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IxD&A Journal N. 43 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *N. 43* /special issue /on "*Smart Learning Ecosystems - Design as cornerstone of smart educational processes and places*" (guest editors: /Carlo Giovannella, Stefania Manca/) is now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 43 - ToC* /** Preface **Carlo Giovannella and Stefania Manca** **pp. 5 - 7** **Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Ingrid Mulder, Nicola Morelli, Janice Pedersen* Hacking the hackathon format to empower citizens in outsmarting “smart” cities, *pp. 8 - 2*9*//** **Lars Schlenker, Carmen Neuburg *Third Teacher goes Raumwerkstatt - participatory planning processes to redesign physical learning spaces*, pp. 30 - 41//** **//Alessandro Luigini, Monica Parricchi, Alessandro Basso, Demis Basso *Immersive and participatory serious games for heritage education, applied to the cultural heritage of South Tyrol*, pp. 42 - 67//** ** Margarida M. Marques, Lúcia Pombo *Teacher readiness to adopt game-based mobile learning with augmented reality*///, pp. 68 - 85/**** Diana Saplacan, Jo Herstad, Zada Pajalic ** **/**Use of Multiple Digital Learning Environments: A study About Fragmented Information Awareness**/, pp. 86 - 109** **Nicolae Nistor, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu *Joining Informal Learning in Online Knowledge Communities and Formal Learning in Higher Education: Instructional Design and Evaluation of a Blended-Learning Seminar with Learning Analytics Support*, pp. 110 - 127//** **/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Deadline approaching: "Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities" - IxD&A Journal (focus session)

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4… ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia • Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia • Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *July 15, 2020* • Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities. These films featured AR advertising and information holograms in public spaces, enabled by smart contact lenses and holograms. Currently however, AR has been introduced to public spaces in a number of interesting ways. For instance, Pokemon GO became a global phenomenon which resulted in people physically playing the game in urban spaces and caused ripple effects on the physical spaces people were playing in. Recent work has also shown that AR can have more engaging applications, in areas such as community engagement, personalised digital signage, in-situ visualisations, cultural heritage, and remote collaboration. On a consumer level, AR is most common on smartphones, particularly after the release of ARKit and ARCore - improving the functionality. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives. For instance, the Microsoft Hololens contains an array of sensor technologies giving it a sense of depth which allows it to place objects naturally in physical space. It has been successfully applied by planners to visualise underlying parts of the city in-situ. While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist - creating an augmented space. Therefore, this focus section builds on from our initial workshops with the goal of bringing together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: Augmenting humans in future cities Digital heritage and preservation Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects Perspectives from literature How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc) Remote collaboration The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities Smart cities with digital twin technologies =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "FS: Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the guest-editors below and mark the subject as: /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities / • callum [dot] parker [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • soojeong [dot] yoo [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • youngho [at] ce [dot] mokpo [dot] ac [dot] kr • waldemar [dot] jenek [at] hdr [dot] qut [dot] edu [dot] au -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' Guest editors: ASLERD with a focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. 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Registration to the Workshop “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus”, July 7th 2020, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET)

by Cristina Gena

Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” July 7th 202o, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET) An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/> ========================================================== The Workshop will be held online. Participation is free, but registration is required. Interested people must register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8 <https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8> Details for connecting will be sent to the registered participants. ========================================================== PROGRAM 2:00pm. Welcome and introductory discussion. By M. Francesca Costabile, Maristella Matera, Ben Shneiderman 2:30pm. Panel 1: AI systems that have an impact on human beings. Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro Participants: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Tech) Federico Cabitza (Università di Milano Bicocca) Antonio Rizzo (Università di Siena) Alan Dix (Swansea University, Wales, UK) 4:30pm. Panel 2: The HCI competences the AI specialists should have in order to design AI systems that are beneficial to human beings. Moderator: Fabio Paternò Participants: Sharon Oviatt (Monash University, Australia) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) Lucio Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari, Italy) B.L. William Wong (Middlesex University London, UK) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Salvatore Andolina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fabio Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 6:00pm. Wrapping up: Final discussion, conclusions and follow up. By Cristina Gena and Genny Tortora ORGANIZERS M. Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari ALDO MORO Cristina Gena, Università di Torino Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (SIGCHI Italy Chair) Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno Massimo Zancanaro, Università di Trento and FBK (SIGCHI Italy Vice-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma Luca Console, Università di Torino Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Università di Roma Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze Rino Falcone, CNR-Roma Salvatore Gaglio, Università di Palermo Luciano Gamberini, Università di Padova Antonio Krüeger, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena Roberto Navigli, Sapienza Università di Roma Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma Sharon Oviatt, Monash University, Australia Francesco Ricci, Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Oliviero Stock, FBK ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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Registration to the Workshop “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus”, July 7th 2020, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET)

by Cristina Gena

Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” July 7th 202o, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET) An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/> ========================================================== The Workshop will be held online. Participation is free, but registration is required. Interested people must register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8 <https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8> Details for connecting will be sent to the registered participants. ========================================================== PROGRAM 2:00pm. Welcome and introductory discussion. By M. Francesca Costabile, Maristella Matera, Ben Shneiderman 2:30pm. Panel 1: AI systems that have an impact on human beings. Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro Participants: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Tech) Federico Cabitza (Università di Milano Bicocca) Antonio Rizzo (Università di Siena) Alan Dix (Swansea University, Wales, UK) 4:30pm. Panel 2: The HCI competences the AI specialists should have in order to design AI systems that are beneficial to human beings. Moderator: Fabio Paternò Participants: Sharon Oviatt (Monash University, Australia) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) Lucio Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari, Italy) B.L. William Wong (Middlesex University London, UK) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Salvatore Andolina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fabio Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 6:00pm. Wrapping up: Final discussion, conclusions and follow up. By Cristina Gena and Genny Tortora ORGANIZERS M. Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari ALDO MORO Cristina Gena, Università di Torino Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (SIGCHI Italy Chair) Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno Massimo Zancanaro, Università di Trento and FBK (SIGCHI Italy Vice-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma Luca Console, Università di Torino Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Università di Roma Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze Rino Falcone, CNR-Roma Salvatore Gaglio, Università di Palermo Luciano Gamberini, Università di Padova Antonio Krüeger, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena Roberto Navigli, Sapienza Università di Roma Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma Sharon Oviatt, Monash University, Australia Francesco Ricci, Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Oliviero Stock, FBK ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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CHItaly 2021: change of dates

by Melonio Alessandra

Dear HCI colleagues, we hope you are all fine. Considering the procrastination of a number of conferences due to the coronavirus pandemic and in order to avoid a potentially critical period (winter) for the conference, we have decided to postpone CHItaly 2021 from February to July 2021. Important dates will be communicated around September this year. Please refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/index.html for up-to-date information. In the meanwhile, take care and stay safe! With kind regards, Alessandra Melonio on the behalf of the CHItaly 2021 organising committee. ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. Sollten Sie diese Nachricht irrtümlich erhalten haben, bitten wir Sie, diese zu vernichten ohne sie zu kopieren oder an Dritte weiterzuleiten. Auch bitten wir Sie, uns darüber unverzüglich in Kenntnis zu setzen. Danke. Ai sensi del Regolamento UE 679/2016 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate ed a uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invitiamo ad eliminarlo senza copiarlo e a non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Grazie. According to the Regulation EU 2016/679, you are hereby informed that this message contains confidential information that is intended only for the use of the addressee. If you are not the addressee, and have received this message by mistake, please delete it and immediately notify us. In any case you may not copy or disseminate this message to anyone. Thank you.

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[Conference] - International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020), Denmark

by Liya Mallory

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) September 26 ~ 27, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark https://dmse2020.org/ Scope & Topics International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Data mining and Software Engineering. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Data mining and modern software engineering concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of data mining and software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Advanced Topics in Software Engineering * Data Mining Applications * Computer Education * Data Mining in Modeling, Visualization, Personalization and Recommendation * Data Mining Systems and Platforms, Efficiency, Scalability and Privacy * Embedded System and Software * Foundations, Algorithms, Models, and Theory * Knowledge Processing * Knowledge-based Systems and Formal Methods * Languages and Formal Methods * Managing Software Projects * Mining Text, Semi-Structured, Spatio-Temporal, Streaming, Graph, Web, Multimedia * Multimedia and Visual Software Engineering * Quality Management * Search Engines and Information Retrieval * Software Engineering Decision Making * Software Engineering Practice * Software Maintenance and Testing * Software Process * Web Engineering * Web-based Education Systems and Learning Application Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed). Important Dates * Submission Deadline :July 11, 2020 * Authors Notification : August 20, 2020 * Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due : August 28, 2020 Contact Us Here's where you can reach us : dmse(a)dmse2020.org or dmsesecretary(a)gmail.com Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. Regards, Liya.

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Final Announcement: HCSE 2020 submission closes July 6th, 2020 - 8th Intl. Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering

by Stefan Sauer

Dear colleagues, regarding COVID-19 circumstances, keeping in mind the very interactive character of HCSE as a working conference and the strong community aspects of this meeting, we have decided to postpone HCSE and run it in the regular way as a physical meeting in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The new date will be *November 30 - December 2, 2020*. Hopefully by then, it will be possible and permitted to travel to the event for every participant and to hold the conference meeting. Due to this postponement we have re-opened and rescheduled the submission and reviewing process again. Thus, we give researchers and practitioners the chance to submit additional work. The new deadlines are the following: *Technical full papers, late breaking results* ------------------------------------------------------- _July 6, 2020 (extended!) Submission _ August 24, 2020 (extended!) Notification to Authors September 30, 2020 (extended!) Camera-ready due *Demos, posters* -------------------- _August 31, 2020 (extended!) Submission_ September 21, 2020 (extended!) Notification to Authors September 30, 2020 (extended!) Camera-ready due Please see the *CfP* below for details and visit the conference *website* for further and updated information. http://hcse-conference.org/ We are looking forward to meeting you at TU/e in Eindhoven for HCSE 2020. Please stay well and healthy! Best wishes, Regina Bernhaupt - Carmelo Ardito - Stefan Sauer General Organizers of HCSE 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HCSE 2020* *Call for Papers* *8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering* *November 30th - December 2nd, 2020 - Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands* http://www.hcse-conference.org *HCSE*is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/>in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-5/>. We aim at *bringing together researchers and practitioners* interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: ● contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design ● design and architectural patterns for interactive systems ● involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the development process of interactive systems ● innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems ● integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes ● methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) ● models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems ● integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development ● socio-technical aspects of interactive software development ● software architectures for interactive systems ● rational design and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2020 welcomes contribution as *technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters*. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the *LNCS* series. In the present edition of *HCSE 2020* we are particularly interested in studies focused on *multi-stakeholder* concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective but on the systemic change level. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on *user interface properties *(such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among other) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a *user-centered development process*. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. *HCSE*welcomes the following types of contributions: * * ● *Technical full papers*(*up to 20 pages*) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. ● *Late-breaking results*(*up to 12 pages*) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. ● *Demonstrations and posters*(*5–8 pages, plus poster design draft*) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. *Submissions and Reviewing Process* Contributions should be sent via *EasyChair* (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse2020). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed *double-blind*, demonstrations and posters *single-blind*. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. *Presentations* All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. *Proceedings* Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0>series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. *Important Dates* *Technical full papers, late breaking results* _Submission: __*July 6^th *__, 2020 (extended!)_ Notification to authors: *August 24^th *, 2020 Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 *Demos, posters* _Submission: __*August 31^st *__, 2020 (extended!)_ Notification to authors: *September 21^st *, 2020 Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 Conference dates: *November 30^th – ***December *2^nd *, 2020 *Organizers * *General Conference Chairs:* Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * March 18-21, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Mar 18, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html. ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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PhD Positions in VR/AR/XR available at the KU Leuven, Belgium

by Adalberto Simeone

*Apologies for cross-posting* Deadline: 20/07/2020 We are looking to hire up to two new PhD researchers in the ARIA team (https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be) at the Department of Computer Science of the KU Leuven, in Belgium. The project focuses on the topic of “Cross-Reality Interaction”, i.e. how people in different immersive realities (e.g., VR, AR) or not immersed at all, can interact together. For more information, see the description at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55693016?hl=en&lang=en Knowledge of Dutch is *not* required to apply. Feel free to contact me to informally discuss this position and other opportunities (such as postdoctoral research through the Marie Curie scheme). -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me

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International EMPATHY workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems – Final Call for Contributions

by Andrea Mattioli

ACM AVI 2020 Workshop - Submission deadline extended to July 15th ** COVID-19 Information ** The current plan is to hold the workshop with participation in person. EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems www.empathy-project.eu/workshop/ September 29th, 2020 Island of Ischia, Italy OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES July 15th: Paper submission deadline July 20th: Paper acceptance notice July 24th: Camera-ready submission September 29th: Half-day workshop (morning) SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This workshop aims to serve as a venue for discussing ongoing research and sharing ideas for researchers and practitioners working on solutions to personalize the behavior of IoT ecosystems. We aim to encourage participation in order to have stimulating discussion from various perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited, to: - End-User Development (EUD) for IoT; - Interaction Paradigms for IoT; - Usability of IoT Systems; - Interface Design for IoT; - Intelligent Interface for IoT Systems; - Accessibility for IoT Systems; - Usable Privacy and Security in IoT systems - Personalisation and Recommendations for IoT. PARTICIPATION We invite submissions of two types: short papers (3-4 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages). Participants are asked to submit their paper describing their recent or future work in one of the areas indicated in the topics of interest. All submissions must be in the CHI Extended Abstracts format. Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2020). All papers will be reviewed by the organizers and by the program committee based on relevance and significance in order to provide constuctive comments to the submitters. Reviewing will be single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. ORGANIZERS - Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno - Cristina Gena, University of Turin - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI - Barbara Treccani, University of Trento

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