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Call for Participation – IEEE CISOSE 2025

by Khushi Nilanshu Patel

Dear Researcher, We invite you to participate in the IEEE International Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (CISOSE 2025), taking place from July 21-24, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona, USA. CISOSE is a global congress dedicated to advancing intelligent service systems, bringing together academic researchers, industry leaders, technology providers, and solution architects to share research insights, innovative ideas, and industry solutions for building future smart systems and applications. The congress will feature keynote talks from experts in AI test automation, model quality validation, computer vision, and autonomous vehicles, providing valuable insights into emerging technologies. Participants will also have access to nine co-located IEEE conferences: - JCC 2025, 16th IEEE Conference on Joint Cloud Computing - SOSE 2025, 19th IEEE Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering - BigDataService 2025, 11th IEEE Conference on Big Data Computing and Machine Learning - IMC 2025, 13th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Mobile Computing - DAPPS 2025, 7th IEEE Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures - AI TEST 2025, 6th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing - ISADS 2025, 16th IEEE Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems - FTS 2025, 6th Future Technology Summit - FITYR 2025, 2nd IEEE Workshop on Future Intelligent Technologies for Young Researchers Additionally, CISOSE 2025 will host special tracks and workshops focused on emerging topics, including Green Cloud and AI Services Engineering, Smart City Big Data and AI Services, Learning Estimation and Control in Intelligent Systems, Emerging AI Technologies and Big Data, Sustainability and ESG Technologies, and Responsible AI. We encourage you to join us for this exciting event, engage with experts from various domains, and contribute to the ongoing advancements in intelligent and service-oriented systems engineering. For more details, please visit the congress website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/cisose-2025 Best regards, Jerry Gao San Jose State University Steering Committee, CISOSE 2025

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Call for Papers – IEEE BigDataService 2025 (July 21-24, Tucson, AZ, USA)

by Khushi Nilanshu Patel

Dear Researchers, We are pleased to invite submissions for the 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications ( BigDataService 2025), taking place from July 21-24, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The conference provides a premier venue for researchers and practitioners to share innovations, research findings, and experiences in big data technologies, services, and machine learning applications. The conference welcomes high-quality paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings, and selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of a peer-reviewed SCI-Indexed journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning: - - Algorithms and systems for big data search and analytics - Machine learning for big data and based on big data - Predictive analytics and simulation - Visualization systems for big data - Knowledge extraction, discovery, analysis, and presentation - - Integrated and Distributed Systems: - - Sensor networks - Internet of Things (IoT) - Networking and protocols - Smart Systems (e.g., energy efficiency systems, smart homes, smart farms) - Big Data Platforms and Technologies: - - Concurrent and scalable big data platforms - Data indexing, cleaning, transformation, and curation technologies - Big data processing frameworks and technologies - Development methods and tools for big data applications - Quality evaluation, reliability, and availability of big data systems - Open-source development for big data - Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) platforms and technologies - - Big Data Foundations: - - Theoretical and computational models for big data - Programming models, theories, and algorithms for big data - Standards, protocols, and quality assurance for big data - - Big Data Applications and Experiences: - - Innovative applications in healthcare, finance, transportation, education, security, urban planning, disaster management, and more - Case studies and real-world implementations of big data systems - Large-scale industrial and academic applications All papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bigdataservice2025 Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025 - Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025 - Final Paper and Registration: June 15, 2025 - Conference Dates: July 21-24, 2025 For more details, please visit the conference website: https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/bigdataservice-2025 <https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/bigdataservice-2025#Call-for-P…> We look forward to your submissions and contributions. Please feel free to share this CFP with interested colleagues. Best regards, IEEE BigDataService 2025 Organizing Committee

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[SLERD 2025] - 10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: DEADLINE EXTENSION

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2025:A decade of SLERD - facts and future directions * *June 12-13, 2025* /*on-line format*/ www.slerd.org <https://www.slerd.org/> Contacts: 1st: elvira [dot] popescu [at] gmail [dot] com /(Elvira Popescu - conference chair)/ 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com *SLERD 2025* is organized by /University of Craiova /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ **=========================================================** *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 1st 2025* (new hard deadline)* *call for papers <https://www.slerd.org/call-for-papers/> *=========================================================* SLERD 2025 Keynotes: /* • Charles B. Hodges (Georgia Southern University)*/ /*EVOLVING LABELS, CONSISTENT ROOTS: THE LASTING POWER OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN*/ /* *//*• Helen Crompton (ODUGlobal & Old Dominion University)*/ /*AFFORDANCES and LIMITATIONS of GENERATIVE AI in EDUCATION*/ /*6th edition of the **Student Scientific Design Contest */-> see call for proposal and demo <https://www.slerd.org/contest/> /(first deadline for proposals submissions: April 15th) / and much more ... stay tuned! **=========================================================** Early bird registration to the main conference, SLERD 2025, is now open: https://www.slerd.org/registration-form/ *Deadline for early bird registration to SLERD 2025: May 15th ***=========================================================** * * /*Short Intro*/ On occasion of the 10th edition of the SLERD conference – themed “*/A Decade of SLERD: Facts and Future Directions/*” – we intend to reflect on a journey of impactful research, transformative insights, and collaboration that followed the evolution of smart learning ecosystems. Over the past ten years, SLERD has become a venue for academics, practitioners, and students worldwide, fostering innovative approaches to education that prioritize the human factor, social innovation, inclusivity, and accessibility. This milestone conference is an invitation to both celebrate the achievements of the past decade and engage in discussions that will define the future of smart learning environments. As SLERD 2025 unfolds, participants will contribute to shaping a vision that aligns technological advancements with the needs of diverse communities, ensuring that the future of education is adaptive and inclusive. The themes for this year’s conference emphasize the overarching nature of smart learning ecosystems: /*places for smart education, people-centered design, and supportive technologies*/. Through these lenses, SLERD 2025 will address evolving models of institutional learning, the role of design and co-creation, the integration of AI and immersive technologies, and ethical considerations essential to a sustainable educational future. /*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2025* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. General topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * future of institutional learning * interplay between formal and informal learning * new educational models and settings * continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning * role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education * dual education and other alternation scheme approaches * monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * general frameworks and methodological advances * design, data and other relevant literacies * teachers’ and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and competencies) * initial teacher education * smart citizens’ literacies, skill and competences * communities and co-design in smart learning * sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resource and disparity * educational design for all * cultural influences * ethical aspects in smart learning /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * general frameworks and methodological advances * design, data and other relevant literacies * teachers’ and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and competencies) * initial teacher education * smart citizens’ literacies, skill and competences * communities and co-design in smart learning * sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resource and disparity * educational design for all * cultural influences * ethical aspects in smart learning ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *April **1st, 2025 (extended deadline)* • Notification to the authors: May 1st, 2025 • Camera ready paper: June 1, 2025 • Conference: June 12-13, 2025 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- Accepted papers also presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of theIxD&A Journal <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000>(https://ixdea.org/; ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science (Citescore: 2.5). Papers should be written according to the Instruction for Authors available athttps://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/. <https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/> Papers submission is handled through OJS –https://ojs.ixdea.org/index.php/ixdea/about/submissions. SLERD and IxD&A follow a double-blind reviewing process, thus papers need to be fully anonymized. In submitting your contribution please select one of the following sections: *SI: SLERD 2025 – long paper*or *SI: SLERD 2025 – short paper* ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2025 will continuously updated on the ASLERD Linkedin page -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5103530/> Facebook page -> link <https://www.facebook.com/people/Aslerd-Association-for-Smart-learning-Ecosy…> ========================================================= See ASLERD website <http://www.aslerd.org> for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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"Haptics for the arts" - special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics

by Luca Turchet

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Call for papers - Special Issue on "Haptics for the Arts" * *IEEE Transactions on Haptics* *https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/toh/special-issues <https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/toh/special-issues>* In the last two decades, we have witnessed the development of many innovative devices and original techniques for providing haptic sensations in artistic settings. This includes the tactile enrichment of music listening and performance experiences, haptic soundscapes, interactive installations leveraging tactile interfaces, immersive multimedia experiences exploring the nuances of touch, or the haptic enhancement of digital musical instruments. There is a growing interest in the haptics community in investigating interfaces and perceptual phenomena at the confluence of art and haptics, as demonstrated by the Art & Design Track at the 2024 Eurohaptics conference. New system perspectives are needed to develop the next generation of haptic interfaces for artistic contexts, which pose significant challenges at the technical and perceptual levels. Overcoming these challenges requires a transdisciplinary approach, involving engineering, human-computer interaction, performance studies, and the arts in general. Generating a dialogue between these research fields will be beneficial for obtaining innovative results in constructing future haptic interfaces for artistic usages. The intent of this special issue is to define a promising road-map for the development of future haptic interfaces for artistic contexts, pushing the boundaries of haptic exploration and offering unique perspectives that blend technological innovation with sensory engagement. We invite technically rigorous submissions that challenge, provoke, and expand these frontiers. Submissions that neglect to rigorously explore the links between the arts and at least one of the fields of engineering, computer science, or human-computer interaction will not be considered. Topics of interest include and are not limited to: - Haptic modeling, rendering, algorithms, and systems for the arts - Haptic interaction techniques and methods for the arts - Haptic hardware for the arts, including XR and multimodal/wearable displays - Perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive studies on haptics in arts - Data-driven approaches for haptic artistic representations - AI applications for haptics in the arts, including use of explainable or generative AI - Perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive studies that demonstrate user impact of haptics in the arts - Empirical studies that demonstrate the roles and effects of haptics in interaction with artwork - Installation art with haptic technologies, including haptic soundscapes - Musical haptics for performers and/or audiences - Haptic technology for creativity support - Affective haptics for the arts Submission instructions We welcome top-quality original (unpublished) articles. Each submission will be peer-reviewed, and papers will be selected based on their impact, originality, and relevance to the special issue’s aims and scope. All submissions should be formatted following the IEEE ToH journal instructions for authors and submitted to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toh. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for evaluation for the Special Issue, please select “Special Issue: Haptics for the Arts” in the submission process. Important dates - Submission deadline: September 1, 2025 - First decision sent to authors: approximately three months after submission - Final decision sent to authors: approximately six months after submission - Final publication material due from authors: approximately seven months after submission Guest editors - Luca Turchet - Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy - Jeremy Cooperstock - Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada - Mounia Ziat - Experience Design, Bentley University, USA - Yongjae Yoo - Department of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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CFP: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage - PATCH@UMAP 2025

by Noemi Mauro

**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS **** CALL FOR PAPERS The 16th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2025) Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2025 - New York City, New York, USA https://patch2025.di.unito.it/ Important dates: April 9, 2025 - Paper Submission April 28, 2025 - Notification May 5, 2025 - Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system) The workshop will be in person or hybrid. Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2025 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. 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 - Large Language Models for CH/NH - Shaping Personalization and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in Human-Centered Generative AI Also papers connected to the UMAP 2025 main theme: “Shaping Personalization and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in Human-Centered Generative AI” and Cultural Heritage are of interest. 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://patch2025.di.unito.it/submission.html. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "UMAP 25 Workshop PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025. 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 Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com

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[CfP] xAI25 Conference Special Track: Explainable and Interactive Hybrid Decision Making (July 9-11 2025, Istanbul, Turkey)

by c.natali6＠campus.unimib.it

[apologies for cross posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence 09-11 July, 2025 - Istanbul, Turkey https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/ Call for Papers for Special Track on Explainable and Interactive Hybrid Decision Making: https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/explainable-and-interactive-hybrid-deci… ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This special track explores human-AI interaction in explainable AI (XAI) by integrating traditional XAI techniques with external knowledge sources. It focuses on hybrid human-AI decision-making, leveraging human expertise—intuition, ethics, and context—with AI’s data processing and predictive capabilities. The track emphasizes systems that provide accurate predictions and contextually meaningful explanations tailored to diverse users. These systems combine structured knowledge bases for consistency, unstructured data for adaptability, and multidisciplinary approaches for user-centric design. Addressing challenges in data integration, context awareness, and explanation personalization, the track highlights how explainable hybrid systems enhance decision quality, foster trust, and ensure ethical accountability. Submissions should present innovative methods that explain both “how” decisions are made and “why” they matter, promoting transparent and collaborative human-AI interaction. Topics of Interest * Frameworks and techniques for human-AI interaction and hybrid systems, including counterfactual reasoning and example-based explanations. * Explaining complex decision chains in Human-xAI hybrid systems (e.g., behavioural and psychometric analysis of users) * Knowledge-injected explanations (e.g., domain-specific and actionable explanations through ontologies) * Strategies for increasing user trust (e.g., confidence interval visualizations, uncertainty heatmaps) * Case studies, applications and challenges for Explainable hybrid systems in critical sectors * Post-hoc eXplanation techniques for Learning-to-Defer systems * Interpretable models for Learning-to-Defer approaches to build Human-AI teams * Explainable Learning-to-Reject and selective classification * Formal methods for verifiable hybrid decision systems (e.g., symbolic reasoning, and decision boundary visualizations) * Bias mitigation in hybrid decision systems (e.g., counterfactual fairness analysis, fairness-aware optimization of explanations) * Explainable Active Learning (e.g., feedback-driven iterative refinement of decision boundaries) * eXplainability-based Interactive Learning Algorithms (e.g., interactive counterfactual scenarios). * Novel methods for Causal Evaluation of Explanation Effects in human-AI interaction * Explanations for Continual Learning settings with Human-in-the-loop * Uncertainty-Aware Explanation methods and Uncertainty Quantification (including novel visualization techniques) * Customizable, Interactive and Adaptive User-driven eXplanations * Cognitive and Behavioural Foundations of eXplainable AI * Empirical user studies on eXplanations for human-AI collaboration (e.g., trust assessments, cognitive load analysis) * Evaluation metrics for explainability in hybrid decision-making (e.g., understandability scores, usability, evaluating automation bias) * Ethical, legal, societal implications of eXplainable hybrid decision-making (e.g., novel Algorithmic Impact Assessment strategies) Submission Guidelines Submitted manuscripts must be novel and not substantially duplicate existing work. Manuscripts must be written using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the format provided here (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Latex and word files are admitted; however, the former is preferred. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. The conference has a no dual submission policy, so submitted manuscripts must not be currently under review at another publication venue. Works can be submitted here: https://easychair.org/account2/signin_timeout?l=6938809045818978977 Important Dates Article upload deadline on submission platform (easy-chair)*: February, 28, 2025 Paper bidding for reviewers March 1-3, 2025 Notification of acceptance*: March, 19, 025 Registration (payment) and camera-ready* (upload to easy-chair): March, 26, 2025

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[CFP] IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025 - Thematic Session "Shaping the Future of Interaction: Integrating AI, Human Factors, and Immersive Technologies in HCI"

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the thematic session on "Shaping the Future of Interaction: Integrating AI, Human Factors, and Immersive Technologies in HCI" (https://metroxraine.org/thematic-session-7) hosted by the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025) that will be held on October 22-24, 2025 in Ancona, Italy. 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. Additionally, the authors of the paper selected as “Best Paper” at this thematic session will receive an invitation to submit an extended version of their work to IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications ( https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg). Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this thematic 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 2025. Best wishes, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias and Giuseppe Caggianese. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Thematic Session on: "Shaping the Future of Interaction: Integrating AI, Human Factors, and Immersive Technologies in HCI" https://metroxraine.org/thematic-session-7 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025) https://metroxraine.org/ October 22-24, 2025 - Ancona, Italy. ==================================================================================== THEMATIC SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- Nowadays the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with modern Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies and eXtended Reality (XR), offers unprecedented opportunities for innovation. This thematic session aims to explore how AI while acting as a catalyst, interacts with broader HCI methods to enhance user experiences, foster engagement, and address critical Human Factors. The session will examine the synergies between XR, AI-driven personalization, and adaptive systems, alongside non-AI-based approaches to ensure inclusivity. By addressing measurement techniques and methodologies, the session will highlight how HCI researchers and practitioners can advance the field through rigorous evaluation strategies that support various applications in different immersive environments scenarios such as Rehabilitation, Special Education, Cultural Heritage, and emerging platforms like Metaverse. This dialogue aims to create a roadmap for designing, implementing, and assessing next-generation HCI systems that balance technological possibilities with user-centric considerations. The authors of the paper selected as the “Best Paper” at this session will receive an invitation to submit an extended version of their work to IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg ). More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/thematic-session-7 TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-Driven Personalization in Human-Computer Interaction. - Measuring User Experience (UX) in Immersive Environments and AI-enhanced Systems. - Cognitive Load Evaluation in Augmented HCI Systems. - Human Factors in Immersive Technologies: Metrological Approaches. - Human Factors in the Design of AI-Powered Interfaces. - Evaluation Frameworks for Usability Assessment. - Real-Time Feedback Systems in Human-AI Interaction. - Emotional, Cognitive and Behavioral Responses in Immersive Human-Computer Interaction. - Measuring Trust, Ethics, and Acceptance in AI-Augmented Interaction. - Multimodal Interaction and Performance Measurement. - Designing for Accessibility in Next-Generation HCI Systems. - Data-Driven Insights for HCI Design and Optimization. - Metrics and Validation Protocols in AI-Enhanced HCI. - Adaptive Interfaces in XR. - Next-Generation Tools for Immersive UX Design and Testing. - Social Interactions and Collaboration in AI-enhanced XR. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Short Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2025. Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2025 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025 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. Read the paragraph below for further information. 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. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. 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. 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. ORGANIZERS ------------- Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)stiima.cnr.it Nicola Capece University of Basilicata, Italy nicola.capece(a)unibas.it Mario Covarrubias Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Italy mario.covarrubias(a)polimi.it Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please feel free to contact us via email.

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] [MUC 2025] Call for Workshop Proposals | Chemnitz, Germany, August 31 - September 3 2025

by Evropi Stefanidi

**********apologies for cross-posting********** *** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS DEADLINE EXTENDED - Mensch und Computer (MUC) 2025 *** 31. Aug – 3. Sep 2025, at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany The NEW deadline for submitting Workshop Proposals is *March 14th, 2025* *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://muc2025.mensch-und-computer.de/en/workshops/ * * Message from the Workshop Chairs * We invite you to submit proposals for workshops at Mensch und Computer. Workshops are a gathering place for attendees with shared interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. Workshops are an opportunity to move a field forward and build community: a chance to find people who care about the same issues, questions, and research agendas as you. Workshops may address any topic relevant to the HCI community, e.g., questions of basic research and applied research, HCI practice, HCI education, new methodologies, emerging application areas, ethics, sustainability, or design innovations. Most workshops (half or full-day) take place on Sunday before the start of the technical program, but workshops can also be run on Monday or Tuesday. As Workshop Chairs, we will create a carefully curated list of workshops that reflects the needs and desires of the community. Please note that we might propose modifications and augmentations, such as suggesting that workshops be combined where appropriate. The workshop should address timely topics and phenomena; therefore, it depends on the year in which topics are considered particularly relevant and interesting. The space and technical limitations will also influence the number and form of the selected workshops. * Workshop Chairs * Yasmeen Abdrabou Mark Colley

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Call for Papers: End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) | Munich, Germany 16-18 June 2025

by Evropi Stefanidi

**********apologies for cross-posting********** Dear all, The deadline for Regular and Short Papers for the 10th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) *has been extended*. NEW Submission deadline: 14 March 2025 For more information please visit: https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/call-for-papers.html The conference welcomes papers on * Simple and efficient environments for EUD * GenAI in support of EUD * No-code/low-code paradigms and visual languages for building software and systems * Theoretical concepts and foundations for EUD *New processes, methods and techniques for EUD * Approaches that empower users to create, modify and adapt digital artefacts * Case studies and design implications of EUD challenges and practices Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Workshop proposals and other contributions will be published in the CEUR-WS Adjunct Proceedings. For more details on topics, all deadlines, submission guidelines, and authors instructions, please see: https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ Best regards, The IS-EUD 2025 Organizing Committee

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Fourth Call for Papers

by Announce

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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CFP: Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users - IR4U2@SIGIR 2025

by Noemi Mauro

**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS **** Call For Papers CFP for the 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for All Please join us at IR4U2, co-located with the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, which will take place 13th-18th July 2025 in Padua, Italy Information Retrieval (IR) remains an active, fast-paced area of research. Nevertheless, most advancements in this domain have primarily favored what we might term 'conventional' users, such as adults from the global north. We envision IR4U2 as a forum to spotlight research and industry efforts that, while sparse, consider diverse, and often understudied, user groups. Among these groups, we find, for example, older adults, young children and adolescents, individuals afflicted by mental health disorders, users with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), individuals with intellectual disabilities, or those with specific learning needs. In this second iteration of IR4U2, we will focus more specifically on a **user-centred AI perspective**, which we believe is vital for informing the design, development, and assessment of IR systems that thoughtfully address the diverse needs of understudied populations, ensuring genuine accessibility and inclusivity. We aim to • Build, extend and maintain a community involving multi-disciplinary Ph.D. students, academics, and industry practitioners aiming to advance understanding of core (AI for) IR technology and its impact on a broad range of understudied users. • Take inventory of the different kinds of use cases, research work, ongoing efforts, and existing resources while reflecting on the progress made since the last IR4U2 iteration. • Define guidelines to promote user-centric design of IR systems. • Outline a general approach to facilitate research endeavors driven by and at the service of specific user groups IR4U2 will be a highly participatory, full-day, in-person workshop. This will involve informal interactions, facilitated group work, and brief presentations of accepted contributions. These contributions will help construct a snapshot of the current works in this area. Topics of interest include: - User-centered design of IR algorithms for understudied users - User-centric design of user interfaces for IR for understudied users - The use of AI for enhancing IR systems for understudied users - The positive and negative impact of AI on IR for understudied users - User modeling to enable IR and recommendation technologies tailored to understudied populations - Data collection and benchmark development of IR catering to understudied populations. - IR applications targeting understudied populations - IR techniques in the era of LLM and generative models with and for understudied populations This is not an exhaustive list, as we are also interested in contributions discussing challenges inherent to designing IR technology at the service of understudied user groups–from the need for multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder collaborations to how to build datasets. Submissions: Peer reviewed contributions. These include research papers presenting empirical explorations, user studies, and/or new algorithms related to the open problems listed in topics of interest, as well as position/vision contributions discussing uses cases, challenges, and future research directions. These contributions should be submitted on EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ir4u20) at least 4 pages, but up to 12 (excluding references) formatted in CEURART’s single-column template ( https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/one-column-layout-template-for-sub…). Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop and published in workshop proceedings. Editorially-reviewed contributions. To enable potential attendees to articulate their views on the topics of the workshop, share already-published works, bring awareness to ongoing European projects in this area, etc., we ask the submission of a short extended abstract. This type of informal submission (via this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoz0WWHx_0EXcPc9AZOTw6zx07gSolQ61… ) will be editorially reviewed by workshop organizers to gauge fit as well as themes of interest for group discussions. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop, but not published in the proceedings. Important dates All the deadlines are set at 11:59 PM AoE. - Submission: April 23, 2025 - Author notification: May 21, 2025 - Camera-ready: June 1, 2025 - Workshop day: July 17, 2025 At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop. Please feel free to reach out to the ir4u2.research(a)gmail.com with questions. For further information, see https://ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com/ir4u2-2. Organizers: Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, University of Turin, Italy Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy Theo Huibers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Emiliana Murgia, Università di Genova, Italy

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Call for Special Tracks Proposals - GoodIT 2025

by Mirko Franco

ACM* GOODIT Conference Call for Special Tracks Proposals 3-5 September 2025, Antwerp, Belgium https://goodit2025.idlab.uantwerpen.be/ SCOPE GoodIT 2025 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included in conference proceedings. Special tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. * Pending confirmation. SPECIAL TRACK PROPOSAL FORMAT A special track proposal must contain the following information: ** Title of the special track ** The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. ** A short description of the scope and topics of the special track (max 1/2 page) and a brief explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related to the conference’s main theme; (3) why the special track may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. ** Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the special track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. ** The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). ** An outline of the foreseen reviewing process to ensure the scientific quality of the accepted papers including a tentative list of program committee members. ** A draft call for papers (max 1 page). SELECTION OF SPECIAL TRACKS Accepted Special Tracks will be curated by the Special Track Chairs, possibly involving other members of the conference’s organizing committee, and possibly discussing details with the Track Proposers. PUBLICATION Papers submitted to each special track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track’s Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference on site; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. The special track may provide an option for publishing the extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. SPECIAL TRACK PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it and catia.prandi(a)unibo.it The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2025 – special track proposal”. The special tracks chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. IMPORTANT DATES ** Proposal Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2025 ** Notification of Selection: March 17th, 2025 ** Paper submission deadlines must be the same as for the main conference CONTACT (SPECIAL TRACKS CHAIRS) ** Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) – ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it ** Catia Prandi (University of Bologna, Italy) – catia.prandi(a)unibo.it

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International Student Design Contest @ SLERD 2025 - 6th edition: a great opportunity for innovative students

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Invite your students (bachelor, master and Ph)D to live the fantastic experience of the 6th edition of the contest and get academic recognition that can elevate their profile **International Student Design Contest (2025) * */@// //10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development// / June 12-13, 2025 /*https://www.slerd.org/contest/*/ video presentation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3ZdvI26u4&t=31s> of the contest /========================================================= Deadline for ideas submission: *April 15th, 2025 */ /=========================================================/ Contacts:slerd25-contest@utt.fr <mailto:slerd25-contest@utt.fr>or aslerd.org(a)gmail.com ========================================================= /Winner: /will be awarded with 500 € grant /Finalists: /all have the opportunities to attend the conference for free and present their projects in front of an international audience of experts. ========================================================= *DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT and GOALS* Smart Learning Ecosystems should perform at best on all the dimensions that contribute to the well-being of students and all players involved in the development of a learning process: /infrastructures, food, environment, info/admin services, mobility, safety, social interaction, satisfaction, challenges, self-fulfillment/. Being inspired by the flow theory and by the Maslow’s pyramid, we can state that: ecosystems are smart when /“individuals that take part in the local processes achieve a high level of skills and, at the same time, are also strongly motivated and engaged by continuous and adequate challenges, provided that their primary needs are reasonably satisfied”./ The smartness of learning ecosystems, thus, is not created merely through the availability of digital infrastructures and applications. When technologies are both available and adopted enthusiastically, they can start to make a difference in both simplifying and accelerating progress toward the achievement of system smartness. One has to keep in mind, however, that technologies are smart not because they are capable of replacing human reasoning but, rather because they can help towards achieving a people centered smartness, through streamlining mundane organisational tasks, and enhancing the skills of all actors involved in learning processes. Our duty, with the help of technology, is to support learning ecosystems (formal, informal, non-formal) to develop their people centered smartness towards becoming incubators of social innovation and engines of sustainable regional development./Smartness is a goal/ and we can support our learning ecosystems along the process to achieve it by proposing solutions capable to solve or mitigate problems that prevent the learning ecosystems to be people centered. We expect students, wishing to take part in the contest, to analyze their learning ecosystem, detect problems and find solutions that can help their, and as well other learning ecosystems, to get smarter. Proposals submitted to this call are expected to address thesame general themes of the call for papers of the conference, namely: * places for smart education, * people in place centered design for smart education, * supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. ========================================== Important dates: --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for ideas submission to slerd25-contest(a)utt.fr <mailto:slerd25-contest@utt.fr>: *April 15th, 2025* • Selection of the best 3 proofs of concepts and prototypes (finsalists): May 6th, 2025 • Presentation and demo at SLERD 2024 and winner announcement: June 12th and 13th, 2025 ========================================== ========================================== Early bird registration to the main conference, SLERD 2025, is now open: https://www.slerd.org/registration-form/ *Deadline for early bird registration to SLERD 2025: May 15th* SLERD 2025 is featuring the keynotes by: /*Charles B. Hodges (Georgia Southern University)*/ /*EVOLVING LABELS, CONSISTENT ROOTS: THE LASTING POWER OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN*/ /* *//*Helen Crompton (ODUGlobal & Old Dominion University)*/ /*AFFORDANCES and LIMITATIONS of GENERATIVE AI in EDUCATION*/ /* */and more ... stay tuned! ==========================================

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PhD position in "Musical XR" at University of Trento, Italy

by Luca Turchet

*** Apologies for cross posting *** The Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of University of Trento, Italy (http://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/) welcomes expressions of interest for a fully funded PhD position in "Musical XR". The PhD activities will be conducted in the context of the MUSMET project funded by the European Innovation Council ("Musical Metaverse made in Europe: An innovation lab for musicians and audiences of the future": https://musmet.eu/). We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in XR technologies and passion for music, willing to acquire further skills in XR development and human-computer interaction. The position will be part of the vibrant academic and industrial consortium of the MUSMET project, with access to state-of-the-art facilities and mentorship from experienced researchers. Interested candidates can send their expression of interest to Prof. Luca Turchet (luca DOT turchet AT unitn DOT it) attaching a detailed CV as well as official transcripts of the list of exams and corresponding grades of both bachelor and master's degrees. The position is not yet open, but to apply it will be necessary to have achieved a master's degree by the end of October 2025 as well as to possess demonstrated English skills (e.g., via a master degree in English or via certificates such as TOEFL). The position will start on 1st of November 2025. The main workplace will be Trento, Italy, but there will be the possibility to spend various visiting research periods at the headquarters of the academic and industrial partners of the MUSMET project. Best regards Luca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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[Call for Abstracts] Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases (June 10 2025, Pisa, Italy - co-located with HHAI25)

by Chiara Natali

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases Co-located with the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI25) June 10, 2025 | Pisa, Italy (in-person) https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home -------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Overview** Building on the success of its first edition at HHAI 2024, the full-day workshop on "Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases" advances the exploration of over-reliance and biases in Human-AI Interaction. Central to this discussion are approaches that intentionally introduce moments of cognitive effort and reflection into AI interactions to prevent passive or automatic reliance. While conventional AI design prioritises efficiency and seamlessness, this workshop invites participants to examine AI systems that strategically slow down decision-making when necessary to mitigate automation bias, cognitive offloading, and over-trust, ultimately fostering accuracy, responsibility, and human oversight. Such friction-in-design encompasses strategies that encourage users to reflect before acting, such as requiring justification before accepting AI recommendations, displaying confidence scores with uncertainty visualisations, or using explainability mechanisms that slow decision-making to reinforce human oversight. This workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue across AI research, cognitive science, HCI, and governance to ensure AI systems empower users rather than encourage unchecked reliance. The program will feature keynote presentations by leading experts in academia and industry, author presentations, and interactive discussions to advance the discourse on cognitively engaging and responsible AI design. Keynote speakers include: • Prof. Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) – Expert in AI-assisted decision-making and medical AI. • Bart Van Leeuwen (Fire Services Expert, Netherlands) – Expert in human factors and situational awareness in high-risk environments. **Topics of Interest** We welcome contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on topics including, but not limited to: • Design Principles for Cognitive Engagement • Measuring and mitigating automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and cognitive offloading • Ethical and Governance Perspectives on Friction-in-Design • Applications, Case Studies and Experimental Findings We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including AI, HCI, cognitive science, law, philosophy, and beyond. **Submission Details** • Types of Submissions: Extended Abstracts (500-1,000 words) • Format: CEURART-WS style preferred • Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAIWorkshop2025 • Proceedings: All accepted papers will be published in the HHAI 2025 Workshop Proceedings on CEUR-WS. Authors of accepted contributions are required to attend the workshop in-person and register to the HHAI25 conference (single-day registration available, details TBA). **Important Dates** • Paper Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2025 • Camera-Ready Submission: TBD (authors will be invited to expand their contributions following workshop discussions) • Workshop Date: June 10, 2025 **Beyond the Workshop** Our aim is to foster a research network. Authors from all editions, if desired, will be invited to participate in future initiatives, including knowledge exchanges, collaborative publications, special journal issues, and online lecture series. **Organising & Programme Committee** • Chiara Natali (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy & IDSIA, SUPSI, Switzerland) • Mohammad Naiseh (Bournemouth University, UK) • Brett Frischmann (Villanova University, USA) • Programme Committee: full list available at https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home For more information, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home Contact: chiara [dot] natali [at] unimib.it

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Last Mile for Additonal Contributions

by Announce

*** Last Mile for Additional Contributions *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS ***) (*** Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025 (firm!) ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES All accepted papers in the different categories of additional contributions will appear in the adjunct conference proceedings volume to be published by Springer in the CCIS series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). All papers must be formatted using the Springer conference proceedings template (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). The length of the paper is specified below for each different category of contribution. Workshop Papers The following workshops will have their accepted papers published in CCIS by Springer: • 1st International Workshop on Upholding Ethical Designs (iWOULD) https://iwould2025.wordpress.com • Persuasion and AI Disclosure: Building Trust in Synthetic Media https://aunmedia.org/AIDisclosure/ The workshop papers should be 12 pages in length (excluding references). Extended Abstracts They showcase the results of already conducted and unpublished studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will also be devoted a time slot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must be 4 to 6 pages in Springer CCIS format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings, unless the authors wish to opt out. Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness, relevance and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Late Breaking Results (LBR) The papers in this category cover new research in any topic that regular paper submissions cover and are expected to present new and emerging results. Authors should submit a 12 pages paper (excluding references) in Springer CCIS format. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 4-page paper in Springer CCIS format. Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference and will be included as a 4-pages paper in Springer CCIS format in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 12 pages proposal (including references) in Springer CCIS format describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings unless opted out by the student. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2025 (choose the appropriate category or workshop). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Late Breaking Results (LBR) Chairs • Areej B. Babiker, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Jaap Harn, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands • Isaac Wiafe, University of Ghana, Ghana Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Jaap Harn, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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Call for Papers – IEEE AI Standard 2025

by Khushi Nilanshu Patel

Dear Researchers, We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 – The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. This conference provides a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance. *Conference Details* - *Dates:* May 5-7, 2025 - *Location:* Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, CA, USA - *Submission Deadlines:* - Abstract Submission: March 10, 2025 - Full Paper Submission: March 21, 2025 - Acceptance Notification: April 7, 2025 - Camera-Ready Submission: April 15, 2025 *Technologies and Areas of Interest* We invite submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Semiconductors - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Computer Vision - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Aerospace - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Intelligence - AI Standards for Smart Grids and Clean Energy - AI Standards for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Infrastructure and Tools - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Chatbots - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Agricultural Technology - AI Standards and Quality Assurance for Healthcare For more details, please visit the IEEE AI-Standard 2025 website: https://ieeeaiindustrystandard.org Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cai2025 <https://ieeeaiindustrystandard.org/call-for-papers/> We look forward to your contributions in shaping the future of AI! Best regards, Jerry Zeyu Gao Technical Program Chair – IEEE AI Standard 2025

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[MUC 2025] Call for Workshop Proposals | Chemnitz, Germany, August 31 - September 3 2025

by Evropi Stefanidi

*** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - Mensch und Computer (MUC) 2025 *** 31. Aug – 3. Sep 2025, at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany *Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2025* * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://muc2025.mensch-und-computer.de/en/workshops/ * The “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference, launched in 2001, is the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. MuC offers participants from science and industry a platform for contributions and discussions on innovative forms of interaction between people and digital technology, on human-centered development methods, interactive applications, and other topics in the field between users, teams and communities on the one hand and information and communication technologies used on the other hand. The aim of the conference is to discuss innovative research results, to promote the exchange of information between academia and practitioners, to stimulate research activities and training, and to sensitize science, practice, and the public to the relevance of human- and task-oriented technology design. *Important Dates* All deadlines are set to Anywhere on Earth (AoE). In contrast to previous years, the deadline will not be extended at a later point. Please consider all dates and times final. - Organizer submission deadline: March 5th, 2025 - Organizer notification: March 19th, 2025 - Call for participation released by workshop organizers and individual workshop website up and running: on or before April 23rd, 2025 - Organizer publication-ready deadline: July 30th, 2025 Workshops can define a specific submission deadline as necessary to fulfill whatever selection process they have, but they need to consider the publication-ready and early registration deadlines. * Message from the Workshop Chairs * We invite you to submit proposals for workshops at Mensch und Computer. Workshops are a gathering place for attendees with shared interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. Workshops are an opportunity to move a field forward and build community: a chance to find people who care about the same issues, questions, and research agendas as you. Workshops may address any topic relevant to the HCI community, e.g., questions of basic research and applied research, HCI practice, HCI education, new methodologies, emerging application areas, ethics, sustainability, or design innovations. Most workshops (half or full-day) take place on Sunday before the start of the technical program, but workshops can also be run on Monday or Tuesday. As Workshop Chairs, we will create a carefully curated list of workshops that reflects the needs and desires of the community. Please note that we might propose modifications and augmentations, such as suggesting that workshops be combined where appropriate. The workshop should address timely topics and phenomena; therefore, it depends on the year in which topics are considered particularly relevant and interesting. The space and technical limitations will also influence the number and form of the selected workshops. * Workshop Chairs * Yasmeen Abdrabou Mark Colley

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission

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*** Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Submission Deadline: February 24, 2025 (extended and firm) ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop proposals: February 24, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Full paper and Workshop deadline extended

by Carmelo Ardito

*** Please accept our apologies for cross-postings *** *************************************************************************************** INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 08 – 12, 2025 Belo Horizonte, Brazil www.interact2025.org<http://www.interact2025.org> *************************************************************************************** Call for Papers INTERACT 2025 is the 20th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human- Computer Interaction) of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). INTERACT is a highly international conference and welcomes papers on all aspects of human-computer interaction. The theme of the conference is “Blending Experiences in Interaction Design”. INTERACT 2025 will be hosted at Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The state of Minas Gerais has a rich diversity with the blending of experiences encompassing a hot pot of cultures and ancestries from around the world, mixing heritage and modern, hand-made traditional artifacts and high-tech industry. This context provides inspiration to bring research challenges to designing blending experiences with virtual and physical, different cultures, and a growing blending of human-created and artifacts generated by artificial intelligence. The call for papers is now open for the following categories: Tracks with submission deadline February 24th, 2025 (EXTENDED – previously February 17th, 2025) - Full papers* - Workshops *Title, authors, abstract and SUBCOMMITTEE must be recorded in PCS by February 17th, 2025. Tracks with submission deadline May 19th, 2025 - Short papers - Posters - Courses - Panels - Interactive Demos - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. Papers accepted in all the tracks will be published in the proceedings edited by Springer in the LNCS series, except the Doctoral Consortium papers. Consortium attendees are encouraged to submit a paper or contribution to any of the other tracks on content similar to that in the proposal for the Doctoral Consortium. A selection of papers accepted and presented in workshops organized by the IFIP TC-13 Working Groups will be published as post proceedings in a Springer LNCS volume. Submission Information is available at the Conference Website. Technical Program chairs Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico di Bari, Italy Isabela Gasparini - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil Tayana Conte - Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil General chairs Raquel Prates - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil André Freire - Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information please visit the web site: www.interact2025.org<http://www.interact2025.org> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it<mailto:carmelo.ardito@poliba.it> Personal Home Page: https://sisinflab.poliba.it/people/carmelo-antonio-ardito/ Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La preghiamo di eliminarlo senza copiarlo e di non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Grazie. Privacy Information - This message, for the Regulation (UE) 2016/679, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation.

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CfP: SYNERGY 2025 - Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems (HHAI 2025)

by Tommaso Turchi

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Please share widely with interested colleagues and networks! SYNERGY 2025: Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems Co-located with HHAI 2025 (Hybrid Human-AI Intelligence Conference) June 9, 2025 - Pisa, Italy https://synergy.trx.li/ Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: April 11, 2025 (AoE) - Notification: May 2, 2025 - Camera Ready: May 16, 2025 ABOUT ------ In 1960, Joseph Licklider envisioned "Man-Computer Symbiosis" where computation would augment human intellect. Today, as AI systems work alongside people in tasks from visual analytics to code generation, we are learning to design truly synergistic systems where humans and AI work flexibly together, leveraging their complementary abilities. Following our successful first edition at AVI 2024 (https://synergy.trx.li/2024/), this workshop brings together researchers exploring the design, implementation, and evaluation of meaningful human-AI collaboration systems. The workshop will include consortium partners from the new €10M EU project TANGO "It takes two to tango: a synergistic approach to human-machine decision making". TOPICS ------- We invite submissions in four key areas: - Interactive Decision-Making Systems: Real-time collaboration mechanisms, task allocation protocols, and approaches for handling uncertainty - Adaptive Collaboration Frameworks: Dynamic systems that adjust to cognitive load and learn from human intervention - Evaluation Methods: Novel approaches to measuring effectiveness of human-AI partnerships - Implementation Architecture: Practical solutions and patterns for building collaborative systems We particularly welcome submissions presenting concrete mechanisms, empirical evaluations, novel interaction patterns, and practical implementation challenges. All submissions should demonstrate: - Integration of both AI capabilities and human interaction aspects - Consideration of practical design and implementation implications - Clear connection to human-AI collaboration, even in theoretical or policy-focused work SUBMISSION ---------- - Minimum 5 pages, CEUR-WS single column format - Submit via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2025 - Selected papers will be invited for submission to a Special Issue on Hybrid Human-AI Systems in a leading journal ORGANIZERS ---------- - Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa, Italy - Alan Dix, Swansea University & Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK - Matt Roach, Swansea University, UK - Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy - Ben Wilson, Swansea University, UK For more information: Website: https://synergy.trx.li/ Contact: tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it This workshop is supported by the HORIZON Europe project TANGO - Grant Agreement n. 101120763.

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Extended deadline: [CFP] 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025

by Lorenzo Perinello

*CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025* https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home 2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via the IEEE Xplore. *Motivation and Rationale* Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are two key factors of the new Internet era. They are redefining the landscape of digital communications and distributed systems, offering new opportunities for secure, resilient, and scalable applications. The worldwide adoption of Web3 is reshaping how users experience Internet services by including concepts such as decentralization, democratization and rewarding in existing services. The main engine of Web3 is blockchain technology. However, there are numerous areas where there is room for improvement. To begin with, most Web3 applications revolve around DeFi, however, the decentralisation offered by blockchain technology could help plenty of scenarios. Promising scenarios are supply chains, health, decentralized storage, data sharing, power grids, virtual worlds (like the Metaverse) and many more. Additionally, there are other scenarios where Web3 could have a meaningful impact, including IoT, vehicular networks, cloud and edge computing, digital identities, intellectual property management, digital twins, and integration with the physical world. DeFi is still quite far from perfect. Indeed, fungible and non-fungible assets are constantly evolving to include more advanced functionalities as so to increase their adoption. Moreover, DeFi was shown to be susceptible to malicious activity, including fake NFTs, sleepminting, washtrading, rug pull, pump and dump, Maximal Extractable Value and other scams. Finding solutions to foresee and prevent such malevolent practices becomes crucial for the true adoption of this technology. Lastly, blockchain technology has some inherent limitations that are still to be addressed, including creating efficient consensus protocols for public blockchains, and secure channels for transaction confirmation among others. The Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) workshop analyses the technological challenges and the potential of Web3 and DeFi applications. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to attract contributions that can discuss how these emerging technologies can shape the future of blockchain, and address the challenges of their adoption. Papers on both theoretical and design aspects are welcomed, which describe and evaluate novel design methods and system prototypes. The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress and position papers. *Topics* We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Web3 Applications and Technologies Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing) DLTs and Blockchain Technology Blockchain security and performance Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi) Application of DeFi to novel scenarios DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation New DeFi services Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse NFTs analysis and applications AI for Web3 and DeFi Privacy, scalability, and governance Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi Solutions for safe online environments *Submission* Submissions will be made via EDAS using the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279. Note that accepted papers of up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2025 proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. *Important Dates* Papers submission: *[Extended Deadline] *March 9th, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12) Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025 Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc)

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ECSCW25 - Doctoral Colloquium Deadline approaching

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for the ECSCW Doctoral Colloquium is approaching quickly. Submissions are due in just one week (Feb 18th, AoE). We encourage PhD candidates working broadly in the field of CSCW to apply. This is a great opportunity to share your research, receive valuable feedback, and connect with fellow scholars. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at ECSCW25_DC(a)easychair.org Best regards, Naja Holten Møller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Troels Mønsted, University of Oslo, Norway María Menéndez-Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy [image: banner] *ECSCW25 -- **https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/* <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/> The EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is an international venue on practice-centred computing and the design of cooperation technologies. ECSCW is a single-track conference that contributes to developing an interdisciplinary and global community, supported by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies <https://www.eusset.eu/>. The conference format facilitates critical discussion across disciplinary and national borders in the field. *Call for submissions* The 23rd edition of* ECSCW* will take place in *Newcastle upon Tyne* from *June 30th to July 4th, 2025.* We invite researchers and practitioners to *submit Contributions to the EUSSET CSCW 2025 for the following tracks: * - Conference Papers <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/conference-papers/> - Exploratory Papers <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/exploratory-papers/> - Demos and Posters <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/posters-demos/> - Panels <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/panels/> - Masterclasses <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/masterclasses/> - Workshops <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/workshops/> - Doctoral Colloquium <https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/doctoral-colloquium/> *Key Dates * January 15, 2025 EasyChair system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecscw2025> open for submissions *Conference Papers and Exploratory papers * *February 18, 2025* Submissions due for Conference and Exploratory papers (23:59 AoE) *Demos and Posters; Panels; Masterclasses; Workshops; Doctoral Colloquium:* March 4, 2025 Submissions due (23:59 AoE) For more information please see below or visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/ *ECSCW 2025 Tracks * *Conference Papers* Authors have the opportunity to publish concise and focused empirical or conceptual studies to support progress in a specific sub-domain of CSCW. Submission could present a pointed insight from your fieldwork, a compact argument to make, or an insightful experience from designing, implementing, or sustaining a system for collaboration. Submissions could include, but is not limited to, the following: - A new methodology for designing or examining CSCW technologies - Insights from the implementation of an IT system supporting collaboration - First experiences and insights from the use of a new system supporting collaboration - A case study of collaborative technology in a domain not typically studied in CSCW research - A discussion or unfolding of new CSCW theory For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/conference-papers/ *Exploratory Papers * Exploratory paper submissions are smaller, focused studies, works-in-progress, or design probes, based on provocative ideas that explore a topic in new and innovative ways. Exploratory papers aim at inspiring discussion towards the shaping the future of practice-focused and impact-oriented CSCW research. The presentation of these papers at the conference will utilize an alternative format to encourage conversation and feedback. This year we are particularly keen to encourage submissions that address the impact of civic and community technologies. For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/exploratory-papers/ *Demos and Posters* We invite submissions that present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger EUSSET CSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies. For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/posters-demos/ *Panels* Panels aim to highlight emerging and innovative topics in the CSCWC field. Panels bring together a diverse range of voices and act as a vital medium to discuss emerging topics and research agendas, and debate issues that may not yet become fully recognized, acknowledged, or discussed. For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/panels/ *Masterclasses* Masterclasses facilitate discussion on any CSCW related topic and enable organizers to elaborate on theoretical foundations in the form of lectures as well as engage participants in hands-on learning experiences. We also encourage proposals that address computing’s impact on societal issues and/or the ECSCW communities broad interest in theories, methods, and approaches from other disciplines interested in working across society and computing. For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/masterclasses/ *Workshops* We invite workshop proposals addressing research questions, new methodologies and approaches, innovative technologies, and emerging research areas with a special focus on sustainability. We also encourage proposals that address computing’s impact on societal issues and/or the ECSCW communities’ broad interest in theories, methods, and approaches from other disciplines interested in working across societies and computing. For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/workshops/ *Doctoral Colloquium* We invite candidates working broadly in the field of CSCW to apply. Candidates at any stage of the PhD process will be considered. However, the strongest candidates will be those who have a well-developed research proposal and have made some progress towards realising it, while still having time to benefit from advice and feedback by peers and senior colleagues. DC attendees will have the opportunity: - To present their research during the main conference by means of alternative formats, such as a madness session and/or posters, to gain extra visibility and encourage conversation and feedback. - To attend, free of charge, a one-day program of Masterclasses (dates and availability to be confirmed). For more information visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/index.php/doctoral-colloquium/ ECSCW 2025 General Chairs Tom Bartindale, Clara Crivellaro and Vasilis Vlachokyriakos

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) December 12-13, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): July 15, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2025 • Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: October 15, 2025 • Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 29, 2025 • Conference: December 12-13, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair • Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs • Cesare Alippi, Università della Svizzera italiana • Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair • Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair • Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology

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[Call for Abstracts] Workshop on Human-Centred Machine Learning: Bridging Design, Development, and Social Impact (March 6-7, 2025, Lugano – Switzerland)

by Chiara Natali

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Workshop on Human-Centred Machine Learning: Bridging Design, Development, and Social Impact March 6-7, 2025, Lugano, Switzerland (in-person) -------------------------------------------------- The B4EAI team (Best 4 Ethical AI) invites abstracts for the Workshop on Human-Centred Machine Learning: Bridging Design, Development, and Social Impact (March 6-7, 2025, Lugano – Switzerland), a two-day event focused on addressing critical questions about the ethically and socially responsible design and deployment of AI systems. This workshop seeks to advance human-centred design principles and participatory approaches in AI development and contribute to the responsible adoption of these technologies. Our workshop features a distinguished lineup of keynote speakers, including (in alphabetical order): - Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT): "Measuring Social Impact in AI Systems" - Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, CAN): "Community Perspectives in AI Research" - Marcello Ienca (Technical University of Munich, DE): "Policy Perspectives on AI Governance" - Caterina Moruzzi (Edinburgh University, UK): "Future Directions in Human-Centered AI" - Elisa Rubegni (Lancaster University, UK): "Human-Centred Design Principles in AI Development" - Niels van Berkel (Aalborg University, DK): "Successful Case Studies in Human-Centred AI" The programme includes dedicated panel sessions on the topics of "Bridging Technical Innovation and Social Impact", "Ethical Considerations in AI Development", "Implementation Challenges and Solutions" and "Shaping the Future of Human-Centred AI". Finally, a session will be dedicated to spot presentations (10 minutes) by participants that would like to present their own research. **Submission Guidelines** For the spot presentations session, we welcome short abstracts addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - How can we design AI systems that meaningfully incorporate diverse human perspectives and needs throughout their development cycle? - What methodological frameworks can bridge the gap between technical AI capabilities and real-world social challenges? - How do we measure and evaluate the social impact of AI systems beyond traditional technical metrics? - What are effective approaches for participatory design in AI development, particularly when working with marginalised or vulnerable communities? - How can we ensure AI systems remain accountable to their intended social benefits throughout their lifecycle? We invite the submission of abstracts for the meeting from early career scholars (students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty). Abstracts should be up to 250 words long (excluded references) and they should include name, affiliation, and title in one .pdf file. Abstracts should be submitted by February 21 to: b4eai.info(a)gmail.com **Important Dates** Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025 AoE Notification of Acceptance: February 24, 2025 Workshop Dates: March 6-7, 2025, Lugano – Switzerland Location: Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Campus Universitario USI/SUPSI (Via la Santa 1, 6962 Viganello) For further details, please contact alessandro.facchini(a)supsi.ch ** We are committed to fostering diversity and equality. Submissions from underrepresented groups are particularly welcome. **

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Last Call for Additonal Contributions

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*** Last Call for Additional Contributions *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES All accepted papers in the different categories of additional contributions will appear in the adjunct conference proceedings volume to be published by Springer in the CCIS series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). All papers must be formatted using the Springer conference proceedings template (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). The length of the paper is specified below for each different category of contribution. Workshop Papers The following workshops will have their accepted papers published in CCIS by Springer: • 1st International Workshop on Upholding Ethical Designs (iWOULD) https://iwould2025.wordpress.com • Persuasion and AI Disclosure: Building Trust in Synthetic Media https://aunmedia.org/AIDisclosure/ The workshop papers should be 12 pages in length (excluding references). Extended Abstracts They showcase the results of already conducted and unpublished studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will also be devoted a time slot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must be 4 to 6 pages in Springer CCIS format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings, unless the authors wish to opt out. Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness, relevance and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Late Breaking Results (LBR) The papers in this category cover new research in any topic that regular paper submissions cover and are expected to present new and emerging results. Authors should submit a 12 pages paper (excluding references) in Springer CCIS format. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 4-page paper in Springer CCIS format. Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference and will be included as a 4-pages paper in Springer CCIS format in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings. Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 12 pages proposal (including references) in Springer CCIS format describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted papers will be included in the adjunct Springer CCIS proceedings unless opted out by the student. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2025 (choose the appropriate category or workshop). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Fourth Call for Papers (Research/Industry), Tools & Demos and Workshop Proposals

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*** Fourth Call for Papers (Research/Industry), Tools & Demos, and Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). SCOPE The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous applications? The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion, country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundational principles of software architecture • Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture • Quality attributes and software architectures • Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software • Architecture design and analysis • Architecture description languages and meta-models • Architecture verification and validation • Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale • Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures • Architecture viewpoints and views • Architecture conformance • Software architecture virtualization and visualization • Architecture-centric process models and frameworks • Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development • Component-based models and deployment; middleware • Software architecture and system architecture • Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering • Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture • Architecture and technical debt • Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems • Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive systems • Software architecture education • Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture • Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems • Architectural concerns of autonomic systems • Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy- aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems • Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture RESEARCH PAPERS ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track: • Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated) • Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture • Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems • Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in- progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected. To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work. The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required: • To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or • To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and • To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa/) to make them accessible and visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research. INDUSTRY PAPERS The Industry Track at ECSA 2025 brings together practicing software architects and software architecture researchers from regional, European, and worldwide communities. We are seeking contributions from industry that share challenges, practical solutions, successful practices, failures, and lessons learned while analyzing, designing, implementing, evaluating, and evolving software architectures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following themes: • Experience with architectures for emerging technologies, like LLM, and Agent-based system • Domain-specific challenges for software architects and architectures • Architecture specification and documentation • Architectural patterns, tactics, and tools • Practices and methods supporting architecture design, evaluation and evolution • Integration of architectural practices and methods with other software engineering approaches/practices/methods (e.g. Agile) • Social and organizational aspects, like human-machine, human-AI interactions, human-in-the-loop The ECSA 2025 Industry track aims to contribute to bridging the gap between academia and industrial practice by establishing an open communication and discussion environment. It will offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to interact with fellow professionals and develop new ideas and skills for addressing industrial problems and collaborations. There are three ways to contribute: Full Papers (up to 16 pages in Springer LNCS style) describing best practices and experience from applying novel approaches to large-scale industrial projects in the context of software architecture. Submissions will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, practical relevance, and potential for discussion. Short Papers and Presentations (6-10 pages in Springer LNCS style) outlining presentations on practices and experience related to software architecture from the industry. Submissions will be selected based on originality, practical relevance, and potential for discussion. Software Architecture Showcases (6 pages in Springer LNCS style) demonstrating a specific real-world architecture (including its flaws) together with a discussion of the context, challenges, and/or process that led to its present form. It can be formulated as an abstract outlining the architecture to be presented, preferably together with links to externally available work products. Submissions will be selected based on the offered insights into real architectural work, work products, and learnings related to architecture. All contributions need to be written in English, must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. If accepted, each contribution needs to be presented by one of the authors who is registered at the conference. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Industry Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". TOOLS AND DEMOS The Tools and Demonstrations (Tools & Demos) Track provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, ideas, experiences, and challenges in the field of Software Architecture by means of Tools & Demos presentations. Tools & Demos papers are intended to address any aspect of: (i) tool support for software architectures, or (ii) demonstrate results about the application of architectural approaches. Papers submitted to this track can belong to two distinct categories: • Tool papers: These papers deal with the development and evaluation of tools to support software architecture. They may present new tools, extensions to existing tools, or evaluations of the effectiveness of tools. The aim is to provide a platform for the exchange of innovative tools and techniques that help design, implement and analyze software architectures. • Demo papers: These papers will demonstrate concepts, techniques or systems related to software architectures. The focus is on presenting practical applications and implementations of architectural approaches. Demo papers may include live demonstrations, prototypes or simulations that emphasize the benefits and potential of specific architecture solutions. Both Tool Papers and Demo Papers contribute to the advancement of the field by providing insights, experiences and practical solutions related to software architectures. Tools and Demos should not be used as a means for commercial advertisement. We will strive to keep ECSA’s tradition to select the Best Tools & Demo Paper, awarded during the conference. The selection of the best tool and demo paper will be made based on the votes of the attendants of the conference. Submissions of Tools & Demos papers should describe the work, how it relates to other industrial or research efforts, including references, what the expected benefits are, a video of the tool or demo (if one exists), and the web-page and/or open-source repository for the tool (if one exists). All submissions must conform to the LNCS template and must not exceed 8 pages. Tools & Demos submissions should provide a link to a video, with audio commentary, of a maximum of ten minutes in length, with high resolution (e.g., details of the tool’s functionality should be clearly visible). The video must be uploaded on a server (e.g., YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox), and the link must be included in the submission for its evaluation (as a footnote on the first page of the submission or as links after the abstract of the submission). In addition, it is possible to provide open material, e.g., source code and/or a running instance of the tool. The links to the video and (if applicable) the additional material should be included in the contribution after the abstract and before the introduction sections. Paper submissions must be made electronically via the online EasyChair submission site for the ECSA 2024 conference, selecting the “Tools & Demos Track”: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025 . The selection criteria of Tools & Demos papers will consider their originality, relevance for the ECSA audience, technical soundness, and presentation quality. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two PC members, in a single-step review process. The accepted papers will be included in the ECSA 2025 companion volume to be published in Springer LNCS series. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference (Research and Industry Papers) • Abstract submission: March 14, 2025 • Paper submission: March 21, 2025 • Notification: May 9, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025 Tools & Demos • Abstract submission: May 16, 2025 • Paper submission: May 23, 2025 • Notification: June 20, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 27, 2025 Workshops • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands Program Co-Chairs • Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa Tools & Demos Co-Chairs • Mohamed Soliman, Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Germany • Use Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** 37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025) September 17-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ictss-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) IFIP-ICTSS is a well-established conference where researchers, developers, testers, and users from industry get together to present and discuss the most recent innovations, experiences and open challenges related to testing software and systems and measuring software quality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ■ AI for Software Testing and Testing of AI: the growing interest in the use of AI has also spread in to various aspects of software testing. In addition, work is underway to test and validate AI systems/applications (machine learning, expert systems, neural networks). ■ Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test generation, test coverage, test concretization, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracle, verdict computation, test management, active testing and passive testing, monitoring and runtime verification. ■ Testing new technologies: this year we encourage submissions focused on testing Large Language Models (LLMs), audit machine learning systems (especially for applications to Health) and Quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators). ■ Diversity on testing: diverse generation, selecting diverse test suites, foundations of testing and diversity, applications of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity on test suite diversity. ■ Theoretical approaches: formalisms (such as automata, state machines, process algebra, logics, Markov-chains...), testing frameworks, results for compositionality, refinement, soundness and completeness, addressing complex systems, heterogeneous or hybrid systems. ■ Modelling languages (such as UML, MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica...) and associated tooling for model-based testing: test generation from models, model-based oracles. Scalability, traceability, quantification issues. Automated support of any parts of the testing activities, testing processes, test-driven development, sound metrics and measurements. ■ Testing of quality aspects: Functional, interoperability, unit, integration, performance, load, conformance, non-regression, reliability, robustness. ■ Security Testing: methodologies and techniques for continuous security assessment, security monitoring, security review, penetration testing, verification of certification compliance; automation of security testing processes. ■ Testing emerging technologies: quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators), genetic algorithms, metaverse, and any other technology in the early stages of testing. ■ Human Aspects of Testing: human psychology and management attitude play major roles in formulating and adopting testing in practice. ■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof, model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model learning, ... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes. ■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof, model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model learning, machine learning, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes. ■ Application aspects and case studies: Communicating systems such as cyberphysical systems, systems of systems, embedded systems, web services systems, smart grids, cloud computing systems, business information systems, real-time systems, distributed and concurrent systems. Case studies and industrial applications involving qualified empirical evaluations. IFIP-ICTSS Invites: Full papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research contributions with sufficient evidence for the interest of the proposed approach. Industry papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research or experience report conducted within an industrial environment or in collaboration with an industry partner. Short papers or work-in-progress papers (up to 6 pages plus at most 1 extra page for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing academic work in progress or tool implementations, as well as testing processes, achievements and feedback on testing methods for industrial case studies. Journal-First. The aim of the Journal-First (JF) submission category is to further enrich the program of ICTSS, as well as to provide an overall more flexible path to publication and dissemination of original research that is within the scope of ICTSS. A submission in this category must adhere to the following criteria: ■ It should be clearly within the scope of the conference. ■ It should be recent: it should have been accepted and made publicly available in a journal (online or in print) by January 1, 2023 or more recently. ■ It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, Journal- First tracks of other conferences or workshops. ■ The submission has to be in the form of a 4-page extended abstract and has to provide a concise summary of the published journal paper. ■ It must be marked as such in the submission’s, and must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Since the referenced journal papers have already been reviewed and accepted by the corresponding journals, submissions in the JF category will not be reviewed again for technical content. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would complement the conference’s technical program. Accepted submissions in this category will be part of the proceedings of ICTSS 2025, with the title equal to the original title of the article with the prefix. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ictss2025 The papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS volume. Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Journal Special Issue Best papers of the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their article at a special (topical) issue of the Springer Nature of Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). Deadline will be near the end of December 2025 with a tentative publication date for the middle 2026. Collocation ICTSS 2025 will be collocated with the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025). IMPORTANT DATES ■ Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) ■ Author Notification: June 30, 2025 (AoE) ■ Camera-ready Versions and Author Registration: July 14, 2025 (AoE) ORGANISATION Conference Chairs ■ Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy ■ George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - 2nd Call for Papers

by Carmelo Ardito

*** Please accept our apologies for cross-postings *** *************************************************************************************** INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 08 – 12, 2025 Belo Horizonte, Brazil http://www.interact2025.org/<http://www.interact2025.org/> *************************************************************************************** Call for Papers INTERACT 2025 is the 20th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human- Computer Interaction) of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). INTERACT is a highly international conference and welcomes papers on all aspects of human-computer interaction. The theme of the conference is “Blending Experiences in Interaction Design”. INTERACT 2025 will be hosted at Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The state of Minas Gerais has a rich diversity with the blending of experiences encompassing a hot pot of cultures and ancestries from around the world, mixing heritage and modern, hand-made traditional artifacts and high-tech industry. This context provides inspiration to bring research challenges to designing blending experiences with virtual and physical, different cultures, and a growing blending of human-created and artifacts generated by artificial intelligence. The call for papers is now open for the following categories: Tracks with submission deadline 17 February 2025 - Full papers - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline 19 May 2025 - Short papers - Posters - Courses - Panels - Interactive Demos - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. Papers accepted in all the tracks will be published in the proceedings edited by Springer in the LNCS series, except the Doctoral Consortium papers. Consortium attendees are encouraged to submit a paper or contribution to any of the other tracks on content similar to that in the proposal for the Doctoral Consortium. A selection of papers accepted and presented in workshops organized by the IFIP TC-13 Working Groups will be published as post proceedings in a Springer LNCS volume. Submission Information is available at the Conference Website. Technical Program chairs Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico di Bari, Italy Isabela Gasparini - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil Tayana Conte - Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil General chairs Raquel Prates - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil André Freire - Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information please visit the web site: http://www.interact2025.org/<http://www.interact2025.org/> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it<mailto:carmelo.ardito@poliba.it> Personal Home Page: https://sisinflab.poliba.it/people/carmelo-antonio-ardito/<https://sisinflab.poliba.it/people/carmelo-antonio-ardito/> Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/<http://sisinflab.poliba.it/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. 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CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025

by Lorenzo Perinello

*CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025* https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home 2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via the IEEE Xplore. Motivation and Rationale Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are two key factors of the new Internet era. They are redefining the landscape of digital communications and distributed systems, offering new opportunities for secure, resilient, and scalable applications. The worldwide adoption of Web3 is reshaping how users experience Internet services by including concepts such as decentralization, democratization and rewarding in existing services. The main engine of Web3 is blockchain technology. However, there are numerous areas where there is room for improvement. To begin with, most Web3 applications revolve around DeFi, however, the decentralisation offered by blockchain technology could help plenty of scenarios. Promising scenarios are supply chains, health, decentralized storage, data sharing, power grids, virtual worlds (like the Metaverse) and many more. Additionally, there are other scenarios where Web3 could have a meaningful impact, including IoT, vehicular networks, cloud and edge computing, digital identities, intellectual property management, digital twins, and integration with the physical world. DeFi is still quite far from perfect. Indeed, fungible and non-fungible assets are constantly evolving to include more advanced functionalities as so to increase their adoption. Moreover, DeFi was shown to be susceptible to malicious activity, including fake NFTs, sleepminting, washtrading, rug pull, pump and dump, Maximal Extractable Value and other scams. Finding solutions to foresee and prevent such malevolent practices becomes crucial for the true adoption of this technology. Lastly, blockchain technology has some inherent limitations that are still to be addressed, including creating efficient consensus protocols for public blockchains, and secure channels for transaction confirmation among others. The Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) workshop analyses the technological challenges and the potential of Web3 and DeFi applications. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to attract contributions that can discuss how these emerging technologies can shape the future of blockchain, and address the challenges of their adoption. Papers on both theoretical and design aspects are welcomed, which describe and evaluate novel design methods and system prototypes. The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress and position papers. Topics We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Web3 Applications and Technologies Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing) DLTs and Blockchain Technology Blockchain security and performance Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi) Application of DeFi to novel scenarios DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation New DeFi services Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse NFTs analysis and applications AI for Web3 and DeFi Privacy, scalability, and governance Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi Solutions for safe online environments Submission Submissions will be made via EDAS using the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279. Note that accepted papers of up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2025 proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. Important Dates Papers submission: [Extended Deadline] February 10, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12) Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2025 Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025 Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc)

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Early Registration IUI 2025

by Eleonora Zedda

Early Registration IUI 2025 We’re excited to remind you that the *early registration for IUI 2025* is open until *February 2, 2025*. Don’t miss this opportunity to secure your spot at the *International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025* and take advantage of the discounted early bird rate. Join leading experts and researchers in *Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)* and *Artificial Intelligence (AI)* as they share the latest advancements and ideas. 👉 *Register now*: https://iui.acm.org/2025/registration.html <https://iui.acm.org/2025/registration.html> We look forward to seeing you at IUI 2025!

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CHItaly 2025: Call for Papers

by Emanuele Panizzi

[Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2025 <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/> - Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millenium The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 6–10 October 2025 Location: Salerno, Italy https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/ We invite researchers and practitioners to submit contributions to CHItaly 2025 for the following tracks: - Long and Short Papers <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-papers/> (Deadline: April 21st) - Pictorials <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-pictorials/> (Deadline: April 21st) - Workshop Proposals <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-workshops/> (Deadline: March 15th) - Interactive Experience <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions/> (Deadline: June 24th) - Poster <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions/> (Deadline: June 24th) - PhD Consortium <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions/> (Deadline: May 31st) All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library within the International Conference Proceedings Series. Additionally, authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions for potential publication in special issues of leading international journals. Call for papers and paper topics Over the past two decades, the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has undergone radical transformations due to the spread of new technologies and methodologies. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Robotics, voice interfaces, and wearable devices, it is necessary to explore how these innovations influence and shape interactions between users and digital systems. The conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of these new technologies and methodologies in the contemporary context. This year’s conference aims to inspire a comprehensive dialogue on how these technologies are reshaping the landscape of HCI and redefining the boundaries of human capabilities. Participants will be invited to engage with questions surrounding ethical implications, accessibility, inclusivity, user experience, and the sustainability of emerging technologies. The theme encourages contributors to share insights on methodologies that adapt to these changes, from user-centred design practices to innovative evaluation methods for complex, adaptive systems. CHItaly 2025 welcomes contributions on a broad range of research topics within the field of human-computer interaction, including but not limited to the following: - Emerging Technologies for HCI - Innovative Methodologies for HCI - Ethics and Sustainability in HCI Technologies - Social and Organizational Impacts of HCI - New Frontiers in HCI Chitaly 2025 Organizing Committee <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/327-2/>

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[IxD&A Journal] Issue N. 62 is now available for free reading and 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. CiteScore 2023: 2.5 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Multidisciplinary, Media Technology, Education; Q3: Computer Science Applicationms, Human Computer Interaction) To help us to improve the *reader/author experience* please, if you have not already done, take part in the *survey* -> SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS & USER EXPERIENCE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpUR_mbeNMSOjjNqSRa7ko-BJ6nkFh7w_…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 62* featuring a special issue on ‘*/SLE: Looking for trace of future in the present – supporting well-being growth for all./*’ guest edited by /Mihai Dascalu, Janika Leonte, Elvira Popescu/ is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062 <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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… <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * * *IxD&A Journal, Issue N. 62 - ToC*/ / /Special issue on:/ */SLE: Looking for trace of future in the present – supporting well-being growth for all/**.* Preface <https://ixdea.org/preface-n-62-special-issue/> (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-001psi) /Mihai Dascalu, Janika //Leonte, Elvira Popescu/ p. 5 – 9 *Contributed paper* /Benedicte H. Gangstø and Monica Divitini/ Sustainability in IT education: A game-based approach, pp. 10 – 25 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-001) /Francesca Pozzi and Donatella Persico/ Gamification for teacher professional development: the case for narrative approaches, pp. 26 – 40 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-002) /Alexandru Smarandache and Elvira Popescu/ Designing a Collaborative Learning Platform Based on Learnersourcing and Gamification, pp. 41 – 53 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-003) /Åse Håtveit, Simone Mora, Titus Venverloo, Fábio Duarte, Monica Divitini/ Teaching urban sensing skills – experiences from a summer school, pp. 54 – 68 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-004) /Fabio Sartori, Claudia Maga, Barbara Tosi, Alessandro Varallo/ Phygital Education through Storytelling and Learning by Doing: the Binario 9 ¾ project, pp. 69 – 83 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-005) /Angélique Ferrandon, Inès Di Loreto, Yann Verchier/ Maintain the schooling of school refusers: conceptualization of a school reception protocol using digital technology, pp. 84 – 97 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-006) /Carlo Giovannella/ An integrated evaluation framework – smartness, well-being, e-maturity – for participatory evaluation of learning ecosystems: first application to two Italian high schools, pp. 98 – 122 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-007) /Carlo Giovannella, Licia Cianfriglia, and Antonello Giannelli/ AIs @ School: the perception of the actors of the learning processes, pp. 123 – 140 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-008) /Remus-Dan Ungureanu and Mihai Dascalu/ Echo: A crowd-sourced Romanian speech dataset, pp. 141 – 152 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-062-009) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • ‘STEAM teaching and learning: advances beyond the state of the art’ Guest editors: Hector Cardona-Reyes, Carlos Alberto Lara-Álvarez, Miguel Angel Ortiz Esparza, Klinge Orlando Villalba-Condori • ‘Smart Learning Ecosystems beyond 2030′ Guest editors: Gabriella Dodero, Carlo Giovannella, Francesca Pozzi • ‘Digital Technologies for Supporting Inclusion’ Guest editors: Hasan Ferdous, Carsten Röcker, Syed Isthiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim • ‘Map-based interfaces and interactions’ Guest editors: Masood Masoodian, Saturnino Luz • ‘Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems’ Guest editors: Chiara Ceccarini, Catia Prandi, Alberto Monge Roffarello, Luigi De Russis ----------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio

by Luca Turchet

*** Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute *** *3rd IEEE International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio* *L'Aquila, 31 October 2025* https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/workshops/3rd-ieee-international-… *Call for papers and demos* Networked Immersive Audio is an emerging topic in sound-based communications. To date, scarce research has been conducted on how to integrate networking systems with immersive audio rendering techniques able to enrich a listener's perception of sharing the same acoustic environment and to provide the localization information of remote users or other real or virtual acoustic sources. The aim of IEEE IWNIA 2025 is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of systems at the confluence of spatial audio and networking, as well as the understanding of human perception in immersive, networked contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Frameworks for Networked Immersive Audio - Spatial audio systems for networked interactions - 3D audio perception in networked settings - Spatial audio for Web Audio - Spatial audio for the Metaverse - Embedded spatial audio systems - Codecs for spatial audio - Experimental results of prototype/testbed for Networked Immersive Audio - Datasets - Spatial audio and personal area networks - Standardization activities for Networked Immersive Audio - Packet loss concealment methods for Networked Immersive Audio - 5G/6G architectures leveraging slicing and Multi-access Edge Computing - Network traffic predictions in Networked Immersive Audio applications - Optimization in the placement of Virtual Network Functions - Security and privacy in Networked Immersive Audio We consider contributions in the form of full papers (min 5 pages, max 10 pages), poster papers (4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. For music submissions please refer to the call of the main IEEE IS2 2025 event: *Activities* Besides the presentations of the accepted contributions (papers, posters, demos), the program of the workshop will include a tutorial, a keynote and a panel with experts from both academia and industry. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Venue* The workshop is a satellite event of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IEEE IS2 2025: https://internet sounds 2025.ieee-is2.org/ <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/>), which will be hosted in the city of L'Aquila, Italy, and will take place between the 29 and 31st of October 2025. The workshop as well as the main Symposium will be held in hybrid form, virtual and in presence. *Important dates* - Submission deadline: July 1, 2025 - Author notification: September 1, 2025 - Camera ready due: October 1, 2025 - Registration deadline: October 15, 2025 - Workshop date: October 31, 2025 *Publications* The workshop proceedings will be part of the IEEE IS2 2025 proceedings, which will be submitted to the IEEE for publication. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet (Università di Trento) - Jan Duerre (Sennheiser) - Cristina Rottondi (Politecnico di Torino) - Nils Peters (Trinity College Dublin) - Stefania Cecchi (Università Politecnica delle Marche) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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Invitation to serve as Associated Chairs (AC) for the Mensch und Computer (MuC) conference

by Eleonora Mencarini

Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite you to volunteer as Associate Chairs (AC) for the Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2025 Program Committee! Launched in 2001, the “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference is the German-based HCI conference. MuC Program Committee (PC) members are expected to oversee around 8 submissions through a formal review process. As a 1AC, you are expected to recruit and support 2 reviewers for about 4 submissions and act as a 2AC/reviewer for another 4 submissions. The process will begin after 11 April, and the main reviewing tasks will be finished before 9 May. However, the PC meeting is scheduled for mid-May, so we might come back to you to revise your meta-reviews before then. More details about the MuC 2025 paper track can be found at: https://muc2025.mensch-und-computer.de/en/full-paper/ Please use the form below to express your interest in serving as an AC for the MuC 2025 full paper track: https://forms.gle/w1vwTj9etdbVgAKv9 The deadline for completing the application form is 1 March 2025. For additional details, do not hesitate to contact us at papers(a)mensch-und-computer.de Best regards, The MuC 2025 Full Paper Chairs (Tilman, Fiona, Eleonora)

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38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2025) :Call for Papers

by Announce

*** Call for Papers *** 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025) June 18-20, 2025, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain https://2025.cbms-conference.org Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and technologies between academic and industrial scientists. The scientific program of IEEE CBMS 2023 will consist of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee as well as keynote talks, and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields. The IEEE CBMS 2023 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow to researchers leading international projects to show to the scientific community the main aims, goals, and results of their projects. We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work. Example areas include but are not limited to: - Active and Healthy Ageing System - Analytics and solutions in Public Health - Artificial intelligence in healthcare - Big Data Analytics in Healthcare - Bioinformatics - Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Machine Vision - Cognitive Computing in Healthcare - Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare (CSCW) - Databases and blockchain in Medicine or Healthcare - Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine or Healthcare - Decision Support and Recommendation Systems in Medicine or Healthcare - e-Health - Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Healthcare - Knowledge Representation in Medicine or Healthcare - m-Health - Medical education using ICT - Medical Robotics, Intelligent Medical Devices, and Smart Technologies - Network and Telemedicine Systems - Privacy and security in healthcare - Radiomics and Radiogenomics - Serious Games for Healthcare - Software Systems in Medicine - Technology in Clinical and Healthcare Services Research - Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information TRACKS Apart from the regular, CBMS 2025 has special and dedicated tracks. Concretely: - Showcases/Research projects: Specific track to submit a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. More info: https://2025.cbms-conference.org/call-for-showcases-research-projects/ - Doctoral Consortium: Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2025 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. More info: https://2025.cbms-conference.org/doctoral-consortium/ SPECIAL TRACKS - Special Track on Computational Intelligence on Medical Imaging (CIMI): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-cimi/ - Special Track on Generative Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Applications (GAI4BA): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-gai4ba/ - Special Track on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (MAIH): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-maih/ - Special Track on Network Medicine (NM): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-nm/ - Special Track on Security and Privacy in Health Systems—Addressing Technology, Society, and Law: https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-on-security-and-privacy/ - Special Track on Semantic Interoperability of Biomedical Data (SIBIDA): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-sibida/ - Special Track on Surgery AI (SAI): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-track-sai/ SPECIAL ISSUES CBMS 2025 aims to organize several special issues in reputed journals where invited authors will be able to submit extended versions of their works. Current accepted special issues are: Special Issue on Connected Healthcare: Data-Driven and Scalable Solutions (HISS Journal): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-issue-hiss/ Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Healthcare Solutions (AIIM Journal): https://2025.cbms-conference.org/special-issue-aiim/ ORGANIZERS - Alejandro Rodríguez González, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) - Rosa Sicilia, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy) PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2025 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. - Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. - Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: https://2025.cbms-conference.org/ - Please also check the Guidelines. - Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system. CONTACT info(a)cbms-conference.org IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE) - Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2025 - Camera-ready due: April 30, 2025

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Call for Late Breaking Results

by Announce

*** Call for Late Breaking Results *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? LATE BREAKING RESULTS We welcome submissions for Late Breaking Results. The papers in this category cover new research in any topic that regular paper submissions cover and are expected to present new and emerging results. Authors should submit a 6-8 pages paper (excluding references) in Springer LNCS format: (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Accepted papers in this category will be published by Springer in an adjunct volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval, https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs). The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2025 (choose LBR). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline: March 28, 2025 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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[cfp] Call for Papers and Workshops: End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) | Munich, Germany 16-18 June 2025

by Evropi Stefanidi

**********apologies for cross-posting********** Dear all, The 10th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) will be held in Munich, Germany from 16 to 18 June 2025. https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ This biennial event brings together researchers to share their research and discuss how to advance End-User Development (EUD). Topics range from new approaches to no-code/low-code paradigms, visual programming, and intelligent support for software creation. The focus is on human centered approach. Empowering non-programmers to create, modify and adapt software to their specific needs is of great relevance to enable people to shape and contribute to the digital world. Advances in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are boosting this field and changing the way we - as developers and end users - design and build software systems. At IS-EUD 2025, we are looking for your contributions on how we can empower individuals to create digital systems. We want to be a space to discuss how these transformative developments are reshaping the field of EUD. Important deadlines * Regular and short paper submission: 28 February 2025 * Workshop proposals submission: 7 February 2025 The conference welcomes papers on * Simple and efficient environments for EUD * GenAI in support of EUD * No-code/low-code paradigms and visual languages for building software and systems * Theoretical concepts and foundations for EUD *New processes, methods and techniques for EUD * Approaches that empower users to create, modify and adapt digital artefacts * Case studies and design implications of EUD challenges and practices Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Workshop proposals and other contributions will be published in the CEUR-WS Adjunct Proceedings. For more details on topics, all deadlines, submission guidelines, and authors instructions, please see: https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ Best regards, The IS-EUD 2025 Organizing Committee

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Research grant (assegno di ricerca) at Ca'Foscari University of Venice PRIN2022

by Alessandra MELONIO

Dear Colleagues, I hope this message finds you well. I am pleased to inform you that the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is currently seeking a candidate for a research grant (Assegno di Ricerca) in the field of Interaction Design and Physical Computing, funded by the Italian PRIN 2022 programme. Please find the details below: Title of the research grant: WatHEMOT (Water - Helmet for EMOTions): A psycho-educational training on emotional preparedness to promote resilience in the context of hydrogeological risk (PRIN 2022) Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Melonio Location: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics, Via Torino 155, Mestre Brief description of the activity: Through a series of workshops, the research aims to raise awareness among primary and middle school children about safety behaviours and emotional regulation strategies, fostering a reflective and practical understanding of disaster resilience. The researcher will co-design and develop phygital (physical + digital) artefacts, working closely with and for children to create innovative solutions that address the key objectives of the project. Duration: 1 year Estimated start date: March or April 2025 Total salary: €19.367,00 (including VAT) Admission criteria: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent qualification. Application deadline: 5 February 2025, 11:00 (Italian time) Link to the call for applications: https://www.unive.it/data/12137/ <https://www.unive.it/data/12137/> Click on Bando - WatHEMOT For further details regarding the position, requirements, and application process, please refer to the application link above. If you need any additional information, please feel free to contact me. Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates in your network. Best regards, Alessandra Melonio Alessandra Melonio, PhD Associate Professor Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Ca’ Foscari University of Venice alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it

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[CfP] 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse

by Luca Turchet

*** Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute *** *2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse* *L'Aquila, 30 October 2025* https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/workshops/2nd-ieee-international-… *Call for papers and demos* The so-called Metaverse relates to a vision of a virtual, digital world which is parallel to the real, physical world, where each user owns and interacts through his/her own avatar. Music is one of the possible activities that can be conducted in such a space. The “Musical Metaverse”, the metaverse part which is dedicated to musical activities, is currently in its infancy, although is a concept that is constantly evolving and is progressing at a steady pace. The Musical Metaverse is an emerging topic in communications as well as in human-computer interaction. To date, scarce research has been conducted on how to integrate networking systems with Musical XR systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics, artists and industry representatives to investigate and advance the development of systems at the confluence of Musical XR and networking, as well as the understanding of human perception in immersive, networked contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Musical XR systems for networked interactions - Multisensory systems for the Musical Metaverse - WebXR-based musical systems - Networking for the Musical Metaverse - Digital twins for musical applications - Multi-user interactions in Musical XR - Hardware systems for the Musical Metaverse - Performance, composition and pedagogy in the Musical Metaverse - Virtual/augmented reality musical instruments - Design frameworks for the Musical Metaverse - Experimental results of prototype/testbed for Musical Metaverse applications - Ultra-reliable low-latency communications - 5G/6G architectures leveraging slicing and Multi-access Edge Computing - Blockchain and NFTs applications for the Musical Metaverse - Standardization activities for the Musical Metaverse - Security and privacy in the Musical Metaverse - Ethical, accessibility and sustainability aspects of the Musical Metaverse - Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Musical Metaverse We consider contributions in the form of full papers (min 5 pages, max 10 pages), poster papers (4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. For music submissions please refer to the call of the main IEEE IS2 2025 event: *Activities* Besides the presentations of the accepted contributions (papers, posters, demos), the program of the workshop will include a tutorial, a keynote and a panel with experts from both academia and industry. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Venue* The workshop is a satellite event of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IEEE IS2 2025: https://internet sounds 2025.ieee-is2.org/ <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/>), which will be hosted in the city of L'Aquila, Italy, and will take place between the 29 and 31st of October 2025. The workshop as well as the main Symposium will be held in hybrid form, virtual and in presence. *Important dates* - Submission deadline: July 1, 2025 - Author notification: September 1, 2025 - Camera ready due: October 1, 2025 - Registration deadline: October 15, 2025 - Workshop date: October 30, 2025 *Publications* The workshop proceedings will be part of the IEEE IS2 2025 proceedings, which will be submitted to the IEEE for publication. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) - Edo Fouilloux (PatchXR) - Michael Oehler (University of Osnabruck) - Pieter-Jan Maes (University of Ghent) - Ruben Schlagowski (University of Augsburg) - Omran Ayoub (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Call for Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demos, Artefacts and DC papers

by Announce

*** Call for Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demos, Artefacts and DC Papers *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted and unpublished studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will also be devoted a time slot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must be 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be published in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 4-page paper in Springer LNCS format. Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference and will be included as a 4-pages paper in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 6- to 8-page proposal in Springer LNCS format describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval) unless opted out by the student. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers in these categories will be published by Springer in an adjunct volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval, https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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SIGCHI Italy - nuova pagina gruppi di ricerca

by Alberto Monge Roffarello

Ciao a tutte e tutti, A seguito del censimento dei gruppi di ricerca attivi nell'area Human-Computer Interaction in Italia che abbiamo recentemente condotto, vi informiamo che la pagina aggiornata è ora disponibile sul sito di SIGCHI Italy al seguente indirizzo: https://sigchitaly.eu/hci-in-italy/ Se fossero necessarie modifiche o integrazioni, vi invitiamo a contattarci a uno dei seguenti indirizzi: Andrea - acantone(a)unisa.it Salvatore - salvatore.andolina(a)polimi.it Alberto - alberto.monge(a)polito.it Grazie e buon fine settimana! Alberto

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[cfp] Call for Papers: End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) – Submission Deadline February 28, 2025

by Carmen Santoro

Dear all, The 10th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025) will be held in Munich, Germany from 16 to 18 June 2025. https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ This biennial event brings together researchers to share their research and discuss how to advance End-User Development (EUD). Topics range from new approaches to no-code/low-code paradigms, visual programming, and intelligent support for software creation. The focus is on human centered approach. Empowering non-programmers to create, modify and adapt software to their specific needs is of great relevance to enable people to shape and contribute to the digital world. Advances in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are boosting this field and changing the way we - as developers and end users - design and build software systems. At IS-EUD 2025, we are looking for your contributions on how we can empower individuals to create digital systems. We want to be a space to discuss how these transformative developments are reshaping the field of EUD. Important deadlines * Regular and short paper submission: 28 February 2025 * Workshop proposals submission: 7 February 2025 The conference welcomes papers on * Simple and efficient environments for EUD * GenAI in support of EUD * No-code/low-code paradigms and visual languages for building software and systems * Theoretical concepts and foundations for EUD *New processes, methods and techniques for EUD * Approaches that empower users to create, modify and adapt digital artefacts * Case studies and design implications of EUD challenges and practices Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Workshop proposals and other contributions will be published in the CEUR-WS Adjunct Proceedings. For more details on topics, all deadlines, submission guidelines, and authors instructions, please see: https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ Best regards, Carmen and Albrecht and the IS-EUD 2025 Organizing Committee

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CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025

by Lorenzo Perinello

** **CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025** * https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home 2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via the IEEE Xplore. Motivation and Rationale Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are two key factors of the new Internet era. They are redefining the landscape of digital communications and distributed systems, offering new opportunities for secure, resilient, and scalable applications. The worldwide adoption of Web3 is reshaping how users experience Internet services by including concepts such as decentralization, democratization and rewarding in existing services. The main engine of Web3 is blockchain technology. However, there are numerous areas where there is room for improvement. To begin with, most Web3 applications revolve around DeFi, however, the decentralisation offered by blockchain technology could help plenty of scenarios. Promising scenarios are supply chains, health, decentralized storage, data sharing, power grids, virtual worlds (like the Metaverse) and many more. Additionally, there are other scenarios where Web3 could have a meaningful impact, including IoT, vehicular networks, cloud and edge computing, digital identities, intellectual property management, digital twins, and integration with the physical world. DeFi is still quite far from perfect. Indeed, fungible and non-fungible assets are constantly evolving to include more advanced functionalities as so to increase their adoption. Moreover, DeFi was shown to be susceptible to malicious activity, including fake NFTs, sleepminting, washtrading, rug pull, pump and dump, Maximal Extractable Value and other scams. Finding solutions to foresee and prevent such malevolent practices becomes crucial for the true adoption of this technology. Lastly, blockchain technology has some inherent limitations that are still to be addressed, including creating efficient consensus protocols for public blockchains, and secure channels for transaction confirmation among others. The Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) workshop analyses the technological challenges and the potential of Web3 and DeFi applications. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to attract contributions that can discuss how these emerging technologies can shape the future of blockchain, and address the challenges of their adoption. Papers on both theoretical and design aspects are welcomed, which describe and evaluate novel design methods and system prototypes. The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress and position papers. Topics We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Web3 Applications and Technologies * Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing * Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing) * DLTs and Blockchain Technology * Blockchain security and performance * Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios * Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi) * Application of DeFi to novel scenarios * DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation * New DeFi services * Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications * Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse * NFTs analysis and applications * AI for Web3 and DeFi * Privacy, scalability, and governance * Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi * Solutions for safe online environments Submission Submissions will be made via EDAS using the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279 <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33279>. WAVE'25 uses a double-blind review process. The workshop accepts manuscripts up to 6 pages long in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. Important Dates * Papers submission: [Extended Deadline] February 10, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12) * Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2025 * Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025 * Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc) *

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CFP: Fifth SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] ***Paper Submission Deadline Extended: January 23, 2025*** ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025 Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 24, 2025 Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025 (https://iui.acm.org/2025/) Cagliari, Italy, March 24-27, 2025 Workshop website: http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025 For any information: socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 23, 2025 (EXTENDED) Authors notification: February 13, 2025 (EXTENDED) Camera-ready: March 1, 2025 Workshop date: March 24, 2025 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): • Multi-cultural system design; • Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; • Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); • Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; • Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; • Inclusive recommender systems; • Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; • Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different cultural and social backgrounds; • Social-cultural integration and large language models; • Cultural and social situation awareness; • Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; • Human-robot interaction and adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; • Humanoid robots and social inclusion; • Adaptation strategies for social human-robot interaction; • Machine learning for social robots; • Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social human-robot interaction; • Social robots as conversational recommender systems; • Social robots in the real world; • Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; • Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups. ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025) by January 23, 2025 (extended). All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2025 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/ for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org>>. ********************Organization******************** Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CFP: Fifth SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] ***Paper Submission Deadline Extended: January 23, 2025*** ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025 Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 24, 2025 Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025 (https://iui.acm.org/2025/) Cagliari, Italy, March 24-27, 2025 Workshop website: http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025 For any information: socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 23, 2025 (EXTENDED) Authors notification: February 13, 2025 (EXTENDED) Camera-ready: March 1, 2025 Workshop date: March 24, 2025 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): • Multi-cultural system design; • Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; • Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); • Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; • Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; • Inclusive recommender systems; • Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; • Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different cultural and social backgrounds; • Social-cultural integration and large language models; • Cultural and social situation awareness; • Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; • Human-robot interaction and adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; • Humanoid robots and social inclusion; • Adaptation strategies for social human-robot interaction; • Machine learning for social robots; • Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social human-robot interaction; • Social robots as conversational recommender systems; • Social robots in the real world; • Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; • Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups. ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025) by January 23, 2025. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2025 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/ for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org>>. ********************Organization******************** Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES Regular Papers This format is suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers should be up to 12 pages in length (excluding references), in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer LNCS conference proceedings and be devoted a time slot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal (Taylor & Francis). Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted and unpublished studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will also be devoted a time slot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must be 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be published in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 4-page paper in Springer LNCS format. Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference and will be included as a 4-pages paper in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 6- to 8-page proposal in Springer LNCS format describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval) unless opted out by the student. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: • Submission deadline: January 14, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: February 15, 2025 • Camera ready submission: February 28, 2025 Posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for the main track: February 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline for the rest of the categories: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers of the main track (both Full and Short) will be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (https://www.springer.com/gp/ computer-science/lncs). Workshop and demo descriptions, extended abstracts , abstracts from posters, and doctoral consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct CEUR proceedings. Extended versions of the best papers and selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue on Persuasive Technology 2025 in Behaviour and Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis publication. ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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Un ringraziamento speciale a Maria Francesca Costabile

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Care Colleghe e cari Colleghi, Con profonda emozione e un pizzico di nostalgia, desideriamo condividere con voi una notizia importante: Maria Francesca Costabile, cui dobbiamo la nascita e lo sviluppo del gruppo italiano di HCI, lo scorso 31 dicembre 2024 ha concluso la sua straordinaria carriera accademica presso l'Università di Bari, avviandosi verso il meritato pensionamento. Francesca è stata una pioniera nel nostro settore, fondando e poi guidando con passione, dedizione e una visione unica lo sviluppo della nostra comunità. Il suo lavoro e il suo impegno costante e tenace hanno gettato le basi per la crescita dell’HCI in Italia, creando spazi di dialogo e collaborazione che hanno ispirato diversi ricercatori. Come comunità, le dobbiamo molto: il suo contributo non è stato solo scientifico, ma anche umano, grazie alla sua capacità di unire persone e di promuovere uno spirito di condivisione e coesione. Siamo certi che, anche in questa nuova fase della sua vita, Francesca continuerà a ispirarci con il suo entusiasmo e a dispensare consigli su come far crescere sempre più la nostra comunità e l'impatto della nostra ricerca. A Francesca va il nostro più sentito ringraziamento e un caloroso augurio per un futuro ricco di soddisfazioni e serenità! Un caro saluto a tutti, Maristella Matera, Rosa Lanzilotti e Giuliana Vitiello --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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CfP: IJCAI-2025 Special Track on AI, the Arts, and Creativity

by Allegra De Filippo

IJCAI-2025 Special Track on AI, the Arts, and Creativity AI has been used in recent years to generate creative artefacts or behaviours in domains such as music, visual arts, storytelling, literature and poetry, games, architecture, design, autonomously or in collaboration with humans. There is also a growing interest in developing AI techniques to play roles in creative processes beyond generation, including analysis, evaluation and curation, as well as in creative solving of complex problems and in supporting co-creation environments. The IJCAI 2025 AI, Arts & Creativity special track aims to explore the relationships between AI and the arts, creativity and creative practice. We welcome original technical submissions addressing, e.g., the following questions, but stating explicitly how the proposed research relates with the underlying creative process: * AI systems that autonomously produce artistic outputs * Design of AI systems that support, challenge and provoke human creativity through collaboration and co-creation * Techniques aiming at combining fast inference and problem solving for creative tasks, in the spirit of Kahneman’s System I and System II. * Ethical issues raised by creative AI systems, including appropriation, authorship, integrity and bias * The application of AI to creative problem-solving, ideation and generation of creative behaviour in robotics, software systems, and other non-artistic domains * Computational paradigms, architectures and algorithms to model, simulate or implement creativity and creative processes * Methodologies for the evaluation or curation of artefacts created with AI systems * The cultural and social impacts of AI on creativity, creative practice, education and society * Evaluation of the role and application of AI to better understand human creative processes * Computational implementations inspired by fields such as psychology or cognitive science Important Dates Submission deadline (full papers, no separate abstract submission): February 11, 2025 Notification: April 28, 2025 Note: All deadlines are anywhere on earth. Submission of Research Papers Research papers are submitted with the same format and general guidelines as for the main conference (https://2025.ijcai.org/call-for-papers-main-track/) except that there will be no summary reject phase and no rebuttal, and we do not require extra files to be uploaded for previously rejected papers. Please note that submissions should relate explicitly to the theme of the track, ideally in the abstract, and will be desk-rejected otherwise. General machine learning papers should be submitted to IJCAI’s main track. Research paper submissions must meet all the Submission Requirements described in the above general instructions. In particular, they must be anonymous, and papers are expected to satisfy the highest scientific standards as submissions to the main track of IJCAI 2025. Also, double submissions to the special track and main conference are not allowed. Submit your research paper here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2025 Accepted research papers will be included in the IJCAI 2025 proceedings. Submission of Demos As in previous editions, the authors will not be able to submit demos to the AI, Arts & Creativity track. However, they are invited to submit demos that are relevant to this special track’s topic to the IJCAI 2025 Demo track, indicating the “AI, Arts & Creativity” nature of the demo within the submission procedure. Participation in the conference At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the conference at Montreal and present the work. We are looking forward to the community meeting in person. Authors who possess evidence indicating their inability to obtain visas for Canada may submit a request to pcchair(a)2025.ijcai.org to participate in the satellite event in Guangzhou. Papers not presented in person, whether at the main conference in Montreal or the satellite event in Guangzhou, will be excluded from the proceedings unless one of the authors provides notification of exceptional circumstances to IJCAI via pcchair(a)2025.ijcai.org. Any such exceptional circumstances must receive prior approval from IJCAI. The Track Chairs, F. Amilcar Cardoso François Pachet Allegra De Filippo Enquiries Please, send all enquiries about the AI, Arts & Creativity Track to the Track Co-Chairs via email: arts(a)2025.ijcai.org

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Call for Participation & Papers - ACAIN 2025 - 5th Int. Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 21-24 2025, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Deadline: March 23

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Call for Participation & Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies) _______________________________________________________ The 5th International Advanced *Course* & *Symposium* on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 21-24, 2025, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy W: https://acain2025.icas.events E: acain(a)icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict/ Symposium Deadlines: Paper Submission (Symposium): by March 23 (AoE) https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2025 Course Deadlines: Regular Registration (Course): by March 23 (AoE) https://acain2025.icas.events/course-description/ https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/ https://2025.iaiss.cc/deadlines/ SCOPE & MOTIVATION: ACAIN: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The ACAIN symposium and course is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science. The Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day Course and Symposium in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment. Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 23-24), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 21-22). Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium - ACAIN, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The Advanced Course is suited for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event. LECTURERS: György Buzsáki, NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University, USA Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Maneesh Sahani, University College London, UK Jonathon Shlens, Google DeepMind, USA Dimitra Thomaidou, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece Marina Vidaki, University of Crete, Medical School, Crete, Greece More Speakers TBA https://acain2025.icas.events/course-lecturers/ SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, confirmed members): https://acain2025.icas.events/program-committee/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-committee/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: https://acain2025.icas.events/venue/ ACAIN is a *Residential Conference*, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Località Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043, Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events(a)rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://acain2025.icas.events/activities/ REGISTRATION: https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/ See you in Tuscany in September! ACAIN Organizing Committee. E: acain(a)icas.cc W: https://acain2025.icas.events FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation & Call for Papers, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://acain2025.icas.events * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested *

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Approved workshops will be announced on the conference website. Workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee), duration of the workshop, expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Accepted workshop papers will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS (pending approval). Alternatively, the workshop organisers have the option of publishing the accepted papers to their workshops in CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by January 10, 2025, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu AT r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia AT unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi AT acm.org). The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by January 17, 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: January 10, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: January 17, 2025 Workshop papers submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready and author registration: March 28, 2025 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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[FINAL CALL] AXAI Workshop 2025 @ ACM IUI - Submission Deadline Jan 13 (10 days left) - Happy New Year!

by Tommaso Turchi

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Happy New Year to all! As we begin 2025, we would like to remind you of our upcoming workshop and kindly request you to share this final call with your networks. # CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025 - Final Call With the submission deadline approaching in 10 days, we are reaching out one final time regarding the second edition of the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2025. As the integration of Artificial Intelligence into daily decision-making processes intensifies, the need for clear communication between humans and AI systems becomes crucial. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI's decision-making processes, with a strong focus on human-centric principles. ## Important Dates * Submission Deadline: January 13, 2025 (10 days remaining) * Notification: January 20, 2025 * Camera Ready: February 10, 2025 * Workshop Date: March 24, 2025 ## Submission Guidelines * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AXAI2025/ ## Workshop Focus In line with the human-centric principles of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project, this workshop seeks to explore, understand and develop interfaces that dynamically adapt, thereby creating explanations of AI-based systems that both relate to and resonate with a range of users with different explanation-based requirements. As AI's role in our lives becomes ever more embedded, the ways in which such systems explain elements about the system need to be malleable and responsive to the ever-evolving individual's cognitive state, relating to contextual needs/focus and to the social setting. ## Topics Building on the success of our first edition, we welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following emerging trends and challenges: 1. **Personalized XAI Interfaces** * Adaptive systems responding to users' evolving needs * Context-aware explanation mechanisms * User modeling for explanation adaptation 2. **Novel Interaction Modalities for XAI** * Multimodal explanation interfaces * Immersive XAI experiences * Visual Languages for AI interaction 3. **Ethical Considerations in Adaptive XAI** * Transparency and trust * User autonomy * Fairness in adaptive systems 4. **Domain-Specific XAI Applications** * Healthcare * Finance * Autonomous systems 5. **Evaluation Methodologies** * Assessment frameworks for adaptive interfaces * User studies and empirical evaluations * Metrics for explanation quality 6. **Over-reliance and Automation Bias** * Maintaining appropriate user skepticism * Engagement strategies * Balance between trust and critical thinking 7. **LLMs in XAI** * Potential and limitations * Human-understandable explanation generation * Integration with existing XAI frameworks 8. **Interactive Machine Learning** * User-in-the-loop systems * Real-time adjustments * Dynamic explanation generation 9. **Hybrid Decision-Making Frameworks** * Human-AI collaboration * Adaptive explanation support * Knowledge integration ## Organizers * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa * Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa * Simone Borsci, University of Twente * Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham * Andrew Fish, University of Liverpool For more information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it). Join us in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy) to shape the future of human-AI interaction! As we start the new year, we warmly encourage you to forward this final call to relevant mailing lists and share with colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this exciting workshop. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to a stimulating exchange of ideas in Cagliari! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================//

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2nd CFP: Fifth SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025 Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 24, 2025 Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025 (https://iui.acm.org/2025/) Cagliari, Italy, March 24-27, 2025 Workshop website: http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025 For any information: socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 Authors notification: January 20, 2025 Camera-ready: March 1, 2025 Workshop date: March 24, 2025 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): • Multi-cultural system design; • Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; • Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); • Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; • Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; • Inclusive recommender systems; • Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; • Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different cultural and social backgrounds; • Social-cultural integration and large language models; • Cultural and social situation awareness; • Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; • Human-robot interaction and adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; • Humanoid robots and social inclusion; • Adaptation strategies for social human-robot interaction; • Machine learning for social robots; • Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social human-robot interaction; • Social robots as conversational recommender systems; • Social robots in the real world; • Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; • Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups. ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025) by January 15, 2025. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2025 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/ for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org>>. ********************Organization******************** Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Last Call for Papers

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*** Last Call for Papers *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES Regular Papers This format is suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers should be up to 12 pages in length (excluding references), in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer LNCS conference proceedings and be devoted a time slot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal (Taylor & Francis). Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted and unpublished studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will also be devoted a time slot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must be 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be published in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 4-page paper in Springer LNCS format. Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference and will be included as a 4-pages paper in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval). Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 6- to 8-page proposal in Springer LNCS format describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct Springer proceedings (pending approval) unless opted out by the student. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: • Submission deadline: January 14, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: February 15, 2025 • Camera ready submission: February 28, 2025 Posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for the main track: February 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline for the rest of the categories: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers of the main track (both Full and Short) will be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (https://www.springer.com/gp/ computer-science/lncs). Workshop and demo descriptions, extended abstracts , abstracts from posters, and doctoral consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct CEUR proceedings. Extended versions of the best papers and selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue on Persuasive Technology 2025 in Behaviour and Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis publication. ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Third Call for Paper Submission, Tools & Demos and Workshop Proposals

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*** Third Call for Paper Submission, Tools & Demos, and Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). SCOPE The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous applications? The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion, country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundational principles of software architecture • Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture • Quality attributes and software architectures • Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software • Architecture design and analysis • Architecture description languages and meta-models • Architecture verification and validation • Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale • Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures • Architecture viewpoints and views • Architecture conformance • Software architecture virtualization and visualization • Architecture-centric process models and frameworks • Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development • Component-based models and deployment; middleware • Software architecture and system architecture • Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering • Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture • Architecture and technical debt • Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems • Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive systems • Software architecture education • Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture • Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems • Architectural concerns of autonomic systems • Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy- aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems • Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture PAPER SUBMISSIONS ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track: • Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated) • Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture • Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems • Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in- progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected. To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work. The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required: • To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or • To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and • To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa/) to make them accessible and visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research. TOOLS AND DEMOS The Tools and Demonstrations (Tools & Demos) Track provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, ideas, experiences, and challenges in the field of Software Architecture by means of Tools & Demos presentations. Tools & Demos papers are intended to address any aspect of: (i) tool support for software architectures, or (ii) demonstrate results about the application of architectural approaches. Papers submitted to this track can belong to two distinct categories: • Tool papers: These papers deal with the development and evaluation of tools to support software architecture. They may present new tools, extensions to existing tools, or evaluations of the effectiveness of tools. The aim is to provide a platform for the exchange of innovative tools and techniques that help design, implement and analyze software architectures. • Demo papers: These papers will demonstrate concepts, techniques or systems related to software architectures. The focus is on presenting practical applications and implementations of architectural approaches. Demo papers may include live demonstrations, prototypes or simulations that emphasize the benefits and potential of specific architecture solutions. Both Tool Papers and Demo Papers contribute to the advancement of the field by providing insights, experiences and practical solutions related to software architectures. Tools and Demos should not be used as a means for commercial advertisement. We will strive to keep ECSA’s tradition to select the Best Tools & Demo Paper, awarded during the conference. The selection of the best tool and demo paper will be made based on the votes of the attendants of the conference. Submissions of Tools & Demos papers should describe the work, how it relates to other industrial or research efforts, including references, what the expected benefits are, a video of the tool or demo (if one exists), and the web-page and/or open-source repository for the tool (if one exists). All submissions must conform to the LNCS template and must not exceed 8 pages. Tools & Demos submissions should provide a link to a video, with audio commentary, of a maximum of ten minutes in length, with high resolution (e.g., details of the tool’s functionality should be clearly visible). The video must be uploaded on a server (e.g., YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox), and the link must be included in the submission for its evaluation (as a footnote on the first page of the submission or as links after the abstract of the submission). In addition, it is possible to provide open material, e.g., source code and/or a running instance of the tool. The links to the video and (if applicable) the additional material should be included in the contribution after the abstract and before the introduction sections. Paper submissions must be made electronically via the online EasyChair submission site for the ECSA 2024 conference, selecting the “Tools & Demos Track”: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025 . The selection criteria of Tools & Demos papers will consider their originality, relevance for the ECSA audience, technical soundness, and presentation quality. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two PC members, in a single-step review process. The accepted papers will be included in the ECSA 2025 companion volume to be published in Springer LNCS series. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference • Abstract submission: March 14, 2025 • Paper submission: March 21, 2025 • Notification: May 9, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025 Tools & Demos • Abstract submission: May 16, 2025 • Paper submission: May 23, 2025 • Notification: June 20, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 27, 2025 Workshops • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands Program Co-Chairs • Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa Tools & Demos Co-Chairs • Mohamed Soliman, Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Germany • Use Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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Congratulazioni a Franca Garzotto e ad Alessio Malizia

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Care Tutte e cari Tutti, è con immenso piacere che faccio le mie congratulazioni a Franca Garzotto e ad Alessio Malizia, che quest'anno hanno preso servizio come professori ordinari. L'impegno che Franca e Alessio hanno profuso nell'area della *Human Computer Interaction* vede oggi il giusto riconoscimento. Il loro successo è motivo di orgoglio per la nostra comunità scientifica e sono certa che entrambi continueranno a ispirare non solo i colleghi ma soprattutto i giovani ricercatori che intraprendono questa strada e che accresceranno la nostra comunità, contribuendo a far crescere ulteriormente questo ambito così rilevante e stimolante. In questa occasione speciale, desidero anche inviare a tutti voi i miei più sinceri auguri di un sereno Natale e di un felice Anno Nuovo. Che queste festività possano portarvi gioia, serenità e rinnovata energia per affrontare con entusiasmo il nuovo anno. Un caro saluto, Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025): Second Call for Papers

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*** Second Call for Papers *** 37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025) September 17-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ictss-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) IFIP-ICTSS is a well-established conference where researchers, developers, testers, and users from industry get together to present and discuss the most recent innovations, experiences and open challenges related to testing software and systems and measuring software quality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ■ AI for Software Testing and Testing of AI: the growing interest in the use of AI has also spread in to various aspects of software testing. In addition, work is underway to test and validate AI systems/applications (machine learning, expert systems, neural networks). ■ Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test generation, test coverage, test concretization, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracle, verdict computation, test management, active testing and passive testing, monitoring and runtime verification. ■ Testing new technologies: this year we encourage submissions focused on testing Large Language Models (LLMs), audit machine learning systems (especially for applications to Health) and Quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators). ■ Diversity on testing: diverse generation, selecting diverse test suites, foundations of testing and diversity, applications of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity on test suite diversity. ■ Theoretical approaches: formalisms (such as automata, state machines, process algebra, logics, Markov-chains...), testing frameworks, results for compositionality, refinement, soundness and completeness, addressing complex systems, heterogeneous or hybrid systems. ■ Modelling languages (such as UML, MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica...) and associated tooling for model-based testing: test generation from models, model-based oracles. Scalability, traceability, quantification issues. Automated support of any parts of the testing activities, testing processes, test-driven development, sound metrics and measurements. ■ Testing of quality aspects: Functional, interoperability, unit, integration, performance, load, conformance, non-regression, reliability, robustness. ■ Security Testing: methodologies and techniques for continuous security assessment, security monitoring, security review, penetration testing, verification of certification compliance; automation of security testing processes. ■ Testing emerging technologies: quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators), genetic algorithms, metaverse, and any other technology in the early stages of testing. ■ Human Aspects of Testing: human psychology and management attitude play major roles in formulating and adopting testing in practice. ■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof, model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model learning, ... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes. ■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof, model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model learning, machine learning, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes. ■ Application aspects and case studies: Communicating systems such as cyberphysical systems, systems of systems, embedded systems, web services systems, smart grids, cloud computing systems, business information systems, real-time systems, distributed and concurrent systems. Case studies and industrial applications involving qualified empirical evaluations. IFIP-ICTSS Invites: Full papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research contributions with sufficient evidence for the interest of the proposed approach. Industry papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research or experience report conducted within an industrial environment or in collaboration with an industry partner. Short papers or work-in-progress papers (up to 6 pages plus at most 1 extra page for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing academic work in progress or tool implementations, as well as testing processes, achievements and feedback on testing methods for industrial case studies. Journal-First. The aim of the Journal-First (JF) submission category is to further enrich the program of ICTSS, as well as to provide an overall more flexible path to publication and dissemination of original research that is within the scope of ICTSS. A submission in this category must adhere to the following criteria: ■ It should be clearly within the scope of the conference. ■ It should be recent: it should have been accepted and made publicly available in a journal (online or in print) by January 1, 2023 or more recently. ■ It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, Journal- First tracks of other conferences or workshops. ■ The submission has to be in the form of a 4-page extended abstract and has to provide a concise summary of the published journal paper. ■ It must be marked as such in the submission’s, and must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Since the referenced journal papers have already been reviewed and accepted by the corresponding journals, submissions in the JF category will not be reviewed again for technical content. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would complement the conference’s technical program. Accepted submissions in this category will be part of the proceedings of ICTSS 2025, with the title equal to the original title of the article with the prefix. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ictss2025 The papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS volume. Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Journal Special Issue Best papers of the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their article at a special (topical) issue of the Springer Nature of Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). Deadline will be near the end of December 2025 with a tentative publication date for the middle 2026. Collocation ICTSS 2025 will be collocated with the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025). IMPORTANT DATES ■ Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) ■ Author Notification: June 30, 2025 (AoE) ■ Camera-ready Versions and Author Registration: July 14, 2025 (AoE) ORGANISATION Conference Chairs ■ Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy ■ George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025

by Lorenzo Perinello

** *CFP: 1st International Workshop on Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) 2025 @ IEEE ISCC 2025* * https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/wave2025/home 2-5 July 2025, Bologna, Italy Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available via the IEEE Xplore. Motivation and Rationale Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are two key factors of the new Internet era. They are redefining the landscape of digital communications and distributed systems, offering new opportunities for secure, resilient, and scalable applications. The worldwide adoption of Web3 is reshaping how users experience Internet services by including concepts such as decentralization, democratization and rewarding in existing services. The main engine of Web3 is blockchain technology. However, there are numerous areas where there is room for improvement. To begin with, most Web3 applications revolve around DeFi, however, the decentralisation offered by blockchain technology could help plenty of scenarios. Promising scenarios are supply chains, health, decentralized storage, data sharing, power grids, virtual worlds (like the Metaverse) and many more. Additionally, there are other scenarios where Web3 could have a meaningful impact, including IoT, vehicular networks, cloud and edge computing, digital identities, intellectual property management, digital twins, and integration with the physical world. DeFi is still quite far from perfect. Indeed, fungible and non-fungible assets are constantly evolving to include more advanced functionalities as so to increase their adoption. Moreover, DeFi was shown to be susceptible to malicious activity, including fake NFTs, sleepminting, washtrading, rug pull, pump and dump, Maximal Extractable Value and other scams. Finding solutions to foresee and prevent such malevolent practices becomes crucial for the true adoption of this technology. Lastly, blockchain technology has some inherent limitations that are still to be addressed, including creating efficient consensus protocols for public blockchains, and secure channels for transaction confirmation among others. The Web3 Applications and the eVolution of dEcentralized finance (WAVE) workshop analyses the technological challenges and the potential of Web3 and DeFi applications. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to attract contributions that can discuss how these emerging technologies can shape the future of blockchain, and address the challenges of their adoption. Papers on both theoretical and design aspects are welcomed, which describe and evaluate novel design methods and system prototypes. The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress and position papers. Topics We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Web3 Applications and Technologies * Web3 storage decentralization and data sharing * Novel Web3 applications (IoT, networks, cloud computing) * DLTs and Blockchain Technology * Blockchain security and performance * Adoption of blockchain in innovative scenarios * Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and similars (e.g. GameFi, SocialFi) * Application of DeFi to novel scenarios * DeFi vulnerability identification and mitigation * New DeFi services * Decentralized Social Networking: analysis and applications * Decentralized Technology for the Metaverse * NFTs analysis and applications * AI for Web3 and DeFi * Privacy, scalability, and governance * Networking and communications for Web3 and DeFi * Solutions for safe online environments Submission Submissions will be made via EDAS. WAVE'25 uses a double-blind review process. The workshop accepts manuscripts up to 6 pages long in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. Important Dates * Papers submission: January 10, 2025 (AoE, UCT -12) (to be extended) * Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2025 * Camera-ready paper due: April 14, 2025 * Workshop: July 2-5, 2025 (tbc) *

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First CfP SLERD 2025 - 10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2025:A decade of SLERD - facts and future directions * *June 12-13, 2025* /*on-line format*/ www.slerd.org <https://www.slerd.org/> Contacts: 1st: elvira [dot] popescu [at] gmail [dot] com /(Elvira Popescu - conference chair)/ 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 1, 2025 *call for papers <https://www.slerd.org/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= *SLERD 2025 will host also the 6th edition of the *International* *Student Design Contest* -> see call for proposal and demo <https://www.slerd.org/contest/> **========================================================= * * *SLERD 2025* is organized by /University of Craiova /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ * * /*Short Intro*/ On occasion of the 10th edition of the SLERD conference – themed “*/A Decade of SLERD: Facts and Future Directions/*” – we intend to reflect on a journey of impactful research, transformative insights, and collaboration that followed the evolution of smart learning ecosystems. Over the past ten years, SLERD has become a venue for academics, practitioners, and students worldwide, fostering innovative approaches to education that prioritize the human factor, social innovation, inclusivity, and accessibility. This milestone conference is an invitation to both celebrate the achievements of the past decade and engage in discussions that will define the future of smart learning environments. As SLERD 2025 unfolds, participants will contribute to shaping a vision that aligns technological advancements with the needs of diverse communities, ensuring that the future of education is adaptive and inclusive. The themes for this year’s conference emphasize the overarching nature of smart learning ecosystems: /*places for smart education, people-centered design, and supportive technologies*/. Through these lenses, SLERD 2025 will address evolving models of institutional learning, the role of design and co-creation, the integration of AI and immersive technologies, and ethical considerations essential to a sustainable educational future. /*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2025* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. General topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * future of institutional learning * interplay between formal and informal learning * new educational models and settings * continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning * role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education * dual education and other alternation scheme approaches * monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * general frameworks and methodological advances * design, data and other relevant literacies * teachers’ and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and competencies) * initial teacher education * smart citizens’ literacies, skill and competences * communities and co-design in smart learning * sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resource and disparity * educational design for all * cultural influences * ethical aspects in smart learning /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * general frameworks and methodological advances * design, data and other relevant literacies * teachers’ and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and competencies) * initial teacher education * smart citizens’ literacies, skill and competences * communities and co-design in smart learning * sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resource and disparity * educational design for all * cultural influences * ethical aspects in smart learning ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**1, 2025* • Notification to the authors: April 1, 2025 • Camera ready paper: June 1, 2025 • Conference: June 12-13, 2025 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- Accepted papers also presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of theIxD&A Journal <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000>(https://ixdea.org/; ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science (Citescore: 2.5). Papers should be written according to the Instruction for Authors available athttps://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/. <https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/> Accepted papers will be candidate to a/best paper award/in collaboration with IAALDE. Papers submission is handled through OJS –https://ojs.ixdea.org/index.php/ixdea/about/submissions. SLERD and IxD&A follow a double-blind reviewing process, thus papers need to be fully anonymized. ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2025 will continuously updated on the ASLERD Linkedin page -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5103530/> Facebook page -> link <https://www.facebook.com/people/Aslerd-Association-for-Smart-learning-Ecosy…> ========================================================= See ASLERD website <http://www.aslerd.org> for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Workshop on Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR) @ IEEEVR25

by Giuliana VITIELLO

*Deadline extended* The new submission deadline is December 29, 2024 *Call for papers* First Workshop on "Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)" https://sites.google.com/view/sic-xr To be held as part of IEEEVR25 https://ieeevr.org/2025/ 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Saint-Malo, France March 8-12, 2025 *Important Dates* Submissions deadline: December 20, 2024 December 29, 2024 Notification: January 03, 2025 January 09, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: January 13, 2025 *Submission webpage* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sicxr2025 *Topic* Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), are profoundly reshaping the way people interact and collaborate in the digital world, breaking down physical barriers and creating new opportunities for social connection. These immersive solutions offer experiences ranging from integrating digital elements into the real world to building entirely virtual environments, expanding the boundaries of human interaction. However, the expansion of XR also brings significant challenges in terms of social cohesion, collaboration, inclusiveness and accessibility. The workshop Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR) is an opportunity to explore the dynamics of social interaction and collaboration in immersive technologies, with a specific focus on eXtended Reality (XR) applications. As the use of these technologies expands in contexts such as remote work, education, and healthcare, it is essential to understand and optimize how people interact and collaborate in virtual environments. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and interaction design experts to discuss current challenges and future potential in the area of social interaction and collaboration in XR. The workshop aims to explore aspects of social interaction and collaboration within the eXtended Reality by considering several topics, including but not limited to: - Social dynamics in XR - Accessibility in XR - Inclusivity in Immersive Technologies - User Safety and Ethical Standards - Designing for Engagement and Cohesion - Emotional and Psychological Impacts of XR - Educational and Collaborative Uses of XR *Organizers* Andrea Antonio Cantone, *University of Salerno, Italy* Giuliana Vitiello, *University of Salerno, Italy* Pablo Cesar, *Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands* Tanja Kojić, *TU Berlin, Germany* --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** Call for Workshop Proposals *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Approved workshops will be announced on the conference website. Workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee), duration of the workshop, expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Accepted workshop papers will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS (pending approval). Alternatively, the workshop organisers have the option of publishing the accepted papers to their workshops in CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by January 10, 2025, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu AT r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia AT unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi AT acm.org). The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by January 17, 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: January 10, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: January 17, 2025 Workshop papers submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready and author registration: March 28, 2025 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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[2nd CfP] Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025

by Tommaso Turchi

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Please share widely with interested colleagues and networks! # CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025 We are delighted to announce the second edition of the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2025. As the integration of Artificial Intelligence into daily decision-making processes intensifies, the need for clear communication between humans and AI systems becomes crucial. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI's decision-making processes, with a strong focus on human-centric principles. ## Important Dates * Submission Deadline: January 13, 2025 * Notification: January 20, 2025 * Camera Ready: February 10, 2025 * Workshop Date: March 24, 2025 ## Submission Guidelines * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AXAI2025/ ## Workshop Focus In line with the human-centric principles of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project, this workshop seeks to explore, understand and develop interfaces that dynamically adapt, thereby creating explanations of AI-based systems that both relate to and resonate with a range of users with different explanation-based requirements. As AI's role in our lives becomes ever more embedded, the ways in which such systems explain elements about the system need to be malleable and responsive to the ever-evolving individual's cognitive state, relating to contextual needs/focus and to the social setting. ## Topics Building on the success of our first edition, we welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following emerging trends and challenges: 1. **Personalized XAI Interfaces** * Adaptive systems responding to users' evolving needs * Context-aware explanation mechanisms * User modeling for explanation adaptation 2. **Novel Interaction Modalities for XAI** * Multimodal explanation interfaces * Immersive XAI experiences * Visual Languages for AI interaction 3. **Ethical Considerations in Adaptive XAI** * Transparency and trust * User autonomy * Fairness in adaptive systems 4. **Domain-Specific XAI Applications** * Healthcare * Finance * Autonomous systems 5. **Evaluation Methodologies** * Assessment frameworks for adaptive interfaces * User studies and empirical evaluations * Metrics for explanation quality 6. **Over-reliance and Automation Bias** * Maintaining appropriate user skepticism * Engagement strategies * Balance between trust and critical thinking 7. **LLMs in XAI** * Potential and limitations * Human-understandable explanation generation * Integration with existing XAI frameworks 8. **Interactive Machine Learning** * User-in-the-loop systems * Real-time adjustments * Dynamic explanation generation 9. **Hybrid Decision-Making Frameworks** * Human-AI collaboration * Adaptive explanation support * Knowledge integration ## Organizers * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa * Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa * Simone Borsci, University of Twente * Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham * Andrew Fish, University of Liverpool For more information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it). Join us in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy) to shape the future of human-AI interaction! We encourage you to forward this call to relevant mailing lists and share with colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this workshop! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================//

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Call for Demo and Poster IUI2025

by Eleonora Zedda

*Call for Demo and Poster IUI2025* ** *Important Dates* * Submission Deadline: *January 7 (Tuesday), 2025* * Notification to Authors: February 4 (Tuesday) 2025 * Camera Ready Deadline: February 10 (Monday), 2025 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2025 is the 30th 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. We welcome contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the-art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contributions 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. *Posters* Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. *Demos* The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Authors who submitted a long or short research paper are welcome to also propose a demo of their work to exemplify their work at the conference (In this case, the paper will not be included in the ACM Digital Library). Alternatively, the authors of accepted papers may also opt to submit a regular 4-page paper for the demonstration, which will be included in the ACM Digital Library if accepted. *Topics* In addition to the conference topics, we would like to encourage authors to also consider the following topics: * Enhance Web Accessibility through the AI * Intelligent Human-Robot Applications * Designing Interfaces for GenAI Systems * Applications of Intelligent User Interfaces to Support Underrepresented Users * Societal and Ethical Considerations of Intelligent User Interfaces, Particularly as Prompted by Emerging Technology such as GenAI *Submission Instructions* A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. <https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/> Please submit your demos and posters at http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi <http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi>under the IUI 2025 Demos and Posters track. In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2025" and "IUI 2025 Posters and Demos", respectively, and press "Go". Looking forward to your submissions! IUI’25 Organizers

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CFP: Fifth SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025 Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 24, 2025 Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025 (https://iui.acm.org/2025/) Cagliari, Italy, March 24-27, 2025 Workshop website: http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025 For any information: socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 Authors notification: January 20, 2025 Camera-ready: March 1, 2025 Workshop date: March 24, 2025 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): • Multi-cultural system design; • Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; • Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); • Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; • Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; • Inclusive recommender systems; • Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; • Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different cultural and social backgrounds; • Social-cultural integration and large language models; • Cultural and social situation awareness; • Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; • Human-robot interaction and adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; • Humanoid robots and social inclusion; • Adaptation strategies for social human-robot interaction; • Machine learning for social robots; • Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social human-robot interaction; • Social robots as conversational recommender systems; • Social robots in the real world; • Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; • Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups. ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2025) by January 15, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2025 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/ for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2025(a)easychair.org<mailto:socialize2025@easychair.org>>. ********************Organization******************** Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy

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[CfP] 6th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds - L'Aquila (IT), 2025 October 29-31

by Luca Turchet

[Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute] *6th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds* University of L’Aquila - Centro Congressi “Luigi Zordan”, L’Aquila, Italy 29 October - 31 October 2025 *https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/* <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/> We are pleased to invite you to the 6th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IEEE IS2 2025). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field at the intersection of the Sound and Music Computing and the Internet of Things domains. The symposium will be hosted at the Centro Congressi “Luigi Zordan” in the vibrant city of L'Aquila, Italy, known for its rich history, dynamic culture, and rapidly growing technology sector. The aim is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using novel tools and processes. The event will consist of presentations, keynotes, panels, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, music performances, and installations. *Call for Papers and Demos* Topics of interest include and are not limited to: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Web Audio - Networked music performances - Networked immersive audio - Embedded systems for audio applications - 5G/6G architectures for the Internet of Sounds - Music information retrieval in networked applications - Ecoacoustics - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Networked Musical XR - Semantic Audio applications for the Internet of Sounds - Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications - Smart musical instruments - Ubiquitous music - Audio packet loss concealment methods - Participatory live music performances - Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things - Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things - Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts - Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds - Energy-Efficient and Green Networking for the Internet of Sounds - Internet of Sounds networks and protocols - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - Audio datasets for Deep Learning and Data Mining - Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases - Visualization, access, and indexing of audio databases - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications - Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds - Sustainability and ethical aspects of the Internet of Sounds - Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Internet of Sounds - Model compression (quantization, knowledge distillation) for real-time AI for audio - Standardization for the Internet of Sounds - Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - UAVs and Non-Terrestrial Networks for the Internet of Sounds - Robots for the Internet of Musical Things We consider submissions in the form of: - Full paper (min 5 pages, max 10 pages) - Poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages) - Demo proposal (max 2 pages) Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. However, only the accepted contributions of at least 4 pages are eligible for inclusion in the conference proceedings to be submitted to IEEE. *Satellite Events* The program will include 3 satellite events: - The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/workshops/2nd-ieee-international-…> (2nd IEEE IWMM) - The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/workshops/3rd-ieee-international-…> (3rd IEEE IWNIA) - The 2nd IEEE Music Packet Loss Concealment Challenge <https://internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org/workshops/3rd-ieee-international-…> For the topics addressed in each event please visit the respective webpages. *Keynote Speakers* The program includes three confirmed keynotes: - Valentina Presutti - Università di Bologna, Italy - Carlo Fischione - KTH: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden - Mel Slater - University of Barcelona, Spain *Paper Submission* All submissions will be fully, single-blind peer-reviewed. The expected number of pages for contribution should not exceed 10 pages for paper. Authors must follow IEEE ethical and writing guidelines. LaTeX and Word template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission portal: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeis22025 *Call for Internet of Sounds Performances and Installations* We invite submissions that showcase the internet of sounds in performance and sound installations. Proposed works should have a clear connection to the conference and may relate to a technical paper or demo submission. We particularly invite pieces that last 5-12 minutes, however, shorter and longer performance proposals will be considered. *Performances and Installations Submission* A proposal (compiled in a single pdf) should include: - One-page project description - One-page description of technical requirements - Short program notes - Artist bio(s) - URL to any performance/installation audio or audio-visual documentation (if available). The documentation link should use streaming-only services, e.g., SoundCloud, Vimeo, YouTube. Please keep in mind the following when preparing performance and installation submissions: - Space requirements: Indicate whether the work would be more suitable for a university environment (hallways, staircases, indoor and outdoor plazas), club, traditional concert stage, gallery, public space, or other venue. For questions regarding equipment and venue descriptions, please contact the Music & Installations Co-chairs - Performer(s): List all performers that would need to be involved. Please note that the organizers cannot provide funding to support performers' travel or accommodation. - Feasibility: Provide evidence of the feasibility of the performance or installation. Include documentation and list of previous performances of the submitted or related work that demonstrate the submitter's capacity to implement the proposal. Submission portal: to be announced *Important Dates* - All submission deadlines: July 1, 2025 - Author notification: September 1, 2025 - Camera-ready due: October 1, 2025 - Early registration deadline: October 2, 2025 - Late registration deadline: October 15, 2025 - Symposium dates: 29 to 31 October, 2025 *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - General Co-Chair: Claudia Rinaldi - CNIT National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications - Paper Co-chair: Carlo Centofanti - University of L’Aquila - Paper Co-chair: Stephen Roddy - University College Cork - Paper Co-chair: Marcelo M. Wanderly - McGill University - Paper Co-chair: Toon van Waterschoot - KU Leuven - Demo Chair: Andrea Marotta - University of L'Aquila - Poster Chair: Michel Buffa - University Côte d'Azur - Music and Installations Co-chair: Giusy Caruso - Royal Conservatoire Antwerp - Music and Installations Co-chair: Maria Cristina De Amicis - Conservatorio di Musica “A. Casella" - Music and Installations Co-chair: Alessio Gabriele - Conservatorio di Musica “A. Casella” - Facility Chair: Marco Giordano - University of L’Aquila - Publication Chair: Alex Piccioni - University of L’Aquila - Publicity Chair: Chrisoula Alexandraki - Hellenic Mediterranean University - Tutorial Chair: Josè Santos - University of Ghent - Industry Liaison Chair: Andrea Genovese - Qualcomm - Travel Grants Chair: Lina Mohjazi - University of Glasgow - Student Volunteer Coordinator: Stefano Giacomelli - University of L’Aquila - General Chair: Luca Turchet – University of Trento *General Contact* Enquiries can be addressed to claudia.rinaldi(a)univaq.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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[IxD&A Journal] Last CFP: Special issue on "Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems"

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems * Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/digital-wellbeing-for-teens-designing-educational-systems/> 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 2007 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- * Chiara Ceccarini, University of Bologna (Italy) * Catia Prandi, University of Bologna (Italy) * Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) * Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- * Deadline: *December 31st, 2024 (extended deadline) * * Notification to the authors: February 28th, 2025 * Camera ready paper: March 30th, 2025 * Publication of the special issue: June 2025 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Recently, researchers have been exploring the unexpected issues arising from the excessive use of personal devices and social media apps, particularly as companies adopt “attention-capture” tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic content playback. These strategies exploit users’ psychological vulnerabilities to increase advertising revenue, resulting in significant impacts on users’ perceived agency and often leading to a sense of losing control over their technology use. This has led to the emergence of a new focus on “digital wellbeing,” studied in fields such as Human Computer Interaction and psychology. Traditional approaches by practitioners and researchers to tackle these issues involve developing Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), such as mobile apps and browser extensions, that help users track their usage patterns and implement interventions like timers and lock-out mechanisms to regulate device use. However, both researchers and users are beginning to emphasize that achieving digital wellbeing requires more than just self-monitoring strategies; it is a journey of personal growth that necessitates education. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this special issue is to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing and education. It aims to foster the development of strategies and interactive tools that mentor users, especially children and teenagers, towards a more meaningful and conscious use of technology. This can be accomplished in various ways, such as by designing new Digital Self-Control Tools with educational components, developing serious games, or creating collaborative platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning in schools. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: • participatory and co-design of digital wellbeing systems; • tools and strategies to teach digital wellbeing at school; • strategies and tools for measuring students’ digital wellbeing; • novel DSCTs that include educational aspects; • gamification strategies for digital wellbeing; • ethical, social, and political factors. =========================================== /*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://ojs.ixdea.org/> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Digital Wellbeing for Teens") 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 ‘Digital Wellbeing for Teens‘. * chiara [dot] ceccarini6 [at] unibo [dot] it * catia [dot] prandi2 [at] unibo [dot] it * alberto [dot] monge [at] polito [dot] it * luigi [dot] derussis [at] polito [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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IEEE VR - Workshop on Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)

by Giuliana VITIELLO

*Call for papers* First Workshop on "Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)" https://sites.google.com/view/sic-xr To be held as part of IEEEVR25 https://ieeevr.org/2025/ 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Saint-Malo, France March 8-12, 2025 *Important Dates* Submissions deadline: December 20, 2024 Notification: January 03, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: January 11, 2025 *Submission webpage* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sicxr2025 *Topic* Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), are profoundly reshaping the way people interact and collaborate in the digital world, breaking down physical barriers and creating new opportunities for social connection. These immersive solutions offer experiences ranging from integrating digital elements into the real world to building entirely virtual environments, expanding the boundaries of human interaction. However, the expansion of XR also brings significant challenges in terms of social cohesion, collaboration, inclusiveness and accessibility. The workshop Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR) is an opportunity to explore the dynamics of social interaction and collaboration in immersive technologies, with a specific focus on eXtended Reality (XR) applications. As the use of these technologies expands in contexts such as remote work, education, and healthcare, it is essential to understand and optimize how people interact and collaborate in virtual environments. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and interaction design experts to discuss current challenges and future potential in the area of social interaction and collaboration in XR. The workshop aims to explore aspects of social interaction and collaboration within the eXtended Reality by considering several topics, including but not limited to: · Social dynamics in XR · Accessibility in XR · Inclusivity in Immersive Technologies · User Safety and Ethical Standards · Designing for Engagement and Cohesion · Emotional and Psychological Impacts of XR · Educational and Collaborative Uses of XR *Organizers* Andrea Antonio Cantone, *University of Salerno, Italy* Giuliana Vitiello, *University of Salerno, Italy* Pablo Cesar, *Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands* Tanja Kojić, *TU Berlin, Germany* --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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[IxD&A Journal] Issue N. 61 is now available for free reading and 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. CiteScore 2023: 2.5 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Multidisciplinary, Media Technology, Education; Q3: Computer Science Applicationms, Human Computer Interaction) To help us to improve the *reader/author experience* please, if you have not already done, take part in the *survey* -> SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS & USER EXPERIENCE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpUR_mbeNMSOjjNqSRa7ko-BJ6nkFh7w_…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 61* featuring the special issue on ‘*/Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration./*’ guest edited by /Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer /that includes the “stimulated paper” by /Laurianne Sitbon, Saminda Balasuriya, Alicia Mitchell/ on ‘*/Inclusively Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration./*’; and + regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061 <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-060> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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… <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * * *IxD&A Journal, Issue N. 61 - ToC*/ / /Special issue on:/ *Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration.* /*Preface*/ (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-001psi) /Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer/ p. 5 – 10 *Stimulated paper* /Laurianne Sitbon, Saminda Balasuriya, Alicia Mitchell/ Inclusively Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration. pp. 11 – 41 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-001sp) *Contributed paper* /Jasper Vermeulen, Glenda Caldwell, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira, Alan Burden, Matthias Guertler/ To Safety and Beyond! A Scoping Review of Human Factors Enriching the Design of Human-Robot Collaboration , pp. 42 – 65 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-001) /Laura Tomidei, Matthias Guertler, Nathalie Sick, Gavin Paul, Marc Carmichael/ Design Principles for Safe Human Robot Collaboration, pp. 66 – 97 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-002) /Belinda J Dunstan, Guy Hoffman/ Rethinking Bodily Expression in Human-Robot Communication: Insights from Sculpture, pp. 98 – 116 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-003) /Wei Win Loy, Anthony Franze, Jared Donovan, Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira, Matt Adcock, Markus Rittenbruch/ Design Considerations for AR-Enabled Human-Robot Collaboration in Fabrication-Centric Architectural Design Process: A Co-design Approach., pp. 117 – 143 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-004) /Cryston Sahae, Shuyue Gu, Lige Yang, Elin A. Björling, Nichelle Song/ An Exploration of a Social Robot as a Digital Shield for Law Enforcement Interviews: Designing a Prototype, pp. 144 – 163 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-005) /Janika Leoste, Kristel Marmor, Mati Heidmets/ Nonverbal Behavior of Service Robots in Social Interactions – A Survey on Recent Studies, pp. 164 – 192 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-061-006) *Regular paper* /Georgina Guillen-Hanson, Mattia Thibault/ Knee deep in the hoopla: rebuilding our cities beyond rocks and walls. 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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Tutorials are intended to help people attending the conference organize a related scientific meeting on a specific topic or instruct on a specific practice. Approved workshops and tutorials will be announced on the conference website. Tutorials and workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee, and duration of the workshop, expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Workshop and tutorial descriptions will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html. Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by December 01, 2024, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu AT r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia AT unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi AT acm.org). The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by December 15, 2024. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: December 1, 2024 (AoE) • Decision notification: December 15, 2024 Workshop papers submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for workshops: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Second Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals

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*** Second Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). SCOPE The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous applications? The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion, country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundational principles of software architecture • Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture • Quality attributes and software architectures • Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software • Architecture design and analysis • Architecture description languages and meta-models • Architecture verification and validation • Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale • Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures • Architecture viewpoints and views • Architecture conformance • Software architecture virtualization and visualization • Architecture-centric process models and frameworks • Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development • Component-based models and deployment; middleware • Software architecture and system architecture • Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering • Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture • Architecture and technical debt • Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems • Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive systems • Software architecture education • Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture • Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems • Architectural concerns of autonomic systems • Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy- aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems • Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture PAPER SUBMISSIONS ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track: • Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated) • Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture • Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems • Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in- progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected. To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work. The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required: • To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or • To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and • To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa) to make them accessible and visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference • Abstract submission: March 14, 2025 • Paper submission: March 21, 2025 • Notification: May 9, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025 Workshops • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands Program Co-Chairs • Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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IS-EUD 2025 - Call for Papers

by Carmen Santoro

IS-EUD 2025 Call for Papers 10th International Symposium on End-User Development 16-18 June 2025, Munich (Germany) https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net/ End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in software development to create their own software to address their specific needs. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that gathers researchers interested in extending the knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding EUD practices. Topics The conference welcomes contributions on: • Simple and efficient environments for EUD • GenAI to support EUD • No-code/low-code paradigms and visual languages to create software and systems • Theoretical concepts and foundations for the EUD field • New processes, methods, and techniques for EUD • Approaches empowering users to create, modify, and tailor digital artefacts • Case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of EUD Papers We invite two types of paper submissions: - Regular papers, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field; - Short papers, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2025, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented at the conference. Important Dates * Regular and Short Papers: Submission: 28 February 2025 Notification: 21 March 2025 Camera-ready: 4 April 2025 * Workshop Proposals: Submission: 7 February 2025 Notification: 14 February 2025 * Submissions to Accepted Workshops: Submission: 28 March 2025 Notification: 18 April 2025 * Demonstrations, Work in Progress, Doctoral Consortium: Submission: 28 March 2025 Notification: 18 April 2025 Camera-ready: 28 April 2025 Organisation - General Chairs Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich Carmen Santoro, CNR-ISTI - Program Chairs Andrea Bellucci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Workshop Chairs Viktorija Paneva, LMU Munich Daniel Tetteroo, Eindhoven University of Technology - Demo and Work in Progress Chairs Sebastian Feger, TH Rosenheim Vittoria Frau, Aarhus University - Doctoral Consortium Chairs Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI Davide Spano, University of Cagliari - Web Chair Andrea Esposito, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): Second Call for Papers

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*** Second Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) (*** Journal Special Issue with Springer's SN Computer Science ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper (with at least 30% additional material) for fast-track review and publication in Springer's SN Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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Elenco riviste ANVUR Informatica, sull'HCI

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Cari Membri di SIGCHI italy, Vi scrivo per segnalarvi che il GRIN sta chiedendo ai rappresentanti di sede di raccogliere suggerimenti sulla lista di riviste pubblicata sul sito dell'ANVUR per la VQR per Informatica INFO-01/A: https://www.anvur.it/attivita/vqr/vqr-2020-2024/gev/area-1-scienze-matemati… La giunta GRIN, vorrebbe farla diventare (eventualmente emendata) una proposta ufficiale del GRIN. C'è anche la proposta di raffinarla taggando le riviste sulla base delle parole chiave della declaratoria. Quest'ultimo aspetto ci interessa particolarmente come comunità HCI e per questo vi prego, se potete, di compilare il seguente form, dopo aver esaminato il file cui il form fa riferimento https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf98qaFNg7hie-7TZL9k27l4rtNzsi2QKA… Purtroppo, come forse avrete già appreso dai vostri rappresentanti di sede, la giunta terrà una prima riunione il 14 novembre e una seconda il 21 novembre. Tutto ciò che riusciremo a suggerire in questo breve tempo sarà prezioso non solo per gli informatici ma per tutta la comunità HCI italiana. Vi ringrazio. Un caro saluto, Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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Re: R: Re: Elenco riviste ANVUR Informatica, sull'HCI

by Dragan Ahmetovic

Ciao a tutti, Mi pare che tutte le riviste segnalate nel settore HCI su SCIMAGO che mancavano nella lista ANVUR siano state aggiunte nel foglio condiviso, complimenti per l'accuratissimo lavoro. Invece, ho trovato su SCIMAGO svariate riviste che menzionano il settore HCI, ma non ce l'hanno tra le categorie. Moltissime di queste sono ad esempio nel settore "ergonomics". Oppure svariate riviste che trattano tecnologie assistive sono in settori diversi (es "rehabilitation") ma sono delle venue ragionevoli per chi ci lavora anche lato HCI. È il caso di segnalare anche queste? Grazie, Dragan Dragan Ahmetovic Associate Professor EveryWare Lab. Dept. of Computer Science Università degli Studi di Milano On Nov 18, 2024 10:03, Fabio Paternò <fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it> wrote: Si, a supporto di quello che diceva Davide farei notare che nella classificazione di Scimago delle riviste su human-computer interaction, disponible a https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1709&area=1700&page=1&to… è inclusa anche Proceedings of ACM on Human Computer Interaction, oltre che Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies Ciao Fabio Da: Davide Spano <davide.spano(a)unica.it> Inviato: martedì 12 novembre 2024 23:16 A: Giuliana VITIELLO <gvitiello(a)unisa.it> Cc: hcitaly(a)isti.cnr.it Oggetto: [Hcitaly] Re: Elenco riviste ANVUR Informatica, sull'HCI Cara Giuliana, grazie per la segnalazione. Credo che sia particolarmente importante per la nostra comunità far notare che nell'elenco manca la rivista Proceedings of ACM on Human Computer Interaction (https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci), che pubblica gli articoli di alcune conferenze importanti che hanno adottato un journal model come CSCW, ISS, MobileHCI e EICS. Alcune hanno perso il ranking CORE proprio per aver adottato questo modello e quindi potrebbero cadere in un "limbo valutativo": non si considerano journal, ma la conferenza non ha ranking. La scelta del nome è stata particolarmente infelice, ma il modello è quello dei Proceedings of IEEE o Procedia in Computer Science, presenti nella lista Anvur. Ho inserito la segnalazione nel form, ma credo sia importante spargere la voce più possibile fra i rappresentanti di sede. Un caro saluto --Davide On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 19:34, Giuliana VITIELLO <gvitiello(a)unisa.it<mailto:gvitiello@unisa.it>> wrote: Cari Membri di SIGCHI italy, Vi scrivo per segnalarvi che il GRIN sta chiedendo ai rappresentanti di sede di raccogliere suggerimenti sulla lista di riviste pubblicata sul sito dell'ANVUR per la VQR per Informatica INFO-01/A: https://www.anvur.it/attivita/vqr/vqr-2020-2024/gev/area-1-scienze-matemati… La giunta GRIN, vorrebbe farla diventare (eventualmente emendata) una proposta ufficiale del GRIN. C'è anche la proposta di raffinarla taggando le riviste sulla base delle parole chiave della declaratoria. Quest'ultimo aspetto ci interessa particolarmente come comunità HCI e per questo vi prego, se potete, di compilare il seguente form, dopo aver esaminato il file cui il form fa riferimento https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf98qaFNg7hie-7TZL9k27l4rtNzsi2QKA… Purtroppo, come forse avrete già appreso dai vostri rappresentanti di sede, la giunta terrà una prima riunione il 14 novembre e una seconda il 21 novembre. Tutto ciò che riusciremo a suggerire in questo breve tempo sarà prezioso non solo per gli informatici ma per tutta la comunità HCI italiana. Vi ringrazio. Un caro saluto, Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https://<https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home>docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello<http://docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello> -- Hcitaly mailing list hcitaly(a)isti.cnr.it<mailto:hcitaly@isti.cnr.it> https://mailman.isti.cnr.it/postorius/lists/hcitaly.isti.cnr.it/ -- [Immagine rimossa dal mittente. photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 Website<https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Fourth Call for Contributions

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*** Fourth Call for Contributions *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES Regular Papers This format is suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers can be full papers (12 pages, excluding references) or short papers (6 pages, excluding references) in Springer LNCS format, and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer LNCS conference proceedings and be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal (Taylor & Francis). Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will be also be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must not be more than 2 pages in CEUR format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1 column style, see here). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 2-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style). Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference. Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 4-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style) describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) unless opted out by the student. Workshops and Tutorial Proposals Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Tutorials are intended to help people attending the conference organize a related scientific meeting on a specific topic or instruct on a specific practice. Approved workshops and tutorials will be announced on the conference website. Tutorials and workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings- guidelines), including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee, duration of the workshop and mode of delivery: in-person/hybrid), expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Workshop and tutorial descriptions will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html. Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by December 01, 2024, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu(a)r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia(a)unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi(a)acm.org). The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by December 15, 2024. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: • Submission deadline: January 03, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: February 15, 2025 • Camera ready submission: February 28, 2025 Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: December 1, 2024 (AoE) • Decision notification: December 15, 2024 Workshop papers, posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for the main track: February 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline for the rest of the categories: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers of the main track (both Full and Short) will be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (https://www.springer.com/gp/ computer-science/lncs). Workshop and demo descriptions, extended abstracts , abstracts from posters, and doctoral consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct CEUR proceedings. Extended versions of the best papers and selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue on Persuasive Technology 2025 in Behaviour and Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis publication. ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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[CfP] Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025

by Tommaso Turchi

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025 ------------------------------------------------------ We are delighted to announce the second edition of the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2025. As the integration of Artificial Intelligence into daily decision-making processes intensifies, the need for clear communication between humans and AI systems becomes crucial. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI's decision-making processes, with a strong focus on human-centric principles. == Important Dates == * Submission Deadline: January 13, 2025 * Notification: January 27, 2025 * Camera Ready: February 10, 2025 * Workshop Date: March 24, 2025 == Submission Guidelines == * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Submission Website: TBA == Workshop Focus == In line with the human-centric principles of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project, this workshop seeks to explore, understand and develop interfaces that dynamically adapt, thereby creating explanations of AI-based systems that both relate to and resonate with a range of users with different explanation-based requirements. As AI's role in our lives becomes ever more embedded, the ways in which such systems explain elements about the system need to be malleable and responsive to the ever-evolving individual's cognitive state, relating to contextual needs/focus and to the social setting. == Topics == Building on the success of our first edition, we welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following emerging trends and challenges: 1. **Personalized XAI Interfaces** - Adaptive systems responding to users' evolving needs - Context-aware explanation mechanisms - User modeling for explanation adaptation 2. **Novel Interaction Modalities for XAI** - Multimodal explanation interfaces - Immersive XAI experiences - Visual Languages for AI interaction 3. **Ethical Considerations in Adaptive XAI** - Transparency and trust - User autonomy - Fairness in adaptive systems 4. **Domain-Specific XAI Applications** - Healthcare - Finance - Autonomous systems 5. **Evaluation Methodologies** - Assessment frameworks for adaptive interfaces - User studies and empirical evaluations - Metrics for explanation quality 6. **Over-reliance and Automation Bias** - Maintaining appropriate user skepticism - Engagement strategies - Balance between trust and critical thinking 7. **LLMs in XAI** - Potential and limitations - Human-understandable explanation generation - Integration with existing XAI frameworks 8. **Interactive Machine Learning** - User-in-the-loop systems - Real-time adjustments - Dynamic explanation generation 9. **Hybrid Decision-Making Frameworks** - Human-AI collaboration - Adaptive explanation support - Knowledge integration == Organizers == * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa * Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa * Simone Borsci, University of Twente * Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham * Andrew Fish, University of Liverpool For more information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it). Join us in Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy) to shape the future of human-AI interaction! //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================//

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WUD SIGCHI-Italy domani: link per partecipare da remoto

by Angela Locoro

Buongiorno, il World Usability Day (WUD) SIGCHI-Italy <https://hintlab.polimi.it/wud-sigchi-italy-2024/> è domani. Chi desiderasse seguirlo online potrà collegarsi da remoto al *link WebEx* <https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/politecnicomilano/j.php?MTID=mfa4953208…> dell'evento. Il programma dei lavori è questo: Ore 9:15 Saluti iniziali Prof.ssa Giuliana Vitiello, Università degli Studi di Salerno e Presidentessa del SIGCHI-Italy Prof.ssa Cristina Gena, Università degli Studi di Torino, organizzatrice di numerose precedenti edizioni del WUD SIGCHI-Italy Introdurranno brevemente alla giornata gli organizzatori: Prof.ssa Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Prof.ssa Angela Locoro Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Daniela Fogli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof. Stefano Valtolina,Università degli Studi di Milano INVITED SPEAKER Ore 9:30 Dott.ssa Eleonora Mencarini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Azioni collettive e piani per il futuro: come la Sustainable HCI può contribuire a contrastare il cambiamento climatico. Ore 10:30-11:00 break La parola alle aziende Ore 11:00 Jie Yuan e Andrea Cardillo, Microsoft Italia, L'accessibilità in Microsoft e l'impatto dell'intelligenza artificiale Ore 11:20 Dr. Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, Hackability, Cambiare le cose: l'importanza di un approccio strutturato al co-design per sviluppare soluzioni per l'accessibilità, generando innovazione e impatti sociali ed economici. Sostenibilità Ore 11:40 Prof.ssa Catia Prandi, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Citizen Science in HCI: un approccio inclusivo per promuovere la consapevolezza e l’impegno civico Ore 12:00 Prof.ssa Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano. Progettare per la sostenibilità: come il design di applicazioni Web a basso consumo energetico influisce sull'esperienza utente Ore 12:20 Prof.ssa Tania di Mascio, Università dell’Aquila. Educare l'intelligenza artificiale seguendo le traiettorie di sviluppo dei bambini Accessibilità Ore 12:40 Prof. Alberto Arenghi, Università degli Studi di Brescia. Universal Design: un approccio trasversale per migliorare la qualità della vita Ore 13:00 Prof. Dragan Ahmetovic, Università degli Studi di Milano. Accessibilità delle informazioni tecnico-scientifiche per le persone con disabilità visive Ore 13:20 Prof.ssa Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes (Francia). Interazione Multisensoriale per l'Apprendimento e la Riabilitazione Grazie a tutti per l'attenzione. A domani! Un caro saluto, Gli organizzatori di WUD-SIGCHI Italy 2024 Angela Locoro, Maristella Matera, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Daniela Fogli, Stefano Valtolina ReplyForward Add reaction

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INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - 1st Call for Papers

by Carmelo Ardito

** *** Please accept our apologies for cross-postings *** ***************************************************************************************** * INTERACT 2025 - 20th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 08 – 12, 2025Belo Horizonte, Brazil www.interact2025.org *************************************************************************************** Call for Papers INTERACT 2025 is the 20th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human- Computer Interaction) of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). INTERACT is a highly international conference and welcomes papers on all aspects of human-computer interaction.The theme of the conference is “Blending Experiences in Interaction Design”. INTERACT 2025 will be hosted at Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The state of Minas Gerais has a rich diversity with the blending of experiences encompassing a hot pot of cultures and ancestries from around the world, mixing heritage and modern, hand-made traditional artifacts and high-tech industry. This context provides inspiration to bring research challenges to designing blending experiences with virtual and physical, different cultures, and a growing blending of human-created and artifacts generated by artificial intelligence. The call for papers is now open for the following categories: Tracks with submission deadline 17 February 2025- Full papers- Workshops Tracks with submission deadline 19 May 2025- Short papers- Posters- Courses- Panels- Interactive Demos- Doctoral Consortium- Industrial Experiences All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. Papers accepted in all the tracks will be published in the proceedings edited by Springer in the LNCS series, except the Doctoral Consortium papers. Consortium attendees are encouraged to submit a paper or contribution to any of the other tracks on content similar to that in the proposal for the Doctoral Consortium. A selection of papers accepted and presented in workshops organized by the IFIP TC-13 Working Groups will be published as post proceedings in a Springer LNCS volume. Submission Information is available at the Conference Website. **Technical Program chairs* *Carmelo Ardito - LUM Giuseppe Degennaro University, Italy* *Isabela Gasparini - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil* ****Tayana Conte - Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil**** ** *General chairs* *Raquel Prates - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil* *André Freire- Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil* *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information please visit the web site: www.interact2025.org* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carmelo Ardito, PhD Professore Ordinario di Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni Dipartimento di Ingegneria Università LUM Giuseppe Degennaro SS 100 km 18 - 70010 Casamassima (Bari, Italy) ardito(a)lum.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- -- P Per favore pensa all'ambiente prima di stampare questa mail. 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37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** 37th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025) September 17-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ictss-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) IFIP-ICTSS is a well-established conference where researchers, developers, testers, and users from industry get together to present and discuss the most recent innovations, experiences and open challenges related to testing software and systems and measuring software quality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ■ Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test generation, test coverage, test concretization, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracle, verdict computation, test management, active testing and passive testing, monitoring and runtime verification. ■ Testing new technologies: this year we encourage submissions focused on testing Large Language Models (LLMs), audit machine learning systems (especially for applications to Health) and Quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators). ■ Diversity on testing: diverse generation, selecting diverse test suites, foundations of testing and diversity, applications of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity on test suite diversity. ■ Theoretical approaches: formalisms (such as automata, state machines, process algebra, logics, Markov-chains...), testing frameworks, results for compositionality, refinement, soundness and completeness, addressing complex systems, heterogeneous or hybrid systems. ■ Modelling languages (such as UML, MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica...) and associated tooling for model-based testing: test generation from models, model-based oracles. Scalability, traceability, quantification issues. Automated support of any parts of the testing activities, testing processes, test-driven development, sound metrics and measurements. ■ Testing of quality aspects: Functional, interoperability, unit, integration, performance, load, conformance, non-regression, reliability, robustness. ■ Security Testing: methodologies and techniques for continuous security assessment, security monitoring, security review, penetration testing, verification of certification compliance; automation of security testing processes. ■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof, model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model learning, machine learning, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes. ■ Application aspects and case studies: Communicating systems such as cyberphysical systems, systems of systems, embedded systems, web services systems, smart grids, cloud computing systems, business information systems, real-time systems, distributed and concurrent systems. Case studies and industrial applications involving qualified empirical evaluations. IFIP-ICTSS Invites: Full papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research contributions with sufficient evidence for the interest of the proposed approach. Industry papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing original research or experience report conducted within an industrial environment or in collaboration with an industry partner. Short papers or work-in-progress papers (up to 6 pages plus at most 1 extra page for references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing academic work in progress or tool implementations, as well as testing processes, achievements and feedback on testing methods for industrial case studies. Journal-First. The aim of the Journal-First (JF) submission category is to further enrich the program of ICTSS, as well as to provide an overall more flexible path to publication and dissemination of original research that is within the scope of ICTSS. A submission in this category must adhere to the following criteria: ■ It should be clearly within the scope of the conference. ■ It should be recent: it should have been accepted and made publicly available in a journal (online or in print) by January 1, 2023 or more recently. ■ It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, Journal- First tracks of other conferences or workshops. ■ The submission has to be in the form of a 4-page extended abstract and has to provide a concise summary of the published journal paper. ■ It must be marked as such in the submission’s, and must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Since the referenced journal papers have already been reviewed and accepted by the corresponding journals, submissions in the JF category will not be reviewed again for technical content. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would complement the conference’s technical program. Accepted submissions in this category will be part of the proceedings of ICTSS 2025, with the title equal to the original title of the article with the prefix. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ictss2025 The papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS volume. Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Journal Special Issue Best papers of the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their article at a special (topical) issue of the Springer Nature of Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). Deadline will be near the end of December 2025 with a tentative publication date for the middle 2026. Collocation ICTSS 2025 will be collocated with the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025). IMPORTANT DATES ■ Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) ■ Author Notification: June 30, 2025 (AoE) ■ Camera-ready Versions and Author Registration: July 14, 2025 (AoE) ORGANISATION Conference Chairs ■ Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy ■ George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Announcing the Accepted Workshops for IUI 2025

by Eleonora Zedda

We are pleased to announce the list of the accepted workshops for IUI 2025. Here is the full list of accepted workshops: * *HAI-GEN 2025*: 6th Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models * *MIND*: Workshop on Blending Agents and Direct Manipulation for LLMs * *HealthIUI*: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces * *SOCIALIZE*: Workshop on Social and Cultural Integration with Personalized Interfaces * *STEP-HAI*: Strengthening Engineering Psychology for Human-AI Interactions * *BEHAVE AI*: Workshop on Best Practices and Guidelines for Human-Centric Design and Evaluation of Proactive AI Agents * *AXAI*: Adaptive eXplainable AI We look forward to the engaging discussions and insights these sessions will bring. For further details on each workshop, please visit our official page: IUI 2025 Accepted Workshops <https://iui.acm.org/2025/accepted_workshops.html>.

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WUD SIGCHI-Italy 2024: ancora pochi giorni per registrarsi all'evento!

by Angela Locoro

Buongiorno, il World Usability Day (WUD) SIGCHI-Italy <https://hintlab.polimi.it/wud-sigchi-italy-2024/> si avvicina! L'evento si svolgerà Giovedì 14 Novembre dalle ore 9:15 alle 13:40 nell’aula “Emilio Gatti” del Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (Edificio 20) del Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5 - 20134 Milano, e in streaming su WebEx. L'evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare al link: https://forms.office.com/e/ixiuTqqCNv entro l’8 Novembre. Ancora per pochi giorni! Ricordiamo che la mattinata sarà dedicata alla sostenibilità e all'accessibilità, declinate secondo gli studi più innovativi dell'HCI. Esperti di sostenibilità e accessibilità, voci aziendali, interventi di ricercatori della nostra community arricchiranno questo evento denso di idee verso il "design per un mondo migliore". Ecco il programma completo: Ore 9:15 Saluti iniziali Prof.ssa Giuliana Vitiello, Università degli Studi di Salerno e Presidentessa del SIGCHI-Italy Prof.ssa Cristina Gena, Università degli Studi di Torino, organizzatrice di numerose precedenti edizioni del WUD SIGCHI-Italy Introdurranno brevemente alla giornata gli organizzatori: Prof.ssa Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Prof.ssa Angela Locoro Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Daniela Fogli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof. Stefano Valtolina,Università degli Studi di Milano INVITED SPEAKER Ore 9:30 Dott.ssa Eleonora Mencarini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Azioni collettive e piani per il futuro: come la Sustainable HCI può contribuire a contrastare il cambiamento climatico. Ore 10:30-11:00 break La parola alle aziende Ore 11:00 Jie Yuan e Andrea Cardillo, Microsoft Italia, L'accessibilità in Microsoft e l'impatto dell'intelligenza artificiale Ore 11:20 Dr. Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, Hackability, Cambiare le cose: l'importanza di un approccio strutturato al co-design per sviluppare soluzioni per l'accessibilità, generando innovazione e impatti sociali ed economici. Sostenibilità Ore 11:40 Prof.ssa Catia Prandi, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Citizen Science in HCI: un approccio inclusivo per promuovere la consapevolezza e l’impegno civico Ore 12:00 Prof.ssa Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano. Progettare per la sostenibilità: come il design di applicazioni Web a basso consumo energetico influisce sull'esperienza utente Ore 12:20 Prof.ssa Tania di Mascio, Università dell’Aquila. Educare l'intelligenza artificiale seguendo le traiettorie di sviluppo dei bambini Accessibilità Ore 12:40 Prof. Alberto Arenghi, Università degli Studi di Brescia. Universal Design: un approccio trasversale per migliorare la qualità della vita Ore 13:00 Prof. Dragan Ahmetovic, Università degli Studi di Milano. Accessibilità delle informazioni tecnico-scientifiche per le persone con disabilità visive Ore 13:20 Prof.ssa Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes (Francia). Interazione Multisensoriale per l'Apprendimento e la Riabilitazione Maggiori informazioni e la locandina dell’evento sul sito Web dell’iniziativa <https://hintlab.polimi.it/wud-sigchi-italy-2024/>. Vi aspettiamo! Un caro saluto e a presto, Angela Locoro, Maristella Matera, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Daniela Fogli, Stefano Valtolina

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Open positions in Human Computer Interaction and Human Centered AI at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE

by Prof. Elizabeth Churchill

Dear HCI colleagues, Announcing the formation of a new department of HCI at MBZUAI<https://mbzuai.ac.ae/> in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I have recently joined the university to set up an HCI Department focused on HCI & AI, and human centered AI more generally. More information is below: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is the world’s first graduate AI university. It is a research-oriented university with 365 students (from 49 nationalities; 30% female), and over 81 world-leading faculty members. MBZUAI is already ranked in the world’s top 20 by CSRankings for AI<https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&inforet&world>, a remarkable achievement for a young university dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in AI research and teaching. MBZUAI is also committed to deep research and leadership in the area of “human centered AI”, and with that commitment in mind has launched a new department of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). We have open faculty roles at all levels: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor. Research areas of interest include but are not limited to: Ubiquitous, Wearable, Tangible, and Affective Computing; Assistive Technologies and Human Augmentation (including sensory, cognitive and physical enhancement, and HCI aspects of neurotechnology and biomedical engineering); Interface Design; Interaction Design (including the design of chatbots, voice assistants, virtual agents, and advances in multimodal input); Service Design; Human Data Interaction and Complex System Visualization; Human-Agent and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); Computational Sociology; and AI-driven Social and Societal Technologies. Domains of interest include but are not limited to: Health and Healthcare; Education; Entertainment; Business and Organizational Applications of AI; Smart Buildings and Smart Cities; Assistive Technology, and Culture and Cultural Heritage. If you or anyone you know is interested, our call for applications can be found here: https://apply.interfolio.com/140925 Please also feel free to reach out if you have questions. Prof Elizabeth F. Churchill Prof. Elizabeth Churchill Department Chair and Professor of Human Computer Interaction T: +971 2 811 3010 E: Elizabeth.Churchill(a)mbzuai.ac.ae www.mbzuai.ac.ae<http://www.mbzuai.ac.ae> Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Masdar City, Building 1B, 3rd Floor Abu Dhabi, UAE [cid:MBZUAI_Logo_4d283c4f-1a0d-4aed-8a25-b17ff8b431f8.png] The world’s first specialized research-based AI university

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[Call for papers] Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems

by Luigi De Russis

Call for Papers – Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems Special issue of Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) https://ixdea.org/digital-wellbeing-for-teens-designing-educational-systems/ Overview Recently, researchers have been exploring the unexpected issues arising from the excessive use of personal devices and social media apps, particularly as companies adopt “attention-capture” tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic content playback. These strategies exploit users’ psychological vulnerabilities to increase advertising revenue, resulting in significant impacts on users’ perceived agency and often leading to a sense of losing control over their technology use. This has led to the emergence of a new focus on “digital wellbeing,” studied in fields such as Human-Computer Interaction and psychology. Traditional approaches by practitioners and researchers to tackle these issues involve developing Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), such as mobile apps and browser extensions, that help users track their usage patterns and implement interventions like timers and lock-out mechanisms to regulate device use. However, both researchers and users are beginning to emphasize that achieving digital wellbeing requires more than just self-monitoring strategies; it is a journey of personal growth that necessitates education. Topics of Interest The goal of this special issue is to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing and education. It aims to foster the development of strategies and interactive tools that mentor users, especially children and teenagers, towards a more meaningful and conscious use of technology. This can be accomplished in various ways, such as by designing new Digital Self-Control Tools with educational components, developing serious games, or creating collaborative platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning in schools. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: * participatory and co-design of digital wellbeing systems; * tools and strategies to teach digital wellbeing at school; * strategies and tools for measuring students’ digital wellbeing; * novel DSCTs that include educational aspects; * gamification strategies for digital wellbeing; * ethical, social, and political factors. Submission All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted anonymized either in .doc or in .pdf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Prospective participants are invited to submit an 8-20 pages paper (including authors’ information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). Important dates Deadline: December 31st, 2024 Notification to the authors: February 28th, 2025 Camera ready paper: March 30th, 2025 Publication of the special issue: June 2025 (tentatively) Guest Editors Chiara Ceccarini, University of Bologna (Italy) Catia Prandi, University of Bologna (Italy) Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

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Esito votazioni

by Maristella Matera

Care tutti e cari tutti , ho il piacere di comunicarvi che Giuliana Vitiello si riconferma presidentessa del SIGCHI Italy, avendo ricevuto 43 voti a suo favore (su 43 voti totali). Nel congratularmi con Giuliana per la fiducia che la nostra associazione le ha rinnovato, colgo l'occasione per sottolineare che gli obiettivi ambiziosi di questo secondo mandato richiedono il sostegno e la partecipazione di ciascuno di noi. Negli ultimi anni, la nostra associazione è cresciuta, nel numero di membri e nella varietà e visibilità delle nostre attività. Il mio auspicio, per Giuliana e per tutti, è che i prossimi anni siano altrettanto ricchi di opportunità. Un caro saluto a tutti, Maristella

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PhD Offer in HCI in Fribourg (Switzerland): PhD Candidate in Silver Economy and Silver Tech

by Angelini Leonardo

Dear all, We are looking for a PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction to join our team, the Digital Business Center at the School of Management in Fribourg (CH). The candidate will have the opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary European project. Please share this within your networks! Mission and Field of Activity: * Contribute to advancing knowledge on the silver economy and its impact on people over 65. * Study the desirability, use, and acceptance of new technologies by older adults. * Conduct in-depth literature reviews and engage in field research to gather valuable insights and data related to the silver economy and technology acceptance among older adults. * Use qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyze and interpret data, providing valuable conclusions and recommendations. * Prepare high-quality scientific papers to disseminate research findings, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in the field. * Support the development of project proposals focused on the silver economy and technology acceptance, ensuring alignment with research goals and societal needs. * Write a doctoral thesis in the areas described above. Your Profile: * Master’s degree in management, design, computer science, or a related field considered equivalent in relevance and expertise. * Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods, enabling you to apply appropriate, rigorous data collection and analysis methods. * Familiarity with new digital technologies and a genuine interest in them, particularly for creating prototypes and mock-ups. * Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team, particularly in health or social work fields. * Previous experience in research projects is an asset, demonstrating your ability to conduct independent research tasks, collaborate within a team, and achieve quality results. * A record of publications in prestigious academic journals or conferences will be considered a major asset. * Proficiency in French or English, with a good knowledge of the other language. Knowledge of other official Swiss languages (German and Italian) is a plus. Additional Information: * Fixed-term contract for 3 years, renewable * Activity rate: 90% to 100% * Contact: Maurizio Caon, Head of the Digital Business Center, +41 26 429 67 44 * Start date: 01.01.2025 * Application deadline: 01.12.2024 To apply, follow this link: https://www.hefr.ch/fr/emploi/doctorant-e-en-silver-economie-et-silver-tech/ Best regards, Leonardo █ Leonardo Angelini ▪ PhD ▪ Assistant Professor HEG ▪ Haute école de gestion ▪ Chemin du Musée 4 ▪ 1700 Fribourg HEIA ▪ Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture ▪ Perolles 80 ▪ CH-1705 Fribourg HES-SO ▪ University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland +41 (0)26 429 67 45 (landline) ▪ Digital Business Center<https://www.heg-fr.ch/en/research-and-mandates/center/digital-business-cent…> ▪ HumanTech<http://humantech.institute/> ▪ Silver&Home<http://www.silverhome.ch/> ▪ Leonardo Angelini<http://leonardo.angelini.home.hefr.ch/>

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Sorry for the wrong message - Deadline approaching for the second round of submissions to ICPRAM 2025

by Maria De Marsico

Sorry for the wrong message **** Sorry for multiple posting **** Deadline is approaching for the second round of submissions to ICPRAM 2025 - 14-th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods February 23-25, Porto - Portugal *Call for Papers* Scope <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#scope> | Conference Areas <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#conference_areas> | Keynote Lectures <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#keynote_speakers> | Paper Submission <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#paper_submission> Publications <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#publications> | Important Dates <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallforPapers.aspx#important_dates> | Secretariat <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#secretariat> | Venue <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallforPapers.aspx#venue> Conference Chair <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#conference_chair> | Program Chair <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#program_co-chairs> | Program Committee <https://icpram.scitevents.org/CallForPapers.aspx#program_committee> ICPRAM is sponsored by INSTICC <http://www.insticc.org/> – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication *SCOPE* The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods is a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of ICPRAM with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in presenting a demo or lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. *CONFERENCE AREAS* Each of the topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: *1*. THEORY AND METHODS *2*. APPLICATIONS *AREA 1: THEORY AND METHODS* - Advanced Learning Methods - Linear Models and Dimensionality Reduction - Machine Learning Methods - Model Representation and Selection - Shape Representation - Signal Processing - Bayesian Models and Stochastic Methods - Classification and Clustering - Deep Learning and Neural Networks - Ensemble Methods - Feature Selection and Extraction - Knowledge Acquisition and Representation *AREA 2: APPLICATIONS* - Audio and Speech Analysis - Motion Tracking and Action Recognition - Natural Language Processing - Robotics - Sensors and Early Vision - Virtual Environments - Bioinformatics and Systems Biology - Biometrics - Data Mining and Algorithms for Big Data - Document Analysis - Image and Video Analysis and Understanding - Industry Related Applications - Information Retrieval - Medical Imaging - *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * *Nelly Bencomo*, <https://icpram.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#1>Durham University, United Kingdom *Amparo Alonso Betanzos*, <https://icpram.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#2>University of A Coruña, Spain *Alberto Del Bimbo*, <https://icpram.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#3>Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy *Thomas B. Moeslund*, <https://icpram.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#4>Aalborg University, Denmark *PAPER SUBMISSION * Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism <https://icpram.scitevents.org/NormsPlagiarism.aspx> thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS <http://www.insticc.org/primoris> and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates <https://icpram.scitevents.org/Guidelines.aspx>. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. *PUBLICATIONS* All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index. *IMPORTANT DATES* Conference Date: *23 - 25 February, 2025* <https://icpram.scitevents.org/Glossary.aspx#RP> *Regular Papers <https://icpram.scitevents.org/Glossary.aspx#RP>* Paper Submission: October 22, 2024 (expired) Authors Notification: *December 4, 2024* Camera Ready and Registration: *December 20, 2024* <https://icpram.scitevents.org/Glossary.aspx#PP> *Position Papers /Regular Papers <https://icpram.scitevents.org/Glossary.aspx#PP>* Paper Submission: *November 13, 2024* Authors Notification: *December 20, 2024* Camera Ready and Registration: *January 13, 2025* *Workshops* Workshop Proposal: October 17, 2024 (expired) Paper Submission: *November 15, 2024* Authors Notification: *January 6, 2025* Camera Ready and Registration: *January 22, 2025* *Special Sessions* Special Session Proposal: October 17, 2024 (expired) *Tutorials* Tutorial Proposal: *January 17, 2025* *Demos* Demo Proposal: *January 17, 2025* *Panels* Panel Proposal: *January 17, 2025* *Abstracts* Abstract Submission: *January 7, 2025* Authors Notification: *January 20, 2025* Camera Ready and Registration: *January 28, 2025* *SECRETARIAT* *ICPRAM Secretariat * Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C 2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +351 265 520 186 e-mail: icpram.secretariat(a)insticc.org <%20icpram.secretariat(a)insticc.org> Web: https://icpram.scitevents.org *VENUE* The conference will take place at the Vila Galé Porto hotel which is located in the beautiful and historical city of Porto in Portugal. Porto is considered to be one of the most beautiful historical towns in Portugal, with its remarkable architectural heritage shaped by history. *CONFERENCE CHAIR* *Ana Fred*, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), Portugal *PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * *Modesto Castrillon-Santana*, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain *Maria De Marsico*, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Full Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Chair of IAPR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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Deadline approaching for the second round of submissions to ICPRAM 2025 - 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods

by Maria De Marsico

*Modesto Castrillon-Santana*, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain *Maria De Marsico*, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Full Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Chair of IAPR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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Research grant (assegno di ricerca) at Genoa University on information visualization and learning analytics

by Ilaria Torre

Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about a research grant (assegno di ricerca) available at the University of Genoa in the field of information visualization and learning analytics. The deadline for the application is on 8 November 2024, at noon (Italy time). Please find the details below. - Title of the research grant: Video augmentation, information visualization methods and learning analytics. - Project: the research grant is part of the PRIN 2022 PNRR, NEXT GENERATION EU, EKEEL Project - Empowering Knowledge Extraction to Empower Learners. - Short description: The automatic extraction of concepts and relationships from video lectures enables the generation of semantic graphs representing the structure of content and its connections. Such graphs can be used for the development of methods and applications to support video-based learning and learning processes. In this context, the grant has two main goals: 1) design, development, and testing of innovative methods and applications for video augmentation and knowledge visualization based on the semantic graphs extracted as part of the project, 2) analysis of the experimental data using qualitative-quantitative methods and pattern recognition techniques to study learners’ behavior. - Location: University of Genoa, Department of 'Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS)', Italy. The activity can be held remotely if required by the candidate. - Start date: 2 December 2024 or later, if required. - Total amount for 1 year: € 23.250,00 - Supervisor: Prof. Ilaria Torre - Admission criteria: Master's degree in computer science or a related field (details in the call). - Application deadline: 8th November 2024 (12:00 pm Italy time) - Link to the call for applications: https://concorsi.unige.it/home/?__language=en Click on "Assegnisti" --> D.R. n. 5140 del 24.10.2024 Programma n.3<https://concorsi.unige.it/home/procedure/4972> I kindly ask you to forward this call to anyone who might be interested and please feel free to contact me if you need any additional information. Best regards Ilaria Torre -- 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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Votazioni per l'elezione del chair di SIGCHI Italy

by Maristella Matera

Care tutte e cari tutti, come anticipato, si aprono oggi le votazioni per l'elezione del chair di SIGCHI Italy. L'unica candidata è Giuliana Vitiello, trovate in allegato la sua lettera di candidatura. Le votazioni si svolgeranno da ora a tutto giovedì 31 Ottobre a questo indirizzo: https://bit.ly/sigchiItaly_votazioni2024 Vi ricordiamo che per votare è necessario essere "voting member" si SIGCHI Italy (https://sigchitaly.eu/members/). Segnalate a me o a Massimo Zancanaro se, pur essendo iscritti ad ACM o a SIGCHI (condizioni necessarie per l'iscrizione a SIGCHI Italy) il vostro nome non risulta ancora in elenco. In chiusura, sottolineiamo l'importanza del voto, anche in presenza di una sola candidatura. Un caro saluto, Maristella e Massimo

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WUD SIGCHI-Italy 2024: partecipazione e programma

by Angela Locoro

Buongiorno, come annunciato qualche settimana fa, il prossimo WUD SIGCHI-Italy si terrà giovedì 14 Novembre in modalità ibrida (a Milano e online). Di seguito potete trovare le informazioni dettagliate sull’evento, al quale rinnoviamo l’invito a partecipare. Il WUD SIGCHI-Italy <https://hintlab.polimi.it/wud-sigchi-italy-2024/> in presenza si svolgerà il 14 novembre dalle ore 9:15 alle 13:40 nell’aula “Emilio Gatti” del Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (Edificio 20) del Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5 - 20134 Milano, e in streaming su WebEx. L’evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare al link: https://forms.office.com/e/ixiuTqqCNv entro l’8 Novembre. A tutti gli iscritti che parteciperanno online verrà comunicato il link per accedere da remoto all’evento. La mattinata di interventi inizierà con la keynote della ricercatrice Eleonora Mencarini, che esporrà il lavoro dei ricercatori e dei progettisti nel campo dell'HCI per contribuire a comunicare le ripercussioni del cambiamento climatico. L'intervento approfondirà l'evoluzione della HCI sostenibile, dalla sua nascita fino alle tendenze attuali, evidenziando la co-creazione di politiche pubbliche, l'integrazione della biodiversità nel design e lo sviluppo di competenze multidisciplinari per affrontare la complessità del cambiamento climatico. Nell’intervento verranno ripercorse le tappe fondamentali di questo percorso, portando ad esempio uno scenario insolito per la tecnologia: i rifugi alpini, avamposti del cambiamento climatico, per i quali la comprensione del fenomeno da parte di cittadini e decisori politici è la chiave per mettere in atto strategie di anticipazione in grado di fronteggiare l’incertezza che la crisi climatica comporta e sperimentare nuovi modi di abitare le terre alte. Il programma degli interventi proseguirà poi con due voci aziendali: Jie Yuan e Andrea Cardillo di Microsoft Italia e Carlo Boccazzi Varotto di Hackability. I temi toccati negli interventi aziendali saranno relativi all’intelligenza artificiale accessibile e ai progetti realizzati e in corso, incentrati sulla collaborazione con altre aziende e istituzioni, per portare un’innovazione capace di creare un impatto sociale duraturo. Seguiranno poi le due sessioni sui temi della Sostenibilità e dell’ Accessibilità. Nella prima verranno toccati e discussi i temi della citizen science e del suo ruolo nell'HCI, mostrando come il coinvolgimento diretto dei cittadini nei progetti di ricerca possa promuovere la consapevolezza civica e l'impegno su temi di sviluppo sostenibile. Seguiranno poi interventi su quali sfide e responsabilità presenti il buon design del software relativamente al consumo di risorse fisiche e di come quindi sia cruciale progettare applicazioni web consapevoli del loro consumo energetico. Verrà infine toccato il tema di come l’intelligenza artificiale possa supportare l’equità e ridurre le disuguaglianze di genere e disabilità, attraverso l’educazione degli algoritmi ad allinearsi più e meglio all’apprendimento umano. La seconda sessione esplorerà il concetto di design universale, come approccio progettuale che mira a rendere spazi, oggetti e servizi accessibili al maggior numero possibile di persone oltre i limiti dell'accessibilità tradizionale. Verrà sollevata la questione dell’accessibilità delle informazioni tecnico-scientifiche per le persone con disabilità visive, specie quando si trattano informazioni non testuali ma grafiche, schematiche e messe in formule. Di ciò verranno illustrati i metodi tradizionali e le soluzioni innovative per garantire un accesso equo. Infine, entreremo nel mondo dell’interazione multisensoriale per l’apprendimento e la riabilitazione, dove verranno presentati esempi pratici di interfacce tangibili e serious game, utilizzati in ambito riabilitativo e nella gestione delle crisi, con un focus sull'efficacia di questi strumenti in contesti educativi e sanitari. Questo il programma della mattinata: Ore 9:15 Saluti iniziali Prof.ssa Giuliana Vitiello, Università degli Studi di Salerno e Presidentessa del SIGCHI-Italy Prof.ssa Cristina Gena, Università degli Studi di Torino, organizzatrice di numerose precedenti edizioni del WUD SIGCHI-Italy Introdurranno brevemente alla giornata gli organizzatori: Prof.ssa Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Prof.ssa Angela Locoro Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof.ssa Daniela Fogli, Università degli Studi di Brescia Prof. Stefano Valtolina,Università degli Studi di Milano INVITED SPEAKER Ore 9:30 Dott.ssa Eleonora Mencarini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Azioni collettive e piani per il futuro: come la Sustainable HCI può contribuire a contrastare il cambiamento climatico. Ore 10:30-11:00 break La parola alle aziende Ore 11:00 Jie Yuan e Andrea Cardillo, Microsoft Italia, L'accessibilità in Microsoft e l'impatto dell'intelligenza artificiale Ore 11:20 Dr. Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, Hackability, Cambiare le cose: l'importanza di un approccio strutturato al co-design per sviluppare soluzioni per l'accessibilità, generando innovazione e impatti sociali ed economici. Sostenibilità Ore 11:40 Prof.ssa Catia Prandi, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Citizen Science in HCI: un approccio inclusivo per promuovere la consapevolezza e l’impegno civico Ore 12:00 Prof.ssa Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano. Progettare per la sostenibilità: come il design di applicazioni Web a basso consumo energetico influisce sull'esperienza utente Ore 12:20 Prof.ssa Tania di Mascio, Università dell’Aquila. Educare l'intelligenza artificiale seguendo le traiettorie di sviluppo dei bambini Accessibilità Ore 12:40 Prof. Alberto Arenghi, Università degli Studi di Brescia. Universal Design: un approccio trasversale per migliorare la qualità della vita Ore 13:00 Prof. Dragan Ahmetovic, Università degli Studi di Milano. Accessibilità delle informazioni tecnico-scientifiche per le persone con disabilità visive Ore 13:20 Prof.ssa Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes (Francia). Interazione Multisensoriale per l'Apprendimento e la Riabilitazione Maggiori informazioni e la locandina dell’evento (disponibile a breve) sul sito Web dell’evento <https://hintlab.polimi.it/wud-sigchi-italy-2024/>. Un caro saluto e a presto! Angela Locoro, Maristella Matera, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Daniela Fogli, Stefano Valtolina

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Elezione del chair di SIGCHI Italy

by Maristella Matera

Care tutte e cari tutti, Tra poche settimane scade il mandato della nostra attuale chair Giuliana Vitiello. Come sapete, è tradizione del nostro chapter incoraggiare che la posizione di chair venga riproposta per un secondo mandato e quindi, in qualità di vice-chair , vorrei incoraggiare Giuliana a candidarsi per un secondo mandato. In ogni caso, la candidatura è aperta a tutti i soci e le socie iscritti ad ACM e al SIGCHI, oltre ovviamente alla nostra associazione. Vi chiederei quindi di mandare a me (rispondendo a questa email) eventuali candidature accompagnate da un breve profilo e motivazione. La raccolta delle candidature si chiuderà Lunedì 28 Ottobre e contestualmente verranno aperte le votazioni fino a Giovedì 31 Ottobre. La procedura di spoglio verrà fatta dal me e da Massimo Zancanaro, attuale segretario/tesoriere dell’associazione. Vi ricordo sin da ora che, da regolamento, per votare è necessario essere membri ACM oppure SIGCHI ed essere inclusi nella lista dei Voting Members alla pagina Web http://sigchitaly.eu/en/members/. Coloro che si fossero iscritti ad ACM SIGCHI ma non risultassero nella lista online sul nostro sito Web possono contattarmi. Un caro saluto a tutti, Maristella

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): First Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals

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*** First Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). SCOPE The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous applications? The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion, country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundational principles of software architecture • Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture • Quality attributes and software architectures • Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software • Architecture design and analysis • Architecture description languages and meta-models • Architecture verification and validation • Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale • Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures • Architecture viewpoints and views • Architecture conformance • Software architecture virtualization and visualization • Architecture-centric process models and frameworks • Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development • Component-based models and deployment; middleware • Software architecture and system architecture • Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering • Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture • Architecture and technical debt • Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems • Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive systems • Software architecture education • Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture • Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems • Architectural concerns of autonomic systems • Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy- aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems • Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture PAPER SUBMISSIONS ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track: • Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated) • Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture • Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems • Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in- progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected. To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work. The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required: • To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or • To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and • To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa) to make them accessible and visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025). ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference • Abstract submission: March 14, 2025 • Paper submission: March 21, 2025 • Notification: May 9, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025 Workshops • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands Program Co-Chairs • Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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I: IE2025 Call for Papers

by Fabio Paternò

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers 21st International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2025) Darmstadt, Germany 23th-26th of June 2025 https://www.ie2025.fraunhofer.de/ Important Dates: Conference paper submission: 1 December 2024 Communication of results: 20 February 2025 Camera ready versions 28 March 2025 Workshops paper submission 1 March 2025 Workshops results: 5 April 2025 Workshops camera ready 15 April 2025 Conference Program: IE is a multidisciplinary event welcoming contributions from a diversity of various relevant areas, including sensors and actuators, signal processing (incl. audio and images), networking, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, software engineering, context-awareness, internet of things, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, applied in domains such as healthcare, education, culture, building environments and smart cities. The event will include the followings. - full (8-page) and short (4-page) papers - 2 special sessions - workshops - 3 tutorials - a doctoral colloquium - an industrial forum - demos & videos session Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Smart spaces Smart cities Smart communities Mobile computing Multimodal interaction Robotic companions Artificial intelligence Computational intel. Middleware Architecture Virtual/Mixed reality Collaborative tools Sensors and actuators Industry 4.0 Smart buildings Smart education Smart healthcare tech Pervasive computing Context awareness Energy Efficiency Ambient Assisted Living Evaluation and Corpora Evaluation Paradigms Data Acquisition Labelling and Data Sets User Studies Signal Processing (incl. audio and images) Special Sessions: IE2025 will have 2 special sessions - Ecological and Human Synergies Intelligent Design for the Anthropocene - Empowering the Elderly through Intelligent Technologies: Sociotechnical Approaches for Inclusive Aging Workshops: The conference will start with a series of workshops?: - QUITE - Quantum, IoT, and Technologies for Secure Environments - WITLE - Workshop on Intelligent Teaching and Learning Environments - WISHWell - Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being - WORIE- Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments - ALLEGET - Workshop on Artificial intelligence and machine learning for Emerging Topics - WISSA - Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Smart Agriculture - DiDiT - Workshop on Distributed Digital Twins - CLEAR-AI - Compliance, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of AI Regulation Tutorials: IE2025 will host 3 tutorials in person - Which Missing Feature Should I Acquire If My Data Is Streaming? - An Introduction to Active Feature Acquisition on Data Streams - Introducing a Quality Enhanced Process for Developing Intelligent Environments - Tutorial on Explainable and Robust AI for Industry 4.0 & 5.0 (X-RAI) Publications: As in previous editions, we expect all papers accepted at the main conference to be published by IEEE-indexed proceedings (currently in negotiation with IEEE, as in previous editions). All papers accepted in the workshops will be published as a volume of the IOS Press Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments book Series of IOS Press, which is published Open Access and indexed by Clarivate (Web of Science). Both the articles in the IEEE proceedings and the IOS Press books will be ISI-indexed. As in previous years, selected papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to journals for publication. Keynote Speakers: IE2025 includes keynote lectures by the following distinguished speakers. - Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Sumio Morioka, Interstellar Technologies, Japan - Dirk Kutscher, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Hong Kong Doctoral colloquium: The aim of the colloquium is to provide research students an opportunity to meet other people in a similar position, make relatively informal presentations, receive feedback from experts in the field, exchange ideas and experiences with each other, and make connections and have fun! All accepted presentations will be submitted as short (4-page) papers and published in the IE2025 IEEE Proceedings. A prize will be awarded for the best colloquium paper. Industrial Forum: In the Industrial Forum, colleagues from the industry domain will have the opportunity to showcase their projects while attracting funding or further expand collaborations with industry and academia at an international level. A limited number of presentation/demo slots of up to 30 minutes including questions and answers will be available for industry partners. During these slots, it will be possible for companies to present products/solutions/projects related to Intelligent Environments. Proceedings: - Papers accepted in the main conference as either short or full paper will be published in IEEE proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore. - Papers accepted in workshops will be published as a volume of the IOS Press Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments book Series of IOS Press. Proceedings will be indexed by Web of Science and SCOPUS. Journal publication: A selection of papers will be invited to extent and submit extended versions to special issues of high-quality journals: Awards: The following 8 awards will be presented at IE2025 - Best full paper award - Best short paper award - Beatrice WORSLEY award (best quality paper with a female co-author) - Best presentation awards by a female presenter and a male presenter - Award for the most influential paper in the last 5 years - Best doctoral colloquium paper award - Best demo & video award Organizers: Honorary Chair: Dieter W. Fellner (TU Darmstadt, Germany) General Chair: Arjan Kuijper (Fraunhofer IGD/TU Darmstadt, Germany) Program Chairs: Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland) Local Organizing Committee Chair: Florian Kirchbuchner (Fraunhofer- IGD, Germany) Workshop Chairs: Raul Aquino Santos (University of Colima, Mexico) Silvia Faquiri (Rus) (Fraunhofer- IGD, Germany) Posters and Short Papers Chairs: Paula Lago (Concordia University, Canada) Goran Vojkovi? (University North, Croatia) 　 Dennys Matthies (Technische Hochschule L?beck, Germany) Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Xi (James) Zheng (Macquarie University, Australia) Andres Munoz Ortega (University of Cadiz, Spain) Demos and Video Chairs: Daniela Micucci (University degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Sergio Staab (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Special Session Chairs: Aditya Santokhee (Middlesex University, Mauritius) Sunil Choenni (Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Netherlands) Robin Horst (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Keynotes and Tutorials Chairs: Slawomir Nowaczyk (Halmstad University, Sweden) Biying Fu (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Journal Special Issues Chairs: Sira Yongchareon (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) Jeannette Chin (UEA -UK) Publicity & WWW & Social Media Chairs: Paula Lago (Concordia University, Canada) Jeannette Chin (UEA -UK) Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan) Awards and Prizes Chairs: Ruizhi Liao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Carlos Rodr?guez Dom?nguez (University of Granada, Spain) Professional Society Liaison Chair: Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University, UK) Industrial Forum Chair: Khuong Minh Vu (National University of Singapore) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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University of Cyprus -- Department of Computer Science: Reseaerch Vacancies

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University of Cyprus -- Department of Computer Science Postdoctoral Research Associates in Multi Robotic Systems Application Deadline: October 18, 2024 No. of Positions: Four (4) The University of Cyprus announces four (4) Postdoctoral Research Associate positions, focusing on Multi-robotic Systems (MRS), for full-time employment. The successful candidates are expected to conduct top-quality research on collaborative drone operations (including cooperative aerial robotic flight planning, task execution and reasoning, as well as cooperative distributed control) with applications in urban air mobility and disaster management. Job Details  The successful candidates are expected to: •Conduct research in the area of Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), within the context of research and/or innovation projects. •Use machine learning techniques including reinforcement learning, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), and transformer models for MRS tasks and scenarios that are adaptable and reusable to exploit acquired knowledge and tools. •Develop next-generation autonomous systems for effective, safe, and secure operation during MRS missions, enhancing overall operational performance. •Execute simulation-based scenarios using ROS-Gazebo for dataset generation, training, testing, and evaluation of novel algorithms. •Implement and field-test state-of-the-art drone fleets using both open-source (Ardupilot/PX4) and proprietary (DJI) flight controller platforms. •Provide technical expertise for the development and implementation of multi-robotic systems. •Collaborate with external partners, including industry and first responder organizations, to evaluate newly developed technologies in these areas. •Engage in the preparation of research and/or innovation proposals. •Prepare reports and EU-funded project deliverables. Application  Interested candidates can submit their applications online through the following link: https://applications.ucy.ac.cy/recruitment •Cover letter explaining the interest of the applicant in pursuing a career at the KIOS CoE, along with employment availability date •Short summary of prior work experiences, activities and accomplishments (can be combined with the cover letter) (2 pages maximum) •A detailed curriculum vitae in English •Copies of transcripts of BSc/MSc/PhD or other degree(s) •Copy of an English language certificate •Identify at least two referees that can provide reference letters

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I: [IFIP TC13]: Reminder: Call for Proposals to Host INTERACT 2027

by Fabio Paternò

Da: ifip-tc13-members(a)googlegroups.com <ifip-tc13-members(a)googlegroups.com> Per conto di Paula Kotze Inviato: martedì 8 ottobre 2024 11:42 A: ifip-tc13-members(a)googlegroups.com Oggetto: [IFIP TC13]: Reminder: Call for Proposals to Host INTERACT 2027 Priorità: Alta Dear TC13 This is just a reminder about the Call for Proposals to Host INTERACT 2027. We have received on expression of interest (EoI) at this stage, but as decided at the TC13 Meeting in Milan, the Call will remain open until the end of October 2024 for first EoIs. Therefore, if you know of any group that is interested to host INTERACT 2027, please forward the information to them. Thank you and keep well. Paula From: Paula Kotze <paula.kotze(a)gmail.com <mailto:paula.kotze@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 3:38 PM To: ifip-tc13-members(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ifip-tc13-members@googlegroups.com> Cc: 'paula.kotze(a)gmail.com' <paula.kotze(a)gmail.com <mailto:paula.kotze@gmail.com> >; 'Marco Winckler' <marco.winckler(a)inria.fr <mailto:marco.winckler@inria.fr> > Subject: Call for Proposals To Host INTERACT 2027 Importance: High Dear TC13 I hope you are all doing well! The organisation of INTERACT 2025 is well under way. Feedback on the progress will be given during our TC13 Meeting in Milan. Time has, however, also come for us to look to the future and find a host for organising INTERACT 2027. Attached, please find the First Call for Proposals to host INTERACT 2027. We would ideally like to receive the first expression of interest by 30 August 2024, to enable the INTERACT Steering Committee to discuss the expressions during our TC13 Meeting in Milan. However, if for some reason, proposers cannot meet this date, we are open for submissions later, with the proviso that we are informed about the possibility of such submissions, preferably by no later than 7 October 2024. Please distribute this call within your communities and encourage them to make proposals for hosting INTERACT 2027. Queries about the call and/or submissions can be sent to me (paula.kotze(a)gmail.com <mailto:paula.kotze@gmail.com> ), with a Cc to Marco Winckler, the INTERACT Steering Committee Chair (marco.winckler(a)inria.fr <mailto:marco.winckler@inria.fr> ). Thank you for your support in this regard. Keep well. Paula ------------------------------------------ Prof Paula Kotzé E-Mail: paula.kotze(a)gmail.com <mailto:paula.kotze@gmail.com> Website: www.paulakotze.com <http://www.paulakotze.com/> Phone: +27 (0)82 454 8013 University of Pretoria: Extraordinary Professor, Department of Informatics - www.up.ac.za <http://www.up.ac.za/> IFIP: IFIP Fellow (www.ifip.org <http://www.ifip.org/> ), Chair IFIP TC13 - http://ifip-tc13.org/, IFIP TC13 Pioneer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IFIP TC13 members" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ifip-tc13-members+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:ifip-tc13-members+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ifip-tc13-members/002f01db1966%24652bced0% 242f836c70%24%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ifip-tc13-members/002f01db1966%24652bced0 %242f836c70%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> .

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Third Call for Contributions

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*** Third Call for Contributions *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? SUBMISSION TYPES Regular Papers This format is suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers can be full papers (12 pages, excluding references) or short papers (6 pages, excluding references) in Springer LNCS format, and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer LNCS conference proceedings and be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal (Taylor & Francis). Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will be also be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must not be more than 2 pages in CEUR format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1 column style, see here). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 2-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style). Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference. Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 4-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style) describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) unless opted out by the student. Workshops and Tutorial Proposals Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Tutorials are intended to help people attending the conference organize a related scientific meeting on a specific topic or instruct on a specific practice. Approved workshops and tutorials will be announced on the conference website. Tutorials and workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings- guidelines), including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee, duration of the workshop and mode of delivery: in-person/hybrid), expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Workshop and tutorial descriptions will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html. Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by December 01, 2024, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu(a)r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia(a)unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi(a)acm.org). The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by December 15, 2024. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: • Submission deadline: January 03, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: February 15, 2025 • Camera ready submission: February 28, 2025 Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: December 1, 2024 (AoE) • Decision notification: December 15, 2024 Workshop papers, posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for the main track: February 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline for the rest of the categories: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers of the main track (both Full and Short) will be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (https://www.springer.com/gp/ computer-science/lncs). Workshop and demo descriptions, extended abstracts , abstracts from posters, and doctoral consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct CEUR proceedings. Extended versions of the best papers and selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue on Persuasive Technology 2025 in Behaviour and Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis publication. ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '25) - ACM SAC 2025 [Firm Deadline]

by Salvatore Gatto

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘25) Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025 Part of the 40thACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘25) https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025 <https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/ <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> Theme and Scope Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility. This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with different points of view, taking into account specific technological constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called “curb cut effect” can be applied to any technological and digital context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs of people with disabilities. We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market. * Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc: e-services and content often require specific technologies, being bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while richness and quantity of content may affect the users’ ability to process information. * Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting, etc. * Accessibility of games. * AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization (i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and special needs) and “enabler” (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the creation of accessible applications). Submission Guidelines We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. The track accepts full papers (max 8 pages), posters (max 2 pages), and SRC abstracts (max 2 pages). Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing. Papers that will receive high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standard) but will not be accepted due to space limitations can be invited for poster session. Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in excluding the papers from the ACM Digital Library. See the track website https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025 <https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025>for more details. Important Dates * October 13, 2024: Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts [Firm deadline!] * November 20, 2024: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts * November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers * December 6, 2024: Authors registration due Organization * Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua * Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna * Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE * Catia Prandi, University of Bologna Submission Portal Please submit your contribution through our online submission portal available at https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php>(regular papers) and https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php>(SRC abstracts). Contact us For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact gaggi(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>. We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 2025 Conference!

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Special Issues Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper for fast-track review and publication in journal special issues (currently under negotiation). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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