moreover, preference will be given to students from economically developing countries and underrepresented groups in HCI research and computer science. The goal is to attract new young researchers in HCI and visual interfaces and enlarge AVI and SIGCHI community. - Deadline for travel grant application: March 31, 2024 (23:59, AoE) - Deadline for Doctoral Consortium paper submission: March 15, 2024 (23:59, AoE) - Posters and Demo papers: March 8, 2024 (23:59, AoE) Students will be required to submit an application for funding, including their expected costs, information about the paper(s) submitted for the conference, and a letter of recommendation from their advisor. The selected students may also be requested to volunteer at the conference. To apply, please fill in the application form on AVI website<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/>. Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024(a)easychair.org<mailto:avi2024@easychair.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces and Interaction Computer Supported Cooperative Work Embodied Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction and Nonverbal Behavior Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication 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 entertainment Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Persuasion and Behaviour Change Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces and interactions for usable security Interfaces for Children Interfaces for well-being and flourishing Interfaces for Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices Sonification User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Technical demonstrations developed in context of artistic/cultural activities (e.g., elements of museum exhibits or dance performances) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @avi2024conference (https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf) @avi2024conference https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/) -- -- Ilaria Torre Associate Professor, University of Genoa, IT Department of Computer Science, Bio-engineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering Head of the MSc in Digital Humanities - Interactive systems and digital media, Polytechnic School Office +39 010 3532818 Email ilaria.torre(a)unige.it<mailto:ilaria.torre@unige.it>

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CfP AVI 2024 Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Posters and Demos

by BIANCARDI Beatrice

CfP AVI 2024 Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Posters and Demos ACM in-cooperation Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ================================================= 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ================================================= [https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/KHzhQaX3x2eaEfSI16VCy77fq4KR6Oz5gSp1X8…] IMPORTANT DATES Posters and Demo papers: · Friday, March 8, 2024 (23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 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. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy and is held in-cooperation with ACM, SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB. Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024(a)easychair.org<mailto:avi2024@easychair.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces and Interaction Computer Supported Cooperative Work Embodied Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction and Nonverbal Behavior Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication 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 entertainment Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Persuasion and Behaviour Change Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces and interactions for usable security Interfaces for Children Interfaces for well-being and flourishing Interfaces for Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices Sonification User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Technical demonstrations developed in context of artistic/cultural activities (e.g., elements of museum exhibits or dance performances) POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2024 Poster Track provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity of presenting contributions which are work-in-progress and obtaining precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. DEMO PAPERS The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. We are especially keen to welcome innovative demonstrations from industry and startups that are closely aligned with the conference core themes. We encourage the emergent innovators interested to demonstrate their solutions even at an early stage of development to submit the papers to this call. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. Demo submissions need to be complemented by a document that describes technical requirements (the template can be downloaded from the website<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/calls/posters-demos>). Please notice that: · The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the demo chairs<mailto:avi2024demos@easychair.org> before submitting the paper). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). · In no case does a demonstration involve any remuneration from conference organizers. SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above, i.e., posters and demos, require online submission. Authors must format submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: · Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… · Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 PROCEEDINGS Since 1994, accepted long and short research papers are included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2024 by the early registration deadline for authors, pay the registration fee and present the paper at the Conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 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 Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @avi2024conference (https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf) @avi2024conference https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/) [cid:image002.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0] Beatrice BIANCARDI Enseignante-Chercheure LINEACT CESI bbiancardi(a)cesi.fr<mailto:bbiancardi@cesi.fr> https://sites.google.com/view/beatricebiancardi/home Tel : +33 (0)6 71 62 50 45 93 boulevard de La Seine CS 40177 - 92006 Nanterre cedex [cid:image003.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0]<https://www.facebook.com/CESIingenieurs> [cid:image004.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0]<https://twitter.com/cesi_officiel> [cid:image005.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0]<https://www.youtube.com/user/groupecesi1/> [cid:image006.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/cesi-officiel/> [cid:image007.png@01DA6BF5.3230CEF0]<https://www.instagram.com/cesi_officiel/> cesi.fr<https://www.cesi.fr/>

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Last Call for DC Papers

by Announce

*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD students. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students: • receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors, • provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community, • develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, • discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways. To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date). WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM? The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/), which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award. SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor, and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the Acknowledgments section). Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium. Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats. The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any submissions associated with the research. PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT The paper must: • clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis, • identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering, • outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions, • describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts, • outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness, • present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students), • conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html, • contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures). REVIEW PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes. ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024. The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Mentoring Board. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024 • Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024 • Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024 QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org . MENTORING BOARD • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium • Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel • Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy • Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece

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[ACM IUI 2024] Reminder: Online Registration until 7th March

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * * Online version: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html ACM IUI 2024 – Online Registration until 7th March 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems. The theme for this year will be Resilience, covering a wide variety of topics, such as COVID-19 recovery, organizational cyber resilience, economic growth and stability, climate change recovery, intelligent user interface resilience, and similar. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. Thanks for your interest in IUI 2024! Please read the information link below carefully regarding costs and deadlines. * Registration information: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html - Early Registration until Feb 12, 2024 (passed) - Standard Registration until Mar 7, 2024 - Onsite Registration after Mar 7, 2024 * Registration Link: https://web.cvent.com/event/9865c85a-e052-4e7e-9947-cf19114283eb/summary Registration for the IUI 2024 full conference includes access to all sessions and workshops. Payment and registration is being handled through a 3rd party provider. If you have questions, please email the registration chair at registration2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:registration2024@iui.acm.org>.

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CFP: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage - PATCH@UMAP 2024

by Noemi Mauro

**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS **** CALL FOR PAPERS The 15th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2024) Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2024 - Cagliari, Italy. https://patch2024.di.unito.it/ Important dates: April 24, 2024: paper submission May 8, 2024: notification to authors May 16, 2024: camera-ready due The workshop will be in person or hybrid. Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2024 will be again the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage research and personalization – using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together, physically and/or virtually, researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art mobile technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a sharing and discussing novel ideas and creating a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. Cultural Heritage exploration and fruition are central aspects to value the richness of the territory and the history of our countries. The research on this topic is very active and continuously expanding towards new topics, such as the integration of cultural and natural heritage exploration, the extension to novel interaction means (e.g., haptic user interfaces and IoT), ambient intelligence, etc. We invite cultural heritage professionals and researchers to join us to discuss findings and trends on personalisation of cultural heritage in the broadest sense, from online and remote cultural access to onsite visit, from individuals to groups, from tangible to virtual and robotic mediation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections - Recommendation strategies for natural and cultural heritage - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH/NH - NLG techniques for mobile user modeling in natural and cultural heritage sites - Integration of virtual and physical collections - Immersive cultural and natural heritage - Mobile museum guides and personal museum assistants - Context-aware information presentation in natural and cultural heritage - Adaptive navigation and browsing in CH/NH sites - Intelligent user interfaces for natural and cultural heritage applications - Personalization for group of visitors to natural and cultural heritage sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem - Long-term personalization - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Living lab in museum - Robots in museums - 3D, Augmented, and Virtual Reality for cultural and natural heritage - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH/NH recommendation - Conversational agents for cultural and natural heritage - The use of personality for guiding CH/NH experiences - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH/NH - Intelligent agents to interact with CH/NH Submissions Full papers: up to 14 pages excluding references. Short papers/Position papers/Demo papers: up to 7 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://patch2024.di.unito.it/submission.html. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "UMAP 24 Workshop PATCH": https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap24. An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis(a)humanopsis.com Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com -- Noemi Mauro, Ph.D. Researcher and Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Torino https://unito.webex.com/meet/noemi.mauro

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[CFP] IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024 - Special Session “Extended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse"

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the special session on “Extended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6) hosted by the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024) that will be held on October 21-23, 2024 in St Albans, London, UK. Authors who are interested in submitting their work should prepare an abstract of 1-2 pages in length by the 15th of March. Alternatively, a comprehensive graphical abstract can also be submitted. Once the abstract/graphical abstract has been accepted, authors can proceed to prepare the full paper. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/. If you have any questions or need any clarifications, don't hesitate to get in touch with us. We'd be more than happy to assist you in any way we can. We look forward to receiving your valuable submissions and meeting you at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese, Nicola Capece and Luigi Gallo. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024) https://metroxraine.org/ October 21-23, 2024 - St Albans, London, UK. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024. Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2024. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2024 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Nicola Capece University of Basilicata nicola.capece(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions related to the special session, please feel free to contact us via email.

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