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Call for Bids - ACM UMAP 2028 (ICORE Rank A Conference)

by Ludovico Boratto

Dear Colleagues, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. We are pleased to announce that the bidding process to host ACM UMAP 2028, the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization is now open. UMAP is a CORE Rank A conference and the flagship ACM venue in user modeling, personalization, and adaptive systems. The conference typically attracts around 200 international participants from academia and industry. For 2028, we particularly encourage proposals from Europe, although bids from all regions will be considered. Expression of Interest If you are interested in organizing and hosting UMAP 2028, please contact: - Cristina Gena (cristina.gena(a)unito.it) - Ludovico Boratto (ludovico.boratto(a)unica.it) We will provide the official bid guidelines and detailed information about the process. Financial Framework ACM assumes the overall financial responsibility for the conference. However, the bid must include a detailed budget and organizational plan. For this reason, preparations should begin well in advance (approximately two years before the conference date). Both ACM and User Modeling Inc. provide limited support for PhD student participation. We strongly encourage prospective hosts to seek additional sponsorship to ensure broad and inclusive student attendance. Support from User Modeling Inc. User Modeling Inc. works closely with the selected organizers throughout the process. This includes collaboration on: - selection of General and Program Chairs, - key organizational roles, - conference dates and structure, - overall coordination with ACM. Submission Deadline Bids should be submitted via email to Cristina Gena (President, User Modeling Inc.) and Ludovico Boratto (Vice President, User Modeling Inc.) by April 30, 2026. We look forward to receiving your proposals. Kind regards, Ludovico Boratto Vice President, User Modeling Inc.

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[CFP] IEEE MetroXRAINE 2026 - Workshop SHIFT: Shaping Human-centered Interaction for Future Technologies

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the workshop “SHIFT: Shaping Human-centered Interaction for Future Technologies” hosted by the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2026) that will be held on October 20-23, 2026 in Chemnitz, Germany. Authors who are interested in submitting their work should prepare an abstract of 1-2 pages in length by the 13th of March 2026. 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 by the 15th of May, 2026. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this workshop. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/shift. 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 the SHIFT Workshop in Chemnitz. Best wishes, Marta Mondellini, Mario Covarrubias, Philipp Klimant, and Giuseppe Caggianese. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHIFT: Shaping Human-centered Interaction for Future Technologies" https://metroxraine.org/shift 2026 IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025 International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering https://metroxraine.org/ October 20-23, 2026 in Chemnitz, Germany. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP 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 environment scenarios, such as Rehabilitation, Special Education, Cultural Heritage, and emerging platforms like the 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. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/shift TOPICS ---------- - AI-supported personalization in human-computer interaction. - Measurement of user experience (UX) in immersive environments and AI-supported systems. - Evaluation of cognitive load in augmented HCI systems. - Human factors in immersive technologies: measurement approaches. - Human factors in the design of AI-supported interfaces. - Evaluation framework for usability assessment. - Real-time feedback systems in human-AI interaction. - Emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses in immersive human-computer interaction. - Measurement of trust, ethics, and acceptance in AI-supported interaction. - Multimodal interaction and performance measurement. - Design for accessibility in next-generation HCI systems. - Data-driven insights for HCI design and optimization. - Metrics and validation protocols in AI-assisted HCI. - Adaptive Interfaces in XR. - Social Interactions and Collaboration in AI-enhanced XR. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Short Abstract Submission Deadline: March 13, 2026 Abstract Acceptance Notification: April 17, 2026 Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2026 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. 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 will be shared soon on the conference website: https://metroxraine.org. 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 National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), Italy marta.mondellini(a)cnr.it Mario Covarrubias Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Italy mario.covarrubias(a)polimi.it Philipp Klimant Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany philipp.klimant(a)hs-mittweida.de Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), 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 - EICS 2026 Workshop Proposals

by Stefanidi, Evropi

Dear all, The deadline for submitting Workshop Proposals to EICS 2026 has been extended to Mar 1, 2026. The Workshops Track at the 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2026) offers an opportunity to organize specialized forums alongside the main conference and bring together researchers and practitioners around emerging topics in the engineering of interactive computing systems. EICS 2026 will take place June 30 – July 3, 2026 in Patras, Greece. We welcome both traditional workshops with paper presentations and innovative formats, including design-oriented workshops, experience-based sessions, and collaborative interactive formats. Workshops may be half-day or full-day, and successful past EICS workshops are encouraged to submit continuation proposals. Extended Important Dates (AoE): • Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (extended) • Notification to organizers: March 6, 2026 (extended) • Camera-ready deadline for proposals: April 30, 2026 Workshop proposals should be up to 5 pages (ACM Master template, manuscript option) and include aims and goals, target audience, recruitment and advertising plans, workshop structure, operational requirements, post-workshop dissemination plans, and organizer information. Organizers of accepted workshops will also have the opportunity to present their workshop outcomes at the main conference to maximize visibility and impact. Full details and submission guidelines are available here: https://eics.acm.org/2026/workshop.html For questions regarding workshop proposals, please contact the Workshop Chairs at: workshops2026(a)eics.acm.org<mailto:workshops2026@eics.acm.org> We look forward to your workshop proposals and to an engaging workshop program at EICS 2026. Best regards, EICS 2026 Workshop Chairs ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Call for Late-Breaking Results of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

by Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi

Call for Late-Breaking Results EICS 2026 – The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 30 – July 3, 2026 Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline (Late-Breaking Results): March 12, 2026 Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2026 About Late-Breaking Results Late-Breaking Results (LBR) describe preliminary results of ongoing research or incremental work that present new ideas, concepts, systems, or approaches focusing on methods, techniques, and tools for designing and developing interactive systems. LBR submissions are intended to elicit useful feedback on early-stage or incremental work that can benefit from discussion with colleagues in the EICS community. We particularly welcome papers suitable for demonstration at the conference. Supplementary videos showing the system in action are strongly encouraged. Accepted LBR papers will be published in the conference’s companion proceedings and made available in the ACM Digital Library. Topics of Interest Submissions should advance the state of the art in the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Modeling, specification, and analysis of interactive systems - Requirements engineering for interactive systems - Software architectures and formal methods for interactive systems - Methods, processes, principles, tools, and frameworks for developing interactive systems (design, prototyping, implementation, evaluation, verification, validation, and testing) - Domain-specific languages, notations, and APIs for interactive systems - Integration of engineering concerns into the design process - Engineering data-driven and smart interactive systems (adaptive, context-aware, AI-based, multimodal, etc.) - Engineering for accessibility at scale and integration with software development pipelines - Engineering serious games and cognitive stimulation tools (embodied agents, humanoid robots) - Interactive systems using emerging technologies (e.g., touch and multitouch, voice, gestures, EEG, AR/MR/VR/XR, large language models, chatbots, humanoid robots) - Interactive systems for diverse audiences (children, elderly, people with disabilities) - Interactive systems for various domains (health, entertainment, safety-critical systems, emergency management, etc.) - Engineering hardware/software integration (cyber-physical systems, tangible, haptic, wearable, robotic systems) - Engineering for specific properties (usability, user experience, safety, security, dependability) - Building human-centred AI systems (explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware interactive agents) Format and Submission Guidelines LBR papers will be published as 6-page double-column papers generated by ACM TAPS. For review, authors must submit using the single-column review template. The single-column review submission should be approximately 8–12 pages, up to 5,000 words, excluding references. Authors must not use the old double-column format at the review stage. Submissions must be made via: https://new.precisionconference.com Citation Guidelines Authors are kindly requested to ensure references report the correct publication format to facilitate citation indexing, particularly for conferences publishing in journal proceedings such as PACM. Please avoid informal conference-style citations when a PACM reference is available. Anonymization Policy The review process is double-anonymous. Authors must remove author and institutional identities from the title, headers, and document metadata, and leave the acknowledgments section blank. Citations to prior work, including the authors’ own, should remain but must be written in the third person (e.g., “As described by [10]…”). Further suppression of identifying information in the paper body is left to the authors’ discretion. Authors are reminded that preprints or public dissemination during the review period may compromise anonymity and potentially introduce unconscious bias. Contact For questions regarding Late-Breaking Results submissions, please contact the LBR chairs at: lbr2026(a)eics.acm.org EICS 2026 Late-Breaking Results Chairs

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[RecSys 2026] Call for Workshop Proposals

by Noemi Mauro

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Workshop Proposals for ACM RecSys 2026, the leading conference on recommender systems, taking place September 28 – October 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The workshops will be held on the first or last day of the conference. Details & submission guidelines can be found here: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/#content-tab-1-6-tab The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing novel ideas as well as recent results of research in progress. We encourage the community to propose workshops that explore newly emerging, currently evolving, as well as historically understudied topics, and that adopt diverse and engaging workshop formats. We actively encourage both academia researchers and industry practitioners to submit proposals. Different full-day and half-day workshop formats are possible, for example: - Workshops with novel interactive formats and a relatively small number of participants. Such workshop formats might for example target the exploration of a certain topic during the workshop through a moderated discussion, resulting in a draft paper or report to be completed and published after the workshop. Or they might focus on datasets and benchmarking for a particular problem or domain. Particular priority will be given to these formats which require the active involvement of the participants. - Workshops with the traditional workshop format on specialized topics. Such workshops typically have their own paper submission and review processes. Proposals for the continuation of an existing workshop series are welcome. However, please include a brief statement on the necessity for the new edition, including a description of the outcomes of previous years and the expected novelty of this edition. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 10, 2026 Workshop proposal notification: April 3, 2026 Camera-ready workshop summary deadline: July 20, 2026 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. Please submit your proposal to EasyChair. Best regards, Noemi Mauro and Pan Li On behalf of the ACM RecSys 2026 Organizing Committee

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I: Potential academic host for a postdoctoral position

by Fabio Paternò

Salve, Avevo ricevuto questo messaggio da un ricercatore palestinese che non conoscevo. Al CNR avevamo un programma di supporto <https://www.cnr.it/sites/default/files/public/media/internazionale/Call_LP2 024_signed.pdf> https://www.cnr.it/sites/default/files/public/media/internazionale/Call_LP20 24_signed.pdf per queste situazioni, ma non è più attivo. Lo giro alla lista nel caso in qualche università o centro ci sia qualche programma di supporto per ricercatori che vengono da quellarea, Saluti Fabio Da: Nasser Sabah <nsabah(a)ptcdb.edu.ps> Inviato: sabato 31 gennaio 2026 02:16 A: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it Oggetto: Potential academic host for a postdoctoral position Dear Dr. Professor Fabio Paternò, I hope this message reaches you well. My name is Nasser M. Sabah; I am a Palestinian academic and an assistant professor in the Engineering Department at Palestine Technical College-Gaza Strip with extensive teaching experience for more than 26 years and with a solid scientific research background into two main fields. The field of Technology Enhanced Learning and Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., E-Learning, mobile and blended learning, flipped classrooms, and educational use of videos-based instructional content in higher education), and the field of Communication Networks (e.g., mobile ad-hoc networks, ad-hoc routing protocols, mobility models, and queuing systems). Therefore, I am reaching out to you seeking your consideration, networking, and the possibility of supporting me as a potential academic host for a postdoctoral position in any of the aforementioned related research fields. Your endorsement would be invaluable in helping me secure this lifeline. I am writing to you today with a sincere and urgent humanitarian appeal. I am seeking help to escape a situation that has become life threatening and humbly asking for your guidance, support, or direction toward any possible opportunity for me and my family to survive this war before it is too late. The ongoing conflict has left us without basic security and with a severe shortage of basic needs (e.g., food and safe drinking water). Furthermore, Education and healthcare systems have collapsed, and my academic work, research activities, and professional contributions have come to a complete halt due to the devastating conditions of the warconditions that the world is well aware of. Furthermore, the ongoing escalations have made it impossible to continue my academic work. Like many others, I have been striving to continue my research and maintain my academic purpose despite these profoundly difficult circumstances. Any postdoctoral position represents a vital opportunity for me to find safety and continue my academic research in a supportive environment to serve my local community and contribute to the global society. Thank you sincerely for your time, understanding, and compassion. I deeply appreciate your consideration of my appeal. -- Best Regards, Assist. Prof. Dr. Nasser M. Sabah Engineering Professions Department Palestine Technical College Deir El-balah, Gaza Strip Palestine

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[EICS 2026] First Call for Posters & Demonstrations

by Stefanidi, Evropi

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the Posters and Demonstrations track at EICS 2026, the 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, taking place June 30 – July 3, 2026 in Patras, Greece. The Posters and Demos track provides an opportunity to present work in progress, early-stage research, and practical systems in an interactive and informal setting, fostering discussion and feedback within the EICS community. Posters Poster papers allow researchers and practitioners to present ongoing work and emerging ideas and to receive feedback from peers. Demos Demo papers showcase novel systems, techniques, and practical applications related to interactive systems engineering. Live demonstrations will take place during the conference exhibition sessions. We also welcome Lab and Group Demos, where research groups may present multiple related demonstrations or several perspectives on a shared theme. Interested groups are encouraged to contact the chairs in advance. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: March 12, 2026 • Notification to authors: April 22, 2026 • Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2026 Submission Requirements Submissions consist of a non-anonymized paper (up to 2 pages + references, two-column format), a walkthrough video (required for demos, max. 3 minutes), a still image, and a description of on-site setup requirements. Authors should clearly describe the system or work, its novelty, and the envisioned exhibition setup. Accepted posters and demos will be presented in the conference exhibition area. Demo authors are expected to perform live demonstrations at the conference. Full submission guidelines, topic list, and formatting instructions are available here: https://eics.acm.org/2026/demos-poster.html If you have any questions regarding poster or demo submissions, please contact the chairs at: demos-posters2026(a)eics.acm.org<mailto:demos-posters2026@eics.acm.org> We look forward to your contributions and to an engaging Posters and Demos program at EICS 2026. Best regards, EICS 2026 Posters & Demos Chairs ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Second Call for Papers (Research Track)

by Announce

*** Second Call for Papers (Research Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading conference on software reliability research and practice. ISSRE focuses on techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, security, and resilience of software systems. As modern software increasingly integrates AI/ML components, operates autonomously, and spans cloud-to-edge environments, ensuring reliable system behavior is more critical than ever. Topics of Interest ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of software reliability across contemporary software-intensive systems, including systems that incorporate AI/ML components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations of Reliability and Dependability • Principles, models, metrics, empirical methods, and theories of software reliability, resilience, robustness, and safety • Systematic approaches to fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, and fault forecasting in modern software systems • Testing and debugging, formal methods, model checking, static/dynamic analysis, verification, and runtime assurance Reliability in AI-Driven and Autonomic Systems • Reliability engineering for AI-enabled, autonomous, self-adaptive, and cyber-physical systems • Assurance, testing, verification, and certification of AI/ML components, including foundation and generative models • Reliability of AI-generated code: validation, verification, explainability, defect analysis, and trustworthy automation of development tasks • Impact of AI on software lifecycle processes (design, testing, evolution, operations, and quality management) AI Techniques for Reliability Engineering • Machine learning for defect prediction, anomaly detection, debugging assistance, fault localization, and test automation • Learning-based approaches to self-healing, resilience management, predictive maintenance, and reliability optimization • Reliability governance in AI-driven DevOps pipelines, including transparency, interpretability, and auditability Software Reliability in Emerging System Domains • Reliability assurance for cloud, edge, IoT, 5G/6G, cyber-physical, high-performance, and network softwarization environments • Dependability of open-source ecosystems, data-driven pipelines, model hubs, and AI-assisted contributions • Benchmarking, stress testing, workload modeling, and measurement frameworks for large-scale and AI-based systems Trustworthiness, Security, and Responsible Software Engineering • Intersections of reliability with security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance • Societal, ethical, and human impacts of pervasive AI-enabled software systems • Responsible governance of AI-based systems, including lifecycle assurance, auditability, and risk analysis Human-Centered, Empirical, and Reproducible Reliability Research • Field studies, experience reports, user studies, and human factors in reliability engineering • Public datasets, benchmark suites, reproducibility packages, and replication/negative- result studies • Tooling, automation, continuous reliability monitoring, observability, and operational feedback loops Research Track Paper Categories The research track at ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality submissions of technical research papers that describe original, unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas, contribute new evidence to established research directions, or reflect on practical experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories: • Research (RES) papers • Practical experience reports (PER) • Tools and artefacts (TAR) papers Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category. All the papers of the three categories are regular and full papers, and will be published in the same ISSRE proceedings. RES Papers RES papers (12 pages, including references) should describe a novel contribution to the reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via concrete evidence and appropriate positioning within the state of the art. RES papers are also expected to explain the validation process and its limitations clearly. PER Papers PER papers (12 pages, including references) should provide an in-depth exposition of practical experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and industry practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should be lessons learned from applying established research tools and methods to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge acquired through empirical studies conducted using various research methodologies. Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where or why current research cannot be applied in an industrially relevant context. TAR Papers TAR papers (6 – 10 pages, including references) should describe a new tool or artefact. Tool-focused TAR papers must present either a new tool or a novel and substantial extension of an existing tool. They should include a description of (i) the theoretical foundations, (ii) the design and implementation aspects, and (iii) experiments with realistic case studies. Making the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged. Artefact-focused TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii) experimental data sets. Dataset papers should introduce a new dataset that supports experimentation, benchmarking, evaluation, or training in AI-driven software engineering. Submissions should describe: (i) dataset motivation and scope, (ii) data collection and processing methodology, (iii) dataset structure and statistics, and (iv) potential use cases. Benchmark papers should present a new benchmark suite for evaluating tools, LLMs, or algorithms. Submissions should include: (i) benchmark design principles, (ii) task definitions and evaluation metrics, (iii) baseline results, and (iv) reproducibility package. The ISSRE conference encourages authors of all three categories of research track papers to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Authors are encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Should the paper be accepted, the authors will have the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and quality of the research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only contribute to the progress of our field but also stand a chance to earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the conference proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work. At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an author and present the paper in person at the conference. Best Research Paper Award ISSRE is pleased to announce the IEEE Best Research Paper Award, awarded every year to the best paper in the Research Track. Special Journal Issue Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal (under negotiation as in previous editions of the conference). The Call for Papers will be available soon. Review Process & Quality Assurance in ISSRE 2026 (New) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Major Revision Guidelines Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Rapid Response Reviewers (RRRs) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Anonymizing Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Formatting Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Paper Submission Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee through a double-blind reviewing process, with a limited use of outside referees. Papers will be held in complete confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after the paper acceptance. Authors must anonymize their submissions in accordance with the guidelines above. Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization rules will be desk-rejected without review. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Conference Proceedings The authors of accepted papers must omit the paper’s type from the title to keep consistency among all the camera-ready versions in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex). Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2026 • Author Rebuttal Period: June 5 – June 8, 2026 • Decisions and Early Notification: June 15, 2026 • Author Revision Period: June 16 – July 3, 2026 • Notification to Authors: July 8, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Research Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Workshop @AVI2026 / The Workshop on the Boat: Digital Tools for Connecting with Blue Spaces

by Fabio Pittarello

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *The Workshop on the BoatDigital Tools for Connecting with Blue Spaces* A workshop held at *AVI 2026 Conference in Venice* https://wontheboat.altervista.org *Important Dates* Submission deadline: March 29th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 2026 Workshop: June 9, 2026 *Submission form:* https://forms.gle/VxTR1vDR8UcXAYS8A A full-day *workshop held on a boat *in the Venice Lagoon, exploring the connection with natural spaces, a theme of great interest not only for improving the *awareness* about the importance of natural spaces that surround us, but also for their demonstrated *benefits for physical and mental health*. *Digital tools* can play an important role in fostering connection with natural spaces by *informing*, *stimulating*, or *facilitating immersive experiences*. The journey will be an opportunity to *discuss* these *issues* and *explore the related design space through activities* inspired by the *most naturalistic part of the Venice Lagoon*. The field trip will be supported by a *marine ecologist *who will introduce you to the aquatic environment and its connections with humans and other living beings inhabiting the Lagoon, to inspire your work. The workshop is organized as a *full-day activity*, hosted on a *hybrid boat* that will depart *from San Servolo* (the AVI 2026 conference site https://www.unive.it/avi2026) in the morning and travel in the North Lagoon. The return to San Servolo is scheduled for the afternoon. *Seats are limited!* Organizers: Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Fabio Pranovi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice https://wontheboat.altervista.org More info: https://wontheboat.altervista.org wontheboat-grpunive(a)unive.it ========================== 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 8th-12th June 2026, Venice http://unive.it/avi2026 ========================== Fabio Pittarello Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - DAIS Via Torino 155 30172 Mestre - Venezia Tel +39 041 2348435 <+39%20041%202348435> E-mail pitt(a)unive.it <pitt(a)dsi.unive.it> ==========================

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[CFP] CIVICS @AVI: Workshop on “Citizen Science Advanced Interfaces: from Sensing to Sensemaking”

by Catia Prandi

************************************************ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CIVICS ‘26 Workshop on “Citizen Science Advanced Interfaces: from Sensing to Sensemaking”, organized at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026, San Servolo (Venice), Italy. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/civics26/home Contact: catia.prandi(a)unibo.it ************************************************ ***Scope*** A one-day workshop as a forum for critical discussions and reflections on the role of HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners in designing citizen science-empowered advanced interfaces for increasing awareness about social good and societal issues and promoting concrete actions and behavioural change, from data to sustainable futures. ***List of topics:*** • Critical Data Science • Technologies for Fragile Urban Ecosystems • Application of Citizen Science • Advanced Visual Interfaces and AI for Citizen Science • DIY and Sensing Technologies • Co-creation methods for agency and civic engagement • Social Justice • Interactive creativity for Citizen Science • Agency and ethics in the design of Citizen Science systems ***Submissions*** --> Papers should be between 5 and 8 standard pages, plus an appropriate number of references. Submissions will undergo thorough review by the organisers to assess relevance, and by external experts based on their fields of expertise. We plan to submit the workshop proceedings for publication in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ceur-ws.org), subject to receiving at least 6 accepted papers. --> Motivation letters (or Research statements) should be between 1 and 4 standard pages, plus an appropriate number of references. This contribution will NOT be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, but will be made available, if the authors agree, on the workshop website. ***Workshop format*** As for the main conference, the workshop will take place as a full in-person event. ***Important dates*** Contributions submission deadline: March 29th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 2026 Workshop (at AVI 2026): June 8 or 9, 2026 (TBD) ***Organizers*** Catia Prandi (University of Bologna, Italy) Diego Morra (MIT Senseable City Lab, USA) Simone Mora (MIT Senseable City Lab, USA and Dept. of Computer Science, NTNU, Norway) Alberto Martinetti (University of Twente, Netherlands) _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals

by Announce

*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ Objectives ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics: • They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication. • They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance software and systems. • They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers and industry practitioners. Recurring Workshops Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning the workshop to ISSRE in 2026. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to: • Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software reliability • Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability • Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures • Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting) • Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems • Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large Language Models • Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks • Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates • Automated debugging and program repair • Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security • Reliability of software services • Reliability of open source software • Reliability in networks softwarization • Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS) • Reliability of software dealing with Big Data • Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software • Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems • Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems) • Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain) • Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability • Societal aspects of software reliability Proposal Submissions Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee and address the following questions: • Workshop length: Half day or one full day • Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups • Outline of themes and goals of the workshop • How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.) • Desired/estimated number of participants • Organizing committee members and their past experience Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for workshop proposals. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Proposal Evaluation Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team. Logistics The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026 • Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026 • Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026 (NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for information about deadlines) • Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026 • Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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DEADLINE APPROACHING - ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Special Sessions

by Gualtiero Volpe

!!! DEADLINE APPROACHING !!! ICMI 2026 CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The ICMI 2026 organizing committee invites proposals for Special Sessions to be held during the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) in Naples, Italy. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling, such as representations, fusion, data, and systems. * Important Dates Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline February 18th, 2026 Notification of Acceptance February 27th, 2026 * Special Session Proposals Special sessions provide an opportunity to explore emerging topics within multimodal interaction and are a key part of this year’s conference program. We are seeking proposals that will enhance the conference’s diversity and offer valuable insights into the conference theme of “Context and Cultural Awareness for Multimodal Interaction”. Prospective special session organizers are invited to submit proposals via icmi2026-specialsessions-chairs(a)acm.org. Special Session Proposals should include the following information: - Title: A title that shows the relevance of the session for the ICMI community and the novelty of the chosen topic. - Aims and scope: Explain why the chosen topic is novel and relevant, with the potential to contribute to the growth of the ICMI community and/or is aligned with this year’s conference theme. - Tentative speakers: A list of prospective contributing authors with tentative titles for their contributions. Special Sessions are normally expected to have 4 to 6 papers. While there is some flexibility for invited keynote and industry talks, the majority of the special session should consist of peer-reviewed papers. - Organizers and bios: A short bio of the session organizers including their experience in the topic of the Special Session. The primary criteria in evaluating the special session will include the relevance of the topic, the quality and track record of the proposers and speakers, diversity, the coherence of the proposal, and the expected value it will bring to the conference. We prioritize proposals that meet these criteria and welcome submissions from underrepresented communities. The organizers of accepted special sessions will actively participate in the high-quality peer review process for submitted papers, following ICMI standards for the main track papers. They will serve as Area Chairs (ACs) for their proposed sessions, being responsible for tasks such as assigning reviewers and facilitating discussion phases. Papers submitted to an accepted Special Session will follow the same review process as the main conference track papers, including the same submission system (PCS), formatting guidelines (short or long papers), notification dates, and a rigorous peer review process. For any questions and further information about the Special Sessions, please email icmi2026-specialsessions-chairs(a)acm.org or check https://icmi.acm.org/2026/special-sessions/.

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Workshop @AVI2026: TRI-IVIS - Workshop on Trustable, Reproducible and Intelligent Information Visualization Systems

by Paolo Buono

Workshop on Trustable, Reproducible and Intelligent Information Visualization Systems (TRI-IVIS) Co-located with the18th International Conference on Advanced Visual InterfacesAVI 2026 <https://www.unive.it/web/en/15667/home>,8th-12th June 2026, Venice, Italy https://triivis26.di.uniba.it <https://triivis26.di.uniba.it/> Overview TRI-IVIScontinues a series of events organized at the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) conference, previously focusing on Big Data Applications (BDA) and Information Visualization Systems (IVIS). The AVI 2026 reframes this line of work around Trustable, Reproducible and Intelligent Information Visualization Systems (TRI-VIS) that explicitly support trust, reproducibility, regulatory compliance, and visual analytics in data-intensive environments. Its goal is to advance methods and systems for managing, computing, and analyzing large-scale and complex data by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data analytics, and advanced visual interfaces in a principled and transparent manner. The workshop builds upon the conceptual foundations established by the AI2VIS4BigData Reference Model, introduced in earlier editions of this workshop at AVI 2016 and AVI 2020. This reference model provides a structured framework for coupling AI-driven analytics with interactive visualizations, with particular emphasis on explainability, traceability, and trustworthy data exploration—key prerequisites for reproducible and regulation-aware information systems. An exemplar focus of the 2026 edition is on, but is not limited to, genomic applications for AI-supported laboratory diagnostics. This domain is particularly suitable as it concentrates many of the workshop’s core challenges, including highly heterogeneous and large-scale data, long-term and distributed data storage, multi-stakeholder usage scenarios, knowledge discovery, user perception, ethical constraints, and regulatory requirements. At the same time, the workshop explicitly encourages cross-domain transfer of methods and models. The target audience is mainly composed of researchers and practitioners working in AI and ML, Big Data analysis, and IVIS. The workshop targets application domains in which large-scale, heterogeneous, and semantically rich data must be interpreted and communicated in a trustworthy and reproducible manner, including healthcare, life sciences, digital humanities, digital hermeneutics, scientific publications as well as meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE) mangement services. Contributions from related disciplines such as philosophy (e.g. ethics, trust, and interpretability) and psychology (e.g. perception and cognitive aspects of visualization) are strongly encouraged. Participation from the genomic and bioinformatics communities is also welcome. In this respect, the workshop can be seen as a continuation of the IEEE BIBM 2025 Workshop on Genomic Foundation Models for Diagnostic Innovation, held in Wuhan on December 15, 2025, while broadening its scope toward visual analytics, AI-enabled decision support, reproducibility, and cross-domain regulatory-aware information management. Topics of interest The edition particularly welcomes contributions adressing the integration of: * Cloud Resources into Service-oriented Big Data Analysis and Information Visualization Architectures * Information Extraction and Organization into Big Data Analysis and Information Visualization applications * Regulatory Compliance Approaches into Big Data Analysis and Information Visualization Approaches, like, e.g., especially in the Medical and Health Application Domains * Trust Mechanisms into ML and AI support within Big Data Analysis and Information Visualization Applications The workshop is most indicated for people interested in the following AVI topics: * Information visualization * Intelligent interfaces * Responsible design * Health, well-being, and self-actualization Organizers Paolo Buono, University of Bari, Italy Philippe Tamla, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Thomas Krause, FernUniversitätinHagen, Germany Haithem Afli, Munster University of Technology, Ireland Matthias Hemmje, FernUniversitätinHagen, Germany Important Dates * Paper submission (strictdeadline):March 29th, 2026 * Notification to authors:April 10th, 2026 * Camera-ready due:April 21st, 2026 Submission Authors can submit and update their submissions through theEasyChair system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tri-ivis26> (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tri-ivis26) The minimum length of a paper should befive "standard" pages(=2500 chars per page, calculated from a sample of one-column papers). The submission is double-blinded. Please, when submitting, do not include authors and affiliations in the paper. We require that authors use theCEURART template <https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART>for writing papers to be published with CEUR-WS. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available atas template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…>. Authors of selected papers will be asked to submit anextended versionfor publication to Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Questions For questions regarding the workshop, contact Prof. Paolo Buono, paolo.buono(a)uniba.it -- --------------------------------------- Paolo Buono Associate Professor IVU Lab, Department of Computer Science University of Bari, Italy http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/buono.htm ---------------------------------------

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Call for Tutorials of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

by Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi

Call for Tutorials - EICS 2026 June 30 – July 3, 2026 Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Important Dates (All dates are AoE) Submission deadline (Tutorials): March 12, 2026 Notification to authors: April 22, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2026 About Tutorials EICS 2026 invites proposals for tutorials on the engineering of interactive computing systems. Tutorials are intended to provide a broad and in-depth overview of a topic beyond a regular paper presentation, to inform and train participants in new or emerging approaches, or to expand on techniques, methods, and processes that improve how complex interactive systems can be built. Tutorials should be designed for a diverse audience, including PhD students, experienced practitioners, and specialised researchers. Each proposal will be evaluated based on its anticipated benefit for participants, its fit within the overall tutorial program, relevance to research and practice, timeliness, importance, audience appeal, and the instructors’ expertise and experience. EICS aims to stimulate and support the creation of reusable tutorial materials and to provide a platform for presenters to distribute instructional content that can be cited and reused by the community. Depending on circumstances, tutorials may need to be delivered online; presenters should take this possibility into account when preparing their proposals. Tutorial Submissions Tutorials will be assigned time slots ranging from a minimum of 1 hour to a maximum of 3 hours. Proposals requesting longer durations should clearly motivate the need for additional time. Each tutorial proposal must include: - A description (maximum two pages, including text and figures) of the proposed tutorial - A separate PDF file containing sample material that would be presented if the tutorial is accepted - Background information on the presenters The proposal description should include the following information: - Title and abstract: A clear title and abstract that allow attendees to quickly understand the tutorial’s subject - Aim and objectives: The overall aim of the tutorial and the concrete learning outcomes for participants, including its relevance to the EICS community - Target audience: Intended audience level (basic or advanced) and any prerequisites - Basic structure: Intended duration and planned structure (e.g., sequence of topics) - Operational requirements: Any requirements beyond a standard PC projector (e.g., audio equipment) - References: Key papers, books, or other materials the tutorial builds upon Tutorial submissions will be selected by the Tutorial Chairs, possibly with additional reviewers. Authors will receive light feedback on their proposals. Format and Submission Guidelines Tutorial submissions must follow the ACM TAPS process and use the official single-column template. Authors must not use the old double-column format. Must be submitted via: https://new.precisionconference.com Use of Generative AI in Manuscript Preparation Authors must comply with ACM’s policy on the use of Generative AI in authoring papers, available at: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions All submissions will be evaluated according to this policy. Papers that breach these guidelines risk desk rejection. Citation Guidelines Authors are kindly requested to ensure that references report the correct publication format to facilitate citation indexing, particularly for conferences publishing in journal proceedings such as PACM. Please avoid informal conference-style citations when a PACM reference is available. Contact For questions regarding tutorial submissions, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: tutorials2026(a)eics.acm.org EICS 2026 Tutorial Chairs

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ZEISS Introduces The Soul of Cinematography – ZEISS Aatma Lenses

by The Making Of

View this post on the web at https://themakingof.substack.com/p/zeiss-introduces-the-soul-of-cinematogra… ZEISS introduces the new Aatma set of nine high-end full frame T1.5 cinema primes with 9 lens focal lengths from 18mm-135mm, designed to marry the benefits of modern optical design with the nostalgic image characteristics that are popular today. Drawing inspiration from some of the most beloved ZEISS lenses of the 20th century, Aatma combines an emotion-driven look with the mechanical reliability, data integration, and workflow compatibility that’s expected for current production. Derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “innermost essence,” “self,” or “soul,” Aatma lenses balance character with versatility. They produce an organic, emotionally resonant image while remaining suitable for a wide range of cinematic applications. Their rendering enhances texture and atmosphere, enabling filmmakers to infuse personal style into each frame while retaining the precision required for contemporary productions. To see them in action, visit zeiss.ly/aatma-wg [ https://substack.com/redirect/70175abb-a114-4d98-a2ee-8af53df5bac9?j=eyJ1Ij… ] for “Welcoming Grace”, shot by Pascale Marin, AFC, directed by Hélène de Roux. After completing production Pascale Marin says: “The Aatma lenses, of which I had four focal lengths for ‘Welcoming Grace’, are rendering skin tones beautifully with more softness. And I loved the way the focus falls off. This gives them a more distinctive character than I’m used to from other modern ZEISS lenses while remaining truly reliable with their known ergonomics”. Availability The nine Aatma lenses – 18mm, 25mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm, 65mm, 85mm, 100mm, and 135mm, all T1.5 – are available as a complete set or individually. ZEISS Aatma lenses are available to order now, with deliveries expected to begin June 2026 from authorized ZEISS Cinema dealers. To find out more, please visit: zeiss.com/aatma [ https://substack.com/redirect/0257b991-f59b-4d52-8ffc-f73c7a68442c?j=eyJ1Ij… ] Unsubscribe https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly90aGVtYWtpbmdvZi5zdWJzdGF…

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Build New App.

by Amalia Gruber

Hi there, Are you looking to develop a mobile app or software solution tailored to your business? We've successfully delivered 100+ Android, iOS, and Windows applications across industries, including: 1. Purchasing online 2. Online shopping 3. Retail therapy 4. Indulge in excessive shopping 5. Look for deals 6. Shopping at a discount 7. Deals and sales 8. Discount codes 9. Discount coupons 10. Free delivery 11. Present suggestions 12. Product evaluations 13. Purchasing basket 14. The checkout procedure 15. Modes of payment 16. Refund guidelines 17. Policy for exchanges 18. Customer support 19. Order monitoring 20. Purchasing encounter Could you please write few words about your business, you would like to present through website accordingly I will share more relevant samples, company details and our work methodology to you. Thanks, Amalia BDM

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Quick question about your jewellery operations

by Raju Pal

Hey there, I hope you’re doing well. Many jewellery businesses struggle with inventory accuracy, billing control, and visibility across orders or stores as operations grow. At OSCORM Digital, we build tailored ERP systems and web applications for jewellery businesses to manage inventory, billing, automation, and reporting in one place. If this is relevant, please reply with “Interested”, and I’ll schedule a short call at your convenience. Best regards, Raju Oscorm Digital Reply “1” to opt out.

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[RecSys 2026] Call for All Papers

by Noemi Mauro

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Contributions for ACM RecSys 2026, the leading conference on recommender systems, taking place September 28 – October 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Why submit to ACM RecSys 2026? ACM RecSys is the premier venue for research across the full spectrum of recommender systems, from technical advancements to their societal, economic, and legal impact and human-centered aspects. Details & submission guidelines can be found here: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/ Main Track (handled by the program chairs): - Long Papers: We welcome high-impact original papers that contribute to all aspects of recommender systems. The paper length should be commensurate with the depth of contribution, comprehensiveness of analyses, and thorough discussion of related work. Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. We expect the review process to be highly selective. - Short Papers: This track is intended for contributions that can be described completely and rigorously within a smaller page limit. These papers should present focused, self-contained research stories supported by experimental validations. - Past, Present, and Future Papers: To mark the twentieth year of the RecSys Conference, this track encourages papers that consider a broad perspective on how the field has evolved and the challenges and directions that lie ahead. Key Deadlines for Main Track Submission (11:59 pm, AoE): - Submission Site Open: March 2, 2026 - Paper Abstracts Due: April 14, 2026 - Papers Due: April 21, 2026 - Author Rebuttal Period: June 4–9, 2026 - Paper Notifications: July 9, 2026 - Camera-Ready Due: July 27, 2026 Other Tracks and Deadlines (handled by their respective chairs, see the full CFP <https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/>): - Workshop Proposals: March 10, 2026 - Tutorial Proposals: April 28, 2026 - Reproducibility and Replicability Papers: May 5, 2026 (abstracts April 28, 2026) - Resource Papers: May 5, 2026 (abstracts April 28, 2026) - Industry Papers: May 21, 2025 - Doctoral Symposium: June 9, 2026 - Research and Practice Notes: July 15, 2026 - Demos: July 15, 2026 - RecSys Challenge 2026: TBD All accepted papers in the main track will be peer-reviewed, published in the ACM Digital Library, and presented in person at RecSys 2026. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Foundations of recommender systems - Human-centered and interactive recommendation - Explainability, transparency, and user control in recommender systems - Fairness, safety, diversity, bias mitigation, and societal impact of recommender systems - Legal and ethical aspects of recommender systems - Sustainable and eco-aware recommender systems - Recommenders for multi-stakeholder, cross-domain, and multimodal contexts - Generative, agentic, and reasoning-based recommendation - Conversational, knowledge-based, and context-aware recommenders - Recommendation evaluation methodologies and metrics beyond accuracy - Recommender systems data, reproducibility, and benchmarking resources - Real-world applications, case studies, and deployment insights of recommenders We encourage you to submit your latest research to ACM RecSys 2026. Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, Noemi Mauro and Pan Li On behalf of the ACM RecSys 2026 Organizing Committee

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I: NordiCHI 2026 - 2nd Call for Submissions

by Fabio Paternò

--- 2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026 **Apologies for cross-postings** We are delighted to share the 2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026! Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers, arts-based approaches, workshop proposals, tutorials, demos, late-breaking work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI 2026 are available at the conference website: <https://nordichi2026.org/> https://nordichi2026.org/ Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts - including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University and University of Vaasa. Professor Yvonne Rogers, Professor Mattia Thibault, and Senior Designer and Deputy Professor Pontus Wärnestål will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference. The conference theme is Pulse exploring the energy that drives us, representing the dynamic highs and calm lows of life, keeping us thriving. Vaasa is known for both its vibrant energy industry as the Nordic energy cluster and the tranquility of its surrounding nature and UNESCO World Heritage site. Our ambition is for the conference to energize its participants through inspiring encounters and opportunities to truly feel the pulse of the HCI field. Submission deadlines (all AoE): * April 16, 2026: Research Paper abstracts and metadata * April 23, 2026: Research Papers, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience * May 7, 2026: Workshops, Tutorials * May 18, 2026: Late-Breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium Join us in Vaasa for an inspiring NordiCHI 2026! Warm regards, Susanne Hägglund and Laura Havinen General Chairs NordiCHI 2026 <https://nordichi2026.org/> https://nordichi2026.org/

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[IxD&A Journal] Issue N. 66 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. 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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Second Call for Research Papers (2nd Round)

by Announce

*** Second Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Workshop @AVI2026: Future Horizons in Human–AI Interaction: Joint Perspectives from HCI and AI

by Maristella Matera

Call for Contributions Future Horizons in Human–AI Interaction: Joint Perspectives from HCI and AI A workshop held at AVI 2026 - https://sites.google.com/view/fh-hai Organizers: Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano), Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Micol Spitale (Politecnico di Milano) Date: 8th June, 2026 or 9th June, 2026 (TBA) Workshop Duration: Half-day Submission form for abstracts: https://forms.gle/VxTR1vDR8UcXAYS8A Recent advances in AI, from generative models to socially interactive agents, present new opportunities and challenges for user interaction, creating a pressing need for joint HCI and AI perspectives on designing human-centered AI systems. This workshop addresses the gap between AI development and human-centered design by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both communities to explore future horizons in human-AI interaction. The goal is to formulate shared guidelines, research directions, and collaborative initiatives that will shape the next generation of interactive AI systems in a human-centered, socially responsible manner. The primary focus of the Workshop is on dialogue, collaboration, and community building, and we expect a highly interactive format. We therefore solicit the submission of short position papers (in the form of an abstract) to stimulate discussion through early ideas, challenges, case studies, or visionary perspectives. All accepted contributions will be shared on the workshop website, and insights from the event will be synthesized into collaborative outputs, such as a post-workshop report or white paper. Topics We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to): * Human-Centered AI & User Experience * New AI technologies (e.g., LLMs and agentic AI) for interaction design * Socially Intelligent Agents & Robots * Explainability & Transparency * Adaptive & Personalized Interfaces * Participatory Design for AI * Multimodal interaction with AI * Ethical, Inclusive & Responsible AI Interaction Submission form for abstract submission: https://forms.gle/VxTR1vDR8UcXAYS8A

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CFP: Special issue n. 70 on "Democratic Technology Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Democratic Technology Design* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/democratic-technology-design/> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Alma Leora Culén, Jasmin Niess, Nicholas Stevens, Jason Miklian University of Oslo, Norway ===================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: *May 15th, 2026* * Notification to the authors: July 15th, 2026 * Camera ready paper: August 31st, 2026 * Publication of the special issue: Autumn 2026 (tentative) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Democracy today is not only debated in parliaments and assemblies, but also continuously shaped — and sometimes aggravated — by the technologies that mediate our everyday lives. Social media feeds amplify outrage, recommendation engines entrench polarisation, and algorithmic infrastructures concentrate power in the hands of a few global actors. What once seemed like a promise of digital democracy now too often appears as a machinery of division and manipulation. Yet, design opens other possibilities. Across various research fields, communities and researchers are experimenting with alternative technologies, including cooperative social media platforms, deliberation tools for citizens’ assemblies, AI systems that support participation, and infrastructures for commoning. These are not only technical artefacts but also democratic experiments, reminding us that technologies can embody values such as inclusion, accountability, transparency, and collective agency. This special issue explores democratic technology design, the idea that technologies can be designed not merely for efficiency or engagement, but for democracy itself. What would it mean to treat algorithms as accountable civic actors? To imagine infrastructures as shared commons? To design platforms that cultivate empathy, dialogue, and care rather than outrage? We invite contributions that make such imagination possible: conceptual frameworks linking political theory with design methods; participatory and relational practices for developing democratic technologies; empirical exemplars of counter-models to platform capitalism; and critical reflections on how design might resist manipulation, polarisation, and exclusion.Designing for democracy is not only a technical challenge but also a cultural, social, and political one. It requires crossing disciplinary boundaries—bringing together HCI, participatory design, CSCW, design research, STS, philosophy, and political theory. By consolidating these perspectives, this special issue aims to chart a growing but still fragmented field, opening a space for rethinking how technologies can support democratic futures. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite a broad range of researchers to address both theoretical and practical issues around democratic technology design, including conceptual papers, methodological innovations, empirical case studies, design exemplars, and critical reflections. Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes: • Principles and frameworks, e.g. using theories of democracy as design principles • Practices and methods, e.g. participatory and relational design for democracy, tools for deliberation and collective decision-making, speculative and adversarial design practices • Systems and alternatives, e.g. alternative or counter-models to platform capitalism, cooperative social media and civic platforms, AI systems designed for participation and accountability, digital infrastructures for commoning • Critical and situated perspectives, e.g. responses to crises such as polarisation, false information, and exclusion, inclusivity, feminist, postcolonial, and indigenous perspectives, democratic technology and long-term social justice design • Design artefacts and prototypes, e.g. design contributions, prototypes, and exemplars of democratic technology, transition and infrastructuring approaches to sustainable democratic futures. =========================================== /*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: Democratic Technology Design/") 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 for any query please contact the guest editors: marking the subject as: /SI: Democratic Technology Design/ • almira [at] uio [dot] no • jasminni [at] uio [dot] no • nichoss [at] uio [dot] no • jason.miklian [at] globe [dot] uio [dot] no

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A Message from the RecSys 2026 General Chairs

by Noemi Mauro

A Message from the RecSys 2026 General Chairs Many of you have reached out to express concern over the situation in Minneapolis, to ask about our safety, and to ask about the feasibility of attending RecSys 2026 in Minneapolis. First, we want to thank all of you who have written to express concern. We, our families, and our students are well, though the past few weeks have been stressful. We are actively monitoring developments and are optimistic that we will soon return to the safe and vibrant Minneapolis we are used to -- and do so long before the conference date. Nonetheless, we are also being prudent by exploring potential contingency options to ensure we can always put the RecSys community's safety first. We will provide updates as the situation changes. We also have heard from people concerned about the experience of getting visas and securing entry in the US generally. We are also monitoring this situation--right now we are seeing some modest slowdowns but otherwise the experience of international attendees to US conferences is largely unchanged. We have made certain changes in the conference timeline to accommodate these increased times, including setting an early student volunteer date (in addition to a later one) so that international SVs can start the visa request process early. We also want to assure you that we are committed to supporting the presentation of all accepted authors -- this is an in-person conference, but authors who make a good-faith effort to attend (e.g., apply for a visa but are unable to obtain it, or have other similar obstacles) will be given an opportunity to present remotely. We are also working to ensure that conference papers are accompanied by recorded presentations in the ACM Digital Library and that authors are invited to post-conference Q&A sessions online so those who cannot attend the conference can still benefit from the content and interact with authors. Thank you again for your expressions of concern. We will provide updates as we know more. Gedas Adomavicius George Karypis Joe Konstan RecSys 2026 General Chairs

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ICSA 2026 Workshops CFP: Behaviors & KDA‑AI

by Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit to two exciting workshops at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2026) in Amsterdam. Behaviors: Architecting Behavior‑Aware Software Systems (Behaviors Workshop): https://behaviors‑icsa.github.io/<https://behaviors-icsa.github.io/> This workshop aims to explore architectures that bridge human and system behaviors. Topics include human‑centric architectures (Internet of Behaviors, smart cities, emotion‑aware systems, privacy/trust, AI‑supported adaptation), system behaviors (self‑adaptation, dynamic reconfiguration, resource‑aware adaptation, digital twins), and co‑adaptive human‑system interactions. We invite original research and experience reports from SE, HCI, AI, Social Science, and other domains; full papers (up to 8 pages in IEEE double-column format) and short position papers are welcome. Knowledge‑Driven Architectures for AI Systems (KDA‑AI 2026): https://kda‑ai.github.io/<https://kda-ai.github.io/> This workshop provides a forum for exploring knowledge‑driven software architectures in the age of AI. Topics span architectural knowledge and decision‑making (design decisions, patterns, antipatterns, knowledge representation), knowledge‑centric software engineering (rule‑/model‑driven architecting, knowledge graphs), AI and architecture (architectures for AI‑enabled systems, AI‑assisted architecting), lifecycle and evolution (refactoring, modernization, continuous architecting), quality attributes and trade‑offs, and self‑adaptive and dynamic architectures. We solicit research papers (8 pages in IEEE double-column format, novel frameworks or empirical studies) and short papers (2-4 pages, position papers, tool demos, or experience reports). For both workshops, Accepted papers will appear in the ICSA 2026 Companion proceedings and be published in IEEE Xplore. Important dates (for both workshops) * Submission deadline: 13 February 2026 (23:59 AoE) * Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 * Camera‑ready deadline: 27 March 2026 * Workshop dates: 22 or 23 June 2026 (TBD) For submissions, please use the Easychair link and choose the correct workshop: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsa2026 We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Amsterdam!

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CSEE&T 2026 --Submission deadline extended to March 1, 2026 (001)

by Chen, Zizhao

Dear Colleague The submission deadline for CSEE&T 2026 Full Research Papers<https://cseet26.techconf.org/track/research> and Short Papers<https://cseet26.techconf.org/track/research> has been extended to March 1, 2026. Please share this information with your colleagues and students and invite them to submit their work to the conference. The submission link is https://softconf.com/utdn/cseet26-Regular-and-Short-Paper/ We look forward to working with you for a successful conference. CSEE&T Secretariat ================================================ From: CSEE&T Secretariat Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2025 5:43 PM Subject: CSEE&T 2026 -- July 20 - 22, Florence, Italy Dear Colleague We are pleased to announce that CSEE&T 2026<https://cseet26.techconf.org/> (The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training) will be held at The University of Florence, Italy, from July 20 - 22. The CFP is posted at https://cseet26.techconf.org/download/CFP-CSEE&T-2026.pdf Please refer to the conference website<https://cseet26.techconf.org/> for the most recent updates. If you have any questions related to paper submission to the main conference, please send emails to the Program Chairs: Professor Matthew Barr Professor Lin Liu, or Professor Rafal Wlodarski. For the Academy for Software Engineering Education & Training (ASEE&T<https://cseet26.techconf.org/track/aseet>) Workshop, please visit its website or contact Professor Nancy Mead and Professor Hossein Saiedian. For other inquiries, please get in touch with the CSEET 2026 Secretariat<mailto:zxc190007@utdallas.edu>. We look forward to working with you for a successful conference. CSEE&T Secretariat

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Second CfP - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026)

by Elodie Bouzekri

--------------------------------- CfP - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026) Harmonisation of human and machine intelligence in the 5th Industrial Revolution (5IR) Workplace June 17-18, 2026 University of West London, St. Mary’s Road, London (United Kingdom) https:/wg6.ifip-tc13.org/human-work-interaction-design-2026-hwid-2026 8th Working Conference of the IFIP WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design --------------------------------- Technologies in work settings are increasingly underpinned by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that applications and platforms such as those in the Metaverse, Digital Twin (DT) systems, and Industry 4.0 and 5.0 are becoming increasingly autonomous and intelligent. While these developments promise efficiency and innovation, they also present risks of over-reliance on technology and a potential abdication of human agency in the workplace. Such reliance may lead workers to underestimate their own cognitive and creative capabilities and to privilege machine intelligence over human skills. Rather than automating tasks and relegating workers to supervisory or backup roles, augmentation seeks to enable meaningful cooperation between humans and machines. Although this concept has been well studied in terms of efficacy and efficiency, further efforts in Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) research are required to support well-being, trust, and transparency; to ensure human autonomy and governance within human–machine teams; and to respect human values. Industry 5.0 builds on the technological foundations of Industry 4.0 by shifting the focus from productivity and efficiency toward human well-being and sustainability. In this context, the harmonisation of human and machine intelligence requires the ability to measure, analyse, and apply affective and contextual data about workers and workplace environments in order to design, integrate, and optimise work experiences. This conference, therefore, calls for inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to unpacking Industry 5.0 and re-conceptualising work augmentation in AI-driven environments. We particularly encourage the integration of perspectives from the social sciences, arts, design, and humanities into the design and governance of intelligent work systems. This call seeks contributions that explore the augmentation of human cognition in line with human values through research of new frameworks, models, approaches, and case studies for Industry 5.0. The Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) focuses on harmonising human ability and well-being, while simultaneously ensuring human beings can make effective use of 5IR technologies in the workplace. This edition of the HWID working conference aims to attract submissions from professionals in academia, national labs, and industry, as well as from students. The event will provide a platform to discuss tools, procedures, and professional competencies essential for harmonizing human and machine intelligence, central to Industry 5.0. KEYNOTE SPEAKER HWID2026 is a two-day working conference that focuses on discussion and exchange of ideas. During this edition, HWID2026 is pleased to welcome Professor Karen Cham, Director of the Behavioural Research Analytics in Neurotechnological Systems (BRAINS) Lab at Kingston University, expert in Augmented Intelligence, Digital Transformation & Design, as a keynote speaker. TOPICS - Human-centred UI design with and of 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human-AI interaction and collaboration - Sociotechnical Theory and Methods for 5IR - Collaborative systems design for Industry 5.0 - Human Digital Twins in the future of work - Behavioral analytics and data modelling - Safety and well-being of workers in the workplace (e.g., trust and training) - Ethics, policy, and law in 5IR - Case studies and implications of 5IR technologies (e.g., discretionary effort, job satisfaction) - Education and coaching to afford harmonisation of human and 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human and social sciences, creative arts, and design - Digital readiness for Industry 5.0 technologies in workplaces. - Design for occupational well-being in the 5IR IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 8, 2026 Notification to authors: March 6, 2026 Camera ready: March 27, 2026 Conference: June 17-18, 2026 SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit full papers (minimum 6 pages, maximum 12 pages, excluding references) formatted according to the LNCS template available on the Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… The link to the submission system: https://meteor.springer.com/HWID2026 Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers (single-blind). The collection of all accepted papers will be distributed to participants as digital proceedings prior to the conference. During the review process, reviewers will be asked to evaluate whether an extended version of the paper is suitable for an IFIP Springer book (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), which will be edited after the conference. ORGANIZERS General Chairs: - Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK) - Judith Molka-Danielsen (Molde University College, Norway) Program Chairs: - Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) - Elodie Bouzekri (Université de Brest, France) Paper Chairs: - Ali Gheitasy (University of West London, UK) - Parisa Sadaati (University of West London, UK)

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[ACM RecSys 2026] Call for Student Volunteers

by Noemi Mauro

Dear all, We are excited to announce the first call for student volunteers for the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), taking place in person Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from September 28th to October 2nd. Student volunteers play a vital role in making the conference run smoothly and are an essential part of the RecSys community. In return for their time and effort, student volunteers will receive: - Free conference registration - Access to social events - The opportunity to meet and network with leading researchers and practitioners in the RecSys field We are looking for enthusiastic and reliable students (Bachelor, Master, or PhD) or recent graduates (2025–2026) who are fluent in English. You do not need to have an accepted paper to apply. We particularly welcome applications from local and international students across a wide range of disciplines. Tasks include AV support, registration desk, poster/demo setup, session assistance, and more. Availability: On-site attendance from September 27 (mandatory orientation) through the end of the conference Working hours: Around 20 hours, with access to most sessions There will be two sets of deadlines this year. Applicants who cannot be accepted for the early deadline will be held over for consideration in the later cycle. Early Submission deadline: May 5, 2026 Early Notification deadline: May 15, 2026 Late Submission deadline: July 12, 2026 Late Notification deadline: July 22, 2026 Apply here: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/recsys-student-volunteers/ Questions? Email the chairs at: volunteers2026(a)recsys.acm.org We hope to see many of you join us in Minneapolis and become part of the team that makes RecSys 2026 a success! Best regards, Noemi Mauro and Pan Li On behalf of the ACM RecSys 2026 Organizing Committee

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CfP: SYNERGY 2026 - Designing Hybrid Human-AI Systems (AVI, Venice, June 8-12)

by Tommaso Turchi

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* Please share widely with interested colleagues and networks! SYNERGY 2026: Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems Co-located with AVI 2026 (18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces) June 8-12, 2026 - San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy https://synergy.trx.li/ *Important Dates:* - Submission Deadline: March 29, 2026 (AoE) - Notification: April 10, 2026 *ABOUT* In 1960, Joseph Licklider envisioned "Man-Computer Symbiosis" where computation would augment human intellect. Today, as AI becomes increasingly integrated into creative and decision-making processes, the challenge is to design systems that genuinely augment human capabilities through meaningful collaboration—moving beyond human-in-the-loop approaches where humans function as mere cogs in the machine. Following successful editions at AVI 2024 and HHAI 2025 (https://synergy.trx.li), this third workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to advance both theoretical frameworks and practical implementations that preserve human agency while leveraging AI's computational power. Aligned with AVI 2026's theme of "Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics," we focus on designing truly synergistic human-AI systems where both partners contribute their unique strengths to creative and decision-making processes. *TOPICS* We invite submissions addressing (but not limited to): • Human-AI collaboration models and interaction patterns • Design principles for synergistic systems that preserve human agency • Adaptive interfaces for human-AI partnership • Ethics, trust, and transparency in human-AI interaction • Interactive decision-making systems and dynamic task allocation • Evaluation methods for assessing human-AI collaboration effectiveness • Cognitive augmentation and distribution in co-creative systems • Software architectures and implementation patterns for collaborative AI systems • Visual interfaces for explainable and interpretable AI • Case studies and real-world applications of human-AI synergy • Creative agency in AI-augmented workflows • Bias mitigation and fairness in collaborative decision-making *SUBMISSION* • Format: CEUR-WS single column format • Length: Minimum 5 pages • Submit via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2026 • Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated CEUR-WS proceedings volume • Authors of outstanding contributions will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue in Interacting with Computers *ORGANIZERS* • Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa, Italy • Alan Dix, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK • Ben Wilson, Swansea University, UK • Matt Roach, Swansea University, UK • Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy *For more information:* Website: https://synergy.trx.li/ Contact: tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it

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[CFP] Doctoral Consortium @ AVI 2026 (Venice, June 8–12, 2026)

by Rosa Lanzilotti

Doctoral Consortium of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 / Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 <http://unive.it/avi2026>__ In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ========================================__ IMPORTANT DATES (23:59, AoE) Doctoral Consortium papers: -Submission: March 29, 2026 -Notification: April 15, 2026 Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOAL AND THEME The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work in person and receive constructive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). All contributions in HCI are welcome, especially in relation to the theme of the conference: interactive creativity, addressing agencies, interfaces, or ethics (https://www.unive.it/web/en/16565/calls). and visual interfaces. PROGRAM The Doctoral Consortium Program offers students different opportunities to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results in different manners, both during the Consortium itself and the main conference. ** Activities ** The Doctoral Consortium will be held on 9th June, 2026. During the Doctoral Consortium itself, students will have the opportunity to share their work -through a presentation with slides, -in focus groups. ** Main Conference Visibility ** Students with sufficiently mature work will also be able to present it during the main conference in a poster session, which will be open to all conference participants. BEST PRESENTATION AND CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE The best presentation of the Doctoral Consortium will be formally acknowledged during the main conference as well. All Doctoral Consortium participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance. MAIN BENEFITS In summary, the Doctoral Consortium offers several key benefits to participating students: -Guidance: students receive valuable guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers in HCI. -Networking: it facilitates networking opportunities with senior researchers and peer students participating in the Consortium. -Motivation: it seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their integration within the broader HCI research community. In this manner, the Doctoral Consortium offers students guidance on various aspects of their research by established researchers in HCI, as well as networking opportunities with seniors andpeers participating in the Doctoral Consortium. It seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS Doctoral students are required to submit a single PDF file including the following information: -Research summary (up to 2-3 pages, including references). The summary should provide the name and affiliation of the doctoral student, a concise overview of the PhD project, clearly describing (1) research goals, (2) method(s), and (3) expected contributions. -Statement by the doctoral student briefly describing how they foresee they will benefit from the participation in AVI (up to 1 page). -Letter of recommendation from supervisor. Please note that Doctoral Consortium submissions will not appear in the conference proceedings. Students are also encouraged to submit their work to other AVI 2026 calls with ACM publication, i.e., for long papers, short papers, posters, interactive experiences, demos. The research summary must be prepared in English, and PhD students should use a single-column submission template (PDF format) and the Easy Chair system for all submissions. Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS AND CONTACT Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it <mailto:rosa.lanzillotti@uniba.it>) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Contact them at avi2024dc(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See http://www.unive.it/avi2026 <http://www.unive.it/avi2026> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Rosa Lanzilotti, PhD Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy Tel. +39 080 544 3287 Office: 5th floor, room n. 572 Personal Home Page:http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/lanzilotti.htm Research Group:http://ivu.di.uniba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Replications and Negative Results

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*** First Call for Replication and Negative Results *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track has been introduced in the software engineering community for a while and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. This year, we establish this track at ISSRE and invite researchers to (1) replicate results from previous papers and (2) publish studies with important and relevant negative or null results (results that fail to show an effect, yet demonstrate the research paths that did not pay off). We also encourage the publication of the negative results or replicable aspects of previously published work. For example, authors of a published paper reporting a working solution for a given problem can document in a “negative results paper” other (failed) attempts they made before defining the working solution they published. • Replication studies. The papers in this category must go beyond simply re- implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper. Such submissions should at least apply the approach to new data sets (open-source or proprietary). A replication study should clearly report on results that the authors were able to replicate, as well as on the aspects of the work that were not replicable. • Negative results papers. We seek papers that report on negative results. We seek negative results for all types of program comprehension research in any empirical area (qualitative, quantitative, case study, experiment, etc.). For example, did your controlled experiment not show an improvement over the baseline? Even if negative, results obtained are still valuable when they are either not obvious or disprove widely accepted wisdom. Evaluation Criteria Both Replication Studies and Negative Results submissions will be evaluated according to the following standards: • Depth and breadth of the empirical studies • Clarity of writing • Appropriateness of conclusions • Amount of useful, actionable insights • Availability of artifacts • Underlying methodological rigor. A negative result due primarily to misaligned expectations or due to lack of statistical power (small samples) is not a good submission. The negative result should be a result of a lack of effect, not a lack of methodological rigor. Most importantly, we expect replication studies to clearly point out the artifacts upon which the study is built, and to provide the links to all the artifacts in the submission (the only exception will be given to those papers that replicate the results on proprietary datasets that can not be publicly released). Submission Instructions Submissions must be original, in the sense that the findings and writing have not been previously published or under consideration elsewhere. However, as either replication studies or negative results, some overlap with previous work is expected. Please make clear in the paper the overlap with and difference from previous work. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines: (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates). Authors are strongly encouraged to print the PDF and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submission, as defective printing can undermine a paper’s chance of success. By submitting to the ISSRE RENE Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to the RENE track must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ISSRE 2026. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the IEEE, to detect violations of these policies. Submissions to the RENE Track can be made via the ISSRE RENE track submission site： https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submission Length: The ISSRE RENE Track accepts submissions of two lengths: (1) New replication studies and new descriptions of negative results should have a length of up to 10 pages, plus 2 pages which may only contain references. (2) Negative results documented during the preparation of previously published work by the authors should be described in up to 5 pages, plus 1 page, which may only contain references (e.g., as previously mentioned, authors of a published paper can document negative results they obtained while working on it, such as methodologically sound solutions that did not work). Important note 1: Both types of papers (replication and negative results) will be included as part of the main conference proceedings. Important note 2: The RENE track does not follow a double-anonymous review process. Publication and Presentation Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to have a full registration for ISSRE 2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (e.g., related to health or visa). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the IEEE Digital Libraries. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 5, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: August12 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: August 19, 2026 • Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Call for Participation

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*** Call for Participation *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Early Registration Deadline: February 13, 2026 ***) The 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue, where researchers and practitioners 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. This year we had a record number of submissions, so we have a record number of accepted papers (114), a record number of posters and demos (53) and we hope for a record number of participants. Furthermore, we have 8 workshops and 5 tutorials. Finally, the technical program will feature two keynotes, by Antonio Kruger on the role of HCI in trusted A.I. and Pattie Maes on designing A.I. interaction for human flourishing. The detailed program of IUI 2026 can be found on the conference website: https://iui.acm.org/2026/program/ . The early registration deadline is on February 13th and the registration page is: https://iui.acm.org/2026/registration/ We are looking forward to meeting everybody in Paphos. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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Call for Papers: Responsible AI in Healthcare – Discover Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: October 5, 2026)

by Tommaso Turchi

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS: Responsible AI in Healthcare Collection Discover Artificial Intelligence ------------------------------------------------------ We are delighted to invite submissions to a new topical collection on **"Responsible AI in Healthcare: Bridging Technical Innovation and Multi-Stakeholder Needs"** in Discover Artificial Intelligence. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in clinical decisions, patient care pathways, and health outcomes, the need for systems that are not only technically robust but also trustworthy, equitable, and aligned with diverse stakeholder needs becomes critical. This collection emphasizes **operationalizing responsible AI** across the healthcare ecosystem—going beyond explainability to address governance, ethics, workflow integration, fairness, bias mitigation, privacy, accountability, and inclusive design. == Important Dates == * Submission Deadline: October 5, 2026 == Submission Guidelines == * Article Types: Research, Review, Brief Report, Case Study, Methodology, Perspective, and others * Format: Follow Discover Artificial Intelligence submission guidelines * Submission Portal: https://www.springer.com/journal/44163/submission-guidelines * Note: In the submission system, select this collection from the drop-down menu on the 'Details' tab == Collection Focus == We particularly welcome research demonstrating how AI systems can be **designed, validated, and implemented collaboratively** with clinicians, patients, researchers, administrators, and policymakers to ensure inclusive, equitable, trustworthy, and effective outcomes in real-world healthcare settings. We invite contributions that combine technical rigor with practical impact, spanning machine learning, multimodal health data, wearable and sensor-based systems, human-computer interaction, and ethical design in domains such as digital health, neurorehabilitation, clinical decision support, and telehealth. == Topics of Interest == Building on emerging trends and challenges in responsible healthcare AI, we welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to: 1. **Human-Centered AI and Participatory Design** - Co-design methodologies in healthcare AI - Stakeholder engagement strategies - Multi-stakeholder collaboration frameworks 2. **Fairness and Bias Mitigation** - Algorithmic fairness in clinical contexts - Equitable AI deployment - Bias detection and mitigation strategies 3. **Clinical Integration and Validation** - Workflow integration of AI tools - Clinical validation methodologies - Evaluation frameworks for healthcare AI 4. **Governance and Implementation** - Regulatory and ethical frameworks - Responsible data governance - Privacy preservation and informed consent - Implementation case studies 5. **Domain-Specific Applications** - AI-driven neurorehabilitation tools - Wearable systems and adaptive interfaces - Clinical decision support systems - Telehealth and remote care AI 6. **AI Communication and Interaction** - Natural language processing for health communication - Conversational AI for ethical decision support - Explainable AI in clinical contexts 7. **Data and Modeling** - Multimodal data fusion - Personalized healthcare using AI - Digital biomarkers and predictive modeling == About the Journal == Discover Artificial Intelligence is a transdisciplinary open access journal publishing research on all aspects of AI theory, methodology, and applications (SJR 2024: 0.876, Q1). The journal offers a median time to first decision of 23 days. **Open Access Funding:** Many institutions have existing agreements with Springer Nature. Check your institution's funding eligibility at: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/funding/articles#c14214262 == Guest Editors == * Giuseppe Prencipe, Associate Professor, University of Pisa, Italy * Silvia Filogna, Researcher, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Italy * Tommaso Turchi, Assistant Professor, University of Pisa, Italy This collection provides a platform for interdisciplinary contributions spanning computer science, biomedical engineering, clinical research, ethics, and policy, supporting **SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure**. **Full collection details:** https://link.springer.com/collections/ccieiafgad For questions or more information, please contact Tommaso Turchi at tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it We look forward to your contributions! #ResponsibleAI #HealthcareAI #HumanCenteredAI #ExplainableAI #AlgorithmicFairness #ClinicalAI

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Papers

by Gualtiero Volpe

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy. ICMI is the premier international forum for advancing research at the intersection of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction to create technically innovative, effective, and human-centered multimodal interactive systems. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature, bringing together research in AI, multimodal data processing, human-machine, and human-human interaction to bridge behavioral understanding with technology, with an eye towards impactful applications that benefit people and society. Novelty will be evaluated along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2026 must demonstrate novelty in at least one of these two dimensions. The theme of this year's conference is "Context and Cultural Awareness for Multimodal Interaction", to explore how context and cultural factors influence multimodal interaction systems, including their design, implementation, and evaluation. We welcome papers that address the integration of contextual understanding, such as environmental, social, and emotional factors, into multimodal interaction systems. We also encourage contributions that explore cultural considerations in the development and deployment of interactive technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Affective computing and interaction * User-adaptive systems * Cognitive modelling and multimodal interaction * Context-aware modelling * Cross-cultural design and evaluation * Gesture, touch, and haptics * Healthcare, assistive technologies * Human communication dynamics * Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction * Human-centred AI and ethics * Interaction with a smart environment * Machine learning for multimodal interaction * Mobile and wearable multimodal systems * Multimodal behaviour generation * Multimodal datasets and validation * Multimodal dialogue modeling * Multimodal fusion and representation * Multimodal interactive applications * Novel multimodal datasets * Spoken/visual behaviours in social interaction * System components and multimodal platforms * Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction Commitment to ethical conduct is mandatory, and submissions must adhere to ethical standards, in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to consult the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/). *** Important Dates Abstract deadline April 13, 2026 Paper Submission April 20, 2026 Rebuttal Period June 1, 2026 Paper notification July 6, 2026 Camera-ready paper July 23, 2026 Presenting at the main conference October 6-8, 2026 *** ACM Publication Policies ACM's New Open Access Publishing Model. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026, including ICMI.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details and important dates. 2nd Workshop on AI for Critical Infrastructure and Government (AI4CNI-26) https://sites.google.com/view/ai4cni-26/ Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) forms the backbone of modern society, yet its increasing complexity requires increasingly autonomous operation and makes it vulnerable to cascading failures and cyber-physical threats. The AI4CNI workshop explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems to enhance the efficiency, resilience, and defense of vital services like energy, transportation, communication networks and healthcare. 18th International Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) https://alaworkshop2026.github.io/ Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) brings together researchers working on learning, adaptation, and autonomous behaviour in single- and multi-agent systems. The workshop welcomes contributions from across computer science (including reinforcement learning, agent architectures, evolutionary computation, planning, and game theory) as as well as from related fields such as cognitive science, biology, economics, and the social sciences. Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) https://arms2026.di.unimi.it/ Robots are agents, too. Indeed, agents researchers often use robotics problems as motivating examples. Both practical and analytical techniques developed by agents researchers influence, and are influenced by, research in autonomous robots and multi- robot systems. Despite the overlap between the agents and robotics research areas, researchers from these communities only have a few opportunities to meet and interact. The Robotics Area of Interest in the main AAMAS conference (formerly, the “Robotics Track”) is one such opportunity. The goal of this workshop is to build on this opportunity, offering an informal and dedicated forum where agents and robotics researchers can interact, discuss promising research directions and open problems, and foster further collaborations. Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research. Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly specify the connection to challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable. Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate this work to the agents community. 7th International Workshop on Agents for Societal Impact (ASI) https://panosd.eu/asi2026/ This workshop focuses on the design, analysis, and deployment of intelligent agents that contribute positively to society. As AI agents become increasingly autonomous and embedded in real-world systems, it is critical to ensure that their behavior aligns with human values and societal goals, rather than optimizing narrowly defined technical objectives. The workshop provides a forum to discuss how agent-based technologies can be responsibly applied to real-world societal systems, including (but not limited to): healthcare, education, climate, sustainability, conservation, public infrastructure, labor markets, governance and policy design, etc. The goal is to identify new MAS problems in societies, develop novel MAS solutions to resolve social challenges, and learn from the real-world deployment of MAS. 14th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2026) https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/att2026/ The ATT 2026 workshop focuses on AI-driven modeling, simulation, control, and management of large-scale traffic and transportation systems. It addresses the challenges of distributed, autonomous, and data-rich mobility systems operating under uncertainty and societal constraints. The workshop invites contributions on multi-agent systems, machine learning, optimization, control, and data-centric AI approaches. Topics include autonomous and connected vehicles, intelligent traffic control, digital twins, shared mobility, and multi-modal transportation. Both theoretical advances and real-world applications enabling safe, robust, and scalable intelligent transportation are welcomed. Citizen-Centric Multi Agent Systems 2026 (C-MAS 2026) https://sites.google.com/view/cmas2026 Join us for the C-MAS 2026 workshop, where we explore citizen-centric AI and multiagent systems. In today’s world, large-scale AI systems hold the potential to tackle critical societal challenges, from decarbonising our energy system to facilitating on-demand mobility and improving disaster response. However, we often overlook the active role of citizen end users, treating them merely as data providers and service consumers. Our workshop aims to shift this perspective and explore innovative approaches that treat citizen end users as primary agents with diverse needs and preferences. By doing so, we can develop more trustworthy, fair, and widely accepted sociotechnical solutions to pressing societal challenges. 11th Workshop on Collaboration of Humans, Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors (CHARMS 2026) https://charms2026.github.io/ Cyber physical systems (CPS) are becoming more involved in the lives of humans. All indications point to a future where many varieties of CPS and humans co-exist and, at a minimum, must interact consistently through life’s tasks. This workshop will explore ideas of the future to understand, discern and develop the relationship between humans and CPS and the practical nature of software agents to facilitate the integration. Causal Learning and Reasoning in Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (CLaRAMAS) https://claramas-workshop.github.io/claramas2026/ CLaRAMAS aims to foster cross-disciplinary exchange and synergistic collaboration between two complementary communities: the AAMAS community and the Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLR) community. The overarching goal is to bridge these domains by exploring the following open questions: How CLR techniques can enhance agent-based decision-making? How agent-oriented perspectives can leverage the operational deployment of CLR in real-world applications? Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi- Agent Systems (COINE) https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2026-paphos/ This workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series that ran at various conferences including AAMAS (18 times), IJCAI (twice), AAAI in 2008 and ECAI in 2006 and 2016, and produced 17 volumes of post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The 18th volume of COINE post-proceedings is in progress. In 2020, ethics was added to the name and acronym (now COINE), and also the notion of governance of MAS was added to the full workshop title as this is the common objective uniting the various threads of research (coordination, organizations, etc.) undertaken. The workshop in the new format has been held six times (2020–2025). 14th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2026) https://w3id.org/emas/2026/ EMAS 2026 builds on the long-standing tradition of the Workshop on Engineering Multi- Agent Systems, advancing the design, implementation, and deployment of autonomous agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) through research on theories, architectures, languages, platforms, and methodologies. To engage with emerging augmented language models and agentic systems and build on decades of established MAS engineering approaches, this 14th edition focuses on Hybrid Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems. We invite contributions covering the diversity of approaches to engineering agents and MAS: submissions may focus on established or emerging approaches, as well as hybrid approaches that integrate the two, exploring, among others, questions such as how elements from different agent architectures can be combined to create more capable agents, and how MAS can be designed to ensure interoperability, coordination, and governance among heterogeneous agents. 8th International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, & Responsible AI & Multi‑Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS 2026) https://extraamas.ehealth.hevs.ch/index.html The International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi- Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS) runs since 2019, and is a well-established workshop and forum. It aims to discuss and disseminate research on explainable artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on intra/inter-agent(ic) explainability and cross-disciplinary perspectives. In its 8th edition, EXTRAAMAS 2026 identifies four particular focus topics with the ultimate goal of strengthening cutting-edge foundational and applied research. The 8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW-26) https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/ Games, Agents and Incentives is a confederated workshop which focuses on agents and incentives in AI. In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics including CoopMAS, AMEC, and EXPLORE. 27th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2026) https://mabsworkshop.github.io/ MABS focuses on the confluence of social sciences and multi-agent systems, with a strong application/empirical vein, and it emphasizes, (i) exploratory agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social sciences and (ii) using social theories as an inspiration for new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems. MABS 2026 continues its tradition of fostering cross-fertilisation and innovation in MAS engineering and complex social and sociotechnical systems modeling. The workshop encourages submissions in areas such as simulation methodology and tools, simulation of social and intelligent behaviour, diverse applications, and simulation analytics. International Workshop on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Space Applications (MASSpace) https://mas-space.github.io/aamas2026ws/ This workshop aims at disseminating and sharing recent advances in the use of agent- based and multi-agent-based models and techniques in the Space domain. Indeed, the use of agent-based and multi-agent systems (MAS) in aerospace and space is gaining traction, as they offer a promising approach for modeling and solving distributed, complex and dynamic problems. Sample applications notably include multiple spacecraft operations and maintenance, onboard-ground coordination, mission simulation, multi- mission operation, autonomous navigation, and collective robotics. NEurosymbolic eXplainable trUstworthy Systems (NEXUS) https://nexus.telecom-paris.fr/ The opacity of current deep learning models is a major barrier to adoption where accountability is essential. NEXUS focuses on neurosymbolic reasoning as a foundational approach to building theory, applications, and tools for well-calibrated and trustworthy autonomy. This paradigm moves beyond a narrow focus on formal logic, concerning itself with the integration of deep and reinforcement learning algorithms with a broad spectrum of structured knowledge. Workshop on Optimization and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems (OptLearnMAS) https://optlearnmas.github.io The goal of the workshop is to provide researchers with a venue to discuss models or techniques for tackling a variety of multi-agent optimization problems. We seek contributions in the general area of multi-agent optimization, including distributed optimization, coalition formation, optimization under uncertainty, winner determination algorithms in auctions and procurements, and algorithms to compute Nash and other equilibria in games. Of particular emphasis are contributions at the intersection of optimization and learning. This workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with multi-agent optimization and learning problems or problems that can be effectively solved by adopting a multi-agent framework. Rebellion and Disobedience in Artificial Intelligence (RaD-AI) https://sites.google.com/view/rad-ai/home Should intelligent autonomous agents always obey human commands or instructions? In some contexts, they should not. Most existing research on collaborative robots and agents assumes that a “good” agent complies with the instructions it is given and works in a predictable manner under the consent of the human operator(s) it serves (e.g., it should never deceive its operator). Our RaD-AI workshop challenges this assumption; we will reconsider the desired abilities and responsibilities of collaborative agents. For example, these include exhibiting behavior that attempts appropriate and harm-preventing non- compliance (e.g., safety constraints in autonomous vehicles or training LLMs to avoid potentially harmful or norm-violating output), among others. Our agenda will include accepted submissions that describe novel (and/or survey existing) contributions, or propose new directions, related to RaD-AI in the context of intelligent social agents, human-agent interaction, and their societal effects, along with invited talks and other events. We warmly welcome participation from AAMAS-26 conference attendees! Strategic Engineering Workshop (SE) https://sites.google.com/view/se-aamas2026 Real-world interactions are messy; Game Theory is rigorous. Historically, connecting the two required expensive manual modeling. “Strategic Engineering” seeks to automate this pipeline. We ask: How can LLMs serve as architects, translating everyday scenarios into the formal structures that Game Theory (GT) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) require? If we can automate the creation of the “world model”, we can unlock the full power of classical GT/ MAS reasoning for any situation. We invite submissions that fuse the generative capabilities of LLMs with the reasoning power of GT/MAS, creating a new class of agents capable of navigating complex, strategic environments. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: Last Mile for Abstract Submission

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*** Last Mile for Abstract Submission *** *** 2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference *** October 11-14, 2026, Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://fie-conference.org/2026 *** 2026 Conference Theme: Engineering and Computing Education  in the Large Language Model Era *** *** Abstract Submission Deadline: February 2, 2026 (extended!) *** The Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference is a premier international forum bringing together a global community to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and shape the future of teaching and learning. Since 1971, FIE has been co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, IEEE Computer Society, and ASEE ERM Division, and is recognized for its rigorous peer-review process, diverse program, and impact on the field. The Call for Abstracts for FIE 2026 invites researchers, educators, and practitioners to contribute innovative work in engineering and computing education. The 2026 conference theme is Engineering and Computing Education in the Large Language Model Era, reflecting FIE’s role in advancing timely, transformative conversations. Submissions are welcomed as Extended Structured Abstracts for Full and Work-in- Progress (WIP) Papers, and as Proposals for Alternative Sessions, including Workshops, Special Sessions, Panels, and Student Panels. Accepted papers in these tracks that are presented in person at the conference will appear in the Conference Proceedings and be published on IEEE Xplore. The complete list of topics is also available on the conference web site: https://fie-conference.org/authors/topics-of-interest . IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: February 2, 2026 (extended) • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Deadline: February 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2026 • Full & WIP Preliminary Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Submission Deadline: May 4, 2026 • Notification of Full & WIP Paper Revision Requirements and Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Acceptance Notification: May 22, 2026 • Revised Full & WIP Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026 • Alternative Session Revised Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2026 • Final Acceptance Notification for all Paper and Session Types: July 10, 2026 • Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission for all Paper and Session Types & Copyright Deadline: July 20, 2026

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Call for Late-Breaking Results of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

by Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi

Call for Late-Breaking Results EICS 2026 – The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 30 – July 3, 2026 Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline (Late-Breaking Results): March 12, 2026 Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2026 About Late-Breaking Results Late-Breaking Results (LBR) describe preliminary results of ongoing research or incremental work that present new ideas, concepts, systems, or approaches focusing on methods, techniques, and tools for designing and developing interactive systems. LBR submissions are intended to elicit useful feedback on early-stage or incremental work that can benefit from discussion with colleagues in the EICS community. We particularly welcome papers suitable for demonstration at the conference. Supplementary videos showing the system in action are strongly encouraged. Accepted LBR papers will be published in the conference’s companion proceedings and made available in the ACM Digital Library. Topics of Interest Submissions should advance the state of the art in the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Modeling, specification, and analysis of interactive systems - Requirements engineering for interactive systems - Software architectures and formal methods for interactive systems - Methods, processes, principles, tools, and frameworks for developing interactive systems (design, prototyping, implementation, evaluation, verification, validation, and testing) - Domain-specific languages, notations, and APIs for interactive systems - Integration of engineering concerns into the design process - Engineering data-driven and smart interactive systems (adaptive, context-aware, AI-based, multimodal, etc.) - Engineering for accessibility at scale and integration with software development pipelines - Engineering serious games and cognitive stimulation tools (embodied agents, humanoid robots) - Interactive systems using emerging technologies (e.g., touch and multitouch, voice, gestures, EEG, AR/MR/VR/XR, large language models, chatbots, humanoid robots) - Interactive systems for diverse audiences (children, elderly, people with disabilities) - Interactive systems for various domains (health, entertainment, safety-critical systems, emergency management, etc.) - Engineering hardware/software integration (cyber-physical systems, tangible, haptic, wearable, robotic systems) - Engineering for specific properties (usability, user experience, safety, security, dependability) - Building human-centred AI systems (explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware interactive agents) Format and Submission Guidelines LBR papers will be published as 6-page double-column papers generated by ACM TAPS. For review, authors must submit using the single-column review template. The single-column review submission should be approximately 8–12 pages, up to 5,000 words, excluding references. Authors must not use the old double-column format at the review stage. Submissions must be made via: https://new.precisionconference.com Citation Guidelines Authors are kindly requested to ensure references report the correct publication format to facilitate citation indexing, particularly for conferences publishing in journal proceedings such as PACM. Please avoid informal conference-style citations when a PACM reference is available. Anonymization Policy The review process is double-anonymous. Authors must remove author and institutional identities from the title, headers, and document metadata, and leave the acknowledgments section blank. Citations to prior work, including the authors’ own, should remain but must be written in the third person (e.g., “As described by [10]…”). Further suppression of identifying information in the paper body is left to the authors’ discretion. Authors are reminded that preprints or public dissemination during the review period may compromise anonymity and potentially introduce unconscious bias. Contact For questions regarding Late-Breaking Results submissions, please contact the LBR chairs at: lbr2026(a)eics.acm.org EICS 2026 Late-Breaking Results Chairs

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Call for Participation

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*** Call for Participation *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 *** Early Registration Deadline: 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems. The event explores innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system renewal and program understanding. INVITED SPEAKERS Nicole Novielli and Alexander Serebrenik are the keynote speakers of SANER 2026. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/info/saner-2026/keynotes REGISTRATION Registration is open. Please visit: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/saner-2026/registration+ *** Early registration till 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** If you have not yet registered, there is still time to register at the reduced rate. Special rates for IEEE members and for students. The conference organisation is able to provide visa support letters to attendees that require visa. VENUE SANER 2026 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. St. Raphael Resort is located on one of the most renowned beaches in Limassol, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away. PROGRAM OVERVIEW SANER 2026 workshops take place on 17th March and the main conference between 18th and 20th of March. SANER 2026 features many tracks with talks in different areas of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. • Research Track (47 papers) • Industrial Track (19 papers) • Early Research Achievement Track (15 papers) • Short Papers and Posters Track (19 papers) • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results Track (4 papers) • Tool Demo Track (13 papers) • Journal First Papers (18 papers) • Registered Report Track (5 papers) • Workshops (7 workshops) • Tutorials (1 tutorial) WORKSHOPS - SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Workshop https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io/ - Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io/ - Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io/ - F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ - IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ - VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ - MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io/ ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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[CFP] INI-DH 2026: Innovative Interfaces in Digital Healthcare - 2nd edition

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

*Call for Papers* 2nd workshop on Innovative Interfaces in Digital Healthcare (INI-DH 2026) https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/ini-dh in conjunction with AVI 2026 (https://www.unive.it/web/en/15667/home) 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces San Servolo (Venice), Italy 8th-12th June 2026 *Important dates* Submission deadline: March 27, 2026 Notification: April 10, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: April 21, 2026 Registration deadline: early registration AVI 2026 *Topics* In an era defined by digital transformation, the intersection of technology and healthcare is reshaping the landscape of medical practice and patient experience. This workshop aims to bring together innovators, healthcare professionals, designers and researchers to explore the multiple applications of visual interfaces in digital healthcare. The workshop aims to explore the multiple applications of visual interfaces in digital healthcare by considering several topics including, but not limited to: - Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces for Digital Healthcare - Affective Visual Interfaces - Computer Vision - Conversational Healthcare Interfaces - Full-body Interaction - Human-Robot Interaction for Patient Empowerment - Human-Centered AI for Healthcare - Image Analysis - Information Visualization - Intelligent Interfaces and Creative AI for Patient Empowerment - Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation in the Healthcare Domain - Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging - User eXperience Design in IoT Environments for Healthcare - Usability and Accessibility - Virtual and Augmented Reality for Training Healthcare Professionals *Participation and Submission* We invite the submission of papers in accordance with the CEUR Article Template. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal, conference, or workshop. The following paper categories are welcome: - Full Papers: minimum of 10 standard pages, plus an appropriate number of references - Short Papers: between 5 and 9 standard pages Following acceptance, it is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the workshop. *Organizers* Paola Barra, *University of Naples Parthenope, Italy* Andrea Antonio Cantone, *University of Salerno, Italy* Teresa Onorati, *Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain*

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CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Human-AI Interaction and Experience Design (HAXD 2026)

by Daniela FOGLI

CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Human-AI Interaction and Experience Design (HAXD 2026) IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored. A Hybrid Event https://intelligent-systems.net/haxd2026/index.html Venue: Valencia, Spain (9-12 June 2026) Theme: Beyond Prompts: Designing Human–AI Teamwork Exploring collaborative frameworks where humans and AI systems work together as partners Scope Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in our daily lives, transforming how we work, learn, manage our health, and interact, enjoy entertainment, and engage with public services. As AI systems grow more sophisticated and pervasive, the quality of human-AI interaction emerges as the critical factor determining whether these technologies truly benefit users and society. HAXD 2026 focuses on the design and experience of human-AI interaction—examining not just what AI can do, but how people actually interact with these systems and what experiences result from these interactions. We are interested in understanding and improving the full spectrum of user outcomes: usefulness, usability, trust, cognitive workload, user satisfaction, safety, fairness, accessibility, and long-term societal impact. The conference welcomes research and design work spanning diverse AI technologies—including foundation models, conversational agents, recommendation systems, computer vision and speech interfaces, interactive machine learning systems, and emerging AI paradigms. We welcome submissions that consider the full diversity of users, from researchers to practitioners, multilingual communities, cross-cultural populations, and people with disabilities. Similarly, we embrace work across all environments where human-AI interaction occurs: homes, workplaces, educational settings, healthcare contexts, civic technologies, creative tools, social platforms, and emerging application domains. We welcome submissions concerning how humans and AI systems communicate, collaborate, and co-create value together. Whether you are designing new interaction paradigms, evaluating existing AI experiences, developing methodologies for AI usability research, or exploring the societal implications of AI interaction design, we want to hear from your work. HAXD 2026 aims to build a community of researchers, designers, and practitioners committed to ensuring that as AI becomes more powerful, it also becomes more human-centered, inclusive, and genuinely beneficial to the diverse communities it serves. General Chairs * Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium * Prof. Daniela Fogli University of Brescia, Italy. Topics of Interest We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas: Human-AI Interaction Design * Conversational interfaces and dialogue design for AI systems * Multimodal interaction paradigms (voice, gesture, text, visual) * Adaptive and personalized AI interfaces * Trust and transparency in AI system design * User agency and control in automated systems * Explainable AI interfaces and visualization * Error handling and failure recovery in AI interactions User Experience for AI Systems * UX methodologies for AI-enabled products and services * User journey mapping for AI-assisted workflows * Onboarding and mental model formation for AI systems * User feedback and AI system improvement * Accessibility and inclusive design for AI interfaces * Cross-cultural design considerations for global AI systems * Emotional design and affective computing in AI interfaces Collaborative AI and Agentic Systems * Human-AI collaboration frameworks and design patterns * Agentic AI workflow design and user experience * Co-creation and co-design with AI systems * AI assistants and virtual agents interaction design * Human-in-the-loop AI system design * Delegation and supervision in AI-assisted tasks * Team dynamics in human-AI collaborative environments Evaluation and Methodology * Usability testing methods for AI systems * User research techniques for AI interaction design * Metrics and evaluation frameworks for human-AI experiences * Longitudinal studies of AI system adoption and use * Comparative analysis of AI interaction paradigms * Design thinking and participatory design for AI systems * Prototyping tools and techniques for AI interfaces Ethics and Responsible AI Design * Privacy and data protection in AI user interfaces * Bias mitigation through inclusive design practices * Algorithmic transparency and user understanding * Consent and user control in AI data collection * Ethical considerations in persuasive AI design * Fairness and equity in AI system access and use * Social implications of AI interaction design decisions Domain Applications * Healthcare AI interfaces and patient experience * Educational AI systems and learning experience design * Workplace AI tools and productivity interfaces * Creative AI systems and artistic collaboration * Autonomous systems and human oversight interfaces * Smart home and IoT AI interaction design * Financial AI services and user trust Emerging Paradigms & Future Directions * Virtual and augmented reality AI interfaces * Brain-computer interfaces for AI interaction * Embodied AI and robotics interaction design * Large language model interface design * Generative AI user experience and creative workflows * AI-powered personalization and recommendation systems * Future interaction paradigms and speculative design Submission Types * Research Papers (up to 8 pages): novel methods/systems with rigorous evaluation. * Short Papers (2- 6 pages): promising early results, negative results with analysis. * Poster Papers (2 pages): presenting early or late-breaking results, work in progress. Format: Paper format All papers should be in PDF format. Please make use of the appropriate IEEE template for conference proceedings to prepare your revised manuscript. Failure to do so may result in excluding your paper from the conference proceedings. IEEE Word template can be found here (IEEE Conference Word Template)<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/files/conference-template-a4.docx>. IEEE Latex template can be found here (IEEE Conference Latex Template)<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/files/Conference-LaTeX-template_10-17-19.z…>. IEEE Overleaf Latex template can be found here (IEEE Overleaf Conference Latex Template)<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ieee-conference-template/grfzhhncs…>. Important Dates * Paper submission: February 20, 2026. * Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 5, 2026 All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time. Submission Portal For submission guidelines, please visit: https://intelligent-systems.net/haxd2026/submissions.html We look forward to receiving your contributions and to seeing you at HAXD 2026! -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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CoPDA 2026: Exploring the Relationship between EUD, AI-Assisted Development, and Meta-Design

by Barbara Rita BARRICELLI

-------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- CoPDA 2026 - 10th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: Exploring the Relationship between EUD, AI-Assisted Development, and Meta-Design https://copda.unimi.it June 8 or 9, 2026 (TBA) - Venice, Italy In conjunction with AVI 2026 (https://www.unive.it/web/en/15667/home) ------------ Overview ------------ This 10th edition of the CoPDA workshop series explores how the relationship among Cultures of Participation, End-User Development, and Meta-Design is evolving in the era of AI-assisted and generative systems. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are reshaping development practices, lowering barriers to participation, and enabling new forms of creativity. At the same time, they introduce critical challenges related to human agency, transparency, ethics, sustainability, and long-term skill development. Continuing the CoPDA tradition of framing socio-technical systems as evolving environments, the workshop adopts the perspective of Symbiotic AI, which emphasizes mutual adaptation between humans and AI. In this view, AI does not replace human participation but becomes part of participatory cultures that must remain understandable, configurable, and accountable. EUD and meta-design play a key role in enabling users to actively shape intelligent systems, keeping humans in the loop while mitigating risks such as overreliance, opacity, unpredictability, and deskilling. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners from diverse communities to submit contributions on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Wicked Problems (without no right of wrong solutions) and Design Trade-Offs - Ecosystems for the Integration of Learning, Working, and Collaboration - 21st century skills (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication) - Symbiotic AI - AI-Augmented End-User Development and Meta-Design - Generative AI for Cognitive Empowerment and Lifelong Learning - Configurable Transparency and Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems - Adaptive, Adaptable and Context-Aware Interfaces - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Interactive Creativity in Education - Vibe Coding - Responsible Design ----------------- Submissions ----------------- Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper (including references) using the 1-column CEUR template available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2026 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be collected and submitted for publication in CEUR-WS proceedings. --------------------- Important dates --------------------- - March 29th, 2026: Submission deadline for position papers - Apr 10th, 2026: Notification of acceptance - May 8th, 2026: Camera ready - Jun 8 or 9, 2026 (TBA): CoPDA 2026 workshop ------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------ Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy) Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) For any further information, please contact copda2026(a)easychair.org *Barbara Rita Barricelli, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Information Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Journal First Papers

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*** First Call for Journal First Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your paper for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. 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[Second Call for Participation] CHI 2026 Workshop | Shaping HCI Research for Children’s Care Ecosystem Involvement

by Evropi Stefanidi

**Second Call* for Participation: CHI 2026 Workshop "Shaping HCI Research for Children's Care Ecosystem Involvement"* Children’s technology use and well-being are shaped by care ecosystems that extend beyond families to include peers, teachers, therapists, clinicians, and institutions. We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to join our CHI 2026 workshop to share methods and lessons learned, and to collaboratively articulate priorities and open questions for care ecosystem-centered HCI. While the primary focus is on children’s care ecosystems, we also welcome participants who are interested in applying an ecosystem lens to other populations. This will be a *90-minute, in-person* workshop at CHI 2026 (Barcelona). /How to participate:/ Please submit one of the following by *Thursday, 12 February 2026 (AoE)* : * a *~250-word statement of interest* describing your background and an ecosystem-related project or challenge, *or* * a *2–4 page position paper* (including references) *as a PDF to ecocareworkshop(a)gmail.com* Your submission may address: * ongoing or planned HCI work with children and their care ecosystems (families, educators, therapists, clinicians, peers, and other stakeholders), and/or * challenges and design practices for multi-stakeholder research, including open questions to shape the research agenda More details: |https://sites.google.com/view/chi26-ecocare/home| Sincerely, Evropi Stefanidi, Lucas M. Silva, Bengisu Çağıltay, Aehong Min, Eva Eriksson, Gillian R. Hayes - workshop organizers

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[EICS 2026] First Call for Workshop Proposals

by Evropi Stefanidi

Dear colleagues, We invite *workshop proposals*for the *EICS 2026 Workshops Track*. The workshops track offers the opportunity to organize specialized forums alongside the main conference and to bring attention to emerging and timely research topics related to the *engineering of interactive computing systems*. 📌 Full CfP page (with submission link): https://eics.acm.org/2026/workshop.html Important dates (all deadlines are AoE) * *Feb 14, 2026*— Workshop proposal submission deadline * *Feb 21, 2026*— Notifications * *Apr 30, 2026*— Camera-ready workshop proposals Scope and format In addition to traditional workshops with paper presentations, we welcome *innovative workshop formats*, including design and experience workshops (where participants design and/or evaluate artifacts), interactive sessions based on collaborative work, etc. Workshop duration can be proposed by the organizers: *half-day or full-day*. Proposal length and template Workshop proposals should be *no longer than 5 pages*, using the *new ACM Master template*(manuscript option). Required proposal contents Workshop proposals must include: * *Background:*The workshop aims and goals. * *Target audience:*Expected background, knowledge level in the workshop themes, and expected number of participants. * *Pre-workshop plans:*Recruitment and community-building plans (e.g., website or other communication channels); expectations for attendee submissions (format, length); and the workshop timeline (submission deadline, notification, final program, etc.). * *Workshop structure:*Detailed structure and format, including activities, timing, and resources. * *Operational requirements:*Equipment or space/layout needs if accepted. * *Advertising plan:*Planned website, distribution to mailing lists, invitations to attendees of previous related workshops/conferences, etc. * *Post-workshop plans:*Dissemination plan for workshop outputs. The current plan is to publish accepted workshop material in a *common volume for all EICS 2026 workshops*, as an *LNCS volume published by Springer*(paper format linked on the CfP page). Workshop papers can be revised in light of reviewer comments and workshop discussions. If organizers do not want to use this opportunity, they should inform the chairs at submission time. * *Organizers:*Short bios (including the main contact person) and expertise in organizing workshops and in the workshop topic(s). Visibility at the main conference Accepted workshop organizers will have the opportunity to present the workshop themes and results as *posters at the main EICS 2026 conference*, enabling workshop participants to prepare and present posters as part of the main conference program. Workshop proposals are juried. Selection criteria include relevance to EICS, organizer scientific background and event-organizing experience, and the advertising/dissemination plan. Use of Generative AI in manuscript preparation Authors must follow *ACM’s policy on the use of Generative AI in authoring papers*(linked from the CfP page). Submissions are evaluated against this policy, and violations risk desk rejection. Registration policy * Workshop attendees and organizers must register for the *workshops day*, but *not*for the main conference. * Workshops with *5 or fewer attendees*will be canceled. * One *free workshops-day registration*is provided to *one organizer*per *8 registered workshop attendees*. * One *free workshops-day + main conference registration*is provided to *one organizer*per *12 registered workshop attendees*. Contact For any questions about workshop proposals, please contact the workshop chairs: *workshops2026(a)eics.acm.org* Best regards, EICS 2026 Workshops Track Chairs

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2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: Last Call for Abstracts

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*** Last Call for Abstracts *** *** 2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference *** October 11-14, 2026, Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://fie-conference.org/2026 *** 2026 Conference Theme: Engineering and Computing Education  in the Large Language Model Era *** *** Abstract Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026 *** The Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference is a premier international forum bringing together a global community to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and shape the future of teaching and learning. Since 1971, FIE has been co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, IEEE Computer Society, and ASEE ERM Division, and is recognized for its rigorous peer-review process, diverse program, and impact on the field. The Call for Abstracts for FIE 2026 invites researchers, educators, and practitioners to contribute innovative work in engineering and computing education. The 2026 conference theme is Engineering and Computing Education in the Large Language Model Era, reflecting FIE’s role in advancing timely, transformative conversations. Submissions are welcomed as Extended Structured Abstracts for Full and Work-in- Progress (WIP) Papers, and as Proposals for Alternative Sessions, including Workshops, Special Sessions, Panels, and Student Panels. Accepted papers in these tracks that are presented in person at the conference will appear in the Conference Proceedings and be published on IEEE Xplore. The complete list of topics is also available on the conference web site: https://fie-conference.org/authors/topics-of-interest . IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026 • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Deadline: February 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2026 • Full & WIP Preliminary Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Submission Deadline: May 4, 2026 • Notification of Full & WIP Paper Revision Requirements and Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Acceptance Notification: May 22, 2026 • Revised Full & WIP Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026 • Alternative Session Revised Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2026 • Final Acceptance Notification for all Paper and Session Types: July 10, 2026 • Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission for all Paper and Session Types & Copyright Deadline: July 20, 2026

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Call for Papers for the Third Submission Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

by Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi

Call for Papers for the Third Submission Round EICS 2026 – The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 30 – July 3, 2026 Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline (3rd Round, Full Papers & Technical Notes): February 13, 2026 About EICS EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: - Contributions should advance the state of the art in engineering interactive systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Modelling, specification, and analysis of interaction and interactive systems - Requirements engineering for interactive systems - Methods, processes, principles, and tools for building interactive systems (design, prototyping, evaluation, testing, etc.) - Software architectures for interactive systems - Formal methods within interactive systems engineering - Bridging engineering and design practices - Engineering design and evaluation tools - Computational techniques for designing/evaluating interactive systems - Interactive data-driven systems - Interaction techniques & devices (adaptive, tangible, haptic, voice, gestures, multimodal, VR/AR/MR/XR, wearable systems, etc.) - Integration of hardware/software in interactive systems (fabrication, cyber-physical systems, physical computing) - Systems for diverse user groups (children, elderly, people with disabilities) - Collaborative multi-user interactive systems - AI and interactive systems: - Engineering systems embedding AI - Interaction-driven AI technologies - AI in the engineering lifecycle (design, prototyping, evaluation, etc.) Newcomer’s Guide: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 Full Papers & Technical Notes Submissions EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com IMPORTANT UPDATE on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences: Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. Please find more information at: https://eics.acm.org/2026/cfp.html PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Industry Track Papers

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*** First Call for Industry Track Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. The Industry Track of VARIABILITY 2026 offers a platform for practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders to share practical experiences in industrial settings with reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems. Building on the industrial tracks of SPLC, VaMoS, and ICSR, this track bridges research and practice by showcasing how variability, reuse, and product line strategies are being applied and developed in today’s fast-changing industrial environments. Software systems are becoming increasingly configurable, data-driven, and AI-enabled (e.g., using foundation models), while also integrating advanced technologies such as quantum computing. This growing complexity calls for balancing flexibility, reuse, and quality amid pressures from emerging technologies and sustainability objectives. The Industry Track welcomes submissions that demonstrate how these challenges are addressed in real-world settings, whether through success stories, lessons learned, or reflections on failures that yielded valuable insights. We especially encourage submissions that demonstrate how variability management, reuse, and configuration approaches are being applied or reimagined in industrial settings, including through AI, digital twins, large language (LLMs) and foundation models, quantum computing, and cyber-physical systems. The industry track aims to: • Showcase practical experiences from industrial settings using variability, reuse, or configuration techniques. • Exchange insights between industry practitioners and researchers. • Identify new industrial challenges and opportunities for future research collaboration. • Share tools, processes, or organizational approaches that improve adaptability, scalability, and efficiency. Topics of Interest We welcome experience reports, case studies, and position papers on any of the topics covered by the VARIABILITY conference. The detailed list of topics can be found on the conference website (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…). In addition to these topics, the industry track welcomes papers also on: Industrial Applications • Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace, quantum computing, etc. • Sustainable technologies for variation and sustainable software reuse approaches • Human, organizational, and social aspects of variable systems and software • Industrial case studies and lessons learned Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Presenting experiences from the application of reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering approaches, preferably in an industrial context. Submissions should provide a clear context for the problem, outline requirements or practical experiences in addressing it, evaluate benefits and drawbacks or other lessons learned, and highlight the innovation or value of the contribution. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Describing early results from new reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems applications. • Extended Abstracts (up to 1 page): A proposal for presentation during the conference. The extended abstract will not be published. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the industry track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Single-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be single- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, rigor, transparency, novelty, and presentation. Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Proceedings which will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 8 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 8 July 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. 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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Project Showcases

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*** First Call for Project Showcases *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. As part of this mission, VARIABILITY 2026 invites submissions to its Project Showcase Track, a forum dedicated to presenting ongoing or recently completed research projects. The track offers a stage for research teams to share their vision, goals, early outcomes, intermediate results, final achievements, and lessons learned from funded projects of all scales, including collaborative research centers, EU projects, and nationally or regionally funded initiatives. The goal is to encourage interaction, foster collaboration opportunities, and help disseminate project insights to the broader community. Objectives and Scope We welcome submissions on research projects that address reuse, product lines, and variable/configurable software systems. A list of research topics that are relevant for this track is available from the call for the papers for the VARIABILITY 2026 Research Track, at: https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C… Submissions are expected to describe ongoing or recently completed research projects within this scope. This track is not intended for publishing mature research results. Instead, it focuses on project summaries and overviews, highlighting goals, structure, challenges, insights, and project level impact. Examples of suitable submissions include: • Ongoing projects focusing on goals, challenges, methodology, or early findings • Recently completed projects summarizing outcomes, evidence, and impact • Large scale, collaborative, or multi partner efforts, where visibility and networking are beneficial • Smaller or emerging projects that would benefit from early feedback and exposure PhD thesis projects are not in scope for this track. We warmly encourage PhD candidates to submit their work to the VARIABILITY 2026 Doctoral Symposium. Submission Format • Length: 7 to 10 pages, excluding references • Format: LNCS (Springer), single blind submissions Each submission will receive feedback from three reviewers. All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=variability2026 (Select “Projects Showcase Track”). Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. Accepted submissions will receive a presentation slot. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event Evaluation Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on: • Relevance to the conference scope • Clarity of project goals, context, and contributions • Potential for impact, collaboration, reuse, or technology transfer • Value for discussion and interaction at the conference The focus is on clarity, relevance, and value to the community rather than scientific novelty. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. 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[CFP- Deadline this week] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

We are pleased to remind you about SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR, a workshop held in conjunction with IUI 2026, the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, scheduled for March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus. We are now entering the *fina**l *week for submissions, and we warmly encourage you to submit your contributions before the deadline. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. [image: 📅] Submission deadline: January 16, 2026 Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with colleagues and potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 January 16, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)cnr.it <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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): Fifth Call for Contributions

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*** Fifth Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in 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 2026 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 CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow 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. CALL FOR PAPERS 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 • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • 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 • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for 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 • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • 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 Special Tracks CBMS 2026 will also feature a number of special tracks: • Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Network and Text Mining in Computational Biology and Medicine https://sites.google.com/unicz.it/greenai-nettext/ Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/maih2026/home GEAI4ND — Generalizable & Explainable AI for the Care Continuum of Neurodegenerative Disease http://geai4nd-cbms2026.conf.uoi.gr/ Interoperability and Federated Analytics in Biomedical Data Using OMOP CDM https://bioinformatics-ua.github.io/ieee-cbms-st-IFABD/ Network Medicine https://medal.ctb.upm.es/CBMS26_ST_NM.html Image Processing and Machine Vision for Intelligent Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/2026-cbms-impvih Artificial Intelligence for Inclusion, Accessibility and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations https://www.uco.es/kdis/cbms-2026/ Synthetic Healthcare Data Generation and Clinical Decision Support https://is-innovation.eu/CBMS2026/search-workshop.htm Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI) https://sites.google.com/view/cbms/cbms-cimi Management and Quality of Data Lifecycle in Health and Medicine https://raise-suite.eu/management-and-quality-of-data-lifecycle-in-health-a… Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026 Please choose the track that best fits for your submitted paper. OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES (all types of contributions) • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Sponsorship Chair • KC Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CFP: Special issue n. 69 on "Sustainability and Innovation in Creative Industries and Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Sustainability and Innovation in Creative Industries and Design* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/sustainability-and-innovation-in-creative-industries-and-…> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- # Stefan Greuter, RMIT University, Australia # Ali Alraouf, Hamed bin Khalifa University, Qatar # Fatma Al Aamri, University of Technology and Applie =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: *February 20th, 2026* * Notification to the authors: May 15th, 2026 * Camera ready paper: June 15th, 2026 * Publication of the special issue: Summer 2026 (tentative) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue is concerned with the interconnection between sustainability, innovation, and design practices, in particular for creative industries. It calls for papers that address design methodologies as fundamental to sustainable innovation, not only in products and services but also in education and cultural change. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives that explore how creative industries can lead the way in mainstreaming sustainability through methodological rigor and pedagogical innovation. Contributions should critically examine how design thinking and educational frameworks can foster sustainable transformation across diverse cultural and technological contexts. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite a broad range of researchers to address both theoretical and practical issues around democratic technology design, including conceptual papers, methodological innovations, empirical case studies, design exemplars, and critical reflections. Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes: • Sustainable design practices and design thinking as catalysts for innovation • Education and training for sustainable design and innovation • Community-driven and participatory design for sustainability • The role of digital technologies in enabling sustainable creative practices and design methodologies. • Metrics and evaluation frameworks for sustainability in design methodologies and education. • Cross-cultural perspectives on sustainability and innovation in design education =========================================== /*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: Sustainability and Innovation in Creative Industries and Design/") 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: /SI: Sustainability and Innovation in Creative Industries and Design/ • stefan [dot] greuter [at] rmit [dot] edu [dot] au • aalrauf [at] hbku [dot] edu [dot] qa • fatma [dot] alaamri [at] utas [dot] edu [dot] om -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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[CfP] AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last call for Short and Long Papers: reminder abstract submission

by Alessandra MELONIO

*** Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute *** 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 <http://unive.it/avi2026> In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Long and Short Papers: - Abstract submission: January 18, 2026 - Paper submission: January 25, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers that explore the intersections of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. We are particularly interested in work addressing creativity from multiple critical perspectives, including agency, interfaces, and ethics, in relation to the themes and topics of AVI 2026. Both long and short submissions must describe original, unpublished research. All papers will undergo rigorous peer review by a distinguished international panel of experts. ————————————————————————————————————— SUBMISSION Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]”. All paper submissions must be prepared in English, and authors are required to use the ACM single-column submission template and the Easy Chair system for all submissions. Page limits are as follows: • Long Papers: A maximum of 8 pages(*) for long papers, +1 page for references • Short Papers: A maximum of 4 pages(*) for short papers, +1 page for references (*) page limit is in terms of double column format. Submission information (e.g., submission template and system) is available on the AVI 2026 website: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16576/long-and-short-research-papers <https://www.unive.it/avi2026> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND ACM OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING MODEL All accepted papers are included in the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. **Important note to authors about ACM’s new open access publishing model** ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the ICPS Series. Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance <https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance>. Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows: Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq <https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq> Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess <https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess> Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info(a)acm.org <mailto:icps-info@acm.org>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER CHAIRS AND CONTACTS Long Paper Chairs: Maria Paloma Diaz Perez, Carlos III University, Madrid Alessandra Melonio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Contact: avi2026long(a)easychair.org <mailto:avi2026long@easychair.org> Short Paper Chairs: Luigi De Russis, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Contact: avi2026short(a)easychair.org <mailto:avi2026short@easychair.org> ————————————————————————————————————— DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair ————————————————————————————————————— MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See http://www.unive.it/avi2026 <http://www.unive.it/avi2026> 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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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details and important dates. 2nd Workshop on AI for Critical Infrastructure and Government (AI4CNI-26) https://sites.google.com/view/ai4cni-26/ Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) forms the backbone of modern society, yet its increasing complexity requires increasingly autonomous operation and makes it vulnerable to cascading failures and cyber-physical threats. The AI4CNI workshop explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems to enhance the efficiency, resilience, and defense of vital services like energy, transportation, communication networks and healthcare. 18th International Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) https://alaworkshop2026.github.io/ Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) brings together researchers working on learning, adaptation, and autonomous behaviour in single- and multi-agent systems. The workshop welcomes contributions from across computer science (including reinforcement learning, agent architectures, evolutionary computation, planning, and game theory) as as well as from related fields such as cognitive science, biology, economics, and the social sciences. Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) https://arms2026.di.unimi.it/ Robots are agents, too. Indeed, agents researchers often use robotics problems as motivating examples. Both practical and analytical techniques developed by agents researchers influence, and are influenced by, research in autonomous robots and multi- robot systems. Despite the overlap between the agents and robotics research areas, researchers from these communities only have a few opportunities to meet and interact. The Robotics Area of Interest in the main AAMAS conference (formerly, the “Robotics Track”) is one such opportunity. The goal of this workshop is to build on this opportunity, offering an informal and dedicated forum where agents and robotics researchers can interact, discuss promising research directions and open problems, and foster further collaborations. Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research. Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly specify the connection to challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable. Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate this work to the agents community. 7th International Workshop on Agents for Societal Impact (ASI) https://panosd.eu/asi2026/ This workshop focuses on the design, analysis, and deployment of intelligent agents that contribute positively to society. As AI agents become increasingly autonomous and embedded in real-world systems, it is critical to ensure that their behavior aligns with human values and societal goals, rather than optimizing narrowly defined technical objectives. The workshop provides a forum to discuss how agent-based technologies can be responsibly applied to real-world societal systems, including (but not limited to): healthcare, education, climate, sustainability, conservation, public infrastructure, labor markets, governance and policy design, etc. The goal is to identify new MAS problems in societies, develop novel MAS solutions to resolve social challenges, and learn from the real-world deployment of MAS. 14th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT 2026) https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/att2026/ The ATT 2026 workshop focuses on AI-driven modeling, simulation, control, and management of large-scale traffic and transportation systems. It addresses the challenges of distributed, autonomous, and data-rich mobility systems operating under uncertainty and societal constraints. The workshop invites contributions on multi-agent systems, machine learning, optimization, control, and data-centric AI approaches. Topics include autonomous and connected vehicles, intelligent traffic control, digital twins, shared mobility, and multi-modal transportation. Both theoretical advances and real-world applications enabling safe, robust, and scalable intelligent transportation are welcomed. Citizen-Centric Multi Agent Systems 2026 (C-MAS 2026) https://sites.google.com/view/cmas2026 Join us for the C-MAS 2026 workshop, where we explore citizen-centric AI and multiagent systems. In today’s world, large-scale AI systems hold the potential to tackle critical societal challenges, from decarbonising our energy system to facilitating on-demand mobility and improving disaster response. However, we often overlook the active role of citizen end users, treating them merely as data providers and service consumers. Our workshop aims to shift this perspective and explore innovative approaches that treat citizen end users as primary agents with diverse needs and preferences. By doing so, we can develop more trustworthy, fair, and widely accepted sociotechnical solutions to pressing societal challenges. 11th Workshop on Collaboration of Humans, Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors (CHARMS 2026) https://charms2026.github.io/ Cyber physical systems (CPS) are becoming more involved in the lives of humans. All indications point to a future where many varieties of CPS and humans co-exist and, at a minimum, must interact consistently through life’s tasks. This workshop will explore ideas of the future to understand, discern and develop the relationship between humans and CPS and the practical nature of software agents to facilitate the integration. Causal Learning and Reasoning in Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (CLaRAMAS) https://claramas-workshop.github.io/claramas2026/ CLaRAMAS aims to foster cross-disciplinary exchange and synergistic collaboration between two complementary communities: the AAMAS community and the Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLR) community. The overarching goal is to bridge these domains by exploring the following open questions: How CLR techniques can enhance agent-based decision-making? How agent-oriented perspectives can leverage the operational deployment of CLR in real-world applications? Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi- Agent Systems (COINE) https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2026-paphos/ This workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series that ran at various conferences including AAMAS (18 times), IJCAI (twice), AAAI in 2008 and ECAI in 2006 and 2016, and produced 17 volumes of post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The 18th volume of COINE post-proceedings is in progress. In 2020, ethics was added to the name and acronym (now COINE), and also the notion of governance of MAS was added to the full workshop title as this is the common objective uniting the various threads of research (coordination, organizations, etc.) undertaken. The workshop in the new format has been held six times (2020–2025). 14th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2026) https://w3id.org/emas/2026/ EMAS 2026 builds on the long-standing tradition of the Workshop on Engineering Multi- Agent Systems, advancing the design, implementation, and deployment of autonomous agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) through research on theories, architectures, languages, platforms, and methodologies. To engage with emerging augmented language models and agentic systems and build on decades of established MAS engineering approaches, this 14th edition focuses on Hybrid Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems. We invite contributions covering the diversity of approaches to engineering agents and MAS: submissions may focus on established or emerging approaches, as well as hybrid approaches that integrate the two, exploring, among others, questions such as how elements from different agent architectures can be combined to create more capable agents, and how MAS can be designed to ensure interoperability, coordination, and governance among heterogeneous agents. 8th International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, & Responsible AI & Multi‑Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS 2026) https://extraamas.ehealth.hevs.ch/index.html The International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi- Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS) runs since 2019, and is a well-established workshop and forum. It aims to discuss and disseminate research on explainable artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on intra/inter-agent(ic) explainability and cross-disciplinary perspectives. In its 8th edition, EXTRAAMAS 2026 identifies four particular focus topics with the ultimate goal of strengthening cutting-edge foundational and applied research. The 8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW-26) https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/ Games, Agents and Incentives is a confederated workshop which focuses on agents and incentives in AI. In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics including CoopMAS, AMEC, and EXPLORE. 27th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2026) https://mabsworkshop.github.io/ MABS focuses on the confluence of social sciences and multi-agent systems, with a strong application/empirical vein, and it emphasizes, (i) exploratory agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social sciences and (ii) using social theories as an inspiration for new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems. MABS 2026 continues its tradition of fostering cross-fertilisation and innovation in MAS engineering and complex social and sociotechnical systems modeling. The workshop encourages submissions in areas such as simulation methodology and tools, simulation of social and intelligent behaviour, diverse applications, and simulation analytics. International Workshop on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Space Applications (MASSpace) https://mas-space.github.io/aamas2026ws/ This workshop aims at disseminating and sharing recent advances in the use of agent- based and multi-agent-based models and techniques in the Space domain. Indeed, the use of agent-based and multi-agent systems (MAS) in aerospace and space is gaining traction, as they offer a promising approach for modeling and solving distributed, complex and dynamic problems. Sample applications notably include multiple spacecraft operations and maintenance, onboard-ground coordination, mission simulation, multi- mission operation, autonomous navigation, and collective robotics. NEurosymbolic eXplainable trUstworthy Systems (NEXUS) https://nexus.telecom-paris.fr/ The opacity of current deep learning models is a major barrier to adoption where accountability is essential. NEXUS focuses on neurosymbolic reasoning as a foundational approach to building theory, applications, and tools for well-calibrated and trustworthy autonomy. This paradigm moves beyond a narrow focus on formal logic, concerning itself with the integration of deep and reinforcement learning algorithms with a broad spectrum of structured knowledge. Workshop on Optimization and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems (OptLearnMAS) https://optlearnmas.github.io The goal of the workshop is to provide researchers with a venue to discuss models or techniques for tackling a variety of multi-agent optimization problems. We seek contributions in the general area of multi-agent optimization, including distributed optimization, coalition formation, optimization under uncertainty, winner determination algorithms in auctions and procurements, and algorithms to compute Nash and other equilibria in games. Of particular emphasis are contributions at the intersection of optimization and learning. This workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with multi-agent optimization and learning problems or problems that can be effectively solved by adopting a multi-agent framework. Rebellion and Disobedience in Artificial Intelligence (RaD-AI) https://sites.google.com/view/rad-ai/home Should intelligent autonomous agents always obey human commands or instructions? In some contexts, they should not. Most existing research on collaborative robots and agents assumes that a “good” agent complies with the instructions it is given and works in a predictable manner under the consent of the human operator(s) it serves (e.g., it should never deceive its operator). Our RaD-AI workshop challenges this assumption; we will reconsider the desired abilities and responsibilities of collaborative agents. For example, these include exhibiting behavior that attempts appropriate and harm-preventing non- compliance (e.g., safety constraints in autonomous vehicles or training LLMs to avoid potentially harmful or norm-violating output), among others. Our agenda will include accepted submissions that describe novel (and/or survey existing) contributions, or propose new directions, related to RaD-AI in the context of intelligent social agents, human-agent interaction, and their societal effects, along with invited talks and other events. We warmly welcome participation from AAMAS-26 conference attendees! Strategic Engineering Workshop (SE) https://sites.google.com/view/se-aamas2026 Real-world interactions are messy; Game Theory is rigorous. Historically, connecting the two required expensive manual modeling. “Strategic Engineering” seeks to automate this pipeline. We ask: How can LLMs serve as architects, translating everyday scenarios into the formal structures that Game Theory (GT) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) require? If we can automate the creation of the “world model”, we can unlock the full power of classical GT/ MAS reasoning for any situation. We invite submissions that fuse the generative capabilities of LLMs with the reasoning power of GT/MAS, creating a new class of agents capable of navigating complex, strategic environments. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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[CfP] 3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse

by Luca Turchet

*** Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute *** *3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse* *Cannes, France, 29th October 2026* https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events *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 2026 event: https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/pages/call-music-per… *Activities* Besides the presentations of the accepted contributions (papers, posters, demos), the program of the workshop is planned to 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 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IEEE IS2 2026: https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/), which will be hosted in the city of Cannes, France, and will take place between the 28th and 30th of October 2026. The workshop as well as the main Symposium will be held in hybrid form, virtual and in presence. *Important dates* - Title and abstract due: June 15, 2026 - All submission deadlines: June 30, 2026 - Author notification: August 10, 2026 - Camera-ready due: October 1, 2026 - Early registration deadline: October 1, 2026 - Late registration deadline: October 20, 2026 - Workshop date: October 29, 2026 *Publications* The workshop proceedings will be part of the IEEE IS2 2026 proceedings, which will be submitted to the IEEE for publication. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet - University of Trento, Italy - Florent Berthaut - University of Lille, France - Sophia Ppali - CYENS, Centre of Excellence, Cyprus - Damian Dziwis - University of Cologne, Germany - Vlad Popescu - Transylvania University Brasov, Romania - Alberto Boem - University of Trento, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Coordinator of the European project *MUSMET <https://musmet.eu/>* 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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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round)

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*** First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CFP-reminder] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

We are pleased to remind you about 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫𝗥: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜-𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗫𝗥, a workshop held in conjunction with 𝗜𝗨𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, taking place on March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus. SHAPEXR explores how XR can act as a rich multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. The workshop focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that integrate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics to enable seamless interaction. We invite contributions on topics such as: - Personalization and accessibility in XR; - Cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven experiences; - Design principles and methodologies for inclusive, adaptive intelligent interfaces; - Applications that enhance human capabilities across various domains, including healthcare, education, and collaborative work. 📅 Submission deadline: January 16, 2026 🔗 More information: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ We look forward to seeing you in Paphos. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 January 16, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)cnr.it <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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Demos & DC & T

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*** Last Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, is available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Important Dates (AoE) Demo Track • Submission Deadline: January 9, 2026 • Author Notification: February 6, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: February 25, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 • Demonstrations: May 27-29, 2026 Doctoral Consortium • Abstract Deadline: January 19, 2026 • Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026 • Author Notification: February 23, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: March 2, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 Tutorials • Proposal Submission: January 16, 2026 • Organiser Notifications: January 30, 2026 • Tutorial Site Online: March 4, 2026 • Tutorial Forum: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Indusrey Track)

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*** First Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Research Track)

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*** First Call for Papers (Research Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading conference on software reliability research and practice. ISSRE focuses on techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, security, and resilience of software systems. As modern software increasingly integrates AI/ML components, operates autonomously, and spans cloud-to-edge environments, ensuring reliable system behavior is more critical than ever. Topics of Interest ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of software reliability across contemporary software-intensive systems, including systems that incorporate AI/ML components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations of Reliability and Dependability • Principles, models, metrics, empirical methods, and theories of software reliability, resilience, robustness, and safety • Systematic approaches to fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, and fault forecasting in modern software systems • Testing and debugging, formal methods, model checking, static/dynamic analysis, verification, and runtime assurance Reliability in AI-Driven and Autonomic Systems • Reliability engineering for AI-enabled, autonomous, self-adaptive, and cyber-physical systems • Assurance, testing, verification, and certification of AI/ML components, including foundation and generative models • Reliability of AI-generated code: validation, verification, explainability, defect analysis, and trustworthy automation of development tasks • Impact of AI on software lifecycle processes (design, testing, evolution, operations, and quality management) AI Techniques for Reliability Engineering • Machine learning for defect prediction, anomaly detection, debugging assistance, fault localization, and test automation • Learning-based approaches to self-healing, resilience management, predictive maintenance, and reliability optimization • Reliability governance in AI-driven DevOps pipelines, including transparency, interpretability, and auditability Software Reliability in Emerging System Domains • Reliability assurance for cloud, edge, IoT, 5G/6G, cyber-physical, high-performance, and network softwarization environments • Dependability of open-source ecosystems, data-driven pipelines, model hubs, and AI-assisted contributions • Benchmarking, stress testing, workload modeling, and measurement frameworks for large-scale and AI-based systems Trustworthiness, Security, and Responsible Software Engineering • Intersections of reliability with security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance • Societal, ethical, and human impacts of pervasive AI-enabled software systems • Responsible governance of AI-based systems, including lifecycle assurance, auditability, and risk analysis Human-Centered, Empirical, and Reproducible Reliability Research • Field studies, experience reports, user studies, and human factors in reliability engineering • Public datasets, benchmark suites, reproducibility packages, and replication/negative- result studies • Tooling, automation, continuous reliability monitoring, observability, and operational feedback loops Research Track Paper Categories The research track at ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality submissions of technical research papers that describe original, unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas, contribute new evidence to established research directions, or reflect on practical experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories: • Research (RES) papers • Practical experience reports (PER) • Tools and artefacts (TAR) papers Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category. All the papers of the three categories are regular and full papers, and will be published in the same ISSRE proceedings. RES Papers RES papers (12 pages, including references) should describe a novel contribution to the reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via concrete evidence and appropriate positioning within the state of the art. RES papers are also expected to explain the validation process and its limitations clearly. PER Papers PER papers (12 pages, including references) should provide an in-depth exposition of practical experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and industry practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should be lessons learned from applying established research tools and methods to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge acquired through empirical studies conducted using various research methodologies. Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where or why current research cannot be applied in an industrially relevant context. TAR Papers TAR papers (6 – 10 pages, including references) should describe a new tool or artefact. Tool-focused TAR papers must present either a new tool or a novel and substantial extension of an existing tool. They should include a description of (i) the theoretical foundations, (ii) the design and implementation aspects, and (iii) experiments with realistic case studies. Making the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged. Artefact-focused TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii) experimental data sets. Dataset papers should introduce a new dataset that supports experimentation, benchmarking, evaluation, or training in AI-driven software engineering. Submissions should describe: (i) dataset motivation and scope, (ii) data collection and processing methodology, (iii) dataset structure and statistics, and (iv) potential use cases. Benchmark papers should present a new benchmark suite for evaluating tools, LLMs, or algorithms. Submissions should include: (i) benchmark design principles, (ii) task definitions and evaluation metrics, (iii) baseline results, and (iv) reproducibility package. The ISSRE conference encourages authors of all three categories of research track papers to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Authors are encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Should the paper be accepted, the authors will have the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and quality of the research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only contribute to the progress of our field but also stand a chance to earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the conference proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work. At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an author and present the paper in person at the conference. Best Research Paper Award ISSRE is pleased to announce the IEEE Best Research Paper Award, awarded every year to the best paper in the Research Track. Special Journal Issue Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal (under negotiation as in previous editions of the conference). The Call for Papers will be available soon. Review Process & Quality Assurance in ISSRE 2026 (New) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Major Revision Guidelines Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Rapid Response Reviewers (RRRs) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Anonymizing Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Formatting Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Paper Submission Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee through a double-blind reviewing process, with a limited use of outside referees. Papers will be held in complete confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after the paper acceptance. Authors must anonymize their submissions in accordance with the guidelines above. Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization rules will be desk-rejected without review. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Conference Proceedings The authors of accepted papers must omit the paper’s type from the title to keep consistency among all the camera-ready versions in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex). Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2026 • Author Rebuttal Period: June 5 – June 8, 2026 • Decisions and Early Notification: June 15, 2026 • Author Revision Period: June 16 – July 3, 2026 • Notification to Authors: July 8, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Research Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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by Giuliana VITIELLO

Care e cari membri della comunità scientifica di *ACM* *SIGCHI Italy*, in occasione delle festività, desidero rivolgere a tutte e a tutti voi i miei più sentiti auguri di un sereno Natale e di un nuovo anno ricco di salute, ispirazione e risultati significativi, sia sul piano umano che su quello scientifico. Colgo l’opportunità per ringraziarvi per il contributo costante, la qualità della ricerca e lo spirito di collaborazione che continuano a rendere la nostra comunità viva, autorevole e capace di incidere positivamente sul progresso della Human-Computer Interaction in Italia e nel contesto internazionale. Con l’auspicio di continuare a lavorare insieme nel segno del confronto, dell’inclusività e dell’eccellenza scientifica, vi rinnovo i miei più cordiali auguri. Un caro saluto, Giuliana Vitiello, *Chair * [image: SIGCHI_Natale2025.png] --- 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 - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026)

by Barbara Rita BARRICELLI

--------------------------------- CfP - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026) Harmonisation of human and machine intelligence in the 5th Industrial Revolution (5IR) Workplace June 17-18, 2026 University of West London, St. Mary’s Road, London (United Kingdom) https:/wg6.ifip-tc13.org/human-work-interaction-design-2026-hwid-2026 8th Working Conference of the IFIP WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design --------------------------------- Technologies in work settings are increasingly underpinned by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This means that applications and platforms such as those in the Metaverse, Digital Twin (DT) systems, and Industry 4.0 and 5.0 are becoming increasingly autonomous and intelligent. While these developments promise efficiency and innovation, they also present risks of over-reliance on technology and a potential abdication of human agency in the workplace. Such reliance may lead workers to underestimate their own cognitive and creative capabilities and to privilege machine intelligence over human skills. Rather than automating tasks and relegating workers to supervisory or backup roles, augmentation seeks to enable meaningful cooperation between humans and machines. Although this concept has been well studied in terms of efficacy and efficiency, further efforts in Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) research are required to support well-being, trust, and transparency; to ensure human autonomy and governance within human–machine teams; and to respect human values. Industry 5.0 builds on the technological foundations of Industry 4.0 by shifting the focus from productivity and efficiency toward human well-being and sustainability. In this context, the harmonisation of human and machine intelligence requires the ability to measure, analyse, and apply affective and contextual data about workers and workplace environments in order to design, integrate, and optimise work experiences. This conference, therefore, calls for inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to unpacking Industry 5.0 and re-conceptualising work augmentation in AI-driven environments. We particularly encourage the integration of perspectives from the social sciences, arts, design, and humanities into the design and governance of intelligent work systems. This call seeks contributions that explore the augmentation of human cognition in line with human values through research of new frameworks, models, approaches, and case studies for Industry 5.0. The Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) focuses on harmonising human ability and well-being, while simultaneously ensuring human beings can make effective use of 5IR technologies in the workplace. This edition of the HWID working conference aims to attract submissions from professionals in academia, national labs, and industry, as well as from students. The event will provide a platform to discuss tools, procedures, and professional competencies essential for harmonizing human and machine intelligence, central to Industry 5.0. KEYNOTE SPEAKER HWID2026 is a two-day working conference that focuses on discussion and exchange of ideas. During this edition, HWID2026 is pleased to welcome Professor Karen Cham, Director of the Behavioural Research Analytics in Neurotechnological Systems (BRAINS) Lab at Kingston University, expert in Augmented Intelligence, Digital Transformation & Design, as a keynote speaker. TOPICS - Human-centred UI design with and of 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human-AI interaction and collaboration - Sociotechnical Theory and Methods for 5IR - Collaborative systems design for Industry 5.0 - Human Digital Twins in the future of work - Behavioral analytics and data modelling - Safety and well-being of workers in the workplace (e.g., trust and training) - Ethics, policy, and law in 5IR - Case studies and implications of 5IR technologies (e.g., discretionary effort, job satisfaction) - Education and coaching to afford harmonisation of human and 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human and social sciences, creative arts, and design - Digital readiness for Industry 5.0 technologies in workplaces. - Design for occupational well-being in the 5IR IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 8 Notification to authors: March 6 Camera ready: March 27 Conference: June 17-18, 2026 SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit full papers (minimum 6 pages, maximum 12 pages, excluding references) formatted according to the LNCS template available on the Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… The link to the submission system: https://meteor.springer.com/HWID2026 Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers (single-blind). The collection of all accepted papers will be distributed to participants as digital proceedings prior to the conference. During the review process, reviewers will be asked to evaluate whether an extended version of the paper is suitable for an IFIP Springer book (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), which will be edited after the conference. ORGANIZERS General Chairs: - Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK) - Judith Molka-Danielsen (Molde University College, Norway) Program Chairs: - Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) - Elodie Bouzekri (Université de Brest, France) Paper Chairs: - Ali Gheitasy (University of West London, UK) - Parisa Sadaati (University of West London, UK) *Barbara Rita Barricelli, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Information Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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[Call for Participation] CHI 2026 Workshop | Shaping HCI Research for Children’s Care Ecosystem Involvement

by Evropi Stefanidi

*Call for Participation: CHI 2026 Workshop "Shaping HCI Research for Children's Care Ecosystem Involvement"* Children’s technology use and well-being are shaped by care ecosystems that extend beyond families to include peers, teachers, therapists, clinicians, and institutions. We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to join our CHI 2026 workshop to share methods and lessons learned, and to collaboratively articulate priorities and open questions for care ecosystem-centered HCI. While the primary focus is on children’s care ecosystems, we also welcome participants who are interested in applying an ecosystem lens to other populations. This will be a *90-minute, in-person* workshop at CHI 2026 (Barcelona). /How to participate:/ Please submit one of the following by *Thursday, 12 February 2026 (AoE)*: * a *~250-word statement of interest* describing your background and an ecosystem-related project or challenge, *or* * a *2–4 page position paper* (including references) Your submission may address: * ongoing or planned HCI work with children and their care ecosystems (families, educators, therapists, clinicians, peers, and other stakeholders), and/or * challenges and design practices for multi-stakeholder research, including open questions to shape the research agenda More details: |https://sites.google.com/view/chi26-ecocare/home| Sincerely, Evropi Stefanidi, Lucas M. Silva, Bengisu Çağıltay, Aehong Min, Eva Eriksson, Gillian R. Hayes - workshop organizers

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The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training: Call for Papers

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(Apologies for crossposting) Dear Colleague We are pleased to announce that CSEE&T 2026 (The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training) will be held at The University of Florence, Italy, from July 20 - 22. The CFP is posted at https://cseet26.techconf.org/download/CFP-CSEE&T-2026.pdf<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Please refer to the conference website for the most recent updates. If you have any questions related to paper submission to the main conference, please send emails to the Program Chairs: Professor Matthew Barr Professor Lin Liu, or Professor Rafal Wlodarski. For the Academy for Software Engineering Education & Training (ASEE&T) Workshop, please visit its website or contact Professor Nancy Mead and Professor Hossein Saiedian. For other inquiries, please get in touch with the CSEET 2026 Secretariat. We look forward to working with you for a successful conference. CSEE&T Secretariat

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[CFP] 2nd Workshop on Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

*Call for papers* 2nd Workshop on "Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)" https://sites.google.com/view/sic-xr-2nd-edition/ To be held as part of IEEEVR26 https://ieeevr.org/2026/ 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Daegu, Korea March 21-25, 2026 *Important Dates* Submissions deadline: January 7, 2026 Notification: January 20, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: January 27, 2026 *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. This second edition aims to once again bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and interaction design experts to share insights, discuss emerging challenges, and envision new opportunities for social interaction and collaboration in XR environments. The workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and stimulate innovative approaches to designing more engaging, inclusive, and effective collaborative XR experiences. 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) & TU Delft, The Netherlands* Tanja Kojić, *TU Berlin, Germany*

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CSEE&T 2026 -- July 20 - 22, Florence, Italy

by Chen, Zizhao

Dear Colleague We are pleased to announce that CSEE&T 2026<https://cseet26.techconf.org/> (The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training) will be held at The University of Florence, Italy, from July 20 - 22. Please refer to the attached CFP and the conference website<https://cseet26.techconf.org/> for the most recent updates. If you have any questions related to paper submission to the main conference, please send emails to the Program Chairs: Professor Matthew Barr<mailto:Matthew.Barr@glasgow.ac.uk>, Professor Lin Liu<mailto:linliu@tsinghua.edu.cn>, or Professor Rafal Wlodarski<mailto:rafal.wlodarski@sv.cmu.edu>. For the Academy for Software Engineering Education & Training (ASEE&T<https://cseet26.techconf.org/track/aseet>) Workshop, please visit its website or contact Professor Nancy Mead<mailto:nrmcmu@gmail.com> and Professor Hossein Saiedian<mailto:saiedian@ku.edu>. For other inquiries, please get in touch with the CSEET 2026 Secretariat<mailto:zxc190007@utdallas.edu>. We look forward to working with you for a successful conference. CSEE&T Secretariat

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We warmly invite you to join the workshop *“SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR”* at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on* Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)*, which will be held on *March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus*. *Submissions are now open*, and all papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the *Call for Papers (CfP)* below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ----------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS -------------------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS -------------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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[CFP-deadline extended] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the paper submission deadline for the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR”, to be held at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) on March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus, has been extended to January 16, 2026. Please note that this is the final extension of the deadline — no further extensions will be granted. We warmly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and submit your contributions to SHAPEXR 2026. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. For comprehensive details, please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below and share it with colleagues and potential contributors. The most current information is available on the workshop website: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to assist and look forward to receiving your valuable contributions. Join us in shaping the future of Human-AI-powered experiences in XR — we look forward to welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026! Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 January 16, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)cnr.it <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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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Second CfP EICS 2026 - Third Submission Round

by Evropi Stefanidi

Second Call for Papers for the Third Submission Round of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, June 30- July 3, 2026 – Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ *Submission deadline for the 3rd Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: February 13th, 2026* EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Modelling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems *Requirements engineering for interactive systems *Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) *Software architectures for interactive systems *Formal methods within interactive systems engineering *Bridging the gap between engineering and design practices. *Engineering design and evaluation tools *Computational techniques for designing and evaluating interactive systems *Interactive data-driven systems *Explore and/or employ of diverse interaction techniques and devices (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, recognition of physiological signals, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, virtual, augmented, mixed and extended reality) *Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems) *Engineering interactive systems for diverse user groups (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities…) *Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems *Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies *Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies *Applying AI technologies in methods, processes and tools for building interactive systems in all stages of the engineering lifecycle A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com Use of Generative AI in manuscript preparation Authors must read ACM’s policy on the use of Generative AI in authoring papers found in https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions. All submissions will be evaluated against the criteria set by the policy. Papers found to contain material that breaches these guidelines risk desk rejection. IMPORTANT UPDATE on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. Please find more information at: https://eics.acm.org/2026/cfp.html PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION -- ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges

by Gualtiero Volpe

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES !!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!! ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ -> THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 16, 2026 We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference's goals are to implement believable, autonomous, adaptive, context-aware Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems able to infer how organizational, cultural and physical contexts shape individual perception, choices and actions. Such systems, e.g. synthetic agents, robots, avatars or analysis systems act in real-time, sustain dyadic/group interactions and actively cooperate in discussion, decision-making, problem solving, learning/knowledge building. These systems gather information and meanings in the course of everyday activity and build knowledge and practical ability to render the world interpretable while interacting with users attuned to behavioural sequences that underpin collaboration. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible. Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI. We invite the ICMI community from various fields related to multimodal interaction to collectively define and tackle these scientific Grand Challenges in this domain including but not limited to the following categories: 1. DATA CHALLENGES: gathering new experimental data and theories across a spectrum of disciplines; 2. ALGORITHM CHALLENGES: developing algorithms, models and computational paradigms that may equip machines with human level automaton intelligence; 3. APPLICATION CHALLENGES: implementing HCI systems that enhance quality of life in society and simplify the user access to future telecommunication services; 4. MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES: promoting multidisciplinary exchanges, educational initiatives, and new socio-psychological and computational approaches towards socially-emotionally-context-aware Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information: 1. Title 2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge 3. Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals 4. Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction 5. Length (full day or half day) 6. Plan for soliciting participation 7. Description of how submissions (challenge's submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers 8. Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions 9. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) 10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization 11. Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations; important dates Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2025 challenges are welcome, even if we require submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year. The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference. =============================================== Important Dates and Contact Details =============================================== -> Proposals due: January 16, 2026 EXTENDED Proposal notification: February 7, 2026 POSTPONED Grand challenge date: October 5, 2026 =============================================== Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2025 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sebastian Zepf (sebastian.zepf(a)mercedes-benz.com) and Alessandro Vinciarelli (Alessandro.Vinciarelli(a)glasgow.ac.uk). ============================================ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ============================================ Please note that the call for workshops remains open until January 16, 2026. We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.

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2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: First Call for Abstracts

by Announce

*** First Call for Abstracts *** *** 2026 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference *** October 11-14, 2026, Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://fie-conference.org/2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> *** 2026 Conference Theme: Engineering and Computing Education  in the Large Language Model Era *** *** Abstract Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026 *** The Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference is a premier international forum bringing together a global community to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and shape the future of teaching and learning. Since 1971, FIE has been co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, IEEE Computer Society, and ASEE ERM Division, and is recognized for its rigorous peer-review process, diverse program, and impact on the field. The Call for Abstracts for FIE 2026 invites researchers, educators, and practitioners to contribute innovative work in engineering and computing education. The 2026 conference theme is Engineering and Computing Education in the Large Language Model Era, reflecting FIE’s role in advancing timely, transformative conversations. Submissions are welcomed as Extended Structured Abstracts for Full and Work-in- Progress (WIP) Papers, and as Proposals for Alternative Sessions, including Workshops, Special Sessions, Panels, and Student Panels. Accepted papers in these tracks that are presented in person at the conference will appear in the Conference Proceedings and be published on IEEE Xplore. The complete list of topics is also available on the conference web site: https://fie-conference.org/authors/topics-of-interest<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026 • Full & WIP Paper Abstract Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Deadline: February 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Proposal Acceptance Notification: March 13, 2026 • Full & WIP Preliminary Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Submission Deadline: May 4, 2026 • Notification of Full & WIP Paper Revision Requirements and Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2026 • Alternative Session Paper Acceptance Notification: May 22, 2026 • Revised Full & WIP Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026 • Alternative Session Revised Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2026 • Final Acceptance Notification for all Paper and Session Types: July 10, 2026 • Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission for all Paper and Session Types & Copyright Deadline: July 20, 2026

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[HCItaly][CFP] AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Papers

by Alessandra MELONIO

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Long and Short Papers: - Abstract submission: January 18, 2026 - Paper submission: January 25, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers that explore the intersections of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. We are particularly interested in work addressing creativity from multiple critical perspectives, including agency, interfaces, and ethics, in relation to the themes and topics of AVI 2026. Both long and short submissions must describe original, unpublished research. All papers will undergo rigorous peer review by a distinguished international panel of experts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]”. All paper submissions must be prepared in English, and authors are required to use the ACM single-column submission template and the Easy Chair system for all submissions. Page limits are as follows: • Long Papers: A maximum of 8 pages(*) for long papers, +1 page for references • Short Papers: A maximum of 4 pages(*) for short papers, +1 page for references (*) page limit is in terms of double column format. Submission information (e.g., submission template and system) is available on the AVI 2026 website: https://www.unive.it/avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND ACM OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING MODEL All accepted papers are included in the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. **Important note to authors about ACM’s new open access publishing model** ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the ICPS Series. Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows: Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info(a)acm.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER CHAIRS AND CONTACTS Long Paper Chairs: Maria Paloma Diaz Perez, Carlos III University, Madrid Alessandra Melonio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Contact: avi2026long(a)easychair.org Short Paper Chairs: Luigi De Russis, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Contact: avi2026short(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See http://www.unive.it/avi2026

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[CFP-last week] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Nicola Capece

Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder to submit your work to the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR”, which will take place at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) on March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus. We are now entering the last week for submissions, and we warmly encourage you to send in your contributions before the deadline. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with colleagues and potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)cnr.it <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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Mile for Posters and Demos Submissions

by Announce

*** Last Mile for Posters and Demos Submissions *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). 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. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 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/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Workshops

by Gualtiero Volpe

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy, between 5-9 Oct 2026. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshop topics include: * Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents * Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction * Eye Tracking for Multimodal Human-Centric Computing * Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI * Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior * Automated Assessment of Pain * Multimodal e-Coaches * Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data * Insights on Group & Team Dynamics * Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI) We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. If you are a representative of an institution or company that may be interested in sponsoring a workshop on a particular topic, or sending a speaker to a relevant workshop, please contact the workshop chairs, who can act as a liaison. -> Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). The proposal should include the following: * Workshop title * List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies * Workshop motivation (and history), expected outcomes and impact * Tentative list of keynote speakers * Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.) and anticipated number of talks/posters * Workshop duration (half-day or full-day), including tentative program * Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation * Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) * Paper submission and acceptance deadlines * Special space and equipment requests, if any -> Important Dates and Contact Details * Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: February 13th, 2026 * Workshop Dates: October 5th and 9th, 2026 Proposals should be submitted via PCS at this link https://new.precisionconference.com/icmi26/. ICMI organization will provide the rooms, coffee and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer to each workshop. Feel free to contact the workshop chairs for any further questions. ============================================ TUTORIALS ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 will host half-day tutorials on context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction as well as on emerging topics within the scopes of multimodal AI and social interaction. A formal call for tutorial proposals will be issued in March, but for the first time, we invite the community to indicate which tutorial topics they would most like to see. This will help prospective proposers understand what the community considers most relevant. Please complete this short form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQfyR6rHijr25CCBUP5tA4LhgEC4IoBfN… Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik (icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org), if they have any questions.

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[CfP] 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds - Cannes, FR, 2026 October 28-30

by Luca Turchet

[Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute] *7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds* Campus Georges Méliès of Université Côte d’Azur, Cannes, France 28 - 30 October 2026 *https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/ <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/>* We are pleased to invite you to the 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IEEE IS2 2026). 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 Campus Georges Méliès of Université Côte d’Azur, Cannes, France, in French Riviera. 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 3r <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events>d IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events> (IEEE IWMM) - The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events> (IEEE IWNIA) - The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sonification for the Internet of Sounds <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events> (IEEE IwSonIoS) For the topics addressed in each event please visit the respective webpages <https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/satellite-events>. *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=ieeeis22026 *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* - Title and abstract due: June 15, 2026 - All submission deadlines: June 30, 2026 - Author notification: August 10, 2026 - Camera-ready due: October 1, 2026 - Early registration deadline: October 1, 2026 - Late registration deadline: October 20, 2026 - Symposium dates: October 28 - 30, 2026 *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* - *Executive Co-Chair:* Michel Buffa, University Côte d'Azur, France - *Executive Co-Chair:* Jean-François Trubert, University Côte d'Azur, France - *Paper Co-chair:* Marco Winckler, University Côte d'Azur, France - *Paper Co-chair:* Woon-Sen Gan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - *Paper Co-chair:* Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy - *Tutorial Chair:* Frederic Font, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain - *Demo Chair:* Florent Robert, Université Côte d'Azur, France - *Poster Chair:* Tanguy Risset, INSA Lyon, France - *Music and Installations Co-chair:* Gael Navard, Conservatoire de Nice / Université Côte d'Azur, France - *Music and Installations Co-chair:* Julie Mansion Vaquié, Université Côte d'Azur, France - *Music and Installations Co-chair:* Charles Meyer, Université Côte d'Azur, France - *Diversity Chair:* Ariane Stolfi, Université Fédérale Of South of Bahia, Brazil - *Publication Chair: *Helen Wu, INRIA, France - *Publicity Chair: *Chrisoula Alexandraki, Hellenic Mediterranean University - *Travel Grants Chair:* Romain Michon, INRIA, France - *Student Volunteer Coordinator:* Stephane Letz, GRAME, France - *Web Chair:* Aline Menin, Université Côte d'Azur, France - *Sponsors Chair:* Audrey Ereteo, Université Côte d'Azur, France - *General Chair:* Luca Turchet, University of Trento ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Coordinator of the European project *MUSMET <https://musmet.eu/>* 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] Final Call for the Paper: Workshop on Intelligent Health User Interfaces (co-located with ACM IUI 2026)

by Helma Torkamaan

Dear all, We are pleased to share the final call for papers for HealthIUI 2026<https://healthiui.github.io/2026/>, the second Workshop on Intelligent & Interactive Health User Interfaces, co-located with ACM IUI 2026<https://iui.acm.org/2026/> <https://iui.acm.org/2026/> in Paphos, Cyprus, on March 23, 2026. We invite the following types of submissions : * Full papers (up to 16 pages excl. references) presenting original research, novel systems, datasets, or evaluations. * Short papers (up to 8 pages excl. references) presenting position papers, preliminary findings, or early-stage work. 📆 Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 (AoE) 🔗 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthiui26 📢 Accepted papers will be published in the Joint Proceedings of ACM IUI 2026 Workshops (previous years in CEUR-WS<https://ceur-ws.org/>). For questions, please contact the workshop chairs: healthiuiworkshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:healthiuiworkshop@gmail.com> For more information, visit the workshop website: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/ Important Dates (AoE) * December 19, 2025 — Paper submission deadline * February 2, 2026 — Author notification * February 6, 2026 — Authors' Registration Deadline * February 16, 2026 — Camera-ready deadline * March 23, 2026 — HealthIUI Workshop * March 23–26, 2026 — ACM IUI 2026 conference Workshop Organizers * Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh) * Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University) * Shriti Raj (Stanford University) * Helma Torkamaan (Delft University of Technology) Program Committee (PC) * Bart Knijnenburg — Clemson University * Federica Cena — University of Torino * Hanna Hauptmann — Utrecht University * Min Lee — Singapore Management University (SMU) * Shatha Degachi — TU Delft * Werner Geyer — IBM T.J. Watson Research * Niels van Berkel — Aalborg University * Marko Tkalcic — University of Primorska * Alain D. Starke — University of Amsterdam * Bereket Yilma — University of Luxembourg * Clara-Maria Barth — University of Zurich * Adir Solomon — University of Haifa * Tobias Schreck — Graz University of Technology * Stefan Hillmann — Technische Universität Berlin * Francisco Nunes — Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto * Olga c. Santos — National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid * Ludovico Boratto — University of Cagliari * Noemi Mauro — University of Torino * Ine Coppens — University of Ghent * Soohwan Lee — Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) * Edward Choi — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) * Stefan Lengauer — Graz University of Technology * Tariq Osman Andersen — University of Copenhagen * Xuhai Xu — Columbia University * Martin Wiesner — Heilbronn University * Hyunggu Jung — Seoul National University * Maxwell Szymanski — KU Leuven Topics (including but not limited to) * Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: * Personalized Health Interfaces and Interventions * Adaptive Systems for Patient Engagement and Education * AI-driven Health Information Presentation and Recommender Systems * Multimodal and Conversational Interaction for Health & Care * Intelligent Interfaces for Chronic Disease Management * Assistive & Accessible IUIs for Older Adults or Populations with Limited Tech Access * Ethical, Privacy, and Trust Considerations in Health IUIs * Wearables and Sensor-based Health Interfaces * Rehabilitation and Cognitive Support Technologies * Equitable & Inclusive Design for Marginalized Populations * Longitudinal Studies and Real-world Evaluations of Health IUIs * Human-AI Collaboration in Clinical and Care Contexts * Intelligent Interfaces for Health and Care, Behavior Change, and Well-being Thanks, Peter, Behnam, Shriti, Helma

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers

by Announce

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High- Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers

by Announce

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SANER 2026 attracted 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Workshop Proposals

by Daniela FOGLI

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held either on June 8 or 9, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue in Venice. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form, which also contains relevant information for the workshop organisers: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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IEEE VR - 2nd Workshop on Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

*Call for papers* 2nd Workshop on "Social Interaction and Collaboration in eXtended Reality (SIC-XR)" https://sites.google.com/view/sic-xr-2nd-edition/ To be held as part of IEEEVR26 https://ieeevr.org/2026/ 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Daegu, Korea March 21-25, 2026 *Important Dates* Submissions deadline: January 7, 2026 Notification: January 20, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: January 27, 2026 *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. This second edition aims to once again bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and interaction design experts to share insights, discuss emerging challenges, and envision new opportunities for social interaction and collaboration in XR environments. The workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and stimulate innovative approaches to designing more engaging, inclusive, and effective collaborative XR experiences. 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) & TU Delft, The Netherlands* Tanja Kojić, *TU Berlin, Germany*

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[CFP] ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, 13-16 July 2026, London, UK

by Salvatore Andolina

Dear SIGCHI Italy community, We are pleased to invite submissions for papers to the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, which will be held in London (UK) 13-16 July 2026. We encourage submissions that contribute with knowledge on various forms of creativity with topics ranging from designing or evaluating creativity-support environments and technologies to studying or reflecting on the experiences, practices, and cognitive processes in art, craft and design. This year’s theme, “Creativity for Change,” responds to the rapid pace of change in our world and emphasizes the power of creativity in driving positive transformations. Our conference will explore how creativity can inspire and enable sustainable approaches for societal transformation, addressing decolonization, tackle climate action, preservation of cultural heritage and support place-making and peace-making in urban and cultural contexts. We aim to weave the theme of making a better world through creativity throughout the conference program. We invite submissions across a range of categories that examine how interactive systems, design, and creative processes can foster positive change and respond to global challenges. Creativity will be the lens through which we view societal issues, showcasing how creative approaches can open up new possibilities. Creativity and Cognition 2026 will be an in-person conference. Accepted submissions will be expected to have at least one author registered and present at the main part of the conference on July 14-16 July 2026. Accepted full and short papers will be included in the Proceedings of the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, and will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted full papers from Creativity and Cognition 2025 also have the opportunity to join ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 in London for poster or full presentations (for best papers). Starting January 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026, will be 100% Open Access. See the conference website for more details. Conference website: https://cc.acm.org/2026/ Important Dates All deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth time (11:59 PM UTC-12) * Dates for Papers, Pictorials, and Artworks Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 January 2026 Final Submission Deadline: 5 February 2026 Notifications: 30 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 27 April 2026 * Dates for Workshops and Tutorials Submission Deadline: 19 February 2026 Notifications: 5 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 * Dates for Posters and Technical Demonstrations Submission Deadline: 16 April 2026 Notifications: 7 May 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 21 May 2026 * Dates for Graduate Student Symposium and Undergraduate Research Submission Deadline: 19 February 2026 Notifications: 5 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Date of Conference 13 to 16 July 2026. In-person, London (UK), Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Conference Topics * Creativity as a driver of positive change Keywords: #inclusion, #accessibility, #socialjustice, #climatechange, #criticaldesign, #archive - Studies assessing creativity in diverse contexts such as work with underserved communities and cross-cultural contexts - Innovative platforms and digital environments that support the preservation, curation, and access to cultural heritage in museums and archives, especially in response to societal challenges like decolonization and digital inclusion. - Exploring and supporting creativity in the context of environmental, social and technical changes. * Theoretical and empirical reflections on creativity and cognition and its potential for transformation Keywords: #co-creativity, #embodiedcognition, #spatialcognition, #somaesthetics, #materiality, #sensemaking - New methodologies and theories for evaluating the impact of computing on creativity and cognition, or designing technologies for creative contexts, including first-person methods or longitudinal studies among others. - Frameworks to structure the interconnectedness of the body, mind, and environment in creative ideation - Methods for capturing, representing, and analyzing creative processes and cognition - Studies of creativity applications applied to different domains such as learning, work, wellbeing, health, entertainment and Arts. * Creativity at the intersection of Arts and Technology Keywords: #GenAI, #art, #music, #performance, #design, #robotics - Investigating how sensory feedback systems, wearables, or generative AI can deepen engagement and enhance co-creativity among performers, machines, and audiences - Examining the role of generative AI in composing, designing, performing, and personalizing dynamic compositions or workflows within music, performance, fine arts or design - Investigations into how smart and biomaterials are being used to expand creative repertoires or alter creative process - Examining the collaborative and creative processes between interdisciplinary teams or crowdwork * Creativity Support Tools Keywords: #ideation, #sustainability, #AR/VR, #computationaldesign, #digitalfabrication - Tools that enable creative approaches to sustainable computing and design - Investigations in AI-driven co-creativity including but not limited to ideation, iteration, and production. - Tools that enhance creative environments like studios, makerspaces, digital platforms or support creativity within gaming, virtual and mixed reality environments. - Creative systems and tools that cater to specific fields, workflows, and practitioners of all abilities. - Creative systems and tools that facilitate the creation of virtual, physical, and hybrid artifacts and experiences, and offering new avenues for artistic expression and creativity support. Conference Organizers General chairs: Nick Bryan-Kinns (University of the Arts London) and Salvatore Andolina (Politecnico di Milano) Technical Program chair: Janin Koch (Inria Lille) Paper chairs: Cesar Torres (University of Texas at Arlington) and Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London) Pictorials Chairs: Alwin de Rooij (Tilburg University and Avans University of Applied Sciences), Mafalda Gamboa (Chalmers University of Technology), and Andrew Webb (Louisiana State University) Artworks Chairs: Rocio von Jungenfeld (University of Kent), Joana Chicau (University of the Arts London) Posters and Demos Chairs: Corey Ford (University of the Arts London) and Jeba Rezwana (Towson University) Workshops and Tutorials Chairs: Tim Smith (University of the Arts London) and Diogo Cabral (University of Lisbon) Graduate Student Symposium Chairs: Steven Dow (UC San Diego), Jane E (National University of Singapore) and Caterina Moruzzi (University of Edinburgh) Undergraduate Research Track Chairs: Ellen Do (University of Colorado) Accessibility Chairs: Anna Troisi (University of the Arts London) and Ceren Yuksel (University of the Arts London) Local Chair: Matt Malpass (University of the Arts London) Publications Chairs: Zijian “Jason” Ding (University of Maryland) and Kexin Quan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Treasury Chair: Sam Ferguson (University of Technology Sydney) Steering Committee Liaison Chair: Celine Latulipe (University of Manitoba) Web Chairs: Hao Wang (University of the Arts London) and Jei Fu (University of the Arts London) Registration Chairs: Ziwei Zhao (University of the Arts London) and Nik Martelaro (CMU) Sponsorship Chairs: Waitz Li (University of the Arts London) and Bea Wohl (University of the Arts London) Publicity Chair: Shuoyang Zheng (Queen Mary University of London) and Emilia Rosselli Del Turco (University of California San Diego) Social Media Chair: Rosa van Koningsbruggen (Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar) Student Volunteer Chairs: Yinmiao Li (Northwestern University) and Giulia di Fede (Politecnico di Milano) Keynote Chair: Hooman Samani (University of the Arts London) More details on the conference website: https://cc.acm.org/2026/ -- Salvatore Andolina Associate Professor Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio 34/5 - 20133 Milano, Italy https://andolina.faculty.polimi.it/

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Fifth Call for Demos & DC & T

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*** Fifth Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, along with their respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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[IxD&A Journal] Issue N. 65 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 2024: 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. 65* featuring a focus section on ‘*Map-based interfaces and interactions*‘ guest edited by Masood Masoodian, Saturnino Luz and a focus section on ‘*Digital Technologies for Supporting Inclusion*‘ guest edited by Hasan Ferdous, Carsten Röcker, Syed Isthiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065 <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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. 65 - ToC*/ / /Focus section on:/ *Map-based interfaces and interactions.* Preface <https://ixdea.org/preface-n-65-focus-section-1/> (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-001pfs1) /Masood Masoodian and Saturnino Luz/ p. 5 – 7 /*Stimulated paper*/ /Alan Dix/ Proper Maps. pp. 8 – 31 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-001sp) /*Contributed papers*/ /Claire Dormann and Günter Wallner/ Studying Cartographic Game Maps: Video Game Maps Matter, pp. 32 – 61 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-001) /Faraz Badali Naghadeh and Kursat Cagiltay/ Development and Usability of a Location-based Game, pp. 62 – 89 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-002) /Enrique Villamuelas García, Eva Hurtado Torán, Eduardo Roig Segovia/ AI and the narrative of the everyday life: machine learning applied to the social mapping of rural music festivals, pp. 90 – 114 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-003) / / /Focus section on:/ *Digital Technologies for Supporting Inclusion.* Preface <https://ixdea.org/preface-n-65-focus-section-2/> (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-002pfs2) Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Carsten Röcker, Syed Isthiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim p. 115 – 118 /*Contributed papers*/ /Leonardo Angelini, Samira-Salomé Hüsler, Cora Pauli, Daniele Zaccaria/ Participatory Design of a Platform for the Promotion of Assistive Technology in Switzerland, pp. 119 – 143 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-004) /Mario Heinz-Jakobs and Carsten Röcker/ Investigating Design Opportunities for an Inclusive Adaptive Worker Assistance – A Case Study with Cognitively Disabled Workers, pp. 144 – 169 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-005) /Hazem Ibrahim, Dina Sabie, Prianka Roy, Ananya Bhattacharjee, S M Raihanul Alam, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed/ Heritage Language Maintenance: The Case of Bangladeshi Immigrants in Canada, pp. 170 – 206 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-006) * * *Regular paper* /Ramon Chaves, Jacira Saavedra Farias, Ana Clara Meirelles de Miranda, Vera Tângari, Ricardo Lopes Correia, Maria Dalila Rufino de Araújo, Maria Lis Paula de Moraes dos Santos, Jano de Souza/ A Participatory Model for Urban Design on University Campuses: A Map-Based Approach, pp. 207 – 235 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-007) /Feyza Nur Koçer-Özgün and Sema Alaçam/ Towards New Spatial UI Metaphors: Exploring Mediterranean Architecture in Game Environment Design, pp. 236 – 256 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-008) /Giulia Teverini, Annamaria Recupero, Patrizia Marti/ Therapy gamification to improve children compliance. A systematic literature review, pp. 257 – 281 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-065-009) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Content of forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ----------------------------------------------------------

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Research & Design Challenge - IDC26

by Grazia Ragone

Dear all, I am very pleased to share with you the Research & Design (R&D) Challenge of ACM IDC 2026, in which I am involved as R&D Challenge Co-Chair. This is an international initiative co-located with the Interaction Design and Children (IDC'26) conference, which will take place in Brighton (UK) from 22-25 June 2026. The challenge brings together children, adolescents, researchers, and designers around a specific theme, and this year's theme is "Sustainability." Below you will find a brief overview of the different phases of the challenge, which unfold sequentially, first involving children and later the research community. Phase 1 - Ideas from Children and Adolescents (deadline 20th of December) The first phase is dedicated entirely to children and adolescents under 18, who are invited to imagine and propose creative ideas related to sustainability. They can submit their ideas through a simple worksheet asking for: * a drawing of their idea * a short description of how it works * a title or name for the idea Submissions can be made in any language and will be translated into English to ensure global participation. All collected submissions will form the basis for the next phase. Phase 2 - Researchers and Designers Build on Children's Ideas Once Phase 1 is complete, the collected ideas will be made available to the scientific community. In this phase, researchers and designers are invited to: * select one or more ideas proposed by the children * develop a design concept or prototype inspired by these ideas (a fully finished artefact is not required) The goal is to value children's imagination and transform their visions into more mature design concepts, while preserving the spirit of the original ideas. Phase 3 - Notification, Review, and Presentation at the Conference Selected concepts will receive a notification, and authors will prepare the final version. Accepted proposals will be presented during IDC 2026 in Brighton (22-25 June 2026). A ranking and award ceremony are planned. Useful Materials and Links Worksheet template for children's ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWMBxWtGLoRzZ847sJBbEZ6_wDIUI2uJ4wROIVE… Submission link for Phase 1 (children/adolescents): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTaAonEdC0K7x4FBlFT_hl-O9yweoVgfp… Full information about the challenge: https://idc.acm.org/2026/calls/rd-challenge/ I warmly encourage you to share this initiative and involve the children and young people in your networks, sparking new ideas and collectively imagining a more sustainable future. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Kind regards, Grazia Ragone -- Postdoc Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction Department of Computer Science Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en [1] Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Doctoral Consortium

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*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC. The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: • present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment; • explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback provided by the mentors and other DC students; • network and build collaborations with other members of the community; • discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities. Submission and Participation Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach. The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website). Submission Instructions If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org! To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required: • Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by December 17, 2025. • In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025. For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 1. Cover Letter (1 page max): Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional). 2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references): A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. Key points the submission should include: • motivation for your dissertation research • goal and research questions • related work that frames your research • methods/approach to reach the goal • results, if any • next steps for your research 3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max): List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/ participants. 4. Your CV (3 pages max): Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document. How to Format and Submit Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline. 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 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively, and press "Go". Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026. Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards. The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 17, 2025 • Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA • Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel • Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands

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[CFP] Doctoral Consortium @ AVI 2026 (Venice, June 8–12, 2026)

by Rosa Lanzilotti

Doctoral Consortium of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 / Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 <http://unive.it/avi2026>__ In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ========================================__ IMPORTANT DATES (23:59, AoE) Doctoral Consortium papers: -Submission: March 29, 2026 -Notification: April 15, 2026 Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOAL AND THEME The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work in person and receive constructive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). All contributions in HCI are welcome, especially in relation to the theme of the conference: interactive creativity, addressing agencies, interfaces, or ethics (https://www.unive.it/web/en/16565/calls). and visual interfaces. PROGRAM The Doctoral Consortium Program offers students different opportunities to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results in different manners, both during the Consortium itself and the main conference. ** Activities ** The Doctoral Consortium will be held on 9th June, 2026. During the Doctoral Consortium itself, students will have the opportunity to share their work -through a presentation with slides, -in focus groups.. ** Main Conference Visibility ** Students with sufficiently mature work will also be able to present it during the main conference in a poster session, which will be open to all conference participants. BEST PRESENTATION AND CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE The best presentation of the Doctoral Consortium will be formally acknowledged during the main conference as well. All Doctoral Consortium participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance. MAIN BENEFITS In summary, the Doctoral Consortium offers several key benefits to participating students: -Guidance: students receive valuable guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers in HCI. -Networking: it facilitates networking opportunities with senior researchers and peer students participating in the Consortium. -Motivation: it seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their integration within the broader HCI research community. In this manner, the Doctoral Consortium offers students guidance on various aspects of their research by established researchers in HCI, as well as networking opportunities with seniors andpeers participating in the Doctoral Consortium. It seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS Doctoral students are required to submit a single PDF file including the following information: -Research summary (up to 2-3 pages, including references). The summary should provide the name and affiliation of the doctoral student, a concise overview of the PhD project, clearly describing (1) research goals, (2) method(s), and (3) expected contributions. -Statement by the doctoral student briefly describing how they foresee they will benefit from the participation in AVI (up to 1 page). -Letter of recommendation from supervisor. Please note that Doctoral Consortium submissions will not appear in the conference proceedings. Students are also encouraged to submit their work to other AVI 2026 calls with ACM publication, i.e., for long papers, short papers, posters, interactive experiences, demos. The research summary must be prepared in English, and PhD students should use a single-column submission template (PDF format) and the Easy Chair system for all submissions. Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS AND CONTACT Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it <mailto:rosa.lanzillotti@uniba.it>) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Contact them at avi2024dc(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See http://www.unive.it/avi2026 <http://www.unive.it/avi2026> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Rosa Lanzilotti, PhD Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy Tel. +39 080 544 3287 Office: 5th floor, room n. 572 Personal Home Page:http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/lanzilotti.htm Research Group:http://ivu.di.uniba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Mile for Research Papers Submission (1st Round)

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*** Last Mile for Research Papers Submission (1st Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> (*** Submission Deadline: 11 December, 2025 (extended) ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Paper Originality, Double-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- blind and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • First Paper Submission Deadline: 4 December 2025 (extended) • First Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 16 February 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Directly Accepted Papers: 1 April 2026 • Second Paper Submission Deadline: 2 April 2026 • Second Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Accepted Revised Papers and Directly Accepted Papers: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award

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*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by December 10, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu).

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Posters and Demos

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*** Last Call for Posters and Demos *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). 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. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 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/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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First CfP EICS 2026 - Third Submission Round

by Evropi Stefanidi

Call for Papers for the Third Submission Round of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, June 30- July 3, 2026 – Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline for the 3rd Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: February 13th, 2026 EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Modelling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems *Requirements engineering for interactive systems *Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) *Software architectures for interactive systems *Formal methods within interactive systems engineering *Bridging the gap between engineering and design practices. *Engineering design and evaluation tools *Computational techniques for designing and evaluating interactive systems *Interactive data-driven systems *Explore and/or employ of diverse interaction techniques and devices (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, recognition of physiological signals, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, virtual, augmented, mixed and extended reality) *Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems) *Engineering interactive systems for diverse user groups (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities…) *Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems *Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies *Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies *Applying AI technologies in methods, processes and tools for building interactive systems in all stages of the engineering lifecycle A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com IMPORTANT UPDATE on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. Please find more information at: https://eics.acm.org/2026/cfp.html The PACM-EICS deadline for the Third Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes submissions is February 13^th , 2026. Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano.

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We warmly invite you to join the workshop *“SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR”* at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on* Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)*, which will be held on *March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus*. *Submissions are now open*, and all papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the *Call for Papers (CfP)* below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ----------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS -------------------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS -------------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): Fourth Call for Contributions

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*** Fourth Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in 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 2026 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 CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow 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. CALL FOR PAPERS 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 • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • 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 • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for 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 • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • 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 Special Tracks CBMS 2026 will also feature a number of special tracks: • Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Network and Text Mining in Computational Biology and Medicine https://sites.google.com/unicz.it/greenai-nettext/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/maih2026/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> GEAI4ND — Generalizable & Explainable AI for the Care Continuum of Neurodegenerative Disease http://geai4nd-cbms2026.conf.uoi.gr/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Interoperability and Federated Analytics in Biomedical Data Using OMOP CDM https://bioinformatics-ua.github.io/ieee-cbms-st-IFABD/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Network Medicine https://medal.ctb.upm.es/CBMS26_ST_NM.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Image Processing and Machine Vision for Intelligent Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/2026-cbms-impvih<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Artificial Intelligence for Inclusion, Accessibility and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations https://www.uco.es/kdis/cbms-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Synthetic Healthcare Data Generation and Clinical Decision Support https://is-innovation.eu/CBMS2026/search-workshop.htm<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI) https://sites.google.com/view/cbms/cbms-cimi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Management and Quality of Data Lifecycle in Health and Medicine https://raise-suite.eu/management-and-quality-of-data-lifecycle-in-health-a…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Please choose the track that best fits for your submitted paper. OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES (all types of contributions) • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Sponsorship Chair • KC Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas

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*** Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track is intended to present and provoke visionary ideas, long- term challenges, new research opportunities, and debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative research directions, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new directions relevant for Agents and advancing Multi-Agent Systems research through interdisciplinary viewpoints. We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite submissions that focus on novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve in the coming years a leading position within AI and computing research. Evaluation Criteria Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria: Relevance and Advancement (level of future-thinking) • Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS research communities? • Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into the future? Novelty and Vision (level of “Blue Sky”-ness) • How much the ideas are visionary (vs. next step w.r.t. state of the art), novel, or out of the box. Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness) • Are the ideas motivated and grounded in a solid understanding of the existing state-of- the-art and older foundational research/theory? • Do the ideas consider relatively new research ideas (e.g. published in the last 3 years)? Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability) • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the research agenda in the Agents and MAS communities? • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended beneficiaries of the ideas presented, including practical considerations? Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution) • Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way? • How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the exploration of these ideas? Submission Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS 2026 format, with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS 2026 main track. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of presenting the paper at the conference. See the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track) and Submission Instructions for details (information on the conference website). Important Dates • Abstract Submission: December 3, 2025 • Paper Submission: December 8, 2025 • Rebuttal Period: January 10-15, 2026 • Author Notification: January 31, 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: February 19, 2026 • Author Registration: March 31, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Contact AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs • Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ann.nowe(a)ai.vub.ac.be • Michael Winikoff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand michael.winikoff(a)vuw.ac.nz Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by shapexr shapexr

Dear Colleagues, We warmly invite you to join the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will be held on March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus. Submissions are now open, and all papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Marta Mondellini STIIMA, National Research Council, Italy marta.mondellini(a)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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Nicola Capece

Dear Colleagues, We warmly invite you to join the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will be held on March 23, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus. Submissions are now open, and all papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should not be included in the manuscript. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a Regular or Short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 "standard" pages and short papers at least 5 pages (5-9 "standard" pages without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. For more information, please visit: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. To submit your contribution, select "IUI 2026 Workshop SHAPEXR" in the submission platform. Submit your paper here: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges

by Gualtiero Volpe

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CfP: Research & Design Challenge – ACM IDC'26 (Open for Children's Ideas!)

by Grazia Ragone

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce that submissions for Children's and Adolescents' Ideas are now open! The Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2026 conference invites children worldwide to take part in our Research & Design (R&D) Challenge by sharing their creative ideas under this year's theme: "Sustainability." We'd love to see your creative ideas about how to make life more sustainable. Your idea could: Help protect nature, plants, animals, water, or the air we breathe. Show how schools, homes, or playgrounds could be kinder to the planet. Make it easier for people to share and take care of each other. Imagine a fun technology that is also good for the Earth. Find new ways to celebrate fairness, kindness, and togetherness. Children can share their ideas in any way they like: a drawing, a story, a model, a video, or even a game they invent. Important Dates (AoE - Anywhere on Earth) December 20, 2025 - Phase 1: Children's Submissions Opens January 26, 2026 - Phase 2: Research & Design Challenge Opens April 7, 2026 - Phase 2: Research & Design Challenge Submissions Due April 21, 2026 - Phase 3: Research & Design Challenge Notification May 5, 2026 - Publication-ready Submissions Due June 22-25, 2026 - IDC'26 Conference in Brighton, UK. How It Works Phase 1: Children Submit Their Ideas Children (under 18) are invited to submit their creative responses to the theme "Sustainability." They can participate individually or as a team, whether from a classroom, after-school program, club, maker space, or even a group across different schools, towns, or countries. Each submission consists of a simple worksheet with: A drawing of the idea A brief explanation of how it works A name for the idea Submissions are accepted in any language; we will translate non-English submissions to English to ensure global participation. Submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTaAonEdC0K7x4FBlFT_hl-O9yweoVgfp… Worksheet template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWMBxWtGLoRzZ847sJBbEZ6_wDIUI2uJ4wROIVE… For further details and information: https://idc.acm.org/2026/calls/rd-challenge/ Phase 2 - Research & Design Challenge: building on children's ideas. Researchers and designers will be invited to develop design concepts (prototypes, not actual artefacts) inspired by the children's submissions. Who Can Submit? The call is open to individuals or teams of children (under 18). An adult must submit the idea on their behalf and have permission to share the child's work. We encourage you to share this opportunity with children in your network and inspire them to imagine a sustainable future! Warm regards, Grazia Ragone & Gökçe Elif Baykal Research and Design Challenge Chairs Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference 2026 -- Postdoc Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction Department of Computer Science Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en [1] ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sostieni la formazione e la ricerca universitaria con il tuo 5 per mille all'Università di Bari. Firma la casella "Finanziamento della ricerca scientifica e della Università" indicando il codice fiscale 80002170720. Il tuo contributo può fare la differenza: oggi più che mai! ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en

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[HCItaly][CFP] AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 2nd Call for Long and Short Papers

by Alessandra MELONIO

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 <http://unive.it/avi2026> In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Long and Short Papers: Abstract submission: January 18, 2026 Paper submission: January 25, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers that explore the intersections of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. We are particularly interested in work addressing creativity from multiple critical perspectives, including agency, interfaces, and ethics, in relation to the themes and topics of AVI 2026. Both long and short submissions must describe original, unpublished research. All papers will undergo rigorous peer review by a distinguished international panel of experts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". All paper submissions must be prepared in English, and authors are required to use the ACM single-column submission template and the Easy Chair system for all submissions. Page limits are as follows: Long Papers: A maximum of 8 pages(*) for long papers, +1 page for references Short Papers: A maximum of 4 pages(*) for short papers, +1 page for references (*) page limit is in terms of double column format. Submission information (e.g., submission template and system) is available on the AVI 2026 website: https://www.unive.it/avi2026 CONTACTS: Long Paper Chairs: avi2026long(a)easychair.org <mailto:avi2026long@easychair.org> Short Paper Chairs: avi2026short(a)easychair.org <mailto:avi2026short@easychair.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See http://www.unive.it/avi2026 <http://www.unive.it/avi2026>

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers

by Announce

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High- Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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[CFP] Advanced Visual Interfaces / AVI 2026 / 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals

by Daniela FOGLI

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452> -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for the AAAI Track

by Announce

*** Last Call for the AAAI Track *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. AAMAS 2026 invites submissions to its AAAI track. We are looking for AAAI-26 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Authors are expected to update their manuscripts to address the comments of the AAAI reviewers and reformat them using the AAMAS style. All submitted material will be checked for correctness with AAAI and reviewed by members of the AAMAS program committee. We expect to accept only a fraction of the submitted manuscripts and will provide only short meta-reviews to explain the accept/reject decisions. The AAMAS submission must be based on a rejected AAAI-26 submission • that was submitted to the main AAAI track; and • that did not receive any reject review (all review scores are 5 or above); and • that is relevant to the AAMAS research community. The submission guidelines for the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track, available here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> , apply to the AAAI track with the exceptions given below: Authors must submit in one PDF document: • their original AAAI submission; • all AAAI review scores and reviews (including the meta-review); • the AAMAS submission (that is, the updated AAAI submission), in the format required for the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track and with the same restrictions; • in addition, all changes made should be highlighted in color (for example, red text or text highlighted in yellow); • at most a two-page long document that describes how the AAMAS submission addresses the comments of the AAAI reviewers; and • a short statement of why the submission is relevant for the AAMAS research community, together with one of the areas of interest listed on the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track, see the conference website) that describes the AAMAS submission. The publication of the 2-page extended abstracts is not an option for this track. For questions, please contact the AAAI Track Chair Bo An, Nanyang Technological University, at boan AT ntu.edu.sg. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=aamas2026aaaitrack<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Important Dates (AoE) • Submission Deadline: November 17, 2025 • Decision Notification: February 15, 2026 • Camera-ready Submission: February 21, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 1st Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Submissions

by Stefania DE VINCENTIS

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for *18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026.Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics.* 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== *IMPORTANT DATES* Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Paper Submission *Deadline:* - *March 9, 2026* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *POSTER PAPERS* The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. *INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS* The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities. Interactive Experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers, and artists. Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields. Please notice that: - The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs before submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). - There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *SUBMISSION FORMAT* All the papers mentioned above require online submission. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) is available on the AVI website. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *DESCRIPTION* Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive, and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS* Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Tanja Döring, TU Berlin, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Mehdi Rizvi, Heriot Watt University, UK Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Third Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** Third Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SANER 2026 attracted 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

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Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will be subject to a single-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should be included. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Research Papers (1st Round)

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*** Last Call for Research Papers (1st Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 16 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Paper Originality, Double-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- blind and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • First Paper Submission Deadline: 4 December 2025 • First Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 16 February 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Directly Accepted Papers: 1 April 2026 • Second Paper Submission Deadline: 2 April 2026 • Second Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Accepted Revised Papers and Directly Accepted Papers: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. 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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. Workshops AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for the workshop program, which will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops proposals that focus on emerging topics, open research questions and challenges, as well as broader subjects of interest to a wider community. Additionally, we welcome workshops with previous editions at AAMAS that can attract established communities working in the same research area. Workshops may vary in length from half a day to two days, though most are expected to last one full day. Attendance will be limited to registered participants, and both organizers and attendees must register for their workshop, which will have a separate fee from the main conference. Workshop attendees are not required to register for the main AAMAS conference if they do not plan to attend it, though this is highly encouraged. AAMAS 2026 will be an in-person event in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS 2026 reserves the right to cancel workshops if the registration numbers do not cover their operating costs. Competitions We are glad to announce the third edition of the AAMAS Competition track at AAMAS 2026. Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By proposing challenging competitions to the AAMAS community, competition proposers contribute to pushing the state-of-the-art in specific areas or to solving problems of practical importance. We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community. We encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel application scenarios relevant to the AAMAS community. Submissions from established areas for which the competition may serve as a stimulus to advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young researchers in the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community. If the accepted competition involves the development of tools and platforms for supporting agent development, the proposer(s) will be encouraged to submit a Demonstration paper at AAMAS 2027 summarizing the design, development, and outcomes of their competition at the 2026 conference. At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register and attend the conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to announce the winners. Important Dates (AoE) Workshop Proposals • Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025 • Notification: December 3, 2025 • Workshops Announcement: December 10, 2025 • Deadline to Post CFP & Website: December 17, 2025 • Recommended Paper Deadline: February 4, 2026 • Recommended Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 • Workshops: May 25-26, 2026 Competition Proposals • Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025 • Notification: December 3, 2025 • Competitions: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Doctoral Consortium

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*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC. The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: • present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment; • explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback provided by the mentors and other DC students; • network and build collaborations with other members of the community; • discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities. Submission and Participation Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach. The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website). Submission Instructions If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org! To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required: • Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by December 17, 2025. • In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025. For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 1. Cover Letter (1 page max): Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional). 2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references): A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. Key points the submission should include: • motivation for your dissertation research • goal and research questions • related work that frames your research • methods/approach to reach the goal • results, if any • next steps for your research 3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max): List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/ participants. 4. Your CV (3 pages max): Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document. How to Format and Submit Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline. 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 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively, and press "Go". Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026. Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards. The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 17, 2025 • Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA • Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel • Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Fourth Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks

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*** Fourth Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number). Although the deadline for submissions to the Main Track is now over, we welcome submissions to the Special Tracks of AAMAS 2026. AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks: AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track, as well as the Doctoral Consortium. AAMAS 2026 also welcomes proposals for workshops and tutorials. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Nicola Capece

Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will be subject to a single-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should be included. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will be subject to a single-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should be included. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks

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*** Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SANER 2026 attracted for the research track 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. Although the submission deadline for the research track is now over, there are plenty of other tracks for which the submission deadline is still open, for just a few more days! SANER 2026 welcomes high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Industrial Papers: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double- anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for details specific to each different track. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML- intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the above criteria will be desk-rejected. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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[CFP] Workshop at ACM IUI 2026 - SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR

by shapexr shapexr

Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will be subject to a single-blind peer review, meaning author names and affiliations should be included. If accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. Please review the Call for Papers (CfP) below for comprehensive details and share it with potential contributors. For the most current information, please visit the conference website at https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. Should you have any inquiries or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are eager to provide any necessary assistance. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and welcoming you to SHAPEXR 2026. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: - AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. - Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. - Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. - Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. - Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. - Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. - Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. - Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Posters and Demos

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*** Second Call for Posters and Demos *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). 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. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 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/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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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: December 31, 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/> Coordinator of the European project *MUSMET <https://musmet.eu/>* 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] ACM IUI 2026 - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR"

by shapexr shapexr

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will undergo a single-blind peer review (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this workshop. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. 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 the SHAPEXR Workshop. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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[HCItaly][CFP] AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 1st Call for Long and Short Papers

by Alessandra MELONIO

***Apologies for Multiple Postings*** 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 <http://unive.it/avi2026> In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Long and Short Papers: Abstract submission: January 18, 2026 Paper submission: January 25, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers that explore Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. We are particularly interested in work addressing creativity from multiple critical perspectives, including agency, interfaces, and ethics, in relation to the themes and topics of AVI 2026. Both long and short submissions must describe original, unpublished research. All papers will undergo rigorous peer review by a distinguished international panel of experts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION FORMAT Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". All the papers mentioned above require online submission. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format, proceeding specifications) will be made available on the AVI website in due time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair ————————————————————————————————————— MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 ————————————————————————————————————— AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it <mailto:emanuele.pucci@polimi.it>) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) ————————————————————————————————————— AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France 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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I: TOCHI's Distinguished Reviewer Board: Please help spread the word

by Fabio Paternò

Da: ACM TOCHI Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Editors (Mailing List) <TOCHI-EDITORS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Per conto di Kasper Hornbæk Inviato: venerdì 24 ottobre 2025 17:14 A: TOCHI-EDITORS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Oggetto: TOCHI's Distinguished Reviewer Board: Please help spread the word Dear all I am sorry for spamming you but we have just launched the call for a Distinguished Reviewer Board for TOCHI, hopefully it will help solve some of the problems we experience in recruiting reviewers in a way that is integrated with manuscript central. The call is out and the direct link to the application form is https://forms.gle/zUURm49M6XZxoEEL8. There is social media posts about this at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/khornbaek_applications-for-acm-tochi-disting… (LinkedIn), https://x.com/khornbaek/status/1981737839235666392 (X), and https://bsky.app/profile/khornbaek.bsky.social/post/3m3x5mvs5oc2y (bluesky). Please help share them and boost them, or post your own version. Sending the general call below to people at the postdoc and assistant professor level who do not regularly review for TOCHI is also helpful (you may also write a more motivating text and just share the link). The goal of TOCHI´s distinguished reviewer program is to make it easier for associate editors (AEs) to find qualified reviewers and to encourage new people to review for TOCHI. In essence, the program allows reviewers to commit to reviewing for a two-year period (5 papers per year); they will get some training in reviewing as well as their name listed on a web site. Detail about the program and a form to apply can be found at https://forms.gle/rRoV5CYxtmjPwiNs9 You will get one reminder about this in a couple of weeks when the outreach editors resend this from TOCHI’s official channels. Thanks so much, Kasper — Professor Kasper Hornbæk, PhD Editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction give feedback:: https://forms.gle/ouhTKTcRzm87DrST9 _____ You can unsubscribe at any time through this link: Unsubscribe <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=TOCHI-EDITORS&RE=fabio.paterno@IS…>

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[CFP] ACM IUI 2026 - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR"

by Nicola Capece

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will undergo a single-blind peer review (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this workshop. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. 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 the SHAPEXR Workshop. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it <mailto:giuseppe.caggianese@cnr.it> 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 <mailto:mario.covarrubias@polimi.it> Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it <mailto:gilda.manfredi@unibas.it> For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email. ____________________________________________________ Nicola Capece, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Member of XR&AI Lab @UNIBAS Department of Engineering, University of Basilicata Via dell'Ateneo Lucano, 10, Macchia Romana, Potenza -- 85100, Italy e-mail: nicola.capece(a)unibas.it, phone: +39 0971 205838 ____________________________________________________

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First CfP SLERD 2026 - 11th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *11th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2026: AI enhanced learning as bridge toward future jobs and a better society* *June 22-23, 2026* /*on-line format*/ www.slerd.org <https://www.slerd.org/> Contacts: 1st: stavros [dot] nikou [at] strath [dot] ac [dot] uk/(Stavros Nikou - conference chair)/ 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 1, 2026 *call for papers <https://www.slerd.org/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= *SLERD 2025 will host also the 7th edition of the *International* *Student Design Contest* -> see call for proposal and demo <https://www.slerd.org/contest/> **========================================================= * * *SLERD 2026* is organized by /University of Strathclyde Glasgow /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ * * /*Short Intro*/ Building on a decade of dialogue and innovation, SLERD 2026 invites academics, practitioners and policy makers to stimulate a critical debate and explore how artificial intelligence can practically and ethically augment learning ecosystems, linking classrooms, workplaces, and communities to foster human flourishing. With the theme*“AI-enhanced learning as a bridge toward future jobs and a better society”*, the conference emphasizes the overarching nature of AI-supported smart learning ecosystems focusing on aligning technological advances with inclusive pedagogies, ethical AI use, professional upskilling, equitable access, regional development, and responsible governance. As AI reshapes education, skills, professions, and civic life, SLERD 2026 welcomes students, academics, practitioners, and policymakers, to share evidence, tools, and case studies that demonstrate real impact; from AI-supported teaching and assessment to co-creation with learners, educators and stakeholders; from micro-credentials and reskilling pathways to lifelong learning ecosystem; from black-box AI to ethical and responsible data practices and algorithmic transparency; from limited access AI environments to community spaces that foster digital inclusion. The 11th edition is both a milestone of our evolving community and a call to action. We aim to surface actionable models and design principles that help institutions, regions, and industries create adaptive, trustworthy, and human-cantered learning ecosystems that prepare people not just for the next job, but for meaningful participation in society. *Conference lenses* The themes for this year’s conference emphasize the integrative nature of smart learning ecosystems: places for smart education, people-centred design, and supportive technologies, with a focus on: * *Human-centred AI in education:*co-design, pedagogy, innovative AI-supported teaching, assessment integrity, explainability, and ethics. * *Skills, employability & inclusion:*lifelong learning, reskilling/upskilling, micro-credentials, work-based learning, and pathways that reduce inequalities. * *Ecosystems, data & governance:*infrastructure, interoperability, trust, safety, privacy, sustainability, and regional innovation strategies. *General Topics of interests* General topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes:/places for smart education/,/people in place centered design for smart education/,/supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education/ /*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 technologies and tools for smart education*/ * AI for smart learning ecosystems: tools, human centered AI (HCAI). and explainable AI (XAI) * human-computer interaction (HCI), user experience (UX), design for the experience, design processes and thinking * knowledge graphs and applications * text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis * real/virtual communities and social network analysis * interoperability and application of open/smart data and services * safety & security in education * IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies * adaptability to educational contexts and citizens * VR, AR, MR XR and metaverse in education ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**1, 2026* • Notification to the authors: May 10, 2026 • Camera ready paper: June 10, 2026 • Conference: June 22-33, 2026 ========================================== /*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. (select section:*SI: SLERD 2026 – long paper*or *SI: SLERD 2026 – short paper*). SLERD and IxD&A follow a double-blind reviewing process, thus papers need to be fully anonymized. ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2026 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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[CFP] ACM IUI 2026 - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR"

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the workshop “SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR” hosted at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), which will take place on March 23, 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. All papers will undergo a single-blind peer review (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this workshop. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/. 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 the SHAPEXR Workshop. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese, Marta Mondellini, Nicola Capece, Mario Covarrubias, and Gilda Manfredi. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Workshop "SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR" https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ 2026 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) https://iui.acm.org/2026/ March 23-26, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus. ==================================================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ------------------------- This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/ TOPICS ---------- The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to) the following: AI-driven real-time personalization of immersive interfaces based on user states, contexts, and goals in XR environments. Multimodal interaction (speech, gesture, gaze, haptics) with AI agents. Cognitive load, trust, ethics, and emotional engagement in AI-powered XR. Accessibility and inclusivity in immersive AI systems. Evaluation methods for human-centered XR and AI interfaces. Social and collaborative AI-enhanced XR experiences. Design principles and methodologies for adaptive intelligent interfaces. Applications of XR-AI interfaces in healthcare, education, work, or entertainment. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 2, 2026 Final Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare a regular or short paper. Regular papers are at least 10 “standard” pages, short papers 5 pages (without references). Authors must use the new CEURART style format ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART). Papers should clearly indicate the originality of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and potential impact. 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. More information can be found here: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it/#cfp. PROCEEDINGS with CEUR-WS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese ICAR, National Research Council, Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it 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 Gilda Manfredi University of Basilicata, Italy gilda.manfredi(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the thematic session, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> A workshop proposal must be at most 4 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> A workshop proposal must be at most 4 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award and the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

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*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** *** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu). 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Call for Contributions

by Gennari Rosella

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ====================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: * Submission: December 14, 2025 * Notification: December 21, 2025 Long and Short papers: * Abstract submission: January 18, 2026 * Paper submission: January 25, 2026 Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster papers: * March 9, 2026 Doctoral Consortium papers: * March 29, 2026 Tutorial proposals: * March 29, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers that explore the intersections of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. We are particularly interested in work addressing creativity from multiple critical perspectives, including agency, politics, and ethics, in relation to the themes and topics of AVI 2026. Both long and short submissions must describe original, unpublished research. All papers will undergo rigorous peer review by a distinguished international panel of experts. Long and short papers must be fully anonymized for the review process, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) will be made available on the AVI website in due time. INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities, e.g., artists. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) will be made available on the AVI website in due time. POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, politics, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) will be made available on the AVI website in due time. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) will be made available on the AVI website in due time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it<mailto:antonella.deangeli@unibz.it>) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de<mailto:albrecht.schmidt@um.ifi.lmu.de>) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it<mailto:pitt@unive.it>) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es<mailto:pdp@inf.uc3m.es>) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unive.it>) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it<mailto:luigi.derussis@polito.it>) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it<mailto:Maria.MenendezBlanco@unibz.it>) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it<mailto:niccolo.pretto@unibz.it>) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it<mailto:daniela.fogli@unibs.it>) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:kyle.montague@northumbria.ac.uk>) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it<mailto:stefania.devincentis@unive.it>) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at<mailto:florian.michahelles@tuwien.ac.at>) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it<mailto:sebastiano.vascon@unive.it>) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:bisante@di.uniroma1.it>) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de<mailto:tanja.doering@mms.tu-berlin.de>) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it<mailto:rosa.lanzilotti@uniba.it>) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no<mailto:divitini@ntnu.no>) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com<mailto:Fabio.Morreale@sony.com>) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it<mailto:marco.mores@student.unibz.it>) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it<mailto:teresa.scantamburlo@units.it>) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it<mailto:tommaso.pellegrini@unive.it>) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it<mailto:andrea.rezzani@student.unibz.it>) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk<mailto:mehdi.rizvi@uea.ac.uk>) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it<mailto:JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea@student.unibz.it>) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it<mailto:MuhammadBilal.Khan@student.unibz.it>) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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MUM 2025 – Deadline Extension for Doctoral Colloquium

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MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 We are pleased to announce that the submission deadlines for the Doctoral Colloquium have been extended to give you more time to prepare your submissions. New Deadline: October 20, 2025 (AoE), 2-4 pages, with notifications on October 23m 2025 We look forward to receiving your contributions to this leading forum for advances in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Registration is now open! Visit https://www.mum-conf.org<https://www.mum-conf.org/> for complete details and submission guidelines.

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): Second Call for Contributions

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*** Third Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in 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 2026 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 CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow 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. CALL FOR PAPERS 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 • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • 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 • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for 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 • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • 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 Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS IEEE CBMS 2026 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below. Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the CBMS 2026 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals. Special Track Requirements The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations, listed below: • A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers, submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2026 regular track), special track organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within their track. They must add their own Program Committee members/reviewers to the submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by CBMS 2026 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed. • At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend CBMS 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session that will be assigned in the agenda to their track. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved to the regular track. Submission Guidelines Each proposal must include: • Special track title • Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per session) • A brief biography of ST organizer(s) • List of Special Track Program Committee members • A draft of Special Track “Call for Papers” (important dates must be the same of the main conference) • One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to organize a special issue, if planned. The proposal must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES Papers / ShowCases / Research Projects/ DC • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) Special Tracks • Proposals Deadline: October 24, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2025 ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Sponsorship Chair • KC Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CFP] Advanced Visual Interfaces / AVI 2026 / 1st Call for Workshop Proposals

by Daniela FOGLI

====================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island of Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue to reflect, reframe, and speculate about creative solutions to more sustainable and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Voice and Sound-based Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI Art and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: 19 December, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, Eindhoven University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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CFP: The HealthIUI 2026 Workshop on Intelligent & Interactive Health User Interfaces co-located with ACM IUI 2026: Call for Papers

by Helma Torkamaan

**Please forward this to anyone who might be interested** *Apologies for multiple postings* --- ## CALL FOR PAPERS **Workshop on Intelligent & Interactive Health User Interfaces** *Submission Deadline: December 19, 2025 (AoE)* to be held in **Paphos, Cyprus** Co-located with [ACM IUI 2026](https://iui.acm.org/2026) Website: [ https://healthiui.github.io/2026](https://healthiui.github.io/2026) --- ## Important Dates (AoE) - **December 19, 2025** — Paper submission deadline - **February 2, 2026** — Author notification - **February 16, 2026** — Camera-ready deadline - **March 23, 2026** — HealthIUI Workshop - **March 23–26, 2026** — ACM IUI 2026 conference --- ## Workshop Organizers - Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University, USA) - Shriti Raj (Stanford University, USA) - Helma Torkamaan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) ## Program Committee (PC) - Bart Knijnenburg — Clemson University, USA - Federica Cena — University of Torino, Italy - Hanna Hauptmann — Utrecht University, Netherlands - Min Lee — SMU, Singapore - Shatha Degachi — TU Delft, Netherlands - Werner Geyer — IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Niels van Berkel — Aalborg University, Denmark - Marko Tkalcic — University of Primorska, Slovenia - Alain D. Starke — University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *Other members: to be confirmed.* > Interested in joining the PC? Please apply via the workshop website: [ https://healthiui.github.io/2026](https://healthiui.github.io/2026) --- ## Objectives & Topics ### Background As artificial intelligence and intelligent user interfaces (IUIs) reshape healthcare, new opportunities emerge to improve engagement, personalization, accessibility, and trust in health systems. Health IUIs form the bridge between algorithms and people, determining the quality of interaction and enabling meaningful collaboration. Health IUIs must balance technological innovation with user needs, domain demands, ethical considerations, and long-term health and care challenges across diverse populations, from patients managing chronic conditions to clinicians and caregivers, and across diverse health systems worldwide. ### Goals The HealthIUI 2026 Workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary community from HCI, AI, healthcare, psychology, and rehabilitation sciences to: - Explore innovative health IUIs that foster long-term engagement and personalization. - Address challenges of value-centric design, ethics, privacy, fairness, and inclusion in intelligent health technologies. - Share research findings, datasets, tools, systems, and evaluation methods. - Build collaborations that advance human-centered, intelligent health technologies. ### Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: - Personalized Health Interfaces and Interventions - Adaptive Systems for Patient Engagement and Education - AI-driven Health Information Presentation and Recommender Systems - Multimodal and Conversational Interaction for Health & Care - Intelligent Interfaces for Chronic Disease Management - Assistive & Accessible IUIs for Older Adults or Populations with Limited Tech Access - Ethical, Privacy, and Trust Considerations in Health IUIs - Wearables and Sensor-based Health Interfaces - Rehabilitation and Cognitive Support Technologies - Equitable & Inclusive Design for Marginalized Populations - Longitudinal Studies and Real-world Evaluations of Health IUIs - Human-AI Collaboration in Clinical and Care Contexts - Intelligent Interfaces for Health and Care, Behavior Change, and Well-being --- ## Submissions We invite two types of submissions: - **Full papers** (up to 16 pages excl. references) presenting original research, novel systems, datasets, or evaluations. - **Short papers** (up to 8 pages excl. references) presenting position papers, preliminary findings, or early-stage work. ### Submission Guidelines - Written in English - PDF format, formatted according to the **CEURART one-column style** - Include author names, affiliations, and email addresses - Submissions may include supplementary links to demos, code, or datasets - Submissions must be original and not under review elsewhere Accepted papers will be published in the **Joint Proceedings of ACM IUI 2026 Workshops** (previous years in CEUR-WS). **Submission Link:** [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthiui26](https://easychair.org/… --- ## Location The workshop will take place at the **Coral Beach Hotel & Resort in Paphos, Cyprus**, co-located with **ACM IUI 2026 (March 23–26, 2026)**. More info on venue: [ https://iui.acm.org/2026/location/](https://iui.acm.org/2026/location/) --- ## Contact For questions, please contact the workshop chairs: healthiuiworkshop(a)gmail.com [image: poster.png]

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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MUM 2025 – Deadline Extension for Posters, Demos & Doctoral Colloquium

by Salvatore Sorce

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 We are pleased to announce that the submission deadlines for Posters, Demos, and the Doctoral Colloquium have been extended to give you more time to prepare your submissions. New Deadline: October 13, 2025 (AoE) This extension applies to: * Posters (3 pages) - Notifications October 25, 2025 * Demos (max 3000 words) - Notifications October 23, 2025 * Doctoral Colloquium (2–4 pages) - Notifications October 23, 2025 We look forward to receiving your contributions to this leading forum for advances in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Additionally, we are seeking enthusiastic Student Volunteers (SVs) to support the smooth running of the conference. Registration is now open, visit https://www.mum-conf.org for all (other) details.

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MUM 2025 – Deadline Extension for Posters, Demos & Doctoral Colloquium

by Grootjen, Jesse

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 We are pleased to announce that the submission deadlines for Posters, Demos, and the Doctoral Colloquium have been extended to give you more time to prepare your submissions. New Deadline: October 13, 2025 (AoE) This extension applies to: * Posters (3 pages) - Notifications October 25, 2025 * Demos (max 3000 words) - Notifications October 23, 2025 * Doctoral Colloquium (2–4 pages) - Notifications October 23, 2025 We look forward to receiving your contributions to this leading forum for advances in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Registration is now open! Visit https://www.mum-conf.org<https://www.mum-conf.org/> for complete details and submission guidelines.

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[Extended Deadline] CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Mirko Franco

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: · 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: · Original and unpublished research work; · Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; · Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; · Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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 recevie 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 for more details. Important Dates · October 17, 2025 (EDT): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts · November 21, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts · December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC · December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026 (regular papers) and https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026 (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 2026 Conference!

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[LAST DAYS] - CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Salvatore Gatto

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41stACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 <https://unipd.link/ADT-2026> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: * 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: * Original and unpublished research work; * Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; * Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; * Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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 recevie 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 <https://unipd.link/ADT-2026>for more details. Important Dates * October 10, 2025 (EST): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts * November 21, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts * December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC * December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026>(regular papers) andhttps://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026> (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 2026 Conference!

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Research Papers

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*** First Call for Research Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026 https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Industrial Applications and Tool Support • Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace, quantum computing, etc. • Sustainable technologies for variation and sustainable software reuse approaches • Human, organizational, and social aspects of variable systems and software • Industrial case studies and lessons learned • Tools support for all activities in variability management, configuration, and reuse Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 16 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Paper Originality, Double-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- blind and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • First Paper Submission Deadline: 4 December 2025 • First Notification of Acceptance/Revisions: 16 February 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Directly Accepted Papers: 1 April 2026 • Second Paper Submission Deadline: 2 April 2026 • Second Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline of Accepted Revised Papers and Directly Accepted Papers: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark vLeopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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MUM 2025 — Registration Now Open & Accepting submission for Posters, Demo's and DC

by Grootjen, Jesse

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 The 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2025) will take place in Enna, Italy, December 1–4. MUM is a leading forum for advances in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, bringing together academics and practitioners to discuss interaction techniques, user research, system development, and more. We invite submissions to Posters (3 pages), Demos (max 3000 words), and the Doctoral Colloquium (2–4 pages). • Submission deadline: October 9, 2025 (AoE) • Notification: October 23, 2025 Additionally, we are seeking enthusiastic Student Volunteers (SVs) to support the smooth running of the conference and have a great lineup of exciting workshops<https://www.mum-conf.org/2025/index.php?web=acceptedworkshops>. Registration is now open! Visit https://www.mum-conf.org<https://www.mum-conf.org/> for all (other) details.

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Call for Papers for the Second Submission Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

by Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi

Call for Papers for the Second Submission Round EICS 2026 – The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 30 – July 3, 2026 Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline (2nd Round, Full Papers & Technical Notes): October 24, 2025 About EICS EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: - Contributions should advance the state of the art in engineering interactive systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Modelling, specification, and analysis of interaction and interactive systems - Requirements engineering for interactive systems - Methods, processes, principles, and tools for building interactive systems (design, prototyping, evaluation, testing, etc.) - Software architectures for interactive systems - Formal methods within interactive systems engineering - Bridging engineering and design practices - Engineering design and evaluation tools - Computational techniques for designing/evaluating interactive systems - Interactive data-driven systems - Interaction techniques & devices (adaptive, tangible, haptic, voice, gestures, multimodal, VR/AR/MR/XR, wearable systems, etc.) - Integration of hardware/software in interactive systems (fabrication, cyber-physical systems, physical computing) - Systems for diverse user groups (children, elderly, people with disabilities) - Collaborative multi-user interactive systems - AI and interactive systems: - Engineering systems embedding AI - Interaction-driven AI technologies - AI in the engineering lifecycle (design, prototyping, evaluation, etc.) Newcomer’s Guide: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 Full Papers & Technical Notes Submissions EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com IMPORTANT UPDATE on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences: Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. Please find more information at: https://eics.acm.org/2026/cfp.html PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Papers to the Research Track

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*** Last Call for Papers to the Research Track *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2026) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). Important Note: The Research Track follows a double-anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for more details. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML- intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the above criteria will be desk-rejected. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2026 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue featured by Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers from the conference will be awarded. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Research Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 9 October, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 16 October, 2025 • Notifications: 9 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 9 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Third Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks

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*** Third Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> We welcome submissions to the Special Tracks of AAMAS 2026. AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks: AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track, as well as the Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Tutorial Proposals

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*** Last Call for Tutorial Proposals The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. Responsibilities of Tutorial Organizers • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Facilitate the planned activities, including, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. Proposal Format Tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Tutorial)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the tutorial. • Description of tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the tutorial. • Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day or quarter-day proposals (the latter roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> by the proposal submission deadline. • 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 2026", and then “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Important Dates (AoE) • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 2 Days! (October 1st)

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*** Main Track: Abstract Submission in 2 Days! (October 1st) *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . Workshop Outreach Pipeline AAMAS 2026 will include a pilot designed to encourage submission of high-quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences. All submissions will go through the standard AAMAS review process, but PCs from participating workshops will be able to easily bid on papers from "their" workshop. As with all AAMAS submissions, only papers that have not been published in any archival proceedings can be submitted. You can see the full list of workshops in the interest form for authors: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UjJbNykWK_fsKWbEHDyMEA02cGheIyPeWxCPcUskwk…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> [docs.google.com] It is recommended to verify with your workshop chair that they are aware of the pipeline and have promoted it to the workshop's authors and PC. Other Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature four special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track), as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Submission DL: November 17, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-aaai-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. Submission DL (abstract): December 03, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. Submission DL: January 06, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-jaamas-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. Submission DL: January 09, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-demonstrations/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Submission DL (abstract): January 19, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Proposals for workshops, competitions and tutorials are also welcome: Workshop proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-workshops/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> (DL: November 10, 2025) Competition proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-competitions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> (DL: November 10, 2025) Tutorial proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-tutorials/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> (DL: January 16, 2026) Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions on the main track, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com . Contacts for the other calls can be found on the AAMAS 2026 website.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Papers

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*** Last Call for Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where researchers and practitioners 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. This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Topics IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems • Explainable AI methods • Democratization of AI • Persuasive technologies in IUI • Privacy and security of IUI • Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation • User modelling for intelligent interfaces • User-adaptive interaction and personalization • IUI for crowd computing and human computation • Human control in daily automations • Trust and reliance in intelligent systems Computational innovation • Interactive machine learning • Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging • Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems • Generative models • Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning • Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces • Affective interfaces • Intelligent aesthetic interfaces • Intelligent collaborative interfaces • Intelligent AR/VR interfaces • Intelligent visualization and visual analytics • Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces • Intelligent tangible interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems • Embodied agents • Multimodal AI assistants • Intelligent multimodal interfaces Intelligent Applications • Education and learning-related technologies • Healthcare and wellbeing • Automotive • Assistive technologies • Entertainment • Workplace happiness • Social media • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart homes Large Language Models and Agentic AI • End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) • LLMs and agents in the workplace • Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems • Bias in LLMs and agents • The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks • Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents • Prompt engineering • User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning) Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces • User experiments and studies • Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) • Meta-analysis • Mixed-methods evaluations Papers We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers one paper only. A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027. Reflection of practical and societal impact We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider. Anonymization ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: • Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. • Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). In addition, non-anonymized versions of the submission should not be posted on any pre-print platform. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably with regard to their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects before submitting. Additional Policies Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies. Submission Format, Length, and Platform We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Submission Platform All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>) by the abstract and paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Supplemental Materials Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for videos. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract: October 3, 2025 • Full Paper: October 10, 2025 • Decision Notification: December 12, 2025 • Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Posters and Demos

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*** First Call for Posters and Demos The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. 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. Important Dates (AoE) • Full paper: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> . 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/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: • $250 APC for ACM/SIG members • $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

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[Extended Deadline] CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Mirko Franco

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: · 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: · Original and unpublished research work; · Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; · Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; · Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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 recevie 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 for more details. Important Dates · October 10, 2025 (EST): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts · November 21, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts · December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC · December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026 (regular papers) and https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026 (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 2026 Conference!

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AAMAS 2026: First Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award

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*** First Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh… The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh… . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu).

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CfP - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026)

by Elodie Bouzekri

--------------------------------- CfP - Human Work Interaction Design 2026 (HWID 2026) Harmonisation of human and machine intelligence in the 5th Industrial Revolution (5IR) Workplace June 17-18, 2026 University of West London, St. Mary’s Road, London (United Kingdom) https://wg6.ifip-tc13.org/human-work-interaction-design-2026-hwid-2026 8th Working Conference of the IFIP WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design --------------------------------- Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Metaverse, and Digital Twin (DT) technologies, as they become smarter, present risks of increased reliance on such technologies in the workplace. Human beings may discount their thinking capabilities and abdicate their agency, including those related to creative problem solving, to machine intelligence. Rather than completely automating tasks and asking the worker to remain in a supervisory or backup role, augmentation seeks to enable cooperation between the worker and the machine. If this concept is well studied to enable efficacy and efficiency at work, efforts must still be made in HWID research to enable well-being, trust, and ensure human control and governance of the outcomes within these worker-machine teams. The conference calls for inclusive approaches for unpacking Industry 5.0, through the integration of human and social sciences, arts, design, and humanities insights and expertise in machine applications. This call seeks contributions that explore the augmentation of human cognition in line with human values through research of new frameworks, models, and approaches for Industry 5.0, Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) that focus on a harmonisation of human ability and well-being, while simultaneously ensuring human beings can make effective use of 5IR technologies, including machine intelligence in the workplace. Accordingly, it is essential to revisit and re-conceptualize the notion of work augmentation in automation-driven contexts by integrating extremely relevant dimensions such as worker well-being, human autonomy, and system transparency into its definition. Industry 5.0 is a concept that builds on the earlier aims of Industry 4.0. Where the Industry 4.0 focus is on productivity and efficiency, Industry 5.0 aims to place the well-being of the worker at the centre of the production process and on maintaining sustainability goals. Harmonisation of human and machine intelligence interaction in the 5IR would require the ability to measure, analyze, and apply affective data of the human and workplace environment to design, integrate, and optimize the employee experience and well-being within the workplace environment. This edition of the HWID working conference aims to attract submissions from professionals in academia, national labs, and industry, as well as from students. The event will provide a platform to discuss tools, procedures, and professional competencies essential for harmonizing human and machine intelligence, central to Industry 5.0. TOPICS - Human-centric UI design with 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human-AI interaction and collaboration - Sociotechnical Theory and Methods for 5IR - Collaborative systems design for Industry 5.0 - Human Digital Twins in the future of work - Behavioral analytics and data modeling - Safety and well-being of workers in the workplace (e.g., trust and training) - Ethics, policy, and law in 5IR - Case studies and implications of 5IR technologies (e.g., discretionary effort, job satisfaction) - Education and coaching to afford harmonisation of human and 5IR technologies in the workplace - Human and social sciences, creative arts, and design IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 8 Notification to authors: March 6 Camera ready: March 27 Conference: June 17-18, 2026 SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit full papers (max 8 pages, including references) formatted according to the LNCS template available on the Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… The link to the submission system: https://meteor.springer.com/HWID2026 Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. The collection of all accepted papers will be distributed to the participants as digital proceedings before the conference. During the review process, the reviewers will be asked to evaluate whether an extended version of the paper is suitable for an IFIP Springer book (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) that will be edited after the conference. ORGANIZERS General Chairs: - Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK) - Judith Molka-Danielsen (Molde University College, Norway) Program Chairs: - Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) - Elodie Bouzekri (Université de Brest, France) - Parisa Sadaati (University of West London, UK) Local Organizing Chair: - Ali Gheitasy (University of West London, UK)

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AAMAS 2026: First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

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*** First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=aGNpdGFseQkJCWhjaXRh…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Salvatore Gatto

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41stACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 <https://unipd.link/ADT-2026> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: * 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: * Original and unpublished research work; * Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; * Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; * Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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 recevie 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 <https://unipd.link/ADT-2026>for more details. Important Dates * September 26, 2025 (EST): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts * October 31, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts * December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC * December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026>(regular papers) andhttps://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026> (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 2026 Conference!

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers

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*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026 SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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[CfP] MUM'25 Posters, Demo's & DC

by Grootjen, Jesse

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Enna, Italy, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. We invite contributions to the following tracks: • Posters, max 3 pages long (excluding references) • Demos, max 3000 words (excluding references) • Doctoral Colloquium: 2-4 pages Timeline (all deadlines are AoE): • Submission deadline: October 9, 2025 • Notification deadline: October 23, 2025 More details and submission information: mum-conf.org

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Deadline extension: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= D*EADLINE EXTENSION -> October 8th 2025* (new hard deadline) Special Issue on *Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies and designing with AI tools* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Extended Deadline: *October 8th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: December 20th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 15th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*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: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") 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: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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MUM 2025 - Call for Posters, Demos, Doctoral consortium

by Salvatore Sorce

*MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia* *Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025* MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Enna, Italy, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. We invite contributions to the following tracks: • Posters, max 3 pages long (excluding references) • Demos, max 3000 words (excluding references) • Doctoral Colloquium: 2-4 pages Timeline (all deadlines are AoE): • Submission deadline: October 9, 2025 • Notification deadline: October 23, 2025 More details and submission information: mum-conf.org <http://mum-conf.org?utm_source=chatgpt.com>

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Third Call for Tutorial Proposals

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*** Third Call for Tutorial Proposals The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. Responsibilities of Tutorial Organizers • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Facilitate the planned activities, including, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. Proposal Format Tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Tutorial)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the tutorial. • Description of tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the tutorial. • Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day or quarter-day proposals (the latter roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • 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 2026", and then “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Important Dates (AoE) • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): Second Call for Contributions

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*** Second Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in 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 2026 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 CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow 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. CALL FOR PAPERS 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 • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • 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 • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for 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 • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • 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 Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS IEEE CBMS 2026 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below. Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the CBMS 2026 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals. Special Track Requirements The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations, listed below: • A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers, submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2026 regular track), special track organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within their track. They must add their own Program Committee members/reviewers to the submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by CBMS 2026 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed. • At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend CBMS 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session that will be assigned in the agenda to their track. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved to the regular track. Submission Guidelines Each proposal must include: • Special track title • Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per session) • A brief biography of ST organizer(s) • List of Special Track Program Committee members • A draft of Special Track “Call for Papers” (important dates must be the same of the main conference) • One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to organize a special issue, if planned. The proposal must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026 OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES Papers / ShowCases / Research Projects/ DC • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) Special Tracks • Proposals Deadline: October 24, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2025 ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Last CFP: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

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/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies and designing with AI tools* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 10th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*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: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") 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: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where researchers and practitioners 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. This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Topics IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems • Explainable AI methods • Democratization of AI • Persuasive technologies in IUI • Privacy and security of IUI • Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation • User modelling for intelligent interfaces • User-adaptive interaction and personalization • IUI for crowd computing and human computation • Human control in daily automations • Trust and reliance in intelligent systems Computational innovation • Interactive machine learning • Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging • Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems • Generative models • Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning • Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces • Affective interfaces • Intelligent aesthetic interfaces • Intelligent collaborative interfaces • Intelligent AR/VR interfaces • Intelligent visualization and visual analytics • Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces • Intelligent tangible interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems • Embodied agents • Multimodal AI assistants • Intelligent multimodal interfaces Intelligent Applications • Education and learning-related technologies • Healthcare and wellbeing • Automotive • Assistive technologies • Entertainment • Workplace happiness • Social media • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart homes Large Language Models and Agentic AI • End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) • LLMs and agents in the workplace • Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems • Bias in LLMs and agents • The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks • Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents • Prompt engineering • User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning) Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces • User experiments and studies • Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) • Meta-analysis • Mixed-methods evaluations Papers We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers one paper only. A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027. Reflection of practical and societal impact We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider. Anonymization ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: • Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. • Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably with regard to their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects before submitting. Additional Policies Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies. Submission Format, Length, and Platform We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Submission Platform All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Supplemental Materials Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for videos. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract: October 3, 2025 • Full Paper: October 10, 2025 • Decision Notification: December 12, 2025 • Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Fourth Call for Papers and Tutorial Proposals

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*** Fourth Call for Papers and Tutorial Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 The 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2026) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. Papers involving AI must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI-intensive software systems (see also “Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective”, 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Other papers may fit more AI- or ML-specialized venues instead. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Research Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Industrial Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Research, Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double-anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for details specific to each different track. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2026 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue featured by Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers from the conference will be awarded. CALL FOR TUTORIALS The SANER 2026 Workshops & Tutorials track invites practitioners and researchers to deliver insightful tutorials on various topics related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. These tutorials aim to expand the community’s understanding of advanced software engineering topics, valuable tools and technologies, as well as research methodologies. We are soliciting abstracts with the intention of presenting a tutorial in the following categories: 1 - Technical Tutorial: Speakers present the use of a tool or technology that aids the developers in Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. 2 - Research problem: Speakers provide a general view of the state-of-the-art for a topic related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering and further present details of a specific research problem that still needs to be addressed by the community. Submission Instructions The proposal should not exceed one page (with up to one additional page for references) and should outline the talk. Furthermore, it should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title: 24pt, text: 10pt; LaTeX users: \documentclass[10pt,conference] {IEEEtran}). All proposals must be submitted in PDF format through https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026. The submission should include: • Title, • Type of proposal (Technical Tutorial or Research problem), • Names of presenters and their affiliation, • Duration, • Outline of the tutorial talk, • Target audience (e.g., PhD students, early career researchers, all researchers, practitioners), • Learning objectives, • Details on any hands-on activities (e.g., participants using a tool or completing exercises) and the necessary computer specifications, • Preferred dates (please note that date preferences cannot be guaranteed). Evaluation Criteria • Overall quality of the proposal, • Relevance to the SANER audience, • Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract, • Experience of the presenters, • Avoidance of duplication, in case of multiple tutorials on the same topic. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Research Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 9 October, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 16 October, 2025 • Notifications: 9 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 9 January, 2026 Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 Tutorial Proposals • Tutorial Proposals Submissions: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Proposals Notification: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Camera-Ready Version: 16 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st)

by Announce

*** Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st) *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ . Workshop Outreach Pipeline AAMAS 2026 will include a pilot designed to encourage submission of high-quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences. All submissions will go through the standard AAMAS review process, but PCs from participating workshops will be able to easily bid on papers from "their" workshop. As with all AAMAS submissions, only papers that have not been published in any archival proceedings can be submitted. You can see the full list of workshops in the interest form for authors: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UjJbNykWK_fsKWbEHDyMEA02cGheIyPeWxCPcUskwk… [docs.google.com] It is recommended to verify with your workshop chair that they are aware of the pipeline and have promoted it to the workshop's authors and PC. Other Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature four special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track), as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Submission DL: November 17, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-aaai-track/ The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. Submission DL (abstract): December 03, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/ The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. Submission DL: January 06, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-jaamas-track/ The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. Submission DL: January 09, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-demonstrations/ Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Submission DL (abstract): January 19, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Proposals for workshops, competitions and tutorials are also welcome: Workshop proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-workshops/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Competition proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-competitions/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Tutorial proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-tutorials/ (DL: January 16, 2026) Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions on the main track, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com . Contacts for the other calls can be found on the AAMAS 2026 website.

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[PostDoc Position] Post-Doctoral Researcher in Interactive Child Information Retrieval

by Sole Pera

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Interactive Child Information Retrieval at the Faculty of Informatics, at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is a young and lively university, a hub of opportunity open to the world where students are offered a quality interdisciplinary education in which they can be fully engaged and take center stage, and where our researchers can count on having the space to freely pursue their initiative. Established in 1996, USI is in constant evolution, always taking on new challenges while remaining true to its three guiding principles: quality, openness, and responsibility. The chair of the LUXIA Group<https://luxia.inf.usi.ch/> (https://luxia.inf.usi.ch/) , Dr Monica Landoni, invites applications for one post-doctoral researcher position to work for 3-year on NSF international project, SOL<https://solandchildren.wordpress.com/> (https://solandchildren.wordpress.com/) , in collaboration with Dr Sole Pera<https://solepera.github.io/> (https://solepera.github.io/ ) from the Web Information System – Software Technology Department, TU Delft, NL. In project SOL, we explore how to leverage the scaffolding metaphor to create a theoretical framework to extend the Search-As-Learning (SAL) paradigm to children and bring it into the primary school classroom. This framework will serve as a foundation to shape co-designed, innovative, human-driven Child Interactive Information Retrieval (CIIR) technologies fostering learning to search and searching to learn that can be seamlessly integrated with a range of search tools to ease information access for learning for specific target audiences and contexts. ***The Post-Doctoral Researcher Position*** The successful candidates will be offered the possibility to work in a dynamic research team and in a multidisciplinary and international scientific environment. As a member of the SNSF International project SOL team, the Postdoc will be based at USI for three years, coordinating interactions between the two PhDs at USI and TU Delft, and contributing to development and dissemination tasks, and assisting them in the development work throughout: WP3 – Elicitation of User Data (initial usage), WP4– Exploration of Scaffolding Needs, WP5 – Iterative Design and Evaluation, WP6 – Evaluate Searching for Learning. The Postdoc will play a significant role in managing the complexity of dealing with the connections across the various WPs. They will serve as a conduit between the two sites, keeping track of the integration of the different components while implementing implicit and explicit scaffolding SOL provides. With the ability to work independently, the Postdoc will need a strong technical background in both HCI and IR to facilitate the integration of different forms of scaffolding produced along the way. ***Candidate’s profile*** The ideal Post-Doctoral candidate must meet the following requirements: • Experience with publication in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. • Ability to work independently and autonomously, to plan, direct, and make progress on own research. • Excellent oral and written English, the official language for the research; understanding of or interest in learning Italian is welcome. • Willingness to travel between Lugano and Delft, and abroad to conduct research and attend conferences. • Experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and management in a multi-disciplinary environment; • Experience with theory and practice of either of these areas of study, i.e., Interactive Information Retrieval, Child Computer Interaction, theory and practice; social engagement processes (e.g., participatory systems modelling, semi-structured interviews, workshops, focus groups), with an interest to acquire skills in the others. ***Contract terms *** The position requires full-time commitment and is not compatible with further professional activity. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of both Landoni and Pera. The post-doctoral researcher will have the possibility to collaborate and interact with a team of other doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working on other research projects, both in USI and TU, as well with an international network of collaborators. Workplace is USI Università della Svizzera italiana, located in Lugano, Switzerland. Availability to travel to the other main site of the project, Delft and abroad (for purposes of collaboration and research) is required. Starting date is as soon as possible. ***The Application*** Applications should contain: (1) A personal one page statement in which the applicant describes their research interests and the motivation to apply to join project SOL specifically, (2) A complete CV, including (i) date of birth, (ii) nationality, (iii) names of two references, and (iv) publication record, and (v) other information relevant for the position (e.g., experience in participatory design). (3) Names and contact information (e.g., email and telephone) of two professional references supporting your application. The application deadline is ***September 30, 2025***. Please send your application in electronic form in a single PDF file directly to ***monica.landoni(a)usi.ch*** (also requests for further information), using [SOL-PostDoc] in the email subject. We will start interviewing qualified applicants shortly after the submission deadline. As an institution that values diversity, USI particularly encourages applications from women and from all individuals from underrepresented group. Sole Pera, PhD Associate Professor - Web Information Systems TU Delft Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6 – 3.W.800 2628 XE Delft, The Netherlands https://solepera.github.io/ @DrCh0le

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CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Mirko Franco

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: Original and unpublished research work; Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 for more details. Important Dates September 26, 2025 (EST): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts October 31, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026 (regular papers) and https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026 (SRC abstracts). Contact us For any inquiries regarding the call for papers, please contact gaggi(a)math.unipd.it. We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 2026 Conference!

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[IxD&A Journal] Issue N. 64 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. 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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission

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*** Last Mile for Workshop Proposals Submission *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025 (extended and final!) ***) We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. Review and Oversight by Workshop Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with workshop information. The IUI 2026 website will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate a Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events). • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop. • Description of workshop topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. • Planned outcomes of the workshop: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • 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 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops", and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 29, 2025 (extended and final!) • Decision Notification: September 19, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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MUM 2025 CfP (Deadline Extension)

by Grootjen, Jesse

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Enna, Italy, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Prototypes and systems tackling relevant technical challenges * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, learning, entertainment, social networking, and advertising * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation * Fabrication and device prototyping Long & short papers summary: * Anonymous submissions (double-blind review) * Length (using LaTeX template or Word template): * Short papers: 7 pages maximum (excluding references) * Full papers: 16 pages maximum (excluding references) * Timeline (all deadlines are AoE): * Workshops and Tutorials Submission: August 21, 2025 * Paper (Short & Full): August 21, 2025 August 28, 2025 (Extended Deadline) * Paper Decision Notification: October 06, 2025 * Paper Camera-ready: October 20, 2025 * Upon acceptance: mandatory presentation at the conference For further details about the submission, the review and publication process, other available tracks, and general information about the conference and the venue, please go to: mum-conf.org<http://mum-conf.org/> Should you have any questions, please contact the Papers and Technical Program Chairs: Mohamed Khamis, University of Glasgow, UK Passant Elagroudy, DFKI, Germany papers2025(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:papers2025@mum-conf.org>

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CFP Work-in-Progress Papers - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2026, Las Vegas, USA

by Mirko Franco

Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026 Track Chairs: Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email: mifranco(a)math.unipd.it) Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email: pmanzoni(a)disca.upv.es) Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email: andrea.michienzi(a)di.unipi.it) IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 (Firm Deadline!) Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 Submit at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961 SCOPE and MOTIVATION Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking. All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

by Announce

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Annual International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. Review and Oversight by Workshop Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with workshop information. The IUI 2026 website will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate a Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events). • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” after the title. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop. • Description of workshop topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. • Planned outcomes of the workshop: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • 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 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops", and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision Notification: September 19, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

by Announce

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/track/saner-2026/saner-2026-workshops-tutorials-… In SANER 2026, we solicit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops can be full or half-day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to software analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. All workshops will tentatively be scheduled for the first day of the conference (March 17, 2026), the day before the main conference. Should you be interested in joining SANER, please keep the deadlines below in mind. Submission Instructions Proposal submission: By August 20th, 2025 AoE, the workshop proposal (in the form of call for papers) should be submitted to the workshops EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 . The submission could be a PDF file (no more than two pages) or a public link to a call for papers webpage. The call for papers should include: • a workshop title, • a description of the workshop topic and scope, • an indication of whether the workshop will take ½ day or a full day, • a link to the workshop website, • and the contact information. The website should be live and include (at least) the following information: the topic of the workshop, its scope, list of topics of interest, names of the organizing committee members and their affiliations, types of submissions and the important dates as follows (all dates are 23:59h AoE): • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 Evaluation Criteria The proposals will be evaluated by the workshops track chairs based on the novelty of the workshop topic, its importance to the field, as well as the composition of the organizing team. Workshop PC and Submission System No later than mid of-September 2025, the workshop PC should have been finalized and the paper submission system should be live. Workshop organizers are free to select EasyChair, HotCRP or any other commonly used paper submission system. The workshop proceedings will be included in a separate section of the conference’s proceedings – the companion proceedings. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop Proposals Submissions: 20 August, 2025 • Workshop Proposals Notification: 27 August, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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📢 [CFP] CRISTAIN 2025 Workshop

by Eleonora CALO'

*We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call * ============================================= [*CRISTAIN 2025*] The “*supporting CRIme reSolution Through Artificial Intelligence*” workshop explores the use of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality, to support professionals in the field of criminal investigation. The initiative aims to introduce new methodologies that can enhance current investigative practices. A key element is a human-centered approach which ensures effective and ethical tools that can be easily used by professionals in the field. Through discussion and dialogue among participants, the workshop can foster the identification of effective solutions to support the management of the investigation process. This includes building trust in automated systems, supporting human oversight and interpretability, and enabling collaborative decision-making between humans and machines. Particular attention will be provided to how human-centered methods can help in the mitigation risks and biases that should be properly handled in AI-based systems. Such methods ensure that professionals across various domains can confidently integrate AI tools into their workflows, without requiring deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms. ============================================= 📅 *Event Info* The *CRISTAIN workshop* will be held at the conference: - 🗓️ *CHItaly 2025 – 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter* - 📍 *October 6–10, 2025* – *Salerno, Italy* - 🌐 *Website*: https://cristain-ws.github.io/CHItaly25/ 🕒 *Important Dates* - *Paper submission deadline:* * September 5th* - *Acceptance notice:** September 12nd* - *Camera-ready submission:* *September 22nd* 📥 Submission - *Short paper length:* 5–9 pages - *Format*: PDF - *Submit via EasyChair*: CRISTAIN 2025 Submission <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cristain2025> - *Proceedings:* published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings – http://ceur-ws.org/ 🧩 *Topics* Tuned to the field of crime, topics include, but are not limited to: - Crime Scene Analyses - Case-studies on Crime Analyses - Context-aware decision making - Decision support system - Process management in complex domains - Domain-specific data collection - Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading - Data preparation and processing - Emotional AI - Neuro-Symbolic AI - Personalization and predictive interaction - Distributed interactions among intelligent systems - AI-based adaptive systems - Secure AI - Unbiased AI systems - Ethics and Trustworthy AI - Awareness and transparency in technology usage - Environmental impacts of technologies - Immersive experiences and virtual environments - Integration of technologies in complex domains - New sensory dimensions for user experiences - Redefining human capabilities through technology 👥 *Organizers* - Eleonora Calò - ecalo(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Loredana Caruccio - lcaruccio(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Autilia Vitiello - autilia.vitiello(a)unina.it - University of Naples Federico II

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[Extended Deadline] CFP: Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games, within IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, USA

by Salvatore Gatto

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] Call for Papers Track 2 - Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games *Track Chairs*: Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua, Italy (email: gaggi(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>) Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (email: manuela.montangero(a)unimore.it <mailto:manuela.montangero@unimore.it>) *IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA* https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-technical-papers *IMPORTANT DATES* Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 *Summit at*: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130953 *SCOPE and MOTIVATION * Social applications, multimedia, and games play a substantial role in shaping Internet traffic and have emerged as dominant mode of social interaction online. This recent trend has sparked significant research interests, both at the network level and in terms of application and service development. Moreover, with the advent of the metaverse, research focus within these domains has expanded to encompass virtual worlds, immersive experiences, and social interactions in virtual environments. Given their increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social applications, multimedia, and games have also garnered research attention across diverse fields, including big data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data sensing, information security, and privacy protection. *MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST* The Networking solutions for social applications, multimedia, and games track seeks original contributions in the following areas, as well as others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: - Artificial Intelligence for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Architectures, Platforms, and Protocols. - Business models for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Communication security for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Data Sensing. - Distributed games engines. - Ethical considerations in social applications, multimedia, and games. - Gamification and game-based learning in applications. - Human-Computer Interfaces and Human-Machine Interfaces. - Immersive storytelling and narrative techniques in multimedia and games. - Knowledge discovery for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Metaverse, virtual worlds, immersive experiences. - Naming and routing of media streams. - New paradigms of future communications networks. - Non-visual Interfaces for accessibility and/or Virtual Reality. - Novel applications for the social, multimedia, and games scenario. - Smart moving and smart objects. - Social computing and collective intelligence. - Social influence and persuasion in multimedia and games. - Social interactions in communication networks. - Recommender algorithms. - Rumor source localization in large-scale, real-world networking solutions. - User profiling and behavior analysis. - User engagement and retention strategies in social applications and games. - Virtual reality and augmented reality applications.

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ACM GoodIT 2025 - Early Bird Registration

by Mirko Franco

ACM GoodIT 2025 – Call for Early Registration 5th ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good Antwerp, Belgium, 3-5 September 2025 https://goodit2025.idlab.uantwerpen.be/ We are excited to announce that registration for the ACM GoodIT 2025 conference is now open! The early bird registration is available until August 25th, 2025. This year's conference will be held from September 3-5, 2025, in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. ACM GoodIT 2025 focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good, a concept that encompasses actions providing benefits to the general public. Traditional examples include Internet connectivity, education, and healthcare. However, the rapid growth of new media innovations and online communities has expanded the meaning of social good. Today, it represents the efforts of global citizens uniting to harness the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. We invite you to join us in exploring the latest advancements and innovative applications of IT for social good. The conference will feature a diverse range of presentations and networking opportunities designed to foster collaboration and inspire new ideas. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a global movement dedicated to making a difference through technology. To register and learn more about the conference, please visit our website: https://goodit2025.idlab.uantwerpen.be. We look forward to welcoming you in Antwerp!

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CFP Work-in-Progress Papers - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2026, Las Vegas, USA

by Mirko Franco

Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026 Track Chairs: Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email: mifranco(a)math.unipd.it) Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email: pmanzoni(a)disca.upv.es) Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email: andrea.michienzi(a)di.unipi.it) IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025 Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 Submit at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961 SCOPE and MOTIVATION Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking. All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

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CFP: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/*Errata-Corrige* Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies and designing with AI tools* Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 10th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*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: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") 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: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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CFP: Special issue n. 68 on "Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *STEAM teaching and learning: advances beyond the state of the art * Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/participatory-design-meets-artificial-intelligence/> 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Susanne Stigberg, Østfold University College, Norway • Klaudia Carcani, Østfold University College, Norway • Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo, Norway • Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 10th*, 2025 • Notification to the authors: October 30th, 2025 • Camera ready paper: January 10th, 2026 • Publication of the special issue: Spring 2026 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) make Participatory Design (PD) obsolete? AI systems are deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance—in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using participatory approaches for the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems across industries, academia and the public sector. Researchers have started to explore different aspects of AI tools for co-creation in PD and different co-creation processes for the design of AI-based solutions. In this special issue, we aim to collect and share explorations with and about AI in PD to create a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. Early PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI seems to be a threat to workers—and societies—today. This is an argument for using a PD approach aimed at understanding the technology and its potential for changing workplaces and work practices, as well as to open up for workers to have a say in choices concerning the technology during its design and use. We see two different combinations of AI and PD: a) the use of AI tools in PD for design inspiration or co-ideation, and b) using PD activities to collaboratively envision digital futures with AI. Can PD help to understand AI and its potential for changing our lives? Bratteteig and Verne argue that PD is well suited for users and designers working together to negotiate and mitigate the challenges AI poses to our digitalized societies. However, they argue that PD researchers need to navigate through three challenges: understanding AI technology, evaluating AI solutions, and distinguishing between “normal use” and training of AI services. Voinov and Bousquet propose participatory modeling as a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. As a step towards broadening the discussion about AI and PD, our proposal seeks to extend a warm invitation to researchers and professionals worldwide who are exploring the intersection of PD and AI, including both aspects of mutual learning and co-designing. This special issue is also an extension of a workshop that took place at NORDICHI 2024. The purpose of this special issue, therefore, in addition to collecting contributions from those who participated in the workshop, is to broaden the discussion to include scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the discourse about AI and PD and who would like to contribute with and share their own visions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Perspectives on co-designing future ethical, responsible, and explainable AI solutions. • Learning practices and strategies for understanding AI. • Challenges facing PD for designing AI solutions • Lessons learned from facilitated participatory activities AI tools. • Combinations of the above. =========================================== /*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: Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence") 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: /SI: //Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence/ • susanne [dot] k [dot] stigberg [at] hiof [dot] no • klaudia [dot] carcani [at] hiof [dot] no • joshi [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no • tone [at] ifi [dot] uio [dot] no -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * *

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Papers

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*** Second Call for Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where researchers and practitioners 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. This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Topics IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems • Explainable AI methods • Democratization of AI • Persuasive technologies in IUI • Privacy and security of IUI • Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation • User modelling for intelligent interfaces • User-adaptive interaction and personalization • IUI for crowd computing and human computation • Human control in daily automations • Trust and reliance in intelligent systems Computational innovation • Interactive machine learning • Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging • Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems • Generative models • Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning • Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces • Affective interfaces • Intelligent aesthetic interfaces • Intelligent collaborative interfaces • Intelligent AR/VR interfaces • Intelligent visualization and visual analytics • Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces • Intelligent tangible interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems • Embodied agents • Multimodal AI assistants • Intelligent multimodal interfaces Intelligent Applications • Education and learning-related technologies • Healthcare and wellbeing • Automotive • Assistive technologies • Entertainment • Workplace happiness • Social media • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart homes Large Language Models and Agentic AI • End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) • LLMs and agents in the workplace • Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems • Bias in LLMs and agents • The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks • Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents • Prompt engineering • User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning) Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces • User experiments and studies • Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) • Meta-analysis • Mixed-methods evaluations Papers We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers one paper only. A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027. Reflection of practical and societal impact We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider. Anonymization ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: • Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. • Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably with regard to their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects before submitting. Additional Policies Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies. Submission Format, Length, and Platform We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Submission Platform All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Supplemental Materials Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for videos. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract: October 3, 2025 • Full Paper: October 10, 2025 • Decision Notification: December 12, 2025 • Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Second Call for Contributions

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*** Second Call for Contributions *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ Special Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track), as well as the Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): First Call for Contributions

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*** First Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in 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 2026 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 CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow 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. CALL FOR PAPERS 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 • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • 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 • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for 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 • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • 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 Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS IEEE CBMS 2026 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below. Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the CBMS 2026 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals. Special Track Requirements The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations, listed below: • A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers, submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2026 regular track), special track organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within their track. They must add their own Program Committee members/reviewers to the submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by CBMS 2026 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed. • At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend CBMS 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session that will be assigned in the agenda to their track. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved to the regular track. Submission Guidelines Each proposal must include: • Special track title • Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per session) • A brief biography of ST organizer(s) • List of Special Track Program Committee members • A draft of Special Track “Call for Papers” (important dates must be the same of the main conference) • One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to organize a special issue, if planned. The proposal must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026 OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES Papers / ShowCases / Research Projects/ DC • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) Special Tracks • Proposals Deadline: October 24, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2025 ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CFP] Special Issue on Connected Realities: Exploring Collaboration and Social Interaction in eXtended Reality

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

******************************************************** *Connected Realities: Exploring Collaboration and Social Interaction in eXtended Reality* ******************************************************** Special Issue of the *Virtual Reality* journal https://link.springer.com/collections/ijfihjahcf *Aims and Scope* Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), are profoundly transforming how people interact and collaborate in the digital world, overcoming physical barriers and creating new opportunities for social connection. These immersive solutions range from integrating digital elements into the real world to building entirely virtual environments, expanding the boundaries of human interaction. However, the growth of XR also presents significant challenges related to social cohesion, collaboration, inclusivity, and accessibility. Designing XR environments with a strong focus on social interaction and collaboration is essential to creating spaces that foster meaningful connections and teamwork. In an increasingly interconnected world, neglecting social factors risks excluding users and limiting XR’s potential as a tool for global collaboration. This special issue aims to explore strategies for designing XR environments that enable equitable, inclusive, and safe participation, addressing the needs of a diverse community and ensuring that no one is left out of these new modes of interaction and collaboration. *Topics* Authors are invited to submit articles that fall under topics such as, 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 *Important dates* Paper Submission deadline: 30 November 2025 *Please feel free to contact us for more information.* Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno - Italy, gvitiello(a)unisa.it Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and TU Delft - The Netherlands, garcia(a)cwi.nl Tanja Kojić, TU Berlin - Germany, tanja.kojic(a)tu-berlin.de Andrea Antonio Cantone, University of Salerno - Italy, acantone(a)unisa.it

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EICS 2026 - Full Papers and Technical Notes CfP - 1st Submission Round (Deadline in 1 week)

by Carmen Santoro

*** (Apologies for multiple postings) *** Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July 2026, Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACMHCI EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025 EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Modelling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems *Requirements engineering for interactive systems *Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) *Software architectures for interactive systems *Formal methods within interactive systems engineering *Bridging the gap between engineering and design practices. *Engineering design and evaluation tools *Computational techniques for designing and evaluating interactive systems *Interactive data-driven systems *Explore and/or employ of diverse interaction techniques and devices (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, recognition of physiological signals, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, virtual, augmented, mixed and extended reality) *Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems) *Engineering interactive systems for diverse user groups (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities…) *Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems *Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies *Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies *Applying AI technologies in methods, processes and tools for building interactive systems in all stages of the engineering lifecycle A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participa nts-and-subjects Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACMHCI EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025 Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACMHCI-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano

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CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '26) - ACM SAC 2026

by Mirko Franco

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘26) Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23 - 27, 2026 Part of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘26) https://unipd.link/ADT-2026 https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ 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. This track will invite scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility, including but not limited to the following topics: 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 2026 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories: Original and unpublished research work; Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business area; Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains; Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. 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 recevie 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://unipd.link/ADT-2026 for more details. Important Dates September 26, 2025 (EST): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts October 31, 2025: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts December 5, 2025: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC December 12, 2025: 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://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=8679424414231038462 (regular papers) and https://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=1380962008236610457 (SRC abstracts). Contact us For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact gaggi(a)math.unipd.it. We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 2026 Conference!

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[Extended Deadline] CFP: Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games, within IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, USA

by Salvatore Gatto

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] Call for Papers Track 2 - Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games *Track Chairs*: Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua, Italy (email: gaggi(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>) Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (email: manuela.montangero(a)unimore.it <mailto:manuela.montangero@unimore.it>) *IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA* https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-technical-papers *IMPORTANT DATES* Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 1, 2025 Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2025 *Summit at*: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130953 *SCOPE and MOTIVATION * Social applications, multimedia, and games play a substantial role in shaping Internet traffic and have emerged as dominant mode of social interaction online. This recent trend has sparked significant research interests, both at the network level and in terms of application and service development. Moreover, with the advent of the metaverse, research focus within these domains has expanded to encompass virtual worlds, immersive experiences, and social interactions in virtual environments. Given their increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social applications, multimedia, and games have also garnered research attention across diverse fields, including big data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data sensing, information security, and privacy protection. *MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST* The Networking solutions for social applications, multimedia, and games track seeks original contributions in the following areas, as well as others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: - Artificial Intelligence for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Architectures, Platforms, and Protocols. - Business models for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Communication security for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Data Sensing. - Distributed games engines. - Ethical considerations in social applications, multimedia, and games. - Gamification and game-based learning in applications. - Human-Computer Interfaces and Human-Machine Interfaces. - Immersive storytelling and narrative techniques in multimedia and games. - Knowledge discovery for social applications, multimedia, and games. - Metaverse, virtual worlds, immersive experiences. - Naming and routing of media streams. - New paradigms of future communications networks. - Non-visual Interfaces for accessibility and/or Virtual Reality. - Novel applications for the social, multimedia, and games scenario. - Smart moving and smart objects. - Social computing and collective intelligence. - Social influence and persuasion in multimedia and games. - Social interactions in communication networks. - Recommender algorithms. - Rumor source localization in large-scale, real-world networking solutions. - User profiling and behavior analysis. - User engagement and retention strategies in social applications and games. - Virtual reality and augmented reality applications.

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MUM 2025 CfP

by Grootjen, Jesse

MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Enna, Italy, December 1-4, 2025 MUM 2025, the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Enna, Italy, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Prototypes and systems tackling relevant technical challenges * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, learning, entertainment, social networking, and advertising * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation * Fabrication and device prototyping Long & short papers summary: * Anonymous submissions (double-blind review) * Length (using LaTeX template or Word template): * Short papers: 7 pages maximum (excluding references) * Full papers: 16 pages maximum (excluding references) * Timeline (all deadlines are AoE): * Paper Submission: August 21, 2025 * Decision Notification: October 06, 2025 * Camera-ready: October 20, 2025 * Upon acceptance: mandatory presentation at the conference For further details about the submission, the review and publication process, other available tracks, and general information about the conference and the venue, please go to: mum-conf.org<http://mum-conf.org/> Should you have any questions, please contact the Papers and Technical Program Chairs: Mohamed Khamis, University of Glasgow, UK Passant Elagroudy, DFKI, Germany papers2025(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:papers2025@mum-conf.org>

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CFP Work-in-Progress Papers - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 9-12 January 2026, Las Vegas, USA

by Mirko Franco

Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026 Track Chairs: Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email: mifranco(a)math.unipd.it) Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email: pmanzoni(a)disca.upv.es) Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email: andrea.michienzi(a)di.unipi.it) IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026 Technical Papers due: August 1, 2025 Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2025 Submit at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961 SCOPE and MOTIVATION Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking. All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

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The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals

by Announce

*** Second Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos, Cyprus. Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference (“Where HCI meets AI”). Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and *full-day*, *half-day* or *quarter-day* tutorial formats and activities, including but not limited to: • Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper submission and review processes. • Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the discussions and outcomes. • Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas. Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or extended abstracts. • Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community. • Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI. • Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, tools, labs or hands-on experiences for building intelligent user interfaces. Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient submissions. Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026. We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or a similar venue). Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers • Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review process. • Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI Website 2026 will link to this page. • Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events) • Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or interactive elements. • Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. • Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar). Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these requirements, and we may not be able to include them. IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to present the work. Proposal Format Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template (https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…), or the LaTex Template (https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…). For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”. The proposals should be organized as follows: • Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. • Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial. • Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference. • Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series (e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference names and years). • Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by workshop organizers in the past. • Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. • Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial. • Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware or software, and handouts. • Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes expected. • Length: Full-day or half-day. For tutorials, we are also interested in quarter-day proposals (roughly 1.5 hours). Submission Platform • All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline. • 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 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or “IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go". We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers from varied institutions and backgrounds. Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types of contributions and foster valuable interactions. Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance (workshops2026(a)iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025 • Decision notification: September 19, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025 • Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025 • Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Third Call for Papers and Workshop & Tutorial Proposals

by Announce

*** Third Call for Papers and Workshop & Tutorial Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 The 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2026) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM applied to analysis, evolution and reengineering of software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human factors and legal aspects in the context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering • Empirical studies on all the above topics; • Education related to all of the above topics. Papers involving AI must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI-intensive software systems (see also “Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective”, 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Other papers may fit more AI- or ML-specialized venues instead. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Research Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Industrial Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Research, Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double- anonymous review process. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2026 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue featured by Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers from the conference will be awarded. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS In SANER 2026, we solicit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops can be full or half-day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to software analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. All workshops will tentatively be scheduled for the first day of the conference (March 17, 2026), the day before the main conference. Should you be interested in joining SANER, please keep the deadlines below in mind. Submission Instructions Proposal submission: By 20th August, 2025 AoE, the workshop proposal (in the form of call for papers) should be submitted to the workshops EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 . The submission could be a PDF file (no more than two pages) or a public link to a call for papers webpage. The call for papers should include: • a workshop title, • a description of the workshop topic and scope, • an indication of whether the workshop will take ½ day or a full day, • a link to the workshop website, • and the contact information. The website should be live and include (at least) the following information: the topic of the workshop, its scope, list of topics of interest, names of the organizing committee members and their affiliations, types of submissions and the important dates as follows (all dates are 23:59h AoE): • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: 14 January, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 Evaluation Criteria The proposals will be evaluated by the workshops track chairs based on the novelty of the workshop topic, its importance to the field, as well as the composition of the organizing team. Workshop PC and Submission System No later than mid of September 2025, the workshop PC should have been finalized and the paper submission system should be live. Workshop organizers are free to select EasyChair, HotCRP or any other commonly used paper submission system. The workshop proceedings will be included in a separate section of the conference’s proceedings – the companion proceedings. CALL FOR TUTORIALS The SANER 2026 Workshops & Tutorials track invites practitioners and researchers to deliver insightful tutorials on various topics related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. These tutorials aim to expand the community’s understanding of advanced software engineering topics, valuable tools and technologies, as well as research methodologies. We are soliciting abstracts with the intention of presenting a tutorial in the following categories: 1 - Technical Tutorial: Speakers present the use of a tool or technology that aids the developers in Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. 2 - Research problem: Speakers provide a general view of the state-of-the-art for a topic related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering and further present details of a specific research problem that still needs to be addressed by the community. Submission Instructions The proposal should not exceed one page (with up to one additional page for references) and should outline the talk. Furthermore, it should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title: 24pt, text: 10pt; LaTeX users: \documentclass[10pt,conference] {IEEEtran}). All proposals must be submitted in PDF format through https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026. The submission should include: • Title, • Type of proposal (Technical Tutorial or Research problem), • Names of presenters and their affiliation, • Duration, • Outline of the tutorial talk, • Target audience (e.g., PhD students, early career researchers, all researchers, practitioners), • Learning objectives, • Details on any hands-on activities (e.g., participants using a tool or completing exercises) and the necessary computer specifications, • Preferred dates (please note that date preferences cannot be guaranteed). Evaluation Criteria • Overall quality of the proposal, • Relevance to the SANER audience, • Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract, • Experience of the presenters, • Avoidance of duplication, in case of multiple tutorials on the same topic. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Research Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 9 October, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 16 October, 2025 • Notifications: 9 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 9 January, 2026 Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 Workshop & Tutorial Proposals • Workshop Proposals Submissions: 20 August, 2025 • Workshop Proposals Notification: 27 August, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals Submissions: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Proposals Notification: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Camera-Ready Version: 16 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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CFP: EXTENDED DEADLINE - RecSoGood @RecSys 2025 - Second International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good

by Francesca Malloci

*** Apologies for cross postings *** RecSoGood Workshop @RecSys 2025 - CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good (RecSoGood) 22nd–26th September 2025 co-located with RecSys 2025 (https://recsys.acm.org/recsys25/) - Prague, Czech Republic Web: https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood25/index.html Submission: through EasyChair (an updated link will be provided soon on the workshop website) For any information: allegra.defilippo(a)unibo.it ========= HIGHLIGHTS ========= - DEADLINE: July 10, 2025 July 17, 2025 (Extended) - Notification to authors: August 6, 2025 - Post-proceedings volume indexed in Scopus and Web of Science ========= ABSTRACT ========= In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and sustainability, leveraging Recommender Systems has emerged as a powerful tool for driving positive change. With a foundation in AI and data analytics, Recommender Systems can be effective in various domains, from e-commerce to energy management and well-being. By harnessing the power of recommendation algorithms under a holistic perspective, organizations and researchers can guide users towards more sustainable choices and behaviors, contributing to broader environmental and social goals. With this aim, our workshop provides a unique platform for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to explore the integration of sustainability principles into Recommender Systems. Through presentations, discussions, and panels, participants will explore the theoretical foundations, practical implementations, and ethical and environmental considerations of sustainable Recommender Systems. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to catalyze innovation and inspire collective action towards a more sustainable future. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: 1)Sustainable Recommender Systems Development: – Multi-criteria Recommender Systems – Multistakeholder Recommender Systems – Energy efficient and low-carbon model learning – Generative AI’s Impact on sustainable Recommendation Systems – User interfaces for sustainable Recommender Systems 2)Sustainable Recommender Systems Features: – Explainability & trustworthy – Privacy and safety – Diversity and inclusion – Behavioural change 3)Evaluation of Sustainable Recommender Systems: – Long-term effect of Recommender Systems – Simulation techniques – Beyond accuracy evaluation 4)Application Areas: – Health – Media and information – Travel and tourism – Agriculture ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating how Recommender Systems can contribute to a more sustainable and responsible technology ecosystem, aligning with the broader goals of achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability. In particular, authors can submit: (A) Full papers (max. 12 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (B) Reproducibility papers (max. 12 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (C) Short papers (max 6 pages + references - Springer LLNCS format); (D) Position papers (max. 4 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (E) Extended abstract (max 1 page + references - ORAL PRESENTATION ONLY). 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 will also elicit 1 page-extended abstracts. This type of informal submission will be editorially reviewed by workshop organizers. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop, but not published in the proceedings. Submission: through EasyChair (an updated link will be provided soon on the workshop website) All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LLNCS Style: ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) Submissions should be double blinded. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (all deadlines refer to GMT) by selecting RecSoGood as submission track. At least one of the authors should register and take part at the conference to make the presentation. ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * DEADLINE: July 10, 2025 July 17, 2025 (Extended) * Notification to authors: August 6, 2025 * Camera-Ready submission: TBD for post-proceedings in a volume published by Springer, in the CCIS Series. ================ PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS =============== All accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Ludovico Boratto - Associate Professor - University of Cagliari, Italy E-mail: ludovico.boratto(a)acm.org Allegra De Filippo (main contact) - Assistant Professor - University of Bologna, Italy E-mail: allegra.defilippo(a)unibo.it Elisabeth Lex - Associate Professor - Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: elisabeth.lex(a)tugraz.at Francesca Maridina Malloci - Assistant Professor - University of Cagliari, Italy E-mail: francescam.malloci(a)unica.it Noemi Mauro – Senior Assistant Professor – University of Torino, Italy E-mail: noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Francesco Ricci - Senior Full Professor - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy E-mail: fmr959(a)gmail.com

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Post-Doctoral Position @ Université Côte d'Azur in "AI and Human-Machine Interaction for Knowledge Graph Exploration in Metabolomics"

by Paolo Buono

*Postdoctoral Position* at Inria centre, Université Côte d'Azur, in: AI and Human-Machine Interaction for Knowledge Graph Exploration in Metabolomics Link to the call: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2025-08763 Duration: 12 months Deadline: July 31st 2025 Reference: Menin Aline / aline.menin(a)inria.fr See attached file for further information or visit the website. Best regards, Paolo Buono -- --------------------------------------- Paolo Buono Associate Professor IVU Lab, Department of Computer Science University of Bari, Italy http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/buono.htm ---------------------------------------

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] Workshop COL-SAI: 1st International Workshop on COllaboration and Learning through Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence

by miriana.calvano＠uniba.it

========================================= COL-SAI: 1st International Workshop on COllaboration and Learning through Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence ========================================= co-located with the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter - “Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millenium“ (CHITALY 2025<https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/>) Salerno, Italy 6 – 10 October 2025 Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/col-sai/home-page ======================================================================== Important Dates * Submission deadline: July 15th 2025 AoE [EXTENDED] (*) * Notification: July 22th 2025 AoE [EXTENDED] * Camera-ready: TBD * Early Registration due: 23th July 2025 (*) For those who will not register with the early registration, there is the possibility to submit a contribution until September 7th 2025. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objectives This workshop aims to explore how humans and AI systems can effectively collaborate, learn from each other, and co-adapt symbiotically. Through discussions and the exchange of perspectives, the workshop has the goal of investigating the key components of the interaction between the two parties. Participants will gain deeper insights into the implications of integrating AI into various aspects of daily life, facilitating problem-solving activities such as learning, decision-making, and co-creation. The workshop will be structured as follows: after an initial introduction by the organizers concerning the topics and objectives, there will be presentations for each contribution (10 minutes circa), followed by questions from the other participants. At the end of the session, there will be a participatory activity, through which we will be able to exchange ideas, comments, and reflections concerning the best practices and challenges of Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence for Collaborative Learning Environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics The topics that will be addressed in the workshop are the following: * The impact of a symbiotic human-AI relationship in collaborative environments. * Human-Computer Interaction methodologies and techniques to foster symbiosis between humans and AI. * Using AI in human learning processes to assist humans cognitively. * Using AI for education and skill development. * Methodologies and techniques for transferring knowledge between humans and AI through feedback mechanisms. * Ethical considerations in human-AI collaborative environments (bias mitigation, fairness, non-discrimination, etc). * AI adaptability for personalized interaction experience based on individuals' requirements. * The role of trustworthiness in human-AI collaboration for critical activities. * Design and evaluation of systems that foster and support human-AI collaboration. * Case studies of AI in real-world applications (medicine, healthcare, education, etc). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions and Evaluation Criteria Contributions for the workshop must be submitted through EasyChair using the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=colsai2025, following the LaTeX or Microsoft Word template, available at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. For more information, visit the CEUR website<https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PUBLISH-RULES>. We accept two types of submissions: * Full paper: at least 10 "standard" pages* and an appropriate number of references. * Position paper: between 5-9 "standard" pages*. *(1 standard page = 2500 characters) Each submission will be subjected to a single-blind peer review process, and two reviewers from the Program Committee (PC) will assess each contribution in terms of relevance to the workshop’s topics and its quality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Organizers * Miriana Calvano – University of Bari, Italy (miriana.calvano(a)uniba.it<mailto:miriana.calvano@uniba.it>) * Andrea Cantone – University of Salerno, Italy (acantone(a)unisa.it<mailto:acantone@unisa.it>) * Antonio Curci – University of Bari, Italy (antonio.curci(a)uniba.it<mailto:antonio.curci@uniba.it>) * Francesca Pia Perillo – University of Salerno, Italy (fperillo(a)unisa.it<mailto:fperillo@unisa.it>)

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CfP edu4AI 2025 @ECAI 2025: **** Important Dates Updated ****

by Manuel Striani

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** *[Important dates UPDATED]* 2nd Workshop on Education for Artificial Intelligence (edu4AI) Bologna, October 26, 2025, half-day workshop. Workshop website: https://edu4ai.di.unito.it/ Co-located with ECAI 2025 (https://ecai2025.org/) The European Conference of Artificial Intelligence. *********************** *Important dates:* *********************** Submission deadline to meet the ECAI early registration deadline: Paper submission deadline: August 1, 2025 Notifications of paper acceptance: August 29, 2025 Late submission deadline Abstract submission (not mandatory but appreciated): August 1, 2025 Paper submission deadline: August 22, 2025 Notifications of paper acceptance: September 26, 2025 Workshop (edu4AI @ECAI 2025): October 26, 2025 We added an early submission deadline to align with the ECAI early registration (https://ecai2025.org/registration/) and allow potential authors to take advantage of the discounted fees. However, the initial submission deadlines are still available. *********************** We are happy to announce the second edition of the edu4AI workshop, whose aim is to establish a forum for researchers and professionals interested in understanding, envisioning, and discussing the challenges and opportunities of AI awareness by promoting education for Artificial Intelligence, promoting aspects such as methodologies, educational pathways, and AI literacy. *********************** *Topics of interest* *********************** Topic of interest include (but are not limited to) - Teaching Methodologies. - Challenges and Opportunities in Education for AI. - Leveraging online platforms for widespread AI Education. - Innovative Education Techniques and methodologies to support AI Education. - Hands-on research initiatives to support AI awareness and comprehension. - Program development for Educators. - Resources and techniques to explain AI in simple terms. - AI Literacy kits and educational games. - Educational tools and resources for correcting AI misconceptions. - Case studies on AI Literacy courses for elderly people. - Domain-specific threats due to AI biases and educational solutions to overcome them. - Education on AI-Ethical aspects. - Training programs to convey AI awareness. - Integration of AI learning activities at school. - Incorporating AI into STEM activities. - Education for AI through HRI. *********************** *Submissions* *********************** All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and clarity. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the CEUR-WS's single-column style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). CEUR template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… We welcome two categories of paper submission: Full papers (8-10 pages) Short papers (6 pages) -- Suitable for presenting work in progress, projects, software prototypes, or extended abstracts Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=edu4ai *********************** *Organisation Chairs* *********************** - Elisa Marengo - University of Torino, Italy email: elisa.marengo(a)unito.it - Michela Ponticorvo - University “Federico II” of Napoli, Italy email: michela.ponticorvo(a)unina.it - Manuel Striani - University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy email: manuel.striani(a)uniupo.it -- Manuel Striani, PhD University of Piemonte Orientale DiSIT - Department of Sciences and Technological Innovation Computer Science Institute Viale Teresa Michel, 11 15121 Alessandria, Italy email: manuel.striani(a)uniupo.it --------- *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] [Deadline Extended: July 14] supporting CRIme reSolution Through Artificial Intelligence workshop

by Eleonora CALO'

*We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call * ============================================= [*CRISTAIN 2025*] The “*supporting CRIme reSolution Through Artificial Intelligence*” workshop explores the use of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality, to support professionals in the field of criminal investigation. The initiative aims to introduce new methodologies that can enhance current investigative practices. A key element is a human-centered approach which ensures effective and ethical tools that can be easily used by professionals in the field. Through discussion and dialogue among participants, the workshop can foster the identification of effective solutions to support the management of the investigation process. This includes building trust in automated systems, supporting human oversight and interpretability, and enabling collaborative decision-making between humans and machines. Particular attention will be provided to how human-centered methods can help in the mitigation risks and biases that should be properly handled in AI-based systems. Such methods ensure that professionals across various domains can confidently integrate AI tools into their workflows, without requiring deep technical knowledge of the underlying algorithms. ============================================= 📅 *Event Info* The *CRISTAIN workshop* will be held at the conference: - 🗓️ *CHItaly 2025 – 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter* - 📍 October 6–10, 2025 – *Salerno, Italy* - 🌐 *Website*: https://cristain-ws.github.io/CHItaly25/ 🕒 *Important Dates* - *Paper submission deadline:* June 13th ➡️ *July 14th* - *Acceptance notice:* July 11th ➡️ *July 21st* - *Camera-ready submission:* *July 31st* 📥 Submission - *Short paper length:* 5–9 pages - *Format*: PDF - *Submit via EasyChair*: CRISTAIN 2025 Submission <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cristain2025> - *Proceedings:* published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings – http://ceur-ws.org/ 🧩 *Topics* Tuned to the field of crime, topics include, but are not limited to: - Crime Scene Analyses - Case-studies on Crime Analyses - Context-aware decision making - Decision support system - Process management in complex domains - Domain-specific data collection - Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading - Data preparation and processing - Emotional AI - Neuro-Symbolic AI - Conversational AI and voice interfaces - Personalization and predictive interaction - Distributed interactions among intelligent systems - AI-based adaptive systems - Secure AI - Unbiased AI systems - Ethics and Trustworthy AI - Awareness and transparency in technology usage - Environmental impacts of technologies - Immersive experiences and virtual environments - Integration of technologies in complex domains - Haptic and olfactory technologies - New sensory dimensions for user experiences - Redefining human capabilities through technology 👥 *Organizers* - Eleonora Calò - ecalo(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Loredana Caruccio - lcaruccio(a)unisa.it - University of Salerno - Autilia Vitiello - autilia.vitiello(a)unina.it - University of Naples Federico II

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[CfP] Workshop "Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems" (DIGI-Teens 2025)

by Luigi De Russis

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Call for Papers – Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2025) CHItaly 2025 Workshop October 2025 - Salerno, Italy More info: https://sites.google.com/view/2nd-digiteens-ws --- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Recently, researchers have been examining the unforeseen issues caused by the excessive use of personal devices and online services, especially as companies increasingly employ "attention-capture" tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic content playback. These strategies exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities, aiming to boost advertising revenue, resulting in tangible repercussions on users' perceived agency and often leading to a perceived lack of control over their technology use. These problems gave rise to a new kind of psychological "digital wellbeing," investigated in fields such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and psychology. Traditional strategies employed by practitioners and researchers involve the creation of Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), i.e., mobile applications and browser extensions that empower users to monitor their usage patterns and implement interventions, such as timers and lock-out mechanisms, to self-regulate device usage. Yet, researchers and the users themselves are starting to warn that achieving digital wellbeing is a path of personal growth that requires education more than self-monitoring strategies. The objective of this workshop is to establish a venue for the academic and industrial communities to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing and education, aiming to promote the development of strategies and tools to "teach" users – particularly children and teenagers – to use technology more meaningfully and consciously. This objective can be achieved in multiple ways, such as by creating novel DSCTs that include educational aspects, serious games, collaborative platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning at school, or leveraging AI and, in particular, large language models (LLMs) to create adaptive, personalized educational experiences that help users develop healthier digital habits and skills for navigating online environments. This workshop is part of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2025). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We invite researchers and practitioners in interdisciplinary domains intersecting HCI, AI, psychology, design, and/or education to engage in dialog on the topics below. A key priority of our workshop will be to invite submissions from an intellectually diverse and global group of participants to further discussions on how appropriate human-centered design can contribute to digital wellbeing education. Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper (2-4 pages) describing and highlighting their contributions to the workshop topics. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are 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; - AI-based personalized digital wellbeing learning; - ethical, social, and policy-making factors. SUBMISSIONS Submissions of position papers should be of 2-4 pages, in the ACM Primary Article Submission Templates (single column, https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Papers should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digiteens2025). They will be reviewed by at least one qualified reviewer with expertise in the relevant subject area. The workshop chairs will make final acceptance decisions based on these reviews, considering factors such as relevance to the workshop themes, originality of contribution, and overall quality. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop. Virtual participation will be made possible. Accepted and presented papers will be made available on CEUR Workshop Proceedings, if possible, while workshop results will be published on our website. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 14 July 2025 Notification: 1 August 2025 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Luca Scibetta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy Chiara Ceccarini, Università di Bologna, Italy

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AI4HGI @ECAI 2025 - DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 10

by Sabrina Villata

*** Apologies for cross postings *** AI4HGI Workshop @ECAI 2025 *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10th July, 2025 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Game Interaction co-located with the 28th European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI ’25) Bologna, 25th-30th October 2025 Web: https://ai4hgi.github.io/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ai4hgi For any information: sabrina.villata(a)unito.it ========= ABSTRACT ========= Digital games have become one of the most influential forms of entertainment and interactive media, extending their impact beyond leisure into education, health, behavior change, and more. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly vital role in shaping these experiences, enabling adaptive gameplay, dynamic content generation, and the creation of intelligent non-player characters. AI not only enhances player immersion but also expands the possibilities for storytelling, accessibility, and personalized experiences. The AI4HGI workshop aims to explore the evolving role of AI in human-game interaction by addressing key research questions, including: * How AI can enhance player immersion and engagement in digital games? * How can AI contribute to adaptive storytelling and personalized player experiences? * How can AI systems balance computational efficiency with the complexity of game interactions? * How can generative AI impact game design and creativity? * How should ethical considerations such as transparency, fairness, and data privacy be addressed in AI-driven game development? In answering these questions, the AI4HGI workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers to discuss innovative solutions, share insights, and identify new research directions. By fostering dialogue at the intersection of AI and game development, the workshop seeks to advance the field and contribute to shaping the next generation of intelligent and interactive digital experiences. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Reinforcement learning in games - Multi-agent systems in games - Procedural Content Generation - AI for game balancing and dynamic difficulty adjustment - AI-enhanced playtesting - Affective gaming - Player modeling - Gameplay dynamic adaptation - Non-Player Characters’ (NPCs) AI - AI-driven serious, educational, and persuasive games - Game-based learning - Natural language processing in games - Generative AI for game design and development - Ethical and responsible AI in games - Explainable AI in games ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We accept the following submissions: (A) Regular papers (10-12 pages + references - single-column CEURART style) (B) Position, short papers and Demos (5-9 pages + references - single-column CEURART style); (C) Manifestations of interest (max 2 pages including a bio of the participant and a brief statement about why they are interest in the workshop) Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ai4hgi All papers must be in English and they must be formatted using the single-column CEURART style format. Submitted papers will be evaluated by two members of the Program Committee through a single blind review process. We aim to publish all accepted regular, short, position papers and demos(A, B) in CEUR WS Proceedings as a joint volume. We will also consider relevant papers which were rejected from the main conference based on review transfer; to use this option, authors are invited to submit a request after rejection. We will then make a decision based on the reviews written for the main conference, which will be made available to us in anonymized form. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop by the main conference registration deadline. Papers must be submitted on EasyChair. The templates and format instructions are available here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Early submission are strongly encouraged. We adopt a rolling review system: early submissions will be immediately reviewed and the notification will be sent out approximately two weeks after the submission. * Paper submission final deadline: 10 July, 2025 (extended) * Review transfer option for papers rejected from main conference: 15 July, 2025 * Paper notification: 25 July, 2025 (extended) * Camera-ready version deadline: TBC * Registration deadline: TBC * AI4HGI Workshop: 25 or 26 October, 2025 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Sabrina Villata University of Torino, Italy Amon Rapp University of Torino, Italy David Melhart University of Malta, Malta Matthew Barthet University of Malta, Malta Mike Preuss Leiden University, Netherlands Giulio Barbero Leiden University, Netherlands

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EICS 2026 - Full Papers and Technical Notes CfP - First Submission Round

by Carmen Santoro

Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece https://eics.acm.org/2026/ Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025 EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Modelling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems *Requirements engineering for interactive systems *Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) *Software architectures for interactive systems *Formal methods within interactive systems engineering *Bridging the gap between engineering and design practices. *Engineering design and evaluation tools *Computational techniques for designing and evaluating interactive systems *Interactive data-driven systems *Explore and/or employ of diverse interaction techniques and devices (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, recognition of physiological signals, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, virtual, augmented, mixed and extended reality) *Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems) *Engineering interactive systems for diverse user groups (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities…) *Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems *Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies *Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies *Applying AI technologies in methods, processes and tools for building interactive systems in all stages of the engineering lifecycle A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects, see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participa nts-and-subjects Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025 Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026 Célia Martinie and Davide Spano

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) November 13-14, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) (*** Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 AoE (firm!) ***) 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 Modela • 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 4, 2025 (AoE) (firm!) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 5, 2025 • Camera-ready, copyright forms and author registration: September 20, 2025 • Early (non-author) registration: October 10, 2025 • Conference dates: November 13-14, 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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[CFP] Deadline Extended - SENSE XR -The Feeling of Virtual, XR, Haptics, and 3D Graphics

by Attilio DELLA GRECA

*We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call * ========================================= *SENSE XR: The Feeling of Virtual, XR, Haptics, and 3D Graphics* ========================================= 1st International Workshop on Multisensory Immersion in Extended Reality Co-located with the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter – “Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millennium” (CHItaly 2025 <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/>) 📍 Salerno, Italy 📅 6–10 October 2025 🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/sense-xr/ *Important dates:* Submission Deadline: *June 30, 2025 July 20 2025 EXTENDED* Notification of Acceptance: *July 15, 2025 July 31 2025 **EXTENDED* *Call for Papers* The rapid evolution of Extended Reality (XR) - encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) - is reshaping how people interact with digital environments, opening new frontiers in both research and application. The inaugural edition of SENSE XR: The Feeling of Virtual, XR, Haptics, and 3D Graphics is dedicated to investigating the multisensory and affective dimensions of immersive technology, with a particular focus on haptic feedback, 3D graphics, and videogame applications. The workshop’s primary goal is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers, designers, and practitioners, exploring the role of sensory interfaces in XR. We aim to examine how multimodal interaction, tactile technologies, and innovative interface design can enhance user experience, amplify engagement, and redefine human-computer interaction within immersive environments. Structured as a platform for both critical reflection and hands-on experimentation, SENSE XR combines theoretical discourse with live demonstrations, design exploration, and collaborative activities. Inspired by the concept of a scientific jam session, the workshop encourages participants to co-create, prototype, and exchange insights in a participatory setting that promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration and the development of new international partnerships. We welcome original contributions, including position papers, case studies, design explorations, and theoretical reflections, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: *Topics of interest* •⁠ ⁠Haptic technologies and tactile feedback in XR •⁠ ⁠Gamification and game design principles in immersive systems •⁠ ⁠Innovative interaction techniques and interface design •⁠ ⁠Multimodal and sensor-based interaction •⁠ ⁠User experience (UX), accessibility, and usability in XR •⁠ ⁠Immersive storytelling and narrative design •⁠ ⁠Applied XR in healthcare, education, entertainment, and industry •⁠ ⁠Evaluation methods and user-centered research •⁠ ⁠Ethical implications in multisensory and immersive environments *Submission guidelines* We invite *position papers (4–6 standard pages)* that present novel ideas, preliminary research findings, or design concepts. Submissions must follow the CEUR-ART format, available at: *https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>* All papers must be submitted via EasyChair: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sensexr2025 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sensexr2025>* Each submission will undergo single-blind peer review by at least two reviewers based on relevance, originality, and potential to foster discussion at the workshop. *Organizing committee* •⁠ ⁠Ignacio Aedo Cuevas – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - aedo(a)ia.uc3m.es •⁠ ⁠Ilaria Amaro – University of Salerno, Italy - iamaro(a)unisa.it •⁠ ⁠Paola Barra – University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - paola.barra(a)uniparthenope.it •⁠ ⁠Attilio Della Greca - University of Salerno, Italy - adellagreca(a)unisa.it For further information, please visit the workshop website: *https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/sense-xr/ <https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/sense-xr/>* We look forward to your contributions and hope you’ll join us at SENSE XR 2025!

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CFP: RecSoGood @RecSys 2025 - Second International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good

by Francesca Malloci

*** Apologies for cross postings *** RecSoGood Workshop @RecSys 2025 - CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good (RecSoGood) 22nd–26th September 2025 co-located with RecSys 2025 (https://recsys.acm.org/recsys25/) - Prague, Czech Republic Web: https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood25/index.html Submission: through EasyChair (an updated link will be provided soon on the workshop website) For any information: allegra.defilippo(a)unibo.it ========= HIGHLIGHTS ========= - DEADLINE: July 10, 2025 - Notification to authors: August 6, 2025 - Post-proceedings volume indexed in Scopus and Web of Science ========= ABSTRACT ========= In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and sustainability, leveraging Recommender Systems has emerged as a powerful tool for driving positive change. With a foundation in AI and data analytics, Recommender Systems can be effective in various domains, from e-commerce to energy management and well-being. By harnessing the power of recommendation algorithms under a holistic perspective, organizations and researchers can guide users towards more sustainable choices and behaviors, contributing to broader environmental and social goals. With this aim, our workshop provides a unique platform for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to explore the integration of sustainability principles into Recommender Systems. Through presentations, discussions, and panels, participants will explore the theoretical foundations, practical implementations, and ethical and environmental considerations of sustainable Recommender Systems. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to catalyze innovation and inspire collective action towards a more sustainable future. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: 1)Sustainable Recommender Systems Development: – Multi-criteria Recommender Systems – Multistakeholder Recommender Systems – Energy efficient and low-carbon model learning – Generative AI’s Impact on sustainable Recommendation Systems – User interfaces for sustainable Recommender Systems 2)Sustainable Recommender Systems Features: – Explainability & trustworthy – Privacy and safety – Diversity and inclusion – Behavioural change 3)Evaluation of Sustainable Recommender Systems: – Long-term effect of Recommender Systems – Simulation techniques – Beyond accuracy evaluation 4)Application Areas: – Health – Media and information – Travel and tourism – Agriculture ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating how Recommender Systems can contribute to a more sustainable and responsible technology ecosystem, aligning with the broader goals of achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability. In particular, authors can submit: (A) Full papers (max. 12 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (B) Reproducibility papers (max. 12 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (C) Short papers (max 6 pages + references - Springer LLNCS format); (D) Position papers (max. 4 + references - Springer LLNCS format); (E) Extended abstract (max 1 page + references - ORAL PRESENTATION ONLY). 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 will also elicit 1 page-extended abstracts. This type of informal submission will be editorially reviewed by workshop organizers. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop, but not published in the proceedings. Submission: through EasyChair (an updated link will be provided soon on the workshop website) All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LLNCS Style: ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) Submissions should be double blinded. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (all deadlines refer to GMT) by selecting RecSoGood as submission track. At least one of the authors should register and take part at the conference to make the presentation. ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2025 * Notification to authors: August 6, 2025 * Camera-Ready submission: TBD for post-proceedings in a volume published by Springer, in the CCIS Series. ================ PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS =============== All accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Ludovico Boratto - Associate Professor - University of Cagliari, Italy E-mail: ludovico.boratto(a)acm.org Allegra De Filippo (main contact) - Assistant Professor - University of Bologna, Italy E-mail: allegra.defilippo(a)unibo.it Elisabeth Lex - Associate Professor - Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: elisabeth.lex(a)tugraz.at Francesca Maridina Malloci - Assistant Professor - University of Cagliari, Italy E-mail: francescam.malloci(a)unica.it Noemi Mauro – Senior Assistant Professor – University of Torino, Italy E-mail: noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Francesco Ricci - Senior Full Professor - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy E-mail: fmr959(a)gmail.com ======================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBD) =======================

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[deadline extended] CHItaly 2025: Interactive Experiences and Posters

by Emanuele Panizzi

The deadline for Interactive Experiences and Posters has been extended to July 7th (AoE). [Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2025 <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/> - Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millennium The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 6–10 October 2025 Location: Salerno, Italy https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/ The interactive experiences track welcomes research demos and prototypes of relevance to HCI. Aligned with this year’s conference theme, we especially welcome interactive experiences that explore new paradigms in HCI, challenge traditional human-computer dynamics, and address the broader societal, ethical, and environmental implications of emerging technologies. We encourage authors of full and short papers, as well as pictorials, to contribute their demos. For further information, please visit the Interactive Experiences page <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-interactive-experien…> . The Poster track welcomes concise reports of recent findings or other innovative or thought-provoking work relevant to the CHItaly community. Appropriate submissions should be complete enough to contribute to the HCI knowledge and inspire future works, and must not have been presented elsewhere. For further information, please visit the Poster page. <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-posters/> Interactive Experiences and Poster submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. Deadlines for both IEs and Posters: - Extended Submission: June 24, 2025 AoE July 7, 2025 AoE - Review notification: July 17, 2025 AoE - Camera-ready: July 31, 2025 AoE Interactive Experiences co-Chairs: - Elisa Giaccardi, Politecnico di Milano, elisa.giaccardi(a)polimi.it - Maria Luce Lupetti, Politecnico di Torino, maria.lupetti(a)polito.it Posters Experiences co-Chairs: - Andrea Antonio Cantone, University of Salerno, acantone(a)unisa.it - Dragan Ahmetovic, University of Milano, dragan.ahmetovic(a)unimi.it How to submit: Proposals must be submitted through easychair. Further information on how to submit can be found on the Interactive Experiences <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-interactive-experien…> and Posters <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-posters/> pages on CHItaly website. — The theme of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2025) is “Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millennium”. It invites us to reflect on how technological advances continue to redefine our interactions with the digital world. Over the last two decades, the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has evolved rapidly, adapting to innovations that have transformed everyday life. Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Robotics, voice interfaces, wearable devices, and the Internet of Things has brought HCI to the forefront of scientific inquiry, offering novel possibilities and complex challenges. These technologies are not only changing how we use digital systems but also influencing the ways we think, learn, communicate, and interact on a personal, social, and organizational level. 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. We invite submissions of workshops that contribute to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). — Emanuele Panizzi and Maria Menendez-Blanco Publicity Chairs On behalf of the Chitaly 2025 Organizing Committee <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/327-2/> -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Head of Gamification Lab Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ Special Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track), as well as the Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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Mediterranean CHI Summer School - Como, 21-24 Luglio

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, vi segnaliamo che sono ancora disponibili alcuni posti per la Summer School on Human-Interaction and Intelligent Technologies organizzata dal comitato Mediterranean CHI a Como, dal 21 al 24 luglio 2025, presso la Villa del Grumello. La scuola è rivolta a dottorandi, giovani ricercatori e professionisti interessati all’intersezione tra tecnologie intelligenti e interazione uomo-macchina, e propone un programma articolato in lezioni, workshop e attività progettuali, con la partecipazione di docenti ed esperti di rilievo internazionale. Tutte le informazioni sono disponibili al seguente link: https://dhit.lakecomoschool.org/ Gli interessati possono rispondere direttamente a questo messaggio per ulteriori dettagli o per manifestare il proprio interesse. Vi saremmo grati se voleste condividere l’informazione con eventuali persone interessate. Un caro saluto, Maristella

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The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where researchers and practitioners 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. This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Topics IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems • Explainable AI methods • Democratization of AI • Persuasive technologies in IUI • Privacy and security of IUI • Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation • User modelling for intelligent interfaces • User-adaptive interaction and personalization • IUI for crowd computing and human computation • Human control in daily automations • Trust and reliance in intelligent systems Computational innovation • Interactive machine learning • Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging • Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems • Generative models • Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning • Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces • Affective interfaces • Intelligent aesthetic interfaces • Intelligent collaborative interfaces • Intelligent AR/VR interfaces • Intelligent visualization and visual analytics • Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces • Intelligent tangible interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems • Embodied agents • Multimodal AI assistants • Intelligent multimodal interfaces Intelligent Applications • Education and learning-related technologies • Healthcare and wellbeing • Automotive • Assistive technologies • Entertainment • Workplace happiness • Social media • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart homes Large Language Models and Agentic AI • End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) • LLMs and agents in the workplace • Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems • Bias in LLMs and agents • The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks • Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents • Prompt engineering • User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning) Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces • User experiments and studies • Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) • Meta-analysis • Mixed-methods evaluations Papers We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers one paper only. A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027. Reflection of practical and societal impact We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider. Anonymization ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: • Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. • Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably with regard to their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects before submitting. Additional Policies Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies. Submission Format, Length, and Platform We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Submission Platform All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Supplemental Materials Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for videos. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract: October 3, 2025 • Full Paper: October 10, 2025 • Decision Notification: December 12, 2025 • Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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

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*** Last Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) November 13-14, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) (*** Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 AoE (extended and firm!) ***) 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 4, 2025 (AoE) (extended and firm!) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 5, 2025 • Camera-ready, copyright forms and author registration: September 20, 2025 • Early (non-author) registration: October 10, 2025 • Conference dates: November 13-14, 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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Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus: Academic Vacancy in A.I.

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Department of Computer Science -- University of Cyprus Academic Vacancy in A.I. (Full Professor) Submission Deadline: July 4th, 2025 (firm!) The Department of Computer Science (www.cs.ucy.ac.cy) at the University of Cyprus announces one (1) academic position at the rank of Professor in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The position will be filled under XM’s designated chair entitled “The XM Chair in Artificial Intelligence”. The Chair is funded by TP Servglobal Limited, a member of the XM Group (www.xm.com). XM is a leading provider of online investment services internationally. Upon appointment, the Chair's holder will receive a €30,000 research grant from the XM Group, in addition to their initial funding under the University of Cyprus Regulations. This funding will support research development, promotional activities, and collaboration with the XM Group and other relevant international research centers and universities. The Chair's holder will play a key role in advancing teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence, benefiting the academic community, society, and the economy. For this vacancy, a university degree and a PhD title from an accredited university are required. The minimum requirements for the academic rank of a Professor are set in the following web link: https://rb.gy/k3pel In accordance with the applicable legislation, the annual gross salary (including the 13th salary) for full-time employment is: Professor (Scale Α15-Α16) €80.094,70 - €104.114,56. Employee contributions to the various State funds will be deducted from the above amounts. The selected candidate will be expected to teach in both Greek and English within the Department of Computer Science's undergraduate and graduate programs. Therefore, proficiency in both Greek and English is required. Candidates do not need to be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. Candidates are invited to submit their applications electronically by uploading the following documents in English and in PDF format at the following link: https://applications.ucy.ac.cy/recruitment 1 Cover Letter 2 Curriculum Vitae 3 Copy of ID/Passport 4 Copy of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited University is required 5 Copy of a PhD degree from an accredited University is required 6 Review of previous research work and a brief description of future research projects (up to 3 pages) 7 List of publications 8 Representative publications (up to 3 publications which should be submitted separately). 9 The names and email addresses of three professors from whom confidential letters of recommendation (in English) will be automatically requested upon submission of the application. Letters of recommendation may be submitted up to 7 days following the deadline for submission of applications. It is the responsibility of each candidate to ensure that the references are submitted. In case the letters of recommendation are not submitted on time, the application will not be considered. The deadline for applications is Friday the 4th of July 2025 (firm!). A more detailed announcement can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/XMChairAI

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