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Deadline extension special issue on "Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= D*EADLINE EXTENSION -> June 19th 2023* (hard deadline) Special Issue on *Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/design-education-for-hybrid-environments-pedagogies-frame…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** 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: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Dina El Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Peter Scupelli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • *Extended Deadline*: *June 19th, 2023 /(hard deadline)/* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few decades, interactive technologies have become more and more embedded in and blended with our physical world. These technologies—mobile computing, AR and VR, interactive IoTs, tangible interfaces, and responsive architectures—are increasingly shaping our daily experiences in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities. We call these physical-digital spaces Hybrid Environments . As these technologies continue to transform the way we live, many new opportunities emerge for design education and practice. Within higher education, more and more programs aim to cross-train designers, architects, creative technologists, and artists to operate in these emerging terrains. This is a complex pedagogical practice. Designing for Hybrid Environments requires knowledge and training in the design of both physical environments and interactive technologies. Solutions cut across, and often operate at multiple, scales: from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. Consequently, the design of good physical-digital spaces must often bridge fundamental knowledge in design, architecture, art, interactivity, and computation. How are we meeting this emergent need? How do we educate cross-trained students to creatively respond and adapt to these complex design spaces? In this special issue, we invite design educators to share their pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. We hope to gather, reflect, and share valuable examples and instructional practices so that we might learn from one another and critically examine how to teach students to design Hybrid Environments. Ultimately, we seek to form a common understanding and begin building the foundations for design education in this emerging field. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Design Education for Hybrid Environments includes, but is not limited to: • Teaching for and within VR, AR, and XR technologies. • Teaching for interactive IoT, spatial computing, ambient media, and responsive architecture. • CAD and CAM tools to help conceive, represent, prototype, and test Hybrid Environments. • Theoretical frameworks and representational techniques to navigating scales of design —from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. • Cognitive approaches to explain and study reasoning, conceiving, and building Hybrid Environments. • Post-Pandemic Hybrid Environments, including telepresence, distributed spaces, and the temporality of experience. • Assessment and performance methods, including pilot studies, curricula, or cases of evaluating Hybrid Environments design and instruction. • Instructional experiences resilient to rapid change in technology infrastructures and toolsets. • Research methods supporting the design process and evaluation of Hybrid Environments. =========================================== /*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 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Design Education for Hybrid Environments") 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 the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Design Education for Hybrid Environments/ • drosenb2 [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *

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Workshop on "creating custom visualization templates with RAWGraphs 2.0"

by Tommaso Elli

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *** We invite you to the workshop: Creating custom visualization templates with RAWGraphs 2.0 20 September 2023 @ CHItaly conference (Turin, IT) [6475b91bf36e14ee9baac43b_Screenshot 2023-05-30 at 10.50.28.png] Focusing on expanding access to data visualization, RAWGraphs (https://www.rawgraphs.io/) is an open-source software that offers a variety of visualization templates, such as Sankey diagrams, bubble charts, bump charts, horizon charts, and many more. In this upcoming workshop, participants will be taught how to develop custom visualization templates using RAWGraphs. The new version, 2.0, has simplified the process of creating templates, allowing for easy usage through a straightforward loading function (to be released soon). This 4-hour workshop will be held during the CHItaly 2023 conference and is intended for visualization experts, designers, developers, and researchers (including PhDs) who desire to create specialized tools to support specific requirements and/or progress in their research. Our objective is to guide participants in creating 5 new templates. Hence, a fundamental prerequisite is a good understanding of data visualization and Javascript development. Participation is possible as individuals or groups. It is also possible to participate in the idea of someone else in case you just want to learn more about the software. Use this form to submit your participation: https://forms.gle/gbzLzUM7DSdg8JhM7 Further information at https://www.rawgraphs.io/ws-chitaly2023 Important dates Deadline for submissions: 23 June 2023 (11:59 p.m. AoE) Notification to authors: 14 July 2023 Date of the workshop: 20 September 2023 (detailed schedule TBA) Feel free to contact us in case you need further information at: hello(a)rawgraphs.io<mailto:hello@rawgraphs.io> (with email subject: WS CHItaly 2023). Best, The RAWGraphs Team Tommaso Elli, PhD – Junior Researcher Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano dipartimentodesign.polimi.it<http://dipartimentodesign.polimi.it/> ––– Recent publications Elli, T., Benedetti, A., Pallacci, V., Spadini, E., & Mauri, M. (2023). Designing network visualizations for genetic literary criticism<https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.31.176>. Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education, 16(31), 25–38 Elli, T., Bradley, A., Hinrichs, U., & Collins, C. (2022). Visualizing Stories of Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Community Empowerment through Qualitative Data<https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2022/research…>. Proceedings of DRS 2022, Bilbao Parigini,M., Elli,T (2022). The Shape of Doubt: Employing data visualization to inquiry stylistic features in the narrative works of Italo Calvino<https://zenodo.org/record/6573372>. DH Benelux 2022 Mauri, M., Vantini, S., Gobbo, B., Elli, T., Aversa, E., Benedetti, A., Briones Rojas, M. D. L. A., & Colombo, G. (2022). Making posters to understand statistics: Towards a didactical approach in communication design<https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2022/research…>. Proceedings of DRS 2022, Bilbao Elli, T (2022). Research through Visualization in Literary Criticism. Adaptations of data visualization to scholars’ interpretive work<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TK0OCk_MseNV1HEy2aIrgqfkktZJGUy1/view?usp=…> [Doctoral Thesis]. Politecnico di Milano

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Final Call for Submissions

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Final Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) Submission Deadline: Abstracts by June 25, 2023; Full Papers by July 2, 2023 AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 25th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: July 2nd, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: August 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: August 21st, 2023 (AoE) • Author registration due: August 21st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 55 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2022 = 0.356 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 55 *featuring a special issue **on:* **Smart Learning Ecosystems: **toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality** */guest editors: ///Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi/ /+ Regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond 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. 55 - ToC*/** **//****/*Preface to the special isue on* *Smart Learning Ecosystems: **toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* /Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi/ p. 5 – 8 /Marcel Schmitz, Maren Scheffel, Roger Bemelmans, Hendrik Drachsler/ *Evaluating the Impact of FoLA on Learning Analytics Knowledge Creation and Acceptance during Multidisciplinary, Co-Design of Learning Activities*, pp. 9/–/ 33 /Francesca Mattioli, Laura Cipriani, Andrea Giuseppe Manciaracina, Andrea Taverna/ *Exploring Innovation in the Teaching of Design. A Study on the Experimental Teaching Practices in the Context of a School of Design*, pp. 34 – 53, /Maria José Fonseca, Óscar Mealha / *Student experience and new media to leverage an Infocommunicational case study model*, pp. 54 – 82 /Carlo Giovannella, Licia Cianfriglia, Antonello Giannelli / *The Italian School Ecosystems two years after the pandemic in the perceptions of schools’ principals and teachers – part 2 (a segmented analysis)*, pp. 83 – 108 /Alessia Pece, Patrizia Marti/ *Designing inclusion: a smart learning ecosystem for hearing parents of deaf children*, pp. 109 – 122 *Regular papers* /Carlo Giovannella/ F*rom simplex to complex: designing for wellbeing at scale*, pp. 123 – 138 /Ulisses da Silva Fernandes, Glívia Angélica Rodrigues Barbosa, Bruno Azevedo Chagas, Gabriel Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Raquel Oliveira Prates/ *Lessons Learned from Modeling the Interaction with Conversational Agent*s/, /pp. 139 – 173 /Rebecca Wiczorek/ *Evaluation of Thermotactile and Vibrotactile Cues to Improve Hazard Perception of Older Pedestrians*/, /pp. 174 – 193 /Uğur Efe Uçar, Gözde Gökdemir, Ervin Garip/ *A Study of the Application of Virtual Reality Technology as an Anthropometric Measurement Tool*/, /pp. 194 – 211 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CALL FOR PAPERS -- WFIOT 23 -- Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations

by Publicity Chair FedCSIS

Call for Papers Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/future-platforms-cloud-edge-continuum-%E2%80… Special Session (SPES-01) organized within the scope of 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT2023) Aveiro, Portugal, October, 12-27, 2023https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/ Internet of Things (IoT) brings fundamental changes to all sectors of society and economy. However, realization of the IoT vision requires data processing (stream, static, or both) in an “optimal location” within the cloud-edge continuum. Within such continuum, data can be produced, stored, and processed “anywhere”. For instance, (1) far/nano-edge devices produce data act upon it locally, (2) fog nodes process data stream locally, while (3) cloud/HPC facilities deliver “unlimited” processing capabilities, need, for instance, to train (large) AI models. Taking into account the, systematically increasing, scale of IoT deployments the question arises: what capabilities must be facilitated by future IoT platforms, which will have to manage processes in multi-stakeholder, multi-cloud, federated, large-scale IoT ecosystems. Here, key challenges are related to the fact that such platforms (encompassing operating systems, up to applications), will have to jointly leverage continuous progress of multiple enabling technologies, e.g.: 5G/6G networking, privacy and security, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, trust management, autonomous computing, distributed/smart applications, data management, etc. Moreover, they must facilitate intelligent (autonomous) orchestration of physical/virtual resources and tasks, by realizing them at the “optimal location” within the ecosystem (e.g., closer to where data is produced). To achieve this, resource-aware frugal AI is needed, to facilitate self-awareness and decision support, across heterogeneous ecosystem. Finally, it is also absolutely necessary that resource management will consider the CO2 footprint of the ecosystem and efficiently deploy data and tasks and also use multi-owner, heterogeneous sources of renewable energy. In this context, contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects of the following topics are invited (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive): * IoT architectures for domain agnostic user-aware, self-aware, (semi-)autonomous edge-cloud continuum platforms, including proposals for novel decentralized topologies, ad-hoc resource federation, time-triggered behaviors * Foundations for next generation of higher-level (meta) operating systems facilitating efficient use of computing capacity across edge-cloud continuum * Resource aware AI, including frugal AI, bringing intelligence to the edge-cloud continuum platforms (and ecosystems) * Cognitive frameworks leveraging AI-techniques to improve optimization of infrastructure usage and services and resources orchestration * Efficient streaming Big Data processing within large-scale IoT ecosystems * Interoperability solutions for multi-user edge-cloud continuum platforms, capable of coping with systematically increasing complexity of connecting vast numbers of heterogeneous devices * Federated data spaces approach for improved data governance, sovereignty and sharing * Privacy, security, trust and data governance in competitive scenarios * CO2 footprint reduction and efficient use of green energy in edge-cloud continuum ecosystems * Practical aspects of resource orchestration within highly heterogeneous, large-scale edge-cloud continuum ecosystems * Intent-based networking and its application to IoT * Swarm intelligence for IoT-edge-cloud continuum Important Dates: * Paper submission: July 6, 2023 * Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2023 * Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2023 Paper preparation and submission: Paper should be six (6) pages in length and follow the instruction provided for the main Conference. The conference allows up to two additional pages for a maximum length of eight (8) pages with payment of extra page charges once the paper has been accepted. Organizers: * Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, and Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of technology and Systems Research Institute * Levent Gürgen, Kentyou, Grenoble, France * Carlos Palau, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia * Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences * Tarik Taleb,The University of Oulu and MOSAIC Lab, Oulu, Finland

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Workshops and Tutorials | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

***CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS – MUM 2023*** Deadline for Workshops and Tutorials: August 22nd, 2023 (AoE) **Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM DL** * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=workshops* * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2023) welcomes proposals for workshops. A MUM Workshop is a forum for attendees with shared interests to present, discuss, and develop new ideas around a specific theme or domain related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics. All workshops will take place on Sunday, the first day of the conference (Seminar rooms with equipment will be provided), on the 3rd of December. Because workshops are meant to encourage ideas exchange, we encourage proposals that go beyond being a mini-conference and that engage participants in hands-on activities and in discussion. We also encourage organisers to open the workshops to conference attendees without a workshop paper, but who would be interested in participating. All tutorials will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on the 3rd of December and you can choose between three formats: 90min, half-day, or full-day. If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>. *Important Dates* WORKSHOP AND TUTORIALS SUBMISSION: 22nd of August 2023, AoE WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL NOTIFICATION: 17th of September 2023, AoE *Recommended Timeline for Internal Workshops* WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: 28th of October 2023, AoE WORKSHOP NOTIFICATION: 11th of November 2023, AoE ** Submission Guidelines ** *WORKSHOPS* * Workshop proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references) * It should describe your goals for the workshop, how you plan to run the workshop, and any anticipated long-term outcomes that will impact the field. Additionally, include information on how you will publish your call and reach out to potential participants. * Workshop proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by experts in the field. * Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair. Please select Workshops and Tutorials track in EasyChair. * Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *TUTORIALS* * Tutorial proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), and include the following details: * Title * Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how they are relevant to the MUM community * Description of the tutorial activities * Short biography of the organisers * Proposed tutorial length (90min, half-day, full-day) * Room and material requirements * Maximum number of participants * Tutorial proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the tutorial. * Submissions will be juried by the tutorial chairs. Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair, please select Workshops and Tutorials track. Accepted tutorial proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *BEFORE THE CONFERENCE* *Organisers of the accepted workshops are responsible for the following tasks during the time leading up to the conference* * Announce/disseminate their Workshop: Organisers of an accepted workshop must set up and maintain their own website in which they provide further and updated information about their workshop. The workshop page will be linked to from the official MUM workshop site. * Solicit Submissions from Potential Participants: While some organizers may choose alternate formats, a position paper is generally 2-4 pages long and outlines the submitter’s view on the workshop theme and the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the topic. Proceedings of the workshop's submissions will be in charge of the workshop organizers. Commonly, the workshop's proceedings are included on each workshop's webpage. * Select Participants: Choose participants on the basis of position papers submitted and your goals for the workshop. * Workshop organizers and participants have to register for the conference. * Provide a Participant List: A list of confirmed participants should be sent to the Workshop & Tutorials Chairs (workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org). * Develop a final agenda of workshop activities. * Develop a plan for any follow-up activities. Link to submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Workshop Chairs * Philipp Wintersberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Thomas Kosch, HU Berlin All questions about submissions should be emailed to: workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>

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CFP: CUI 2023 Workshop on Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults

by Sayan Sarcar

Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults A workshop to held at the ACM SIGCHI CUI 2023 conference (Conversational User Interfaces) Call for Submissions and for Participation This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for Older Adults (OAs). We also aim to build research capacity by bringing together researchers and practitioners across several disciplines and industries who are actively working or having an interest toward understanding older adults’ use of and need for CUIs. We invite researchers from various fields to present their work on and collectively engage in synthesizing and collating findings from different disciplines, and to discuss barriers and approaches to designing CUIs that are usable, adoptable, personally, and culturally relevant to OAs. Given the nascent phase of this community, and our goal of encouraging a grassroots approach to defining this space, we welcome position papers, short research papers, or short expressions of interest relevant to the broad space of designing CUIs for OAs. There is no format for the expression of interest - those wishing to participate in the workshop without a submitted paper should simply contact the organizers via email indicating through a short paragraph their prior experience and/or interest as relevant to the workshop, alongside their professional website or scholar page. For those interested in submitting a formal paper, we welcome short papers describing e.g. a research study, a novel system, a new theoretical contribution, or position papers that highlight new or ongoing challenges in the field. Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline). Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website. We recommend papers to be no more than 4 pages long, following the CHI Extended Abstract format). Submissions, expressions of interest, and any other queries related to the workshop should be sent to: cui-oa2023(a)cs.toronto.edu Submissions will be reviewed according to the fit with the workshop topic and potential to contribute to the workshop goals. Alternate submission arrangements may be possible (such as the showcasing of papers previously accepted at other conferences). Workshop URL: http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023 -- Best Regards, Workshop Organizing Team

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Fourth Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Call for Participation

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Call for Participation *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. It is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the Steering Committee. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. UMAP 2023 will feature 104 technical presentations of various categories (main conference papers, large breaking results, demos and posters, etc.). The participants can also attend a number of workshops and tutorials. Finally, the technical program also includes 3 keynote speakers. More information can be found on the conference web site. Please note that the early registration deadline has been extended by one week to June 2.

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Subject line: VL/HCC 2023 call for posters (due June 28) and graduate consortium (due July 7)

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). ---------------------- We invite you to consider submitting work to our posters/showpieces and graduate consortium tracks: Posters and Showpieces Submission deadline: June 28, 2023 AoE The Posters and Showpieces track (called the “showpieces track” for short) offers an interactive opportunity to discuss recent research, experiences, challenges, ideas, prototypes, and accomplishments with the VL/HCC community. Formerly called “posters and demonstrations”, the category now includes posters, videos, downloadable apps, handouts, electronic devices, physical prototypes, or any other artifacts that facilitate meaningful interactions with other conference attendees. A broad range of topics are appropriate for showpieces. The following non-exhaustive list illustrates the possibilities: - Current research in progress. This might include: - Original or innovative technologies or prototypes that may or may not be accompanied by an evaluation - Short qualitative or quantitative studies - Reflections, provocations, or proposals about theory or methods - Results presented in the main VL/HCC conference - Results already presented at another conference or published in a journal - Existing commercial products and/or services - Efforts aimed at integrating research into education - Efforts aimed at commercializing research Showpieces can help accomplish many goals, such as: - Helping graduate student presenters to meet faculty from other universities - Building community interest in a novel way of approaching a research topic - Starting conversations that could lead to new collaborations - Demonstrating to industry sponsors that a specific line of research has practical applications - Showcasing products or services available for sale More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-posters-and-showpiec… Graduate Consortium Submission deadline: July 7, 2023 AoE The primary goal of this year’s event is to stimulate graduate students’ and other researchers’ thinking about “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code to empower users in creating software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This goal aligns with the theme of the 2023 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of VL/HCC are also welcome. Why You Should Participate - Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience - Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of experts - Meet other students working on similar problems - Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending VL/HCC (details below). Who Can Participate? The consortium is open to both Master’s and PhD students worldwide. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-graduate-consortium

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