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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Last Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** Last Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Third Call for PhD Symposium Applications

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*** Third Call for PhD Symposium Applications *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE The Euro-Par PhD Symposium is a welcoming and supportive forum for PhD students to present their work, meet and interact with peers, and to receive constructive feedback about their work from experts in the Euro-Par community. The program will feature technical presentations by PhD students, and discussions in panel and open formats. Contributions accepted to the PhD Symposium will appear in the Euro-Par companion proceedings. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Applicants must be officially enrolled in a PhD Program at the time of submission, and each submission MUST be backed by an endorsement from the official PhD adviser(s). Required submission files are as follows: 1. Proposal (in Springer LNCS format, no longer than 6 pages with references) including: • Title of work, author and affiliation • Abstract of the work • Brief description of work being/planned to be done, including the problem being addressed, the research methodology, and preliminary results (if any) 2. Adviser Statement of Support on institutional letterhead (no longer than 2 pages), including: • Declaration that the applicant is their PhD student, and the length of time of this relationship • Confirmation of support for applicant’s participation • The applicant's expected academic contributions • The level of work that has been achieved by the student (in the course of or before the PhD work) • How the student will prepare for the event • How the student plans to attend the event (i.e. in person or online) • How travel and accommodation costs are to be met, if planning to attend in person • The expected impact of attending the event on the student's work REGISTRATION STUDENTSHIPS We are happy to announce that we can cover the registration fees of 15 student attendees; 15 awards will be funded by the Euro-Par Foundation. To qualify, you should be a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing Science at the time of the event. On top of the above specific criteria for each studentship, the following criteria will be used: • Explicit recommendation by the advisor(s) is paramount, as awards will be given based on the strength of the advisor(s) letter • Priority will be given to in-person attendees Successful applicants may be asked to undertake some tasks to assist the running of Euro-Par 2023. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submission consists of: • Proposal: A manuscript that address item 1 of the call -- see above. • Adviser letter: A statement of support from the applicant's adviser(s) as described in the call. Both elements are to be submitted together as a single PDF to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2023 REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS The symposium committee members will review the submitted applications based on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference. Submitted documents that do not meet the above requirements might be rejected without a review. All submitted proposals will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (proposals which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: May 20, 2023 (AoE) • Notification: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready: July 15, 2023 PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS • Herodotos Herodotou, University of Cyprus. Cyprus • Demetris Thrihinas, University of Cyprus. Cyprus

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2nd CfP: CHI2023 Workshop on Intervening, Teaming, Delegating: Creating Engaging Automation Experiences

by Fabio Paternò

*************************************************************************** CHI2023 Workshop on Intervening, Teaming, Delegating: Creating Engaging Automation Experiences Workshop (hybrid/online), April 23rd, 2023 <http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at> http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------- Submission of position papers: February 14th 2023 Decision to authors: March 3rd 2023 Camera-ready versions due: March 31th 2023 Workshop: April 23rd 2023 ------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------- Automated systems are becoming increasingly common and transitioning towards active communication partners, embodied as vehicle cockpits, connected homes, self-checkout machines and manufacturing tools. With the advent of more flexible and powerful settings of automation, for example collaboration between teams of humans and robots, the question arises how to make also these accessible to everyday usage scenarios. This workshop sets out to investigate different forms of human engagement with automated technology in various domains: (1) monitor and intervene, (2) team up and cooperate, and (3) orchestrate and delegate. Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their relevant recent or future work. In agreement with the authors, accepted position papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. ------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------------------------- Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing their relevant recent or future work. Topics of interest include but are not limited to * Communicating capabilities and risks of an automated system prior to its usage * Creating efficient takeover requests that encourage operators to intervene and emphasize possible outcomes * Encouraging sustained interaction with automated systems * Designing for overall reliability of human-automation teams * Supporting the development of trust in human-automation cooperation * Ensuring and supporting the well-being of human operators * Dealing with authority and responsibility in human-automation teams * Enabling serendipitous automations by non-professionals through intuitive orchestration approaches * Feeling in control and managing conflicts between AI- and user-generated automation ------------------------------------------------- PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------- * Papers must be formatted according to the CEUR-ART style (double-column) and comprise up to 4 pages (excl. references) (templates for Word and Overleaf) * Position papers must be submitted in PDF format (non-anonymized) to <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp23> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automationxp23. * The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers (and additional experts, if required) based on relevance, originality, significance and quality. * Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop. All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the main conference. ------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------- Peter Froehlich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Matthias Baldauf, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Philippe Palanque, University of Toulouse Virpi Roto, Aalto University Fabio Paternó, C.N.R.-ISTI Wendy Ju, Cornell University Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ------------------------------------------------- Web: <http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at> http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at Email: <mailto:everyday-automation@tech-experience.at> everyday-automation(a)tech-experience.at

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Deadline extension: Special issue on "Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> March 7, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: link <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call57> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Stefania Bocconi, ITD-CNR, Italy • Stefano Cacciamani, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy • Romina Cachia, JRC - EU, Spain • Arianna Sala, JRC - EU, Spain • Nadia Sansone, Unitelma - La Sapienza Roma, Italy/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 7*, 2023 (new hard deadline) • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2023 • Camera ready paper: May 20, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: June, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The transition to Content and Curricula based Education to the Competence based ones is a challenge and, at the same time, an opportunity for the entire world to promote sustainable development and lifestyles together with “human rights, gender equality, the culture of peace and nonviolence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity”. To fully grasp such opportunity, national and regional governments need to renew educational practices to promote key competences beyond the curricular ones and equip the students not only with digital skills but with a full set of life skills to make them grow as responsible citizens capable to contribute to societal wellbeing, to the safeguard of the democracy and the achievements of the SDGs, taking advantage also of the ICT infrastructures. Not by chance, in the last years, major training agencies and regulatory documents at EU and at international level have been pushing in this direction. For example, the European Commission, in collaboration with international experts, has developed frameworks to set a common language to describe the key competences (DigComp 2.2., EntreComp, LifeComp, DigCompOrg, DigCompEdu and GreenComp) and has developed tools to further empower education stakeholders to foster digital competences at school (SELFIE and SELFIEforTEACHERS) with more or less incisive repercussions on national policies. This special issue intends to promote reflections and studies on visions, frameworks and key enabling factors to make competence based education effective and inclusive to achieve the aforementioned goals. How can the implementation of competence-based education be supported? What are the enablers and challenges for such education? How can targeted research and exchange of knowledge contribute to advance competence-based education? How can competence frameworks inform policy monitoring and policy making? How can we intercept the requests for a real transformation of educational practices in a cultural and constructivist perspective? How is possible to fully exploit the potential of digital technologies to support the development of life skills? What are the appropriate contents and methods to train teachers for a full implementation of competence based learning? How should competences be recognized and certified? How can the impact and effectiveness of competenciesframeworks be measured? ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest are focused on theoretical frameworks, policies, methods of inquiry, innovative practices in competence based education (cbe) and other topics such as: • Competence based frameworks for education • New educational models and/or innovative programs for cbe • Competence based LLL • Certification of competences and portfolios • Cbe for responsible citizenship, social innovation and SDGs • Trainings for students in different educational contexts • Trainings for teachers in different educational contexts • Sharing & participatory practices of cbe • Innovative methods of inquiry in the field of cbe • Models and strategies for the assessment of cbe • Digital technologies supporting progresses in cbe • Networking for cbe • Public policy for cbe • Transformative perspectives of cbe • Good practices from cbe =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Competence Based Education") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Competence based education./ • bocconi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it • s [dot] cacciamani [at] univda [dot] it • romina [dot] cachia [at] ec [dot] europa [dot] eu • arianna [dot] sala [at] ec [dot] europa [dot] eu • nadia [dot] sansone [at] unitelmasapienza [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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IS-EUD 2023 - Call for Papers

by Davide Spano

Call for Papers 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event, that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Papers We invite two types of paper submissions: -Regular papers, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field -Short papers, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Submission The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system until the submission deadline (two different tracks, for regular and short papers, will be available for submission in Easychair). Important dates: Regular and Short papers submission: 1 March 2023 Notification: 23 March 2023 Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 Program Chairs Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Simone Stumpf, University of Glasgow, UK -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Third Call for Posters and Demos

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*** Third Call for Posters and Demos *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. We invite participants to submit original and unpublished works as posters and/or demos to the Euro-Par 2023 conference presenting the latest breakthroughs which have been developed in H2020, Horizon Europe, EuroHPC JU, national, regional and international R&D projects. Topics of interest should cover the conference scope and tracks (please visit the conference web site for more information about the topics covered by Euro-Par). The poster/demo sessions will provide an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to present early- stage research results and receive valuable feedback on their ongoing research from the community. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS The authors are invited to submit poster and/or demo papers formatted in the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… and not exceeding 4 pages (including references, etc.) Submission should be done via Easy Chair, using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 Submissions to the poster and demo track will be evaluated through a comprehensive peer-review process by the Poster and Demo Track Program Committee. The posters and demos will be evaluated in terms of technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The authors of accepted poster and demo papers must register and present them at the conference. Accepted poster and demo papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS after the conference. BEST POSTER AND DEMO AWARD All posters and demos will be considered for the Best Poster Award and the Best Demo Award, respectively. Decisions will be based on the quality of the submission, as well as live interactions with the Committee during the conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for Submission of Posters/Demos: May 20, 2023 • Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2023 POSTER & DEMO CHAIR • George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (pallis-AT-ucy.ac.cy)

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2nd CfP SLERD 2023 - 8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2023:SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AS ENGINES OF THE GREEN AND DIGITAL TRANSITION* *June 19-20, 2023* /*Tallin, Estonia (hybrid)*/ slerd.uniroma2.it <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: janika [dot] leoste [at] tlu [dot] ee/(conference chair)/ ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 5, 2023 *call for papers <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= *SLERD 2023 will host also a *Demo Student Contest* -> see call for demo <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/student-design-contest-2023/> **========================================================= * * *SLERD 2023* is organized by /Tallinn University /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ * Please Note: SLERD 2023 will be held in precence but a possibility to attend it virtually is provided (hybrid format). * /*Short Intro*/ The energy crises and war have underscored the need to change our living style, consumption habits, learning methods and tools. The transition towards future education is according to theUnesco thematic action track 4 <https://transformingeducationsummit.sdg4education2030.org/track/digital>encompassing digital transformation which harnesses technology as part of larger systemic efforts. Making technology more inclusive, equitable, effective, relevant, and sustainable. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>” as a contribution to theUnited Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld>? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? However , such transformation has to take the environment into account. The sustainable development goals (SDG) do not concern only the industry and economic transition but also learning institutions. It is calledtwin transition <https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news/twin-green-digital-tran…>. The*twin transition*means digital technologies playing a key role in achieving climate neutrality. These transformations have an effect on learning and needed skills; to adapt to a rapidly*transforming technological reality*and labour market, as well as green skills and climate awareness. The topics need an in-depth discourse on their environmental friendliness and the methods we, as teachers, facilitators and learners, use, adapt and design (see, e.g.,Unesco Leading SDG 4 goals <https://www.unesco.org/en/education/education2030-sdg4>). As societies change, these also affect*learning approaches, models and methodologies*best suited for appreciated values such as equity, inclusion, quality and relevance to mention a few values frequently described concerning education. These values mean to mobilise action, ambition, solidarity and solutions to sow the seeds to transform education in a rapidly changing world.The Unesco paper <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000245656>“/The futures of education for participation in 2050/” paves the way to deal with the change and ambiguity of the current and future times. The complex questions of when, how and why to use digital technologies in and for learning can be approached through multiple perspectives and angles: values;*informal, formal, and non-formal learning settings; infrastructural and systemic as well as technological views*. The general topics of the conference reflect the above-mentioned different perspectives aiming to provide in-depth discourse among academics, students and practitioners. SLERD 2023 is proud to invite colleagues – researchers and practitioners – from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems that drive towards green and digital transformation where learning ecosystems, approaches, methods and tools promote smart learning but are also environmentally friendly activating citizens, and in the promoting social innovation and equally accessible quality education. /**//*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2023* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate 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 • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * *• AI for smart learning ecosystems: ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction* *• semantic web technologies 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 • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**5, 2023* • Notification to the authors: April 16, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 30, 2023 • Conference: June 19-20, 2023 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- SLERD welcomes contributions composed by min. 4500 words. The max. length of the contributions should not overcome 16 pages. Papers should be written according to: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/ that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. Extended version of selected papers will be also included in a special issue of IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science. Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2023 ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2023 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…> ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website <http://www.aslerd.org> for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and education. eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and geographic areas. eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals: (1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and (2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience 2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed: • The solicitation for papers must be open. • All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. • The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number of submissions. • The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. • For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2023 to present the paper in person. Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym. • Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words). • Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.). • Expected number of submissions/accepted papers. • Prior history of this workshop, if any. Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym • Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) • Names and affiliations of the organizers • Expected number of talks and their length • Tentative list of speakers and talk titles • Prior history of this workshop, if any KEY DATES • Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 10, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, February 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023 • Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops(a)escience-conference.org): • Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece • Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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

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*** Second Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Second Call for Special Track Proposals

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*** Second Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: February 26th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: March 5th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. The best papers accepted in the Special Tracks will be eligible for consideration to be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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INTERACT 2023 Conference, York (UK), 28 August - 1 September 2023

by Helen Petrie

*** Apologies for any cross-posting *** INTERACT 2023, York (UK), 28 August - 1 September (https://interact2023.org/) INTERACT 2023 is the 19th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human-Computer Interaction of IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing). The theme of the conference is “Design for Equality and Justice”. Increasingly computer science and HCI are becoming concern about issues of equality and justices - from fake new to rights for robots, from the ethics of driverless vehicles to the gamergate controversy. We welcome contribution on these topics, as well as all topics relevant to human-computer interaction and user experience. Full paper deadline for INTERACT 2023 is approaching: 1 February 2023 Later deadline for Short papers, Posters, Panels, Courses, Interactive Demos, Industrial Experiences and Doctoral Consortium: 19 April 2023 Workshop proposals accepted until 27 February 2023 Other interesting and innovative activities will include a wikipedia edit-a-thon on HCI material and a Shadow Programme Committee to introduce young researchers to the reviewing process for conferences (and journals). We will be seeking some student volunteers to help at the conference soon. Helen Petrie Phd AFBPsS CPsychol FRSA (Pronouns: she/her/hers) Professor Emerita of Human Computer Interaction Department of Computer Science University of York Deramore Lane Heslington East York YO10 5GH Join our online HCI/UX seminars, last Monday of each month: https://hciuxseminars.org/ Email disclaimer <https://www.york.ac.uk/about/legal-statements/email-disclaimer/> Chair IFIP WP13.3 ViceChair (Communications) IFIP TC 13 Equality Champion, Department of Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, Interacting with Computers I work flexibly and I”m a night owl, so I may email at odd times. But I am not expecting any response or action outside of your own working hours. Lafayette to Hamilton: Immigrants, we get the job done (Hamilton, An American Musical)

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[CFP] ACM GoodIT 2023 -- Call for special tracks proposals

by Catia Prandi

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === ACM GoodIt 2023 Call for Special Tracks proposals === ACM GoodIT 2023 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest for the overall scope of the conference. ### Important Dates -> Proposal Submission Deadline: 26 February 2023 -> Notification of Selection: 06 March 2023 ### Link http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/calls/#call-for-special-tracks-proposals ### Scope ACM GoodIT 2023 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included in conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, sustainability and evaluation of IT technologies. ### Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the special track * The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. * A short description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related to the conference’s main theme; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. * The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). * A tentative program committee list (at least ten experts, including the organizers). * A draft call for papers (max 1 page). * (Optional) Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. ### Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines The proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file via email to the special track chairs. In particular, send the email to: * Valentina Nisi, valentina.nisi[AT]tecnico.ulisboa.pt<http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/> * Nathalie Mitton, nathalie.mitton[AT]inria.fr<http://inria.fr/> * (in cc) Catia Prandi, catia.prandi2[AT]unibo.it<http://unibo.it/> The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2023 – special track proposal”. The special tracks chairs may ask proposers to supply additional information during the review period. ### Publication of papers submitted to the accepted special tracks Papers submitted to each accepted special track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main/regular track. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track’s Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper will be required and the chairs of each accepted special track need to manage the review process). The final version of the papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work in presence at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. Optionally, the special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. ### Contacts (Special Tracks Chairs) > Prof. Valentina Nisi (Tecnico, University of Lisbon) > Prof.Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille-Nord Europe) _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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2nd CFP: Special issue on "Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children *Call for Papers -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call58> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Sumita Sharma, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Eva Durall Gazulla, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Marianne Kinnula, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February 28th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: April 30th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: May 30th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: July 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) research is focused on cultivating, nurturing, and nudging children towards technology use and design. Recently, ethical aspects related to technology have come to the forefront, including the inherent limitations of technology, particularly related to Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML). Further, AI has a known diversity problem where age-inclusion can be sometimes forgotten. While various global and national policy frameworks on Children and AI are being developed, the approaches are child-centered but not child-led, restricting children from affecting their own digital futures. Further still, there is little discussion with children on the limitations, inherent biases, and lack of diversity in current design and development of AI/ML. As AI evolves to mimic human-like cognition, emotions, conversations, and decision-making, its impact on children and their futures should be critically examined for, with, and by children. Therefore, we invite researchers working on the various challenges and opportunities related to Children and AI/ ML to submit their work to this special issue. We welcome research that includes children as equal partners and empowers them to consider present and future challenges as experts of their own lives, with diverse interests, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We also welcome research and design work with (but not limited to) educators, families, children (as testers, co-designers, co-researchers, protagonists), and other stakeholders in a variety of contexts (schools, after-school clubs, out of school contexts, public spaces, rural, urban). ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Suggested topics include theories,models, frameworks, exploratory studies, case / user studies on (but not limited to): • Research on and with Children and AI/ML • AI Literacy for Al • Children’s rights and AI • Ethical AI for children • Participatory Design and Research with intelligent systems • Inclusion, diversity, and empowerment of under-represented children and communities. =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Age against the machine") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Age against the machine/ • firstname [dot] lastname [at] oulu [dot] fi for the guest editors from University of Oulu. • firstname [dot] lastname [at] aalto [dot] fi for the guest editor from Aalto University -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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ACM ICMI 2023 Call for Workshops

by gualtiero.volpe＠unige.it

25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (9-13 October 2023) ICMI 2023 Call for Workshops : https://icmi.acm.org/2023/call-for-workshops/ The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris on October 9-13, 2023. 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 workshops include: • Media Analytics for Societal Trends • International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP) • Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction • Multimodal e-Coaches • Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data • Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction • Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents • Insights on Group & Team Dynamics • Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics • Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents • Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior 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 half-day or one-day in 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 proceeding, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Giovanna Varni and Theodora Chaspari (icmi2023-workshop-chairs(a)acm.org). The proposal should include the following: • Workshop title • List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies • Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact • Tentative list of keynote speakers • Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), 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 Workshop proposal submission February 5, 2023 Notification of acceptance February 17, 2023 Workshop papers due July 23, 2023 Workshop dates 9-13 October 2023

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[CHI 2023 WORKSHOP]: CfP for the workshop "HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures

by Eleonora Mencarini

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our one-day hybrid workshop on “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” at the upcoming CHI 2023 conference <https://chi2023.acm.org/>. As the climate crisis is turning into one of the most critical issues of our time, HCI researchers keep reflecting on the role their work can play in reducing the impact of adverse environmental changes. The HCI community has been addressing these changes and challenges from multiple angles - angles, which have several points of contact and would benefit from finding synergies. With this workshop, we aim to convene the CHI community to discuss how HCI can leverage its traditional skill sets and multidisciplinary influences to address climate change issues. Our full workshop proposal can be accessed here <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10aitYWEO3DryAPiRzPOuYAuuRYJsJ2gp?us…> . After the workshop, we will create a special issue in a journal to which we invite all the workshop participants to submit. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to):‬‬ - Communicating science - Data physicalization, visualization, sonification - Community engagement and activism - Policymaking - Envisioning future scenarios - Eco-social relations and climate justice - System thinking/interconnection of economic, social, and environmental dimensions - Interdisciplinarity and new competencies for HCI researchers - Post-human, more-than-human, diffractive and entangled views, theories, and practices HOW TO APPLY? Participants are invited to send a short paper (min. 2 - max. 6 pages) in the form of a research, reflection, pictorial, provocation, or design fiction using the ACM SIGCHI template (single-column) <https://chi2023.acm.org/submission-guides/chi-publication-formats/> via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hci4ch>. Submissions will be assessed by the workshop organizers based on their potential to spark interesting discussions. KEY DATES Submission opens: January 18, 2023, AoE Submission deadline: February 16, 2023, AoE Notification: March 1, 2023, AoE Workshop: April 28, 2023 ATTENDANCE The “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” workshop will be hybrid, participants can join online and at the CHI conference venue in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, FBK (Italy) Christina Bremer, Lancaster University (UK) Chiara Leonardi, FBK (Italy) Jen Liu, Cornell University (USA) Valentina Nisi, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Nuno Jardim Nunes, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Robert Soden, University of Toronto (Canada) For further information, visit our website <https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/hci-climate-change/home>. If you have any questions, please drop an email at hci-climate-change(a)fbk.eu . Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures workshop organizers)

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Third Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos

by Announce Announcements

*** Third Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-late-breaking-results-and-demos/ Submissions due: April 24, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: April 24, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ● Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ● (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023. Late-Breaking Results ● Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ● (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ● LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column): ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… ● Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): ◦ https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… ● MS Word: ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos” track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ● Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ● Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ● Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany – SUNY, USA ● Contact: umap2023-lbr(a)um.org

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I: Call for CHI Workshop Papers - Socially Assistive Robots as Decision Makers: Transparency, Motivations, and Intentions

by Fabio Paternò

We would like to invite you to submit to the workshop surrounding socially assistive robots as decision makers <https://sites.google.com/view/sar-decision-making>, which will take place on Friday 28th April in Hamburg, Germany as part of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). *Socially Assistive Robots as Decision Makers: Transparency, Motivations, and Intentions* is a one-day hybrid workshop which is part of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2023. It aims to discuss challenges, current practices, and ethical implications of Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) decision-making. We welcome up to 4-page (excluding references) position or research contribution papers which address challenges within the theme of SARs that make decisions. Some example challenges are listed below. Authors may also indicate their background and motivations for attending the workshop, in addition to any research results. The papers should be in the CHI extended abstract format and be submitted through a Google Form. Papers will be reviewed according to suitability to the workshop to contribute to an interesting set of discussions by the participants. Papers will be selected to present a poster or short talk on the day of the workshop, and accepted papers will be invited to submit to arXiv. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. More information can be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/sar-decision-making - Which decisions should be made by the SAR and who decides this? - How should SARs transparently communicate when reasoning is based on complex processes? - How do SARs smoothly integrate into existing relationships in assistive scenarios to build trust with users? - What is the role of robot embodiment in communicating explanations? - How do SARs recover from unintended/incorrect actions through communication with the user? - How should SARs approaches be adapted for specific populations? - Should SARs that make autonomous decisions also have an explicit moral reasoning framework? *Important Dates (all deadlines are at 11:59PM AoE): * - Google Form Submission Opens:* Wednesday January 18, 2023* - Submission Deadline:* Thursday **February 23, 2023* - Notification of Acceptance: *Monday* *March 13, 2023* - Camera Ready Deadline:* Monday **March 20, 2023* *Organisers: * - *Emilyann Nault*, University of Edinburgh (UK) (*Main Point of Contact*) - *Carl Bettosi*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) - *Professor Lynne Baillie*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) (*Secondary Point of Contact*) - *Ronnie Smith*, University of Edinburgh (UK) - *Professor Maja Mataric*, University of Southern California (USA) - *Dr Vivek Nallur*, University College Dublin (IRL) - *Professor Manfred Tscheligi*, University of Salzburg (AUT) - *Dr Andreas Sackl*, Austrian Institute of Technology (AUT) - *Professor Fabio Patern *, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ITA) - *Scott MacLeod*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) - *Sara Cooper*, PAL Robotics (ESP) Please feel free to reach out to Emilyann (en27(a)hw.ac.uk) with any questions you may have. Kind regards, SARs: TMI Workshop Organizers

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CfP: CHIWORK 2023

by Marta Cecchinato

Apologies for cross-posting. CHIWORK 2023 Annual Meeting – Call for Papers Hybrid: In-person in Oldenburg, Germany, and online June 13-14, 2023 Advances in computing technology are rapidly changing the way we work. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a critical aspect of this ongoing change, as a way to support workers in successfully navigating rapidly changing working environments, which might include novel computing devices, interacting with AI agents, and the changing role of the human in work environments with increasing automation. The CHIWORK symposium began in 2021, bringing together experts from various disciplines through an online series of curated conversations, to build an understanding of how HCI will support work in the future. Alongside our ongoing conversation series, we are introducing a new annual in-person event. Peer reviewed publications presented at annual in-person meeting (June 2023) For the in-person meeting we are soliciting papers relevant to the topic of the conference, with various contribution types from a range of disciplines and perspectives, including the humanities, social sciences, design, computing, and engineering. Authors are invited to submit papers with a length that is commensurate to the contribution, but of at least 6 pages. We have removed the page limit to encourage comprehensive literature review and appendices for transparency. Papers should be formatted in accordance with the single-column ACM SIGCHI format<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fauthors.a…>. Papers should keep the identities of the authors hidden – please remove all identifying information from the text and metadata, and please cite your own work in the 3rd person. Papers will be peer-reviewed, receiving at least 3 reviews, and the selection process will follow a single decision meeting process. The proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. * Submission deadline for full papers: March 10, 2023 * Decision notification: April 17, 2023 * Final formatted version: May 12, 2023 * In-person (or, if needed, online) meeting: June 13-14, 2023 Submission platform Please submit your contributions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chiwork2023<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…> by the submission deadline. Contribution types As this community develops, we are looking forward to reviewing a range of paper types, which will all be included in our proceedings. We will accept the following types of contributions, each reviewed on its own merits: * Research Papers – describing novel previously-unpublished research, that will be reviewed based upon merits of rigor, originality, and significance. * Position Papers – presenting detailed and well researched essays about the future of work, including but not limited to the topics listed below, that will be reviewed based upon maturity of the insight, the substantial nature of the evidence provided from supporting literature, and the novelty of the contribution the position provides. * Design Fictions – unpacking and explicating the futures we should be aware of, which will be reviewed based upon the impact of the provocation they provide, and the discussion or debate that it enables. Artifacts of the design fiction should be included after the references as an appendix. * Systems/Demos – demonstrating specific examples of novel systems that have been built and might facilitate new ways of working, which will be evaluated based upon the novelty of the system and the implementation detail described in the paper. * Industry Case Studies – describing real examples of evolving practices in new forms of work, which will be evaluated based upon the practical insights these case studies provide, and their implications for the future of work. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Tools for remote work: working from home, working while commuting, and meetings with remote participants * New ways of getting work done: techniques for interleaving work; easy resumption, engagement, and disengagement; and incorporating well-being needs in productivity tools * Working and trust with AI and automation: techniques for cooperation and collaboration with AI agents, new tools for task automation, working in and with automated environments and entities including cars, drones, and robots; designing for fairness, transparency and dignity. * Technologies for the future of work: networking, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable devices, and human-robot collaboration * Supporting worker well-being and health: maintaining work-life boundaries, supporting physical movement, and facilitating work attachment and detachment, exploring how systems support or privilege well-being of workers in gendered, race-, caste- and class-informed ways * Designing for digital tools that are preparing the grounds for professional development and an adaptation to and development of individual skills * Matching and developing worker skills for job opportunities: assessing worker skills, matching existing skills to new job opportunities, platforms and peer-networks for learning new skills * Inclusion and accessibility: technology that is built for equality and technology that supports all abilities * Security and privacy: protecting work infrastructure from malicious actors and maintaining privacy while providing personalized support for work and well-being * Novel ways of measuring outcome: rewarding performance so that it takes into account an individual’s unique needs, incorporating well-being as an integral part of productivity, fostering and measuring creativity and innovation, and supporting self-reflection by workers * Tools and platforms for hiring and managing workers: new models for hiring, onboarding, and management; understanding and supporting freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, and gig work. * Societal impact: supporting decision-making for policy and regulation, integrating perspectives of workers, firms, governments, and communities; addressing the economics and resilience of individuals, communities, and society. Papers Co-Chairs: Thomas Ludwig<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcps.winem…> – University of Siegen, Germany Marta E. Cecchinato<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.north…> – Northumbria University, UK Assistant to the Paper Chairs: Lauren Scott<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaurensco…> - Northumbria University, UK For questions please email papers2023(a)chiwork.org<mailto:papers2023@chiwork.org> Best regards, Marta and Thomas. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any use, disclosure or reproduction without the sender’s explicit consent is unauthorised and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify Northumbria University immediately and permanently delete it. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. Northumbria University email is provided by Microsoft Office365 and is hosted within the EEA, although some information may be replicated globally for backup purposes. The University cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and/or amended.

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Deadline extension: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> February 20, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: link <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February**20*, *2023* *(extended)* • Notification to the authors: March 30, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half of May, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction 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: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Fourth Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** Fourth Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org *** Recipient of the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2023: Professor Enrique S. Quintana Ortí *** SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 17, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ● Proposals due: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Workshop and Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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

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*** Last Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): First Call for Workshop Proposals

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*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and education. eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and geographic areas. eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals: (1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and (2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience 2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed: • The solicitation for papers must be open. • All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. • The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number of submissions. • The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. • For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2023 to present the paper in person. Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym. • Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words). • Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.). • Expected number of submissions/accepted papers. • Prior history of this workshop, if any. Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym • Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) • Names and affiliations of the organizers • Expected number of talks and their length • Tentative list of speakers and talk titles • Prior history of this workshop, if any KEY DATES • Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 10, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, February 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023 • Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops(a)escience-conference.org): • Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece • Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools, with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: • Computational Science for sustainable development • FAIR • Research Infrastructures for eScience • Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting two types of contributions: • Full papers (10 pages) presenting previously unpublished research achievements or eScience experiences and solutions • Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Selected full papers will receive a slot for an oral presentation. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted full papers and poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Rejected full papers can be re-submitted for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. • Best Paper Award • Best Student Paper Award • Best Poster Award • Best Student Poster Award • Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES • Paper Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Paper Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023 • Poster Submissions due: Friday, July 7, 2023 (AoE) • Poster Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Monday, August 14, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program(a)eScience-conference.org

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Last CFP: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: link <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 15*, 2023 • Notification to the authors: February 20, 2023 • Camera ready paper: March 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: April, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction 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: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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[MobileHCI] MobileHCI’23, Athens, Greece (26-29, September 2023)

by publicity2023＠mobilehci.acm.org

Hello everyone,    We are excited to share that MobileHCI 2023 will be held in person (with hybrid participation) during September 26-29, 2023 in Athens, Greece.https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/ https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/ https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/ https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the ACM (PACM), and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.Don't miss this opportunity to submit your paper to MobileHCI 2023.#Full Paper DeadlineAbstract Submission: January 20, 2023Submission: January 27, 2023Notifications: March 13, 2023Revised Submission: May 5, 2023Final Notifications: June 2, 2023Camera-Ready: June 16, 2023The theme for MobileHCI’23 is “Beyond morality: Ethics and action in MobileHCI”. We invite all authors to especially consider and discuss ethical aspects in their work, as part of their problem definitions, system design, experiment design, instrument and metric adoption, and conclusions and generalizations of research findings. It is also a friendly nudge encouraging us to rethink "mobile" in MobileHCI. Our suggested topics include, but are not limited to:Systems and InfrastructureThe design, architecture, deployment, and evaluation of systems and infrastructures that support the development of or interaction with mobile devices and services.Devices and TechniquesThe design, construction, usage, and evaluation of devices and techniques that create valuable new capabilities for mobile human-computer interaction.Applications and ExperiencesDescriptions of the design, empirical study of interactive applications, or analysis of usage trends that leverage mobile devices and systems.MobileHCI for Social GoodUsing mobile HCI to address societal challenges of our times such as health care, mobility, sustainability, social engagement, and civic engagement.Methods and ToolsNew methods and tools designed for or applied to studying or building mobile user interfaces, applications, and mobile users.Theories and ModelsCritical analysis or organizing theory with clearly motivated relevance to the design or study of mobile human-computer interaction; taxonomies of design or devices; well-supported essays on emerging trends and practice in mobile human-computer interaction.Provocations and New PerspectivesWell-argued and well-supported visions of the future of mobile computing; non-traditional topics that bear on mobility; underrepresented viewpoints and perspectives that convincingly bring something new to mobile research and practice.If you have any inquiries, please feel free to send email to the organizing committee (https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/committee.php https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/committee.php https://mobilehci.acm.org…) https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/committee.php)We hope to see you next year in Athens!

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IxD&A Journal N. 53: Meet the Authors Event

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 - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - founded in 2005* *that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On-line Event* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 53 *on:* Gamification of the Learning Process */co-guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho/ *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=27> on the /*9th of January - 16:00 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Janika Leoste & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfH9QlAy8kRQjCVfS2W7yp8NAzNP18hgTk…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-053 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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IS-EUD 2023: 9th International Symposium on End-User Development

by Davide Spano

*= IS-EUD 2023 = * 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ Complete CfP: https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/cfp.html End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. *== Topics ==* The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development *== Contributions ==* Submission website: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/IS-EUD2023 *=== Papers ===* • *Regular papers*, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field • *Short papers*, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) • Submission deadline: 1 March 2023 • Notification: 23 March 2023 • Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 *=== Workshop Proposals ===* Workshop proposals are invited (up to 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half-day or one-day long and will be held on June 6, 2023. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 8 February 2023 • Notification: 15 February 2023 • Camera-ready: 30 April 2023 *=== Demonstrations and Work in Progress ===* Demonstrations offer the chance to show EUD-related systems to the community. Submitted contributions should explain the system relevance and describe a plan for the activities during the conference. Work in progress submissions (up to 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Accepted demonstration and work in progress papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 *=== Doctoral Consortium ===* The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Accepted doctoral consortium papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Second Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** Second Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 500 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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

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*** First Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): First Call for Special Track Proposals

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*** First Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: February 26th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: March 5th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications

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*** Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE The Euro-Par PhD Symposium is a welcoming and supportive forum for PhD students to present their work, meet and interact with peers, and to receive constructive feedback about their work from experts in the Euro-Par community. The program will feature technical presentations by PhD students, and discussions in panel and open formats. Contributions accepted to the PhD Symposium will appear in the Euro-Par companion proceedings. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Applicants must be officially enrolled in a PhD Program at the time of submission, and each submission MUST be backed by an endorsement from the official PhD adviser(s). Required submission files are as follows: 1. Proposal (in Springer LNCS format, no longer than 6 pages with references) including: • Title of work, author and affiliation • Abstract of the work • Brief description of work being/planned to be done, including the problem being addressed, the research methodology, and preliminary results (if any) 2. Adviser Statement of Support on institutional letterhead (no longer than 2 pages), including: • Declaration that the applicant is their PhD student, and the length of time of this relationship • Confirmation of support for applicant’s participation • The applicant's expected academic contributions • The level of work that has been achieved by the student (in the course of or before the PhD work) • How the student will prepare for the event • How the student plans to attend the event (i.e. in person or online) • How travel and accommodation costs are to be met, if planning to attend in person • The expected impact of attending the event on the student's work REGISTRATION STUDENTSHIPS We are happy to announce that we can cover the registration fees of 15 student attendees; 15 awards will be funded by the Euro-Par Foundation. To qualify, you should be a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing Science at the time of the event. On top of the above specific criteria for each studentship, the following criteria will be used: • Explicit recommendation by the advisor(s) is paramount, as awards will be given based on the strength of the advisor(s) letter • Priority will be given to in-person attendees Successful applicants may be asked to undertake some tasks to assist the running of Euro-Par 2023. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submission consists of: • Proposal: A manuscript that address item 1 of the call -- see above. • Adviser letter: A statement of support from the applicant's adviser(s) as described in the call. Both elements are to be submitted together as a single PDF to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2023 REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS The symposium committee members will review the submitted applications based on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference. Submitted documents that do not meet the above requirements might be rejected without a review. All submitted proposals will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (proposals which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: May 20, 2023 (AoE) • Notification: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready: July 15, 2023 PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS • Herodotos Herodotou, University of Cyprus. Cyprus • Demetris Thrihinas, University of Cyprus. Cyprus

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La ricerca in informatica in Italia

by Fabio Paternò

Salve, Io ho fatto lesperienza interessante di far parte del GEV 01 nellultima VQR (ed anche in quella precedente), per la parte informatica. Qualche collega mi aveva chiesto informazioni su quanti prodotti sono stati sottomessi nelle varie tematiche ERC relative a computer science, informazione che non avevamo messo nella relazione finale. Mi sono anche detto che probabilmente questi sarebbero dati interessanti a tutta la comunità informatica per capire come sta evolvendo, magari si potrebbero comparare con simili dati nei paesi in cui la ricerca in informatica è avanzata, anche per capire se vi sono aree sovra o sotto dimensionate. Comunque, lANVUR mi ha gentilmente concesso i dati e lautorizzazione a condividerli con la comunità scientifica di riferimento. Li potete trovare a https://giove.isti.cnr.it/Users/Fabio/vqr.png In fase di conferimento dei prodotti alla VQR, ciascuno prodotto poteva essere associato fino a un massimo di tre codici ERC. Le tabelle, pertanto, riportano la distribuzione dei suddetti prodotti in base a tale ordinamento. Come da richiesta, il dato è fornito sia per il SSD INF/01 che per lintero GEV01, con riferimento alla VQR 2011-2014 e alla VQR 2015-2019. Buona lettura ed analisi ! Fabio

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers

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*** Second Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Submissions due: March 31, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 ACM UMAP 2023 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. The UMAP 2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 31st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic. This forum will provide Ph.D. students with an opportunity to • Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment • Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice; • Explore career pathways available after completing their Ph.D. degree • Network and build collaborations with other members of the community Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research, which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC Session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR A DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPER AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please refer to the conference web site for more detailed information regarding the preparation and submission of DC contributions: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: March 31, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 2, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) DC CHAIRS ● Antonija Mitrovic, Canterbury University, New Zealand ● Michel Desmarais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada ● Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology and JADS, Netherlands ● Contact: umap2023-doctoral(a)um.org

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for Posters and Demos

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*** Second Call for Posters and Demos *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. We invite participants to submit original and unpublished works as posters and/or demos to the Euro-Par 2023 conference presenting the latest breakthroughs which have been developed in H2020, Horizon Europe, EuroHPC JU, national, regional and international R&D projects. Topics of interest should cover the conference scope and tracks (please visit the conference web site for more information about the topics covered by Euro-Par). The poster/demo sessions will provide an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to present early- stage research results and receive valuable feedback on their ongoing research from the community. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS The authors are invited to submit poster and/or demo papers formatted in the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… and not exceeding 4 pages (including references, etc.) Submission should be done via Easy Chair, using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 Submissions to the poster and demo track will be evaluated through a comprehensive peer-review process by the Poster and Demo Track Program Committee. The posters and demos will be evaluated in terms of technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The authors of accepted poster and demo papers must register and present them at the conference. Accepted poster and demo papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS after the conference. BEST POSTER AND DEMO AWARD All posters and demos will be considered for the Best Poster Award and the Best Demo Award, respectively. Decisions will be based on the quality of the submission, as well as live interactions with the Committee during the conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for Submission of Posters/Demos: May 20, 2023 • Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2023 POSTER & DEMO CHAIR • George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (pallis-AT-ucy.ac.cy)

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Third Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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*** Third Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ● Proposals due: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Workshop and Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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CfP for the workshop "HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures" at CHI 2023

by Eleonora Mencarini

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our one-day hybrid workshop on “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” at the upcoming CHI 2023 conference <https://chi2023.acm.org/>. As the climate crisis is turning into one of the most critical issues of our time, HCI researchers keep reflecting on the role their work can play in reducing the impact of adverse environmental changes. The HCI community has been addressing these changes and challenges from multiple angles - angles, which have several points of contact and would benefit from finding synergies. With this workshop, we aim to convene the CHI community to discuss how HCI can leverage its traditional skill sets and multidisciplinary influences to address climate change issues. Our full workshop proposal can be accessed here <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10aitYWEO3DryAPiRzPOuYAuuRYJsJ2gp?us…> . After the workshop, we will create a special issue in a journal to which we invite all the workshop participants to submit. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to):‬‬ - Communicating science - Data physicalization, visualization, sonification - Community engagement and activism - Policymaking - Envisioning future scenarios - Eco-social relations and climate justice - System thinking/interconnection of economic, social, and environmental dimensions - Interdisciplinarity and new competencies for HCI researchers - Post-human, more-than-human, diffractive and entangled views, theories, and practices HOW TO APPLY? Participants are invited to send a short paper (min. 2 - max. 6 pages) in the form of a research, reflection, pictorial, provocation, or design fiction using the ACM SIGCHI template (single-column) <https://chi2023.acm.org/submission-guides/chi-publication-formats/> via Easy Chair. Submissions will be assessed by the workshop organizers based on their potential to spark interesting discussions. KEY DATES Submission opens: January 18, 2023, AoE Submission deadline: February 16, 2023, AoE Notification: March 1, 2023, AoE Workshop: April 2023, exact date TBA ATTENDANCE The “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” workshop will be hybrid, participants can join online and at the CHI conference venue in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, FBK (Italy) Christina Bremer, Lancaster University (UK) Chiara Leonardi, FBK (Italy) Jen Liu, Cornell University (USA) Valentina Nisi, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Nuno Jardim Nunes, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Robert Soden, University of Toronto (Canada) For further information, visit our website <https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/hci-climate-change/home>. If you have any questions, please drop an email at hci-climate-change(a)fbk.eu . Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures workshop organizers) -- Eleonora Mencarini, PhD i3 Unit - Digis Centre - FBK 0461/314576 -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Deadline extension: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> January 23, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* **** ***** Since issue N. 47 integrates video presentations and issues e-certificates blockchain anchored*** **---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy • Francesca Pozzi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 23, 2023 (extended)* • Notification to the authors: February 28, 2023 • Camera ready paper: March 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: end of March 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the core, the adjective “smart” comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!). After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “new normality“. In such a context, collaboration is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside collaboration, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of Artificial Intelligence (AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side, competences have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of ethical nature. So, what should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? This special issue, which is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD), welcomes papers that report on work aimed to contribute to the discussion about these issues. Submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2022, are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world. *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, process in learning role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education dual education and other alternate scheme approaches monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) *People in place centered design for smart education* general frameworks and methodological advancement competence based learning, evaluation and certification design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of future citizens communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices open access to any resource and disparity cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces semantic web technologies and applications text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis AI for smart learning ecosystems: critical aspects and opportunities 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 role of VR in 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 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality") 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: /Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • marti [at] unisi [dot] it • francesca [dot] pozzi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------**

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ACM IUI 2023 Workshop -- SOCIALIZE 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2023 Third Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 27, 2023 Co-located with the 28th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2023 (https://iui.acm.org/2023/ <https://iui.acm.org/2023/>) Sydney, Australia, March 27-31, 2023 Workshop website: http://socialize2023.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2023.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2023 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2023> For any information: socialize2023(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2023@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 9, 2023 Authors notification: January 29, 2023 Camera-ready: February 16, 2023 Workshop date: March 27, 2023 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to fostering the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems; * Social robots in the real world; ********************Submissions******************** We encourage three kinds of submissions: - Full papers (up to 8 pages + references) - Short papers (up to 4-6 pages + references) - Vision and position papers (up to 2 pages + references) in ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see https://iui.acm.org/2023/call_for_papers.html <https://iui.acm.org/2023/call_for_papers.html>). Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2023 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2023>) by January 9, 2023. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2023(a)easychair.org>. ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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

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*** Third Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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Special issue on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for One Health

by Paolo Buono

*** Apologies for multiple posting *** ================================================= Special issue on Human-Centered AI for One Health to be published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/a… ================================================= Overview -------- Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can already significantly increase the efficiency of processes in many areas today and help people with everyday problems. However, there is still a lack of clarity as to how the benefits of AI can be effectively exploited and, at the same time, providing the reliability, security, traceability, explainability and thus the trustworthiness of the system for humans. AI is usually viewed from the perspective of autonomy: from autonomous behavior to autonomous decision making. In various contexts, a high degree of autonomy can be useful (although not without risks). However, another approach might be to use AI as a means to support and facilitate humans by complementing (and valuing) human cognitive abilities rather than replacing them. One particular approach is even to use human experiential knowledge, contextual understanding, and common sense to advantage, by means of human-in-the-loop, e.g., Deep Reinforcement Learning with the human-in-the-loop. All these approaches are grouped under the umbrella term Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI). This new discipline aims to use AI technologies not only with and for humans, but also to develop them with successful Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) approaches. The ultimate goal is to design systems that complement, empower, and in no way replace human capabilities. This requires a strong integration of privacy, security and safety. HCAI researchers have the potential to create intelligent systems that are more reliable, safe and trustworthy for humans. This is important in all critical areas of life, such as healthcare and medical contexts, as well as health in general. This interdisciplinary field should result from cross-fertilization of research in health sciences, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, and natural language. For this special issue, original and high-quality articles are sought that provide an opportunity to demonstrate the progress of HCAI methods and tools and their application to the maintenance of human health. In particular, the “One Health” idea of the World Health Organization (WHO) is pushed, which is an approach calling for the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for the human and the whole ecological environment. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - HCAI approaches to support One Health - New user interfaces and modalities for a seamless interaction between human and AI designed with HCAI approaches, particularly on how a human-in-the-loop can be included - Methods and algorithms enabling a better human-AI collaboration - Methods and tools supporting humans to better understand decisions of AI-driven applications for one health - Empowerment of users of AI systems to reconfigure intelligent systems based on their experiences - Case studies and lesson learned from experimental evaluation of HCAI systems in medical and healthcare domains - Investigations of users’ mental models of AI systems in use - Analysis of users’ requirements and new work practices emerging from the use if AI in medical and healthcare domains - Deep-Reinforcement Learning with the human-in-the-loop Guest Editors ------------- Nadia Berthouze University College London, UK, nadia.berthouze(a)ucl.ac.uk Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy, paolo.buono(a)uniba.it Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy, maria.costabile(a)uniba.it Adela Grando Arizona State University, USA, adela.grando(a)asu.edu Andreas Holzinger University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria, andreas.holzinger(a)human-centered.ai Submission ---------- This is a rolling issue. Manuscripts can be submitted at any time before the deadline. All submissions that pass editorial pre-check are sent to peer-review. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted). Response to the authors will be given at the earliest convenience of the editors. To help authors find a good fit, we encourage them to send proposals of about 1000 words that provide a clear indication of what the paper is about and how HCAI is addressed. Proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the special issue theme, and guidance will be given. Proposals that are not appropriate are desk rejected to save the authors' valuable time. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Submission of the full paper is via the online Elsevier Editorial System (https://www.editorialmanager.com/aiim). Authors should prepare the manuscript of their full paper according to the Instructions for Authors provided in the Guide for authors section of the journal webpage (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/0933-…). When submitting the new manuscript, select “VSI: HCAI for One Health” as article type. Important Dates --------------- Proposal closing: 15th May 2023 Special issue closing (full paper final submission deadline): 15th October 2023  Questions? ---------- For questions regarding this special issue, please contact the Managing Guest Editor, 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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First CfP SLERD 2023 - 8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2023:SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AS ENGINES OF THE GREEN AND DIGITAL TRANSITION* *June 19-20, 2023* /*Tallin, Estonia (hybrid)*/ slerd.uniroma2.it <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: janika [dot] leoste [at] tlu [dot] ee/(conference chair)/ 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 5, 2023 *call for papers <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= *SLERD 2023 will host also a *Demo Student Contest* -> see call for demo <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/student-design-contest-2023/> **========================================================= * * *SLERD 2023* is organized by /Tallinn University /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ * Please Note: SLERD 2023 will be held in precence but a possibility to attend it virtually is provided (hybrid format). * /*Short Intro*/ The energy crises and war have underscored the need to change our living style, consumption habits, learning methods and tools. The transition towards future education is according to theUnesco thematic action track 4 <https://transformingeducationsummit.sdg4education2030.org/track/digital>encompassing digital transformation which harnesses technology as part of larger systemic efforts. Making technology more inclusive, equitable, effective, relevant, and sustainable. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>” as a contribution to theUnited Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld>? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? However , such transformation has to take the environment into account. The sustainable development goals (SDG) do not concern only the industry and economic transition but also learning institutions. It is calledtwin transition <https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news/twin-green-digital-tran…>. The*twin transition*means digital technologies playing a key role in achieving climate neutrality. These transformations have an effect on learning and needed skills; to adapt to a rapidly*transforming technological reality*and labour market, as well as green skills and climate awareness. The topics need an in-depth discourse on their environmental friendliness and the methods we, as teachers, facilitators and learners, use, adapt and design (see, e.g.,Unesco Leading SDG 4 goals <https://www.unesco.org/en/education/education2030-sdg4>). As societies change, these also affect*learning approaches, models and methodologies*best suited for appreciated values such as equity, inclusion, quality and relevance to mention a few values frequently described concerning education. These values mean to mobilise action, ambition, solidarity and solutions to sow the seeds to transform education in a rapidly changing world.The Unesco paper <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000245656>“/The futures of education for participation in 2050/” paves the way to deal with the change and ambiguity of the current and future times. The complex questions of when, how and why to use digital technologies in and for learning can be approached through multiple perspectives and angles: values;*informal, formal, and non-formal learning settings; infrastructural and systemic as well as technological views*. The general topics of the conference reflect the above-mentioned different perspectives aiming to provide in-depth discourse among academics, students and practitioners. SLERD 2023 is proud to invite colleagues – researchers and practitioners – from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems that drive towards green and digital transformation where learning ecosystems, approaches, methods and tools promote smart learning but are also environmentally friendly activating citizens, and in the promoting social innovation and equally accessible quality education. /**//*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2023* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate 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 • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * *• AI for smart learning ecosystems: ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction* *• semantic web technologies 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 • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**5, 2023* • Notification to the authors: April 16, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 30, 2023 • Conference: June 19-20, 2023 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- SLERD welcomes contributions composed by min. 4500 words. The max. length of the contributions should not overcome 16 pages. Papers should be written according to: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2023 ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2023 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…> ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website <http://www.aslerd.org> for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for Papers

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*** Second Call for Papers *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 17, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Third Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** Third Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos

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*** Second Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-late-breaking-results-and-demos/ Submissions due: April 24, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: April 24, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ● Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ● (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023. Late-Breaking Results ● Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ● (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ● LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column): ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… ● Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): ◦ https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… ● MS Word: ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos” track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ● Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ● Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ● Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany – SUNY, USA ● Contact: umap2023-lbr(a)um.org

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Papers

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CHItaly 2023: Call for Papers [Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 20–22 September 2023 Location: from Turin to the World, using MetaVerse https://chitaly2023.it/ ================================================ THEME: Crossing HCI and AI ================================================ Besides consolidated HCI contributions, CHItaly 2023 aims at debating the intersection of HCI and AI as an emerging field of research, devoted mostly to Intelligent User Interfaces, i.e., interfaces developed using the approaches from HCI and the tools from AI. We solicit research on methods, approaches and systems relating the Human and the AI, innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. ================================================ CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT PAPERS ================================================ Long papers present original and substantially new research in HCI. Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies. All paper manuscripts undergo a selective review process. Accepted papers are invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS - pending approval), published in the ACM Digital Library. The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the conference is interested in all aspects of HCI: - Crossing HCI and AI - Fundamentals of HCI - Interactive Environments - Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices - Applications of HCI A more detailed list is available at https://chitaly2023.it/call_for_papers/ All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE. Main deadlines (AoE): - Submission deadline: March 31th, 2023 - Review notification: June 1st, 2023 - Camera Ready: July 31th, 2023 Papers Chairs: Tania Di Mascio (Università dell’Aquila) Rosa Lanzilotti (Università di Bari) Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari) email: papers(a)chitaly2023.it Submit on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 53 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2021 = 0.353 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 53 *on:* Gamification of the Learning Process** */guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho / is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 53 - ToC*/** **/ **/Preface to the special issue on/ *Gamification of the Learning Process */Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho/* */p. 5 - 6/* */William Reyes Cabrera, Jesús Pinto Sosa, Ricardo Hernández-Dzib /*The construction and validation of a Questionnaire of Gamification Skills in Teachers (QGST)*/, pp. 7 - 26, Chinonye Leuna Obioha, Izak van Zyl /*Gameful design for skills development for youths in urban marginalised communities*/, pp. 27 - 50, Eduardo Nunes, Bruno Gavaia, Rui Rodrigues, Luís Sampaio, Raquel Silva /*Liber Domus: Development of a Prototype RPG for 6th Grade Mathematics and Science Learning*/, pp. 51 - 69, Eva Mårell-Olsson /*Teachers’ Perception of Gamification as a Teaching Design*/, pp. 70 - 100, Steven Tanimoto /*Three Tiers of Gamification in a College Course on Problem Solving for Global Challenges*/, pp. 101 - 127, Pedro Beça, Mónica Aresta, Rita Santos, Ana Isabel Veloso, Gonçalo Gomes /*Students as Game Creators. Easing the game construction process by using a toolkit to game design*/, pp. 128 - 143, Amuthageetha Nagarajan, Arkendu Sen /*Can Bloom's Higher Order Thinking skills be achieved by Gamified Learning through Social Networking Site (SNS) like Facebook?*/, pp. 144 - 160, Stavros A. Nikou, Anastasios A. Economides, Andromachi Boikou /*Business simulation games: impact on SOLO taxonomy learning outcomes, learning performance and teamwork competency*/, pp. 161 - 175, Carmen Llorente, Antonio Palacios Rodriguez, Victoria Fernàndez Scagliusi /*Learning landscapes and educational Breakout for the development of digital skills of teachers in training*/, pp. 176 - 190, Fábio Silva, João Ramos, Cesar Analide /*Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Practical Application Learning with Gamification Elements*/, pp. 191 - 212, José Manuel Sáez-López, Esteban Vázquez-Cano, Javier Fombona, Eloy López-Meneses /*Gamification and gaming proposals, teachers’ perceptions and practices in Primary Education*/, pp. 213 - 229, / -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for applications - Research Fellowship @ University of Bari Aldo Moro (ITALY)

by berardina nadja decarolis

Applications are invited for a *18-month fellowship* (*assegno di ricerca*) for conducting research within the project "Personalized Assistance through Social Robots for Active Aging", funded by POC PUGLIA FESR-FSE 2014/2020- azione 10.4 “Interventi volti a promuovere la ricerca e per l’Istruzione Universitaria” –“RIPARTI”. The Research Fellow will work on *Computer Vision and AI methodologies for estimating the level of frailty of seniors through the use of a Social Robot*. *URL for application:* https://reclutamento.ict.uniba.it/assegni-di-ricerca/concorsi/2022-pr-01.81 Keywords: *computer vision, social robotics, user modeling* Closing date for applications: *09/Dec/2022* For further information, please contact prof. Berardina Decarolis: berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.i <berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it> Brief Description: The project is in the context of active aging and aims to develop and evaluate how, using the sensor of a social robot, it is possible to estimate in a precise and continuous way vital parameters, emotional states, and situations of danger and emergency of frail seniors. In particular, techniques based on computer vision and AI will be used to estimate vital parameters (Respiratory rate, Heart rate, Blood pressure), emotional state, risk situations (e.g. man down), and lifestyles (e.g. sedentariness). To achieve these objectives, the researcher will collaborate with expert members of the interdepartmental center CITEL, which incorporates both clinical and technological expertise, and with the project industrial partner represented by Exprivia company. For more information, write to berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it -- Berardina Nadja De Carolis Associate Professor Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" Via Orabona, 4 70126 Bari - Italy phone: +39 080 544 3282

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IxD&A Journal N. 52 - Meet the Authors Event: videos now available

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal -* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2021 = 0.353 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Videos of the on-line event are now avilable* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 52 *on:* Beyond the Pandemics & Wars: SLERD Reload */guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio, Oscar Mealha/ //& *Educational Location-based Applications */guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Esteban W. G. Clua, Jimmy Jaldemark, Heinrich Söbke/ *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=10&link=5…> Videos can be accessed from the IxD&A Journal website -> <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052>https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052 or from the IxD&A Youtube Channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> (play list issue 52: link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzgE7itwr8&list=PLe5rmM-FoE9HDjZPTpr1585-T…>) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join IxD&A Linkedin group -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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NEW DEADLINE - Call for papers/abstracts - Workshop on Socially Evocative Robots for Didactics @ ICSR 2022 (13.12.22 Florence)

by Hagen LEHMANN

*Socially Evocative Robots for Didactics* *A satellite workshop @ **ICSR 2022* <https://www.icsr2022.it/> *Firenze, Italy* *December 13-16, 2022* *Workshop date: December 13th, 2022* *Website: *https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-didactics *Contact:* *hagen.lehmann(a)unibg.it <hagen.lehmann(a)unibg.it>* *Important Dates:* • NEW Paper/Abstract submission: November, 29, 2022 • Notification of acceptance: December, 01, 2022 *Call for participation:* We welcome original research on socially evocative robots in didactic research or related transdisciplinary research in fields relevant to educational robotics. The submissions should be either in the form of abstracts (500 - 1000 words) for short presentations or 6 page papers (incl. bibliography) for long presentations and explore one or more specific aspects of the use of robotic technology in teaching environments. The topics *may* include: • socially evocative robots in practical education • enactive didactics and robotic technology • theoretical didactic frameworks for the integration of robotic technology • verbal and nonverbal robotic feedback • socially evocative robots in STEAM Education • socially evocative robots in education for children with special needs *Submission requirements for abstracts:* If you would like to contribute to our workshop, please write an email to *hagen.lehmann(a)**unibg.it <http://unibg.it>* with: *for abstracts* - list of authors; - title of the abstract you intend to present; - abstract (500 - 1000 words, bibliography included). *or for full papers* - max 6 pages including bibliography *Plan for publication:* We will publish the submissions on the website of the workshop. After the workshop is concluded, we intend to proceed with the publication of a special issue in a scientific journal relevant to the field of Technology in Education. *Organizing Committee:* Hagen Lehmann <https://didattica-rubrica.unibg.it/ugov/person/126611>, University of Bergamo, Italy Federica Baroni <https://didattica-rubrica.unibg.it/ugov/person/3738>, University of Bergamo, Italy -- Hagen Lehmann, PhD Dipartimento di Scienze umane e sociali Università di Bergamo Piazzale Sant'Agostino, 2 24124 Bergamo (BG) Italia

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

by Announce Announcements

*** Second Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Announce Announcements

*** Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ● Proposals due: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Tutorial and Workshop Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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2nd CFP: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy • Francesca Pozzi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 15, 2022* • Notification to the authors: January 31, 2023 • Camera ready paper: February 20, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half March 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the core, the adjective “smart” comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!). After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “new normality“. In such a context, collaboration is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside collaboration, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of Artificial Intelligence (AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side, competences have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of ethical nature. So, what should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? This special issue, which is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD), welcomes papers that report on work aimed to contribute to the discussion about these issues. Submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2022, are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world. *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, process in learning role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education dual education and other alternate scheme approaches monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) *People in place centered design for smart education* general frameworks and methodological advancement competence based learning, evaluation and certification design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of future citizens communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices open access to any resource and disparity cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces semantic web technologies and applications text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis AI for smart learning ecosystems: critical aspects and opportunities 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 role of VR in 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 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality") 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: /Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • marti [at] unisi [dot] it • francesca [dot] pozzi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Submissions due: March 31, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 ACM UMAP 2023 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. The UMAP 2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 31st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic. This forum will provide Ph.D. students with an opportunity to • Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment • Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice; • Explore career pathways available after completing their Ph.D. degree • Network and build collaborations with other members of the community Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research, which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC Session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR A DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPER AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please refer to the conference web site for more detailed information regarding the preparation and submission of DC contributions: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: March 31, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 2, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) DC CHAIRS ● Antonija Mitrovic, Canterbury University, New Zealand ● Michel Desmarais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada ● Willem Willemsen, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands ● Contact: umap2023-doctoral(a)um.org

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Rosella Gennari riceve il South Tyrol Free Software Award

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Cari Tutti e care tutte, Sono lieta di comunicarvi, su segnalazione di Massimo Zancanaro, che la collega Rosella Gennari ieri ha ricevuto il premio "South Tyrol Free Software Award" <https://www.unibz.it/it/home/newsroom/news/rosella-gennari-wins-this-years-…> dal Presidente del Linux User Group, Marco Marinello, per le sue ricerche nel campo dell'interazione con cyber-physical devices. Congratulazioni Rosella, è un riconoscimento che gratifica l'intera comunità di SIGCHI Italy! Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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7th International Scientific Conference in Ankara

by İksad Institute Ankara

online and in person participation Bu e-postayı düzgün göremiyorsanız Lütfen tıklayınız. 7th INTERNATIONAL ANKARA CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Ankara, Turkiye by IKSAD INSTITUTE December 2-4, 2022 online and in person participation www.en.ankarakongresi.org Dear Researcher We are honored to announce the 7th International Ankara Conference on Scientific Research and invite you to this meeting on December 2-4, 2022 by IKSAD Institute via Online and in person participation Warm regards Disciplines Open to all disciplines FEE: 10 USD Includes - online or in person participation - Abstract and full text publication in conference book (ISBN) - Certificates for all authors Calendar Abstract submission deadline: November 18, 2022 (4 pm Ankara Time) After receiving your acceptance please make your payment via credit card (10 USD) Program announcement: November 22, 2022 (program includes zoom ID and password) Conference email adres: bilgi(a)ankarakongresi.org Application and registration steps 1- Send your abstract to bilgi(a)ankarakongresi.org until November 18, 2022 (word/doc) 2- If your abstract is accepted by referee you will receive an acceptance mail 3- Make your payment (10 usd) via credit card 4- Programme will be ready in November 22, 2022 and we will send you the programme via email (check your name at programme) 5- Join in meeting via zoom, make your presentation 6- After your presentation you will receive your certificate Contact:bilgi@ankarakongresi.org This conference is organized by IKSAD Institute of Economic Development and Social Research of Turkey E-Mail hcitaly(a)isti.cnr.it, Abonelik iptali - İzinsiz gönderim bildir Copyright © 2022

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

by Announce Announcements

*** Second Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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Interact 2023 CfP

by Fabio Paternò

Call for Papers: INTERACT 2023 INTERACT 2023 is the 19th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human- Computer Interaction) of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). August 28 – September 1, 2023 York, United Kingdom https://interact2023.org/ INTERACT is a highly international conference and welcomes papers on all aspects of human-computer interaction. The theme of the conference is “Design for Equality and Justice”. Increasingly computer sciences as a discipline is becoming concerned with issues of equality and justice – from fake news to rights for robots, from the ethics of driverless vehicles to the gamergate controversy. The HCI community is well placed to be at the leading edge of such discussions within the wider computer science community and in the dialogue between computer science and the broader society. Equality and justice are both particularly important concepts for both the City of York and the University of York. Both institutions have distinguished histories of working for equality and justice. The call for papers is now open for the following categories: Deadline 25 January 2023 Full papers Courses Workshops Deadline 19 April 2023 Short papers Posters Panels Interactive Demos Doctoral Consortium Industrial Experiences

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1st CFP: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 15*, 2023 • Notification to the authors: February 20, 2023 • Camera ready paper: March 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: April, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction 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: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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WUD-SIGCHItaly 2022: partecipazione e programma

by Sabina Akram

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): First Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Papers *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 17, 2023 • Paper Submission: February 24, 2023 • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): First Call for Posters and Demos

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Posters and Demos *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. We invite participants to submit original and unpublished works as posters and/or demos to the Euro-Par 2023 conference presenting the latest breakthroughs which have been developed in H2020, Horizon Europe, EuroHPC JU, national, regional and international R&D projects. Topics of interest should cover the conference scope and tracks (please visit the conference web site for more information about the topics covered by Euro-Par). The poster/demo sessions will provide an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to present early- stage research results and receive valuable feedback on their ongoing research from the community. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS The authors are invited to submit poster and/or demo papers formatted in the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… and not exceeding 4 pages (including references, etc.) Submissions to the poster and demo track will be evaluated through a comprehensive peer-review process by the Poster and Demo Track Program Committee. The posters and demos will be evaluated in terms of technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The authors of accepted poster and demo papers must register and present them at the conference. Accepted poster and demo papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS after the conference. BEST POSTER AND DEMO AWARD All posters and demos will be considered for the Best Poster Award and the Best Demo Award, respectively. Decisions will be based on the quality of the submission, as well as live interactions with the Committee during the conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for Submission of Posters/Demos: May 20, 2023 • Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2023 Poster & Demo Chair George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (pallis-AT-ucy.ac.cy)

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WUD-SIGCHItaly 2022: partecipazione e programma

by De Russis Luigi

Carissim*, Come annunciato annunciato qualche settimana fa, il prossimo WUD-SIGCHItaly si terrà questa settimana, giovedì 10 Novembre in modalità ibrida (a Torino e online). Di seguito potete trovare le informazioni dettagliate sull’evento, al quale rinnoviamo l’invito a partecipare, insieme al programma. Il World Usability Day, come sapete, è la giornata mondiale organizzata dalla Usability Professionals Association che si tiene ogni anno il secondo giovedì di Novembre per "disseminare" l'importanza del lato umano nella tecnologia. Ogni anno c'è un tema diverso e il tema di quest’anno è OUR HEALTH (https://worldusabilityday.org/). Come gli scorsi due anni, l’evento del WUD non è legato alle singole città ma a respiro nazionale e sotto il cappello del nostro chapter SIGCHItaly. Gli organizzatori dell’evento di quest’anno sono Luigi De Russis (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico di Torino), Cristina Gena (Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Torino) e i passati presidenti del SIGCHItaly Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano) e Massimo Zancanaro (Università di Trento). Claudio Mattutino e Valentina Di Noi, entrambi affiliati all’Università di Torino, supportano l’evento come Social Media Manager e web master, rispettivamente. Il WUD-SIGCHItaly si svolgerà il 10 novembre dalle ore 9 alle 13:15 nell’aula 2 della Palazzina Einaudi (c/o Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi di Torino) e in streaming su WebEx. L’evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare dal sito: http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/. A tutti gli iscritti, il giorno prima, verrà comunicato il link per accedere da remoto all’evento. Questo il programma della mattinata: Ore 9 Saluti istituzionali Ing. Francesco Tresso, assessore alla cura della città, protezione civile, servizi civici e decentramento Prof. Marco Pironti, vice-direttore alla Terza Missione, Dip. Info, Università degli Studi di Torino Prof.ssa Elena Baralis, Direttrice del dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico di Torino Prof.ssa Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano e già Presidente di SIGCHItaly INVITED SPEAKER Ore 9:45 dottor Matteo Cestari, Omitech srl "Dall'usabilità all'interazione antropologica” L'usabilità, presuppone l' "uso" come volontà strumentale di utilizzare uno strumento con un’interfaccia per volontà e per raggiungere un fine voluto dall'utilizzatore. Nell'uso della robotica sociale invece spesso l'interazione avviene anche su iniziativa dell'automa, più o meno antropomorfo. Con questi strumenti diventano rilevanti nell'interazione anche meccanismi antropologici, quali la simulazione dell'empatia, la non invasività, lo spazio di interazione. Ore 10:30 prof.ssa Elisa Ficarra, Università di Modena e di Reggio Emilia, AI for Health Ore 10:50-11:10 break Ore 11:10 prof. Fabio Paternò, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Automazioni Create dai Caregivers per Supportare la Vita Quotidiana degli Anziani nelle loro Case Ore 11:30 prof.ssa Irene Ronga, Dip. di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Torino, Oltre la teleriabilitazione: strumenti di motivazione e gratificazione per pazienti neurologici coinvolti in percorsi di riabilitazione a distanza Ore 11:50 prof. Amon Rapp, Dip. di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Tecnologie di self-tracking per la salute, il benessere e lo sport: opportunità e rischi dei dispositivi finalizzati a tracciare i dati personali e a cambiare i comportamenti delle persone Ore 12:10 prof.ssa Franca Garzotto, Politenico di Milano, How can interactive technology help persons with communication disorders? Ore 12:30 dottor Marco Mores, Fraternità e amicizia - Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS, e prof.ssa Rosella Gennari, Libera Università di Bolzano, Progettare tecnologie per il benessere sociale: un'esperienza con persone disabili Ore 12:55 prof.ssa Rosa Lanzilotti e prof. Giovanni Dimauro, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Why Human-Centered AI systems in healthcare? Some reflections A presto e buon inizio di settimana! Luigi De Russis e Cristina Gena

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SMI 2023 CfP

by Michela Mortara

Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute as you see fit. CALL FOR PAPERS: SHAPE MODELING INTERNATIONAL (SMI) 2023 GENOVA, 4-6 July 2023 [ https://smiconf.github.io/2023/ | https://smiconf.github.io/2023/ ] Shape Modeling International (SMI) provides an international forum for the dissemination of new mathematical theories and computational techniques for modeling, simulating and processing digital representations of shapes and their properties to a community of researchers, developers, students, and practitioners across a wide range of fields. Conference proceedings will be published in a Special Issue of Computer & Graphics Journal, Elsevier. Papers presenting original research are sought in all areas of shape modeling and its applications. This year SMI will be held in Genova, July 4-6, as part of the [ http://igs2023.imati.cnr.it/ | International Geometry Summit ] , together with SGP, SPM, GMP and GD. SMI also participates in the Replicability Stamp Initiative, an additional recognition for authors who are willing to go one step further, and in addition to publishing the paper, provide a complete open-source implementation. For more details, check the SMI2023 website. IMPORTANT DATES SMI 2023 (23:59 UTC/GMT): Abstract submission: March 13, 2023 Full paper submission: March 20, 2023 First review notification: April 20, 2023 Revised papers: May 8, 2023 Second review notification: May 22, 2023 Camera ready full papers due: June 5, 2023 Conference: July 4-6, 2023 SUBMISSION: Papers should present previously unpublished, original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The SMI conference will use a double-blind review process. Consequently, all submissions must be anonymous. All papers should be submitted using the easychair website. Submissions should be formatted according to the style guidelines for the Computers &Graphics Journal and should not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. We strongly recommend using the LaTeX template to format your paper. We also accept papers formatted by MS Word according to the style guidelines for Computers & Graphics. The file must be exported to a pdf file for the first round of submission. For format details, please refer to the Computers & Graphics Journal Guide for Authors. SMI CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Hui Huang Shenzhen University, China Giuseppe Patanè CNR-IMATI, Genova, Italy Jorg Peters University of Florida, USA SMI TECHNICAL PAPERS CHAIRS: Georges-Pierre Bonneau University of Grenoble-Alpes, France Ligang Liu University of Science and Technology of China Michela Mortara CNR-IMATI, Genova, Italy SMI COMMUNICATION CHAIRS: Ergun Akleman Texas A&M University, USA Silvia Biasotti CNR-IMATI, Genova, Italy Yang Liu Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China LIST OF TOPICS (non restrictive): Curves and surfaces Implicit surfaces Triangle and polygonal meshes Parametric and procedural models Acquisition and reconstruction Compression and streaming Healing and resampling Segmentation Medial and skeletal representations Correspondence and registration Feature extraction and classification Shape analysis and synthesis 3D retrieval Shape statistics Exploration of shape collections Shape transformation and deformation Behaviour and animation models Computational topology Learning techniques for shape modeling Geometric deep learning Digital fabrication and 3D printing Simulation 3D Digital Twins Interactive modeling, design and editing Sketching and 3D input modalities AR/VR environments Semantics of shapes Shape modeling applications (product design, biomedicine, GIS, geoscience, art, education and training, cultural heritage, gaming, and others) _________________________________________________________________________________ Michela Mortara Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche "E. Magenes" (IMATI) Genova +010 6475 686 www.imati.cnr.it

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

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*** First Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. Submission and Review Process Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2023/ . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment). Program Chairs • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Track Chairs Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos

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*** First Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Submissions due: April 24, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: April 24, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ● Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ● (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023. Late-Breaking Results ● Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ● (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ● LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column): ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… ● Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): ◦ https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… ● MS Word: ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos” track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ● Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ● Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ● Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany – SUNY, USA ● Contact: umap2023-lbr(a)um.org

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FW: Level A/B/C position in Cyber Security or Software Development is now live

by Alessandro Soro

Dear Friends, I would like to share the job opening below in the School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology (AU). While the position below is centred on cybersecurity or software development, the School of CS is home to one of the largest Australian groups working in all manners of HCI, interaction design, and participatory design, and a successful applicant from our HCI community would find here huge opportunities to thrive. Feel free to get in touch for any further info, and please circulate through your networks if possible. Many thanks, Alessandro Associate Professor Alessandro Soro | School of Computer Science Unit Coordinator IFB398 (Capstone Project) and IFN692 (Interaction Design for Emerging Technologies) Academic Lead International & Engagement (School of Computer Science) Faculty of Science | Queensland University of Technology S Block, Level 10, Room 1050, Gardens Point Campus E: alessandro.soro(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:alessandro.soro@qut.edu.au> | P: +61 07 3138 9569 CRICOS No. 00213J From: Paul Roe <p.roe(a)qut.edu.au> Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2022 9:14 PM To: fos.csac(a)qut.edu.au; fos.cshdr(a)student.qut.edu.au Subject: Level A/B/C position in Cyber Security or Software Development is now live Hi Everyone, Our new Associate Lecturer / Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (Cyber Security or Software Development) is now live on QUT careers and soon SEEK. Job Ref - 221162 https://qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.listJobs Please encourage people to apply and distribute this position description; note this is intended to promote equal opportunity for women in STEMM and is open to women applicants only. Thanks, Paul Professor Paul Roe (Acting) Head of School - Computer Science Faculty of Science | Queensland University of Technology S Block, Level 10, 1034, Gardens Point Campus ph +61 7 31389323 | email p.roe(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:p.roe@qut.edu.au> CRICOS No 00213J

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Esito votazioni SIGCHI Italy

by Maristella Matera

Carissime/i, ho il piacere di comunicarvi che Giuliana Vitiello è la nuova presidentessa del SIGCHI Italy, avendo ricevuto 35 voti a suo favore (su 36 voti totali). Nel congratularmi con Giuliana, ne approfitto per ringraziare Massimo Zancanaro, l'Extended Committee (Luigi De Russis, Rosa Lanzilotti, Davide Spano, Anna Spagnolli, Giuliana) e tutti coloro che negli ultimi quattro anni mi hanno sostenuto offrendo spunti, suggerimenti e aiuti concreti per le iniziative intraprese durante il mio mandato. La mia percezione è che, grazie alla partecipazione di molti, la comunità sia ulteriormente cresciuta (non solo nel numero dei membri), perché sono cresciuti in tutti noi la consapevolezza dell'importanza di fare ricerca nel settore dell'HCI e l'impegno nel disseminare il valore della nostra ricerca. Sicuramente Giuliana riuscirà a cogliere nuovi spunti e guiderà l'associazione in modo da rafforzare ulteriormente la visibilità dell'HCI e della nostra associazione in contesti nazionali e internazionali. Sono certa che tutti noi sapremo offrire a Giuliana tutto il sostegno di cui avrà bisogno! Un caro saluto a tutti, Maristella

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Elezione Presidente SIGCHI Italy - Votazioni aperte fino al 25 Ottobre

by Maristella Matera

Carissime/i, sono ora aperte le votazioni per il prossimo Presidente della nostra associazione, ACM SIGCHI Italy. La candidata è Giuliana Vitiello. Riporto nuovamente in allegato la sua lettera di candidatura. Gli iscritti ***ad ACM e a SIGCHI*** possono ora votare accedendo al modulo: https://forms.gle/WyPzaVQPB6RyLiQT6 Vista la necessità di controllare l'appartenenza dei votanti ad ACM e SIGCHI (pena la validità della votazione), il voto non è segreto ma è riservato. I garanti del voto saranno: il presidente uscente (me stessa), il vice-presidente (Massimo Zancanaro), un segretario (Davide Spano). Tutti si impegnano alla riservatezza dell'identità dei votanti e del voto espresso. Le votazioni si chiuderanno martedì 25 Ottobre alle ore 18.00. Un caro saluto, Maristella

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Final Call for Late Breaking Results

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*** Final Call for Late Breaking Results *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Virtual Event https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) *** Deadline: November 1st, AoE (firm!) *** IHAW 2022 accepts now submissions for late breaking results. The instructions to authors remain the same, as for the regular submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the same proceedings volume with the regular submissions and will be eligible both for the Best Paper Award and to be selected for the special journal issues that will be prepared after the conference. ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022 (AoE, firm!) • Notification: November 15, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 24, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 24, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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WUD-SIGCHItaly 2022: save the date!

by Cristina Gena

Carissim*, il World Usability Day, come sapete, è la giornata mondiale organizzata dalla Usability Professionals Association che si tiene ogni anno il secondo giovedì di Novembre per "disseminare" l'importanza del lato "umano" nella tecnologia. Ogni anno c'è un tema diverso e, il tema di quest’anno è *OUR HEALTH* (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>). Come gli scorsi due anni, abbiamo programmato l’evento del WUD non legato alle singole città, ma a respiro nazionale e sotto il cappello della nostra organizzazione.Organizzano l’evento 2022 *Cristina Gena* (Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino) e *Luigi De Russis* (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico di Torino), co-adiuvati dalla presidentessa SIGCHItaly Maristella Matera e dall’ex presidente Massimo Zancanaro. Giovedì 10 novembre dalle ore 9 si terrà online, e in presenza a Torino, il terzo WUD-SIGCHItaly, seguiranno ulteriori email per dettagli e aggiornamenti. Sul sito (http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>) sarà possibile registrarsi gratuitamente all’evento. Il programma, in fase di ulteriore definizione, avrà come relatore di apertura il dottor Matteo Cestari, CEO di Omitech srl, startup innovativa di service robotics, attiva nell’utilizzo dei robot all’interno di ospedali e case di cura. Seguiranno interventi di Franca Garzotto, PoliMI Rosella Gennari, UniBZ** Elisa Ficarra, UniMORE Marco Mores, FRATERNITA' E AMICIZIA - Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS Fabio Paternò, CNR Amon Rapp, UniTO Irene Renga, UniTO ... Segnate la data per ora, a giorni pubblicheremo il programma dettagliato! Un caro saluto Cristina Gena e Luigi De Russis

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Open professor position in HCI at KU Leuven Groep T (Belgium)

by Adalberto Simeone

Apologies for cross-posting. KU Leuven has a vacancy for a full-time (junior or senior) professor in the domain of Human-Computer Interaction at Group T Leuven Campus. We are looking for internationally oriented candidates with an excellent applied research record and with educational competence within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The new faculty member will become a member of the research Department of Computer Science, which is internationally renowned for its research in informatics, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematical engineering, digital humanities, and teacher education (https://wms.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/english/research). The new professor will moreover become a member of the Faculty of Engineering Technology that offers academic yet implementation-oriented engineering programs at seven campuses across Flanders. Main teaching duties will be situated at Group T Leuven Campus (https://www.kuleuven.be/grouptcampus), an international and entrepreneurial engineering campus in Leuven city centre. Website unit<https://iiw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/emedia> Details are available at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60146995?hl=en&lang=en We encourage candidates to contact us for more information on the contents of the job: * Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Vandewalle, chair of the Department of Computer Science (Stefan.Vandewalle(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:Stefan.Vandewalle@kuleuven.be> , +32 16 32 76 54) or * Prof. dr. ir. Wim Dewulf, campus chair of Group T Leuven campus (Wim.Dewulf(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:Wim.Dewulf@kuleuven.be> , +32 16 37 28 81) -- Adalberto L. Simeone Associate Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be<https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be/> Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me<https://www.adalsimeone.me/>

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IS-EUD 2023 - Call for Papers

by Carmen Santoro

Call for Papers 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event, that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Papers We invite two types of paper submissions: -Regular papers, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field -Short papers, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Submission The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system until the submission deadline (two different tracks, for regular and short papers, will be available for submission in Easychair). Important dates: Regular and Short papers submission: 1 March 2023 Notification: 23 March 2023 Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 Program Chairs Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Simone Stumpf, University of Glasgow, UK

2 years, 7 months

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Chair di SIGCHI Italy: candidature ed elezioni

by Maristella Matera

Carissime/i, A fine Ottobre scade il mio mandato di chair del SIGCHI Italy; è quindi giunto il momento di eleggere chi svolgerà questo ruolo per il prossimo biennio. Procederemo nel seguente modo: * Entro *** Venerdì 14 Ottobre***: chi volesse candidarsi potrà esprimere la propria candidatura inviando a me un breve testo di presentazione e di descrizione della propria visione sul futuro e sugli obiettivi dell'associazione. * 15 Ottobre: le candidature saranno distribuite alla comunità attraverso questa mailing list. * 20-25 Ottobre: i membri con diritto di voto potranno esprimere online la loro preferenza (seguiranno istruzioni). Ricordo che potranno votare coloro che risultano iscritti ad ACM e al SIGCHI. Alla pagina http://sigchitaly.eu/en/members/ è disponibile l'elenco che abbiamo definito in base alle segnalazioni che ci sono pervenute. In caso di variazioni, e cioè mancati rinnovi dell'iscrizione o nuove iscrizioni non ancora segnalate, vi preghiamo di inviare un messaggio a me e a Davide Spano (davide.spano(a)unica.it). Cari saluti a tutti, Maristella Matera

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): First Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** First Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: - Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) - Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. - A tentative program committee (10-15 members) - Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops - Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including european project meetings) * organizational aspects - Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) - Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities - Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it - Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines - Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review - Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest - Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2020 conference co-chairs in time - Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference - Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management - Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered - Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper - Registering for the conference - Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2020 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. (Submission address and deadline at the end) MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: - Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) - Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. - Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives - Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), - Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. - Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it - Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation. - Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers. - Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions - Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time - Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions. - Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium. - Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) - Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 - Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS - Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) - Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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

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*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track will be available shortly in the extended version of the CFP on the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Adaptive, Semantic, Knowledge, and Social Graphs This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, beneficial to society, and accountable for their impacts. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. Submission and Review Process Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2023/ . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment). Program Chairs • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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1st CFP: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy • Francesca Pozzi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 15, 2022* • Notification to the authors: January 31, 2023 • Camera ready paper: February 20, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half March 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the core, the adjective “smart” comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!). After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “new normality“. In such a context, collaboration is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside collaboration, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of Artificial Intelligence (AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side, competences have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of ethical nature. So, what should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? This special issue, which is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD), welcomes papers that report on work aimed to contribute to the discussion about these issues. Submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2022, are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world. *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, process in learning role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education dual education and other alternate scheme approaches monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) *People in place centered design for smart education* general frameworks and methodological advancement competence based learning, evaluation and certification design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of future citizens communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices open access to any resource and disparity cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces semantic web technologies and applications text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis AI for smart learning ecosystems: critical aspects and opportunities 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 role of VR in 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 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality") 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: /Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • marti [at] unisi [dot] it • francesca [dot] pozzi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney ----------------------------------------------------------

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Call for Late Breaking Results

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*** Call for Late Breaking Results *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Virtual Event https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) *** Deadline: November 1st AoE (firm!) *** IHAW 2022 accepts now submissions for late breaking results. The instructions to authors remain the same, as for the regular submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the same proceedings volume with the regular submissions and will be eligible both for the Best Paper Award and to be selected for the special journal issues that will be prepared after the conference. ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022 (AoE, firm!) • Notification: November 15, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 24, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 24, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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PhD position in Skill transfer between interfaces at Université Grenoble Alpes and ESTIA Research, France

by Céline COUTRIX

(Apologies for any cross-posting) A full-time doctoral research position is open in co-supervision in the IIHM group (http://iihm.imag.fr) of LIG lab (https://www.liglab.fr), in Grenoble (France) and in the ESTIA-Recherche team (https://www.estia.fr/recherche), in Bidart (France). The fellowship is co-funded by Carnot LSI (https://carnot-lsi.com/) and ARTS (https://www.ic-arts.eu/) institutes for 36 months. Gross salary is approximately between 20K€ et 23K€ brut per year. The doctoral research will be co-advised by Céline Coutrix (http://iihm.imag.fr/coutrix/) and William Delamare (https://profils.estia.fr/w.delamare/) * Scientific Context The student is expected to integrate both the IIHM and the ESTIA-Recherche research groups (around 18 months each). The IIHM group is concerned with the design, implementation, and evaluation of interaction techniques that are effective, usable, and enjoyable. The group is present in the main Human-Computer Interaction conferences: CHI, UIST, AVI, Interact, EICS, etc. It has long-lasting connections to other research groups in France and abroad, and is well connected to the industry. IIHM is part of the LIG lab, which is equipped with the latest machines for physical fabrication of prototypes. ESTIA-Recherche mobilizes multiple disciplines to address the concept of intelligent and empowering interfaces for the engineering of complex systems. The multidisciplinary team focuses on scientific, technological, and societal themes to respond to cross-functional projects. ESTIA-Recherche hence studies and designs Human-Human, Human-System, and System-System interactions to contribute to energy and digital transitions and to the evolution towards the industry of the future. * Research Plan The PhD’s objective is to imagine novel ways to interact with augmented objects that best leverages users’ expertise with the existing objects in their environment. The Internet of Things (IoT) started to replace our traditional objects, both personal (e.g., smart home) and professional (e.g., smart office), with connected objects including augmented capabilities. Users are already able to use voice or direct touch to interact with these objects. Yet, users already developed extensive expertise with their traditional objects’ current physical interfaces. The PhD student will explore how users’ expertise can transfer from the UI of traditional objects to novel remote UIs (deformable tangible interaction, or mid-air inputs for instance). * Candidate We seek candidates with profound interest in Human-Computer Interaction, strong motivation, and creativity. A successful candidate: - Has a strong master’s degree in computer science or another area related to Human-Computer Interaction, - Has excellent written and oral communication skills, - Has excellent software and/or hardware skills. Curiosity toward cognitive sciences, statistics, and fabrication are not mandatory, but are a plus. * Application Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should submit (1) a full CV, (2) copies of their university degree and/or study transcripts, (3) name and contact information of at least one reference, and (4) a brief description of their research interests. Please send your application via e-mail to Céline Coutrix and William Delamare: celine.coutrix(a)cnrs.fr, w.delamare(a)estia.fr. If you have any further questions, please contact Céline Coutrix and William Delamare: celine.coutrix(a)cnrs.fr, w.delamare(a)estia.fr

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[CFP] 8th International Workshop on Accessible Devices and Services (ADS'23): October 16th, 2022 (extended)

by Catia Prandi

8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ACCESSIBLE DEVICES AND SERVICES (ADS'23) Co-Located with IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2022) Las Vegas, USA, 8-11 January 2023 https://ccnc2023.ieee-ccnc.org/workshop/ads23 Important Dates - Papers submission due (firm deadline): October 16th, 2022 (extended) - Acceptance notification: October 28th, 2022 - Final Camera ready due: November 11th, 2022 Theme and Scope Networked consumer devices and services can represent a technological and digital barrier for consumers with disabilities. At the same time, they can be exploited so as to become enabling tools for those users. The workshop addresses a range of research issues involving the accessibility of devices and services/content. This workshop 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, including but not limited to the following topics: - Accessible devices/assistive technologies - Accessible services: e-learning, e-government, e-health, e-commerce, e-banking, etc. - Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting, etc. Paper Submissions We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works. Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font). Three (3) additional page are allowed with a charge of USD100 each. Papers exceeding 9 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. See IEEE CCNC 2023 conference website for more details: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30034&track=113958 Organization General Chairs: - Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy, ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it<mailto:ombretta.gaggi@unipd.it>) - Mike Paciello (The Paciello Group, USA, mpaciello(a)paciellogroup.com<mailto:mpaciello@paciellogroup.com>) Program Chairs: - Catia Prandi (University of Bologna, Italy, catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it<mailto:catia.prandi2@unibo.it>) _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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[Poster, Demo and Doctoral Consortium tracks - MUM '22] submission deadline is extended to October 7

by Sayan Sarcar

MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to 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 high-quality submissions to a wide range of tracks dealing with, among others, the following topics: - Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges - Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications - Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services - Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field - Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services - Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems - Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising - Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems - Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia 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 Our tracks have the following submission deadlines (extended) (all AoE) - Posters, Demos, and the Doctoral Consortium: October 7, 2022 Accepted posters and demos will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. For further details on each individual track, please visit https://mum-conf.org/2022/ We hope to see you all at MUM 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, João Guerreiro, LASIGE, ULisbon Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, ULisbon

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[EICS 2023] Second Round CfP for the 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS)

by Carmen Santoro

Call for papers for the Second Submission round for EICS 2023 : The 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June, 2023 - Swansea, UK https://eics.acm.org/2023/ Submission deadline for the Second round of PACM EICS 2023: October 24, 2022 EICS 2023 is the fifteenth 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: * Modeling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems * Model-based development of interactive software * 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 * Certification issues of methods, tools, and processes to create interactive systems * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Interactive data-driven systems * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, AI, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities...) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems…) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities,…) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., health, home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, civil protection, law enforcement, emergency services and calamity management...) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) * Building Human-centred AI systems (integrating explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware, interactive agents…) 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. New from this year: 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 above lengthy and verbose. Full Papers should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions The PACM-EICS submission deadline for the Second round of submissions is 24 October 2022. Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2023, Kris Luyten and Carmen Santoro

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MobileHCI'23 - Open places in the Organizing Comiittee

by Carmen Santoro

Dear all, We have a few open positions in the Organizing Committee (OC) of ACM MobileHCI’23, which is to be held in Athens, Greece, on 26-29 September 2023. As promised in our bid, to increase representation from diverse backgrounds in the OC, these positions will be filled by an open call to the community. Currently, open positions include: • Demos & Exhibits Chairs • Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Workshops Chairs • Tutorials Chairs • Panels Chairs • Industrial Perspectives Chairs • Publications Chairs • Accessibility Chairs • Publicity / Web Chairs • Sponsorship Chairs • Student Volunteer Chairs • Local Arrangements Chairs Our aim is to pair up experienced members of the community with early career researchers, hoping to build up experience in a conference organization role. Therefore we encourage applications across the spectrum of experience in OC positions. We are particularly keen to welcome applications at a global level, though candidates at a local level will be prioritised for some of the roles which may benefit from physical proximity to the conference in the run-up to the actual dates (e.g. accessibility, sponsorship, local arrangements, student volunteers). Kindly fill in the form here, to indicate your availability for one or more of the available positions. https://forms.gle/U5NKVUDGXjqkWxdk6 The deadline is October 14 (Friday). Diversity and Inclusion: Please note that as we strive to provide inclusive and equal opportunities in organising MobileHCI'23, this form asks for some information on your inherent and acquired characteristics, as outlined in the ACM Diverse Teams guidance. Providing this information is optional for some characteristics (e.g. gender, ethnicity) and mandatory for others (e.g. professional experience). If you feel that you would still like to participate in the open call without providing some of the mandatory information in this form, please contact the conference general chairs by email. Please do not hesitate to contact the general chairs about any questions or issues, and remember to spread the word to other colleagues who might be interested! Please read carefully: Your information and rights. By submitting this form, you agree to have the information you provided processed by the conference general chairs for the sole purpose of assigning OC roles. Information provided in this form is strictly confidential to the general chairs and will not be shared with any third parties. Your information will be collected and processed in the EU and is protected under GDPR. You can exercise all of your rights under GDPR, including the right to withdraw at any time, to view your information or to delete part or all of your information, by contacting the general chairs. Any collected information will be permanently deleted after the OC roles assignment is complete and in any case no later than January 1st 2023. Thank you for your interest! The MobileHCI'23 General Chairs Damianos Gavalas (dgavalas(a)aegean.gr) Andreas Komninos (akomninos(a)ceid.upatras.gr) Carmen Santoro (carmen.santoro(a)isti.cnr.it)

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) *** Final Deadline: October 3rd AoE (firm!) *** ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: October 3, 2022 (AoE, firm!) • Notification: October 24, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 7, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 7, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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Cambiamenti nella membership SIGCHI

by Luigi De Russis

Care tutte, cari tutti, Mi permetto di condividere con voi alcuni recenti cambiamenti relativi alla membership SIGCHI, dato che molti di voi sono membri. La membership SIGCHI porta con sé alcuni benefit e i due più recenti sono: 1. Accesso agli articoli pubblicati su TOCHI tramite la Digital Library (in aggiunta all’accesso ai proceedings delle varie conferenze sponsorizzate o co-sponsorizzate da SIGCHI); 2. Sconto del 20% sulla versione a pagamento di Overleaf. Inoltre, dal 1 Luglio 2022 i costi di iscrizione/rinnovo sono diminuiti: - La professional membership ora costa 30 dollari l’anno (era 55), con ulteriori sconti per i paesi in via di sviluppo economico. - La student membership ora costa 10 dollari l’anno (al posto di 19). L’elenco completo e aggiornato di tutti i benefit che la membership porta con sé è disponibile alla pagina https://sigchi.org/community/membership/ <https://sigchi.org/community/membership/>. Buon fine settimana! Luigi De Russis --- Luigi De Russis Assistant Professor (RTDb) Department of Control and Computer Engineering Politecnico di Torino, Italy ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Finance phone: +39 011 0907170 email: luigi.derussis(a)polito.it <mailto:luigi.derussis@polito.it> web: http://elite.polito.it/people/derussis twitter: @luigidr

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CFP: ASSETS International Workshop on “Designing with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities”

by Leandro Guedes

*DPID 2022*: The 1st ASSETS International Workshop on “Designing with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities” An online event with asynchronous and synchronous activities on October 19th, 2022, from 9am to 1pm Athens time www.luxia.inf.usi.ch/dpid/ luxia(a)usi.ch --------------- *Call for Participation* --------------- This half-day workshop aims to focus on community building, enabling researchers to share experiences on designing for and with people with Intellectual Disabilities, providing internal support, and establishing new collaborations. Our pre-workshop plans propose asynchronous activities to support networking and to understand participants’ preferences and needs. Workshop outcomes will help fill a gap in the available guidelines on including people with intellectual disabilities in research, which should lead to more accessible protocols and personalised and better fit-for-purpose technologies. Areas of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Verbal and non-verbal communication (e.g., language, AAC, signals, feedback) - Methods for working with participants (e.g., experience reports, co-design, focus groups, scaffolding, active support) - Design and development of hardware and software (e.g., inclusive applications, assistive technology, multisensory experiences, AR/VR) - Assessment techniques (e.g., cards, multiple choices, open-ended questions, satisfaction surveys) We are pleased to announce that this workshop is open to everyone interested in the topic, regardless of experience and expertise level. Participants will be able to apply in multiple ways: - Filling in a form available on our website expressing interest - Sending an abstract by e-mail (150 words) - Submitting an experience report via video (5-minute maximum), text, or audio by e-mail --------------- *Important Dates* --------------- Submission Deadline: Friday, September 23th at 11:59pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth Time Zone) Acceptance Notifications: Wednesday, September 28th Asynchronous Activities Period: Monday, October 3rd – Friday, October 14th Synchronous Workshop Date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022, from 9am to 1pm Athens time We are happy to inform you that ASSETS is providing Diversity and inclusion scholarships for eligible participants: https://assets22.sigaccess.org/dei_scholarship.html --------------- *Workshop Organizers* --------------- Leandro Soares Guedes, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland Ryan Colin Gibson, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Kirsten Ellis, Monash University, Australia Laurianne Sitbon, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland Thank you, The DPID Workshop Organizing Committee 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------- *Leandro Soares Guedes* Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) East Campus - Lugano - TI - Switzerland http://leandro.guedes.com.br/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022): Call for Participation

by Announce Announcements

*** Call for Participation *** 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) 3–7 October, 2022, 4* Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/ The IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss, and debate the most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges facing software maintenance and evolution. Join us on October 5 through 7 in Limassol, Cyprus for a program containing over 100 presentations - including three exciting keynotes: • Roberto Di Cosmo Software Heritage: a revolutionary infrastructure for Open Science and Open Source • Paige Rodeghero '“Hello, World!” Teaching, Onboarding and Supporting Novices & Newcomers • Mark Harman Challenges in testing and evolving large systems In addition to the Research Track, the program includes tool demos, the ROSE festival, industry presentations, PhD posters, Journal First presentations, registered reports, and NIER presentations. This year, we have also placed a focus on Diversity and Inclusion. For details, including how to get there, visit the conference web site. Organisation General Chairs • Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland, USA Local Organising Chair and Industry Liaison • Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands • Christian Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Tool Demonstrations Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium Industry Track Chairs • Andrea Capiluppi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Shi Han, Microsoft Research Beijing, China Journal First Track Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Amjed Tahir, Massey University, New Zealand Doctoral Symposium • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand • Mark Hills, East Carolina University, USA Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival Chairs • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christoph Treude, University of Melbourne, Australia Most Influential Paper Awards Chairs • Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy • Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Diversity and Inclusion • Hadil Abukwaik, ABB Corporate Research, Germany • Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University, USA Registered Reports • Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy • Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Deadline Extended: Workshop on Designing Accessible Systems for Users with Multiple Impairments

by Sayan Sarcar

*Based on popular demand, we have extended the submission deadline to Friday 30th September* We invite researchers and assistive technologists to share their perspectives related to challenges in designing accessible systems and assistive technologies that consider the multidimensional and often complex needs of users with multiple impairments. Workshop date: 23rd October 2022 (via Zoom) Historically, the accessibility community has focused on designing assistive technologies and systems related to single categories of impairments. While this approach is justifiable and contributes to the advancement of the field, many researchers argue that designing technologies for one impairment at a time contributes to an oversimplification of disability and does not reflect the real-world experiences of a significant number of users who live with multiple impairments. How can the accessibility field leverage theories and concepts from other disciplines (e.g. disability studies, medical humanities, social work, engineering, education) to support more appropriate and inclusive technologies for users with complex needs? How can future assistive technologies consider diverse sensory, cognitive, and physical characteristics? Please note that any prior experience with users with multiple impairments is not a requirement for participating in this workshop. More information about abstract submission and registration can be found here: https://www.mpdas-assets22.org/home Deadline to submit your contribution: *30th September 2022* Looking forward to having you join us! -- Workshop Organizing Committee

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Lectureship in Human Computer Interaction Vacancy at University College Cork, Ireland

by Ciolfi, Luigina

Cari Colleghi, Inoltro le informazioni su questa job opportunity a University College Cork: Lectureship in HCI with an emphasis on sustainability. Application deadline: October 13th. Saluti, Lui From: Maye, Laura <laura.maye(a)UCC.IE> Date: Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 14:29 Subject: Lectureship in Human Computer Interaction Vacancy at University College Cork, Ireland We at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork, Ireland are seeking multiple candidates for lectureship positions, including one Lectureship in Human-Computer Interaction. These positions are available under UCC Futures Programme – Sustainability. Designed to make a significant contribution to the defining global challenge of our time, this recruitment will drive a creative, inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to sustainability research, providing transformative leadership that further enhances UCC’s reputation for outstanding research and research-informed teaching in this important area. The deadline for applying for these positions has been **EXTENDED** to 13 October 2022. For further information on these posts, please visit the following link: https://www.ucc.ie/en/compsci/vacancies/overview/ You may need to select the vacancy type. If this happens, choose “Academic UCC Futures” from the dropdown list. Kind regards, Laura Maye ---- Dr. Laura Maye, Lecturer School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Western Gateway Building, Western Road, Cork, Ireland Email: laura.maye(a)ucc.ie Site: lauramaye.com

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IxD&A Journal N. 52: Meet the Authors Event

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 - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - founded in 2005* *that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On-line Event* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 52 *on:* Beyond the Pandemics and the Wars: SLERD Reload */co-guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio, Oscar Mealha with a focus section on /*Educational Location-based Applications */ / ///co-guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Esteban W. G. Clua, Jimmy Jaldemark, Heinrich Söbke/ *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=27> on the /*22nd of September - 15:00 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Janika Leoste & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX-uRa4W3uOAWE_Dw6buL1PInXdGF49GI…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=ToC_5…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Last Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: September 26, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: October 24, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 7, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 7, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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co-financed (by BMW Group) scholarship for a PhD at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (deadline: October 9, 2022)

by Haller Michael

Dear students, I am very excited that at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, we are looking for one PhD candidate with a focus on Human Computer Interaction and the Design and Development of Next Generation interfaces. This PhD will be co-financed by BMW Group which also means that you can stay at the company for at least 6 months. The goal of this thesis is the design and development of an experiential (cognitive) car seat acting as an input sensitive, fully interactive device which interfaces the driver with digital content. Equipped with pressure-sensitive textile patches, the seat with will recognize full-body interactions allowing the driver to interact with the car. Our university has a strong international outlook, as testified by its multilingual courses (English, Italian, German) and a high number of students and teaching staff from abroad. The prospective PhD student will work together with a team in the field of next-generation interfaces. The candidate must fulfill the following conditions to be eligible for employment: - a Master's (MSc) degree in Computer Science or a closely related area, - Human-computer interaction and/or computer graphics background with interest in game development (e.g., Unity, Unreal), - fluency in written/spoken English. The position is available for 3 years starting in fall 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter). Application deadline: October 9, 2022 (12:00, CEST) Website: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/ For further information, please check out the website and/or just send me an email. Best wishes, —Michael ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Haller Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Media Interaction Lab Piazza Domenicani 3 39100 Bolzano | ITALY E-Mail: michael.haller(a)unibz.it Web : www.unibz.it | www.mi-lab.org

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CfP: Workshop on Designing Accessible Systems for Users with Multiple Impairments

by Sayan Sarcar

We invite researchers and assistive technologists to share their perspectives related to challenges in designing accessible systems and assistive technologies that consider the multidimensional and often complex needs of users with multiple impairments. Workshop date: 23rd October 2022 (via Zoom) Historically, the accessibility community has focused on designing assistive technologies and systems related to single categories of impairments. While this approach is justifiable and contributes to the advancement of the field, many researchers argue that designing technologies for one impairment at a time contributes to an oversimplification of disability and does not reflect the real-world experiences of a significant number of users who live with multiple impairments. How can the accessibility field leverage theories and concepts from other disciplines (e.g. disability studies, medical humanities, social work, engineering, education) to support more appropriate and inclusive technologies for users with complex needs? How can future assistive technologies consider diverse sensory, cognitive, and physical characteristics? Please note that any prior experience with users with multiple impairments is not a requirement for participating in this workshop. More information about abstract submission and registration can be found here: https://www.mpdas-assets22.org/home Deadline to submit your contribution: 15th September 2022 Looking forward to having you join us! -- Workshop Organizing Committee [image: width=] <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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VL/HCC 2022: Final Call for Participation

by Emanuele Panizzi

*IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing * *VL/HCC 2022: Final Call for Participation* (Apologies for multiple postings) *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* *Rome, Italy* *12-16 September 2022* *https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022* <https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION* - Registration: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/registration - Accommodation: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/accomodation *PROGRAM* The updated program is now available below: - Complete program: https://conf.researchr.org/program/vlhcc-2022/program-vlhcc-2022/ *The Symposium is planned to be in person. In any case, we monitor the Covid situation and will act according to the authorities' decisions to ensure the safest and most comprehensive participation.* *KEYNOTES* We are thrilled to announce the following keynotes: 1. Creating Responsible and Human-Centered AI - *Saleema Amershi* <https://conf.researchr.org/details/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-vl-hcc-main-confer…> 2. The Power of Diagrams: Observation, Inference, and Overspecificity - *Gem Stapleton* <https://conf.researchr.org/details/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-vl-hcc-main-confer…> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2022* From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2022 symposium is scheduled to take place September 12-16 in Rome, Italy. Our special emphasis for 2022 is *Human-Centric AI*. VL/HCC 2022 is 100% Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). VL/HCC is indexed in Scopus, DBLP, IEEE Explore, WoS. We look forward to your participation in VL/HCC! Paolo Bottoni, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair Gennaro Costagliola, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *VL/HCC 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Co-Chair Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy General Co-Chair Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy Program Co-Chair Michelle Brachman, IBM Research, United States Program Co-Chair Mark Minas, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Publicity & Social Media Chair Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Finance Chair Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Publications Chair Kim Monch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Web Chair Mattia De Rosa, University of Salerno, Italy Graduate Consortium Co-Chair Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Graduate Consortium Co-Chair, Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, United States Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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co-financed (by BMW Group) scholarship for a PhD at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

by Haller Michael

Dear students, I am very excited that at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, we are looking very soon for one PhD candidate with a focus on Human Computer Interaction and the Design and Development of Next Generation interfaces. This PhD will be co-financed by BMW Group which also means that you can stay at the company for at least 6 months. The topic will be about the "Entertainment in the car by using a cognitive seat with tactile feedback”. Our university has a strong international outlook, as testified by its multilingual courses (English, Italian, German) and a high number of students and teaching staff from abroad. The candidate must fulfill the following conditions to be eligible for employment: - a Master's (MSc) degree in Computer Science or a closely related area, - Human-computer interaction background, - fluency in written/spoken English. The position is available for 3 years starting in fall 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter). More further information, just send me an email. Best wishes, —Michael ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Haller Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Media Interaction Lab Piazza Domenicani 3 39100 Bolzano | ITALY E-Mail: michael.haller(a)unibz.it Web : www.unibz.it | www.mi-lab.org

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[CFP] MUM '22 Doctoral Consortium

by Catia Prandi

====== MUM ’22 Doctoral Consortium ====== LINK: https://www.mum-conf.org/2022/dc/ Submission deadline: October 3rd, 2022 (AoE) ______________________________________ MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. To apply for participation in the doctoral school, we ask you to submit a 2 to 3 pages long paper using the ACM interim template. The paper should describe the context and motivation of your PhD research, the problem and aims that drive your research and your research objectives and/or questions. It should further describe and explain your (proposed) research approach and methods, a tentative timeline, and include a discussion of any results you may already have. Please also include the context of your PhD, i.e. the university programme in which you conduct your PhD, the status of your PhD, the expected completion date, and any other relevant information on your PhD situation. Submissions will not be peer-reviewed. The process will be headed by a panel of 5 experts including the DC chairs, who will be present (in person wherever possible) at the MUM 2022 conference DC discussion to advise students and guide the discussion following the students presentations of their work (more details on how the event will be organise will follow in the next weeks). We will select participants to the DC prioritising those who would likely benefit most, i.e. students who have a clear plan as a foundation for discussion, but are not already too advanced in their PhD, to still be able to benefit from advice in developing their dissertation (e.g. Students that are in the pre Doctoral Proposal defence - so that the discussion at the DC might help them refine if not shape it). Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair. Accepted students will be asked to prepare a presentation of their PhD research (the length of the presentation will vary depending on submission and acceptance rates). Besides the submitted document and presentation, students will be asked to prepare a poster which will be included in the MUM 2022 poster track to give students the opportunity to showcase and discuss their work beyond the DC session. Moreover, the contributions will be made available on the conference webpage to make them accessible to the public (but not included in the proceedings). Doctoral School Chairs: Valentina Nisi, University of Lisbon Catia Prandi, University of Bologna _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Sixth Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** Seventh Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: September 12, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: October 17, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 24, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 24, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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Borsa di dottorato al Politecnico di Milano - Interfacce Conversazionali per il Web

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, vi segnalo che al Politecnico di Milano è disponibile una posizione per il Dottorato in Information Technology (XXXVIII ciclo) su tematiche HCI. La ricerca riguarderà l'utilizzo di Conversational AI per la progettazione di interfacce utente innovative per il Web. Sarà svolta in collaborazione con il Comune di Milano e il Dipartimento di Sustainable Design Engineering (SDE) presso TU Delft. La scadenza per far domanda è il 12 Settembre. Il candidato ammesso potrà immatricolarsi fino a Dicembre 2022; potranno quindi far domanda anche laureandi che hanno pianificato di conseguire il titolo entro Dicembre. Trovate maggiori informazioni ai seguenti link: * Tema della ricerca: https://www.dottorato.polimi.it/fileadmin/user_upload/bandi/ciclo38/bandi_a… * Bando (in Italiano e Inglese): - https://www.dottorato.polimi.it/fileadmin/user_upload/bandi/ciclo38/bandi_a… - https://www.dottorato.polimi.it/fileadmin/user_upload/bandi/ciclo38/bandi_a… Non esitate a contattarmi per ulteriori informazioni. Cari saluti, Maristella

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Call for talks: IxDA's Interaction 23 conference in Zurich. Submission deadline Sept 4, 2022.

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the program committee team, I’d like to draw your attention to the upcoming Interaction 23<https://interaction23.ixda.org/> week to be held in Zurich from 25th February until 3d March 2023. Interaction 23 is a premier venue for interaction design practitioners, researchers, and educators to discuss emergent practice-based challenges, share best practices in the discipline, and call for a change through design. It is organized by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). This year’s CfP<https://interaction23.ixda.org/call-for-proposals> theme includes several topical areas highly relevant to HCI research community: decentralization by design, supporting decision-making practices, creating new work experiences, and lowering environmental impact of technologies. Check-out Interactions 23 call for proposals below and submit an idea for a talk, a workshop or a panel by 4th September 2022. Submissions are in a very lightweight format! Interaction 23 is a great way to establish and strengthen the links between academia and a wide community of (interaction) design practitioners. We hope many of you decide to participate. Best regards, Thomas Link, Karmen Franinović, Daniel Boos, Anton Fedosov, and the Interactions 23 Team. Dr. Anton Fedosov People and Computing Lab (ZPAC) antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch> antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/> University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zürich Switzerland Call for Proposals for Interaction 23 Allegra, Ciao, Salut and Grüezi, Greetings from Switzerland, the land where Grid systems, Helvetica and melted cheese are at home. And exactly because solid defining factors of the past are icons around the world, we invite you to join us in (re)defining the power of design in our Interaction 23 conference. Interaction 23 is a call – a call to formulate essential design positions about how we want to (re)define life across the planet. The inevitable transformations of personal lives and social structures have gathered momentum. To be defined/designed… The last two years saw the redefinition of collaborative efforts, workplace culture and collaboration in general. Moving into the era of ‘hybrid everything’, Interaction 23 - the conference to be defined by you - will support participants joining physically and virtually from all over the world. We seek talks, panels, sessions, and workshops by individuals from all walks of life, in any language, anywhere in the world. What can be redefined? What must be redesigned? Interaction design contributes to (re)designing the role of technology in perpetuating social and environmental justice and injustice, but also has much to learn from other disciplines. That’s why we’re inviting submissions from fields working with people, design, environment, and technology. We are looking for speakers offering diverse perspectives, specific case studies, visions or hands-on design approaches in one of the areas to be (re)defined by design: * design decision-making processes * decentralisation for the better * create new work experiences * the environmental impact of technology * estabslishing design ethics * (re)defined by design Read the call for proposals: https://interaction23.ixda.org/call-for-proposals<https://interaction23.ixda.org/call-for-proposals>

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[CFP] - few days left - Extended Deadline - International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - IEEE SITIS 2022

by Giuseppe Caggianese

****** FEW DAYS LEFT TO THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE ****** Call for Papers International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 Submit your paper by August 19, 2022 (extended) https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, A friendly reminder that the submission deadline to contribute to the IHEX Workshop hosted at SITIS 2022 is fast approaching. The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE SITIS 2022. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission August 19, 2022 (extended) Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 19, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

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[Call for Full and Short Papers - MUM '22] submission deadline is extended for a week

by Sayan Sarcar

MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to 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 high-quality submissions to a wide range of tracks dealing with, among others, the following topics: - Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges - Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications - Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services - Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field - Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services - Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems - Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising - Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems - Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia 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 Our track has the following submission deadlines (in AoE): - Full and Short Papers: August 16, 2022 August 23, 2022 For further details on the papers track, please visit https://mum-conf.org/2022/papers/ We hope to see you all at MUM 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, João Guerreiro, LASIGE, ULisbon Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, ULisbon [image: width=] <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Call for papers: Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments 2022 (PAINT-22)

by Luigi De Russis

Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments 2022 (PAINT-22) Co-located with SPLASH 2022 (Mon 5 - Sat 10 December 2022 Auckland, New Zealand) https://2022.splashcon.org/home/paint-2022#Call-for-Papers Call for Papers and Demos (Submissions: Thu 1 Sep 2022) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *** Introduction *** Programming environments that integrate tools, notations, and abstractions into a holistic user experience can provide programmers with better support for what they want to achieve. These programming environments can create an engaging place to do new forms of informational work - resulting in enjoyable, creative, and productive experiences with programming. *** Topics of Interest *** In the workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments (PAINT), we want to discuss programming environments that support users in working with and creating notations and abstractions that matter to them. We are interested in the relationship between people centric notations and general-purpose programming languages and environments. How do we reflect the various experiences, needs, and priorities of the many people involved in programming — whether they call it that or not? Areas of interest to PAINT include but are not limited to: * Design and implementation of program representations and their means of interaction for end-users of all ages * Design and implementation of visual programming environments * Block-based environments and their application * Projectional editors and their application * Languages and their environments with mixed notations * Meta tools or tool creation frameworks * Methods to support working with abstractions, such as example-based programming * Input and output devices for interacting with programming environments * Theories of the above *** Important Dates *** * Submissions: Thu 1 Sep 2022 * Notifications: Sun 2 Oct 2022 * Camera-ready: Mon 24 Oct 2022 * Workshop: during SPLASH 2022 (Mon 5 - Sat 10 December 2022), to be determined *** Format *** The actual format of PAINT will depend on it being held hybrid or online. ___Remote participation will be ensured.___ We plan to organize the workshop as a one-day workshop (or up to two days with shorter slots if online) as a combination of short presentations and demos combined with structured feedback inspired by the Writer’s Workshop format: * Participants are expected to have visited the materials beforehand. * A moderator leads and directs the discussion. * We review the pieces and their ideas one at a time. * In general, the authors whose work is under review are silent. * When discussing form, the following kinds of questions will be asked: - What did you gather / understand from the piece? - What aspects of the piece worked well to present the ideas? - What aspects need improvement? (These comments must be in the form of suggestions, not criticisms.) * When discussing the ideas, the following kinds of questions will be asked: - What are the ideas? - Which ideas seem like good ones (and why)? - Which ideas need improvement or elimination? (Make positive suggestions when you can.) * At the end the authors ask questions of the group. This is the basic format, but we adjust the flow according to the needs of the group and the way the discussion is going. It is formal to ensure all the important points are covered. For more information about the workshop format, please have a look at Richard P. Gabriel’s book “Writers’ Workshops & the World of Making Things” (http://dreamsongs.com/Files/WritersWorkshopTypeset.pdf). *** Types of Submissions *** PAINT welcomes two types of contributions: * Research papers should present new, previously unpublished research in one or more of the topics described above. Six to eight pages might be considered a good target for the contributions expected at PAINT. However, there is no page limit on submitted papers. As a general rule, the number of pages should match the size of the contribution. It is the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper if they do not find the initial part of it interesting. Papers must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the ACM format available at http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format using the sigplan option. * Demos show early implementations of novel and compelling tools, techniques, devices, and systems. Submissions should be in the form of a video no longer than 5 minutes that participants can watch prior to the workshop and then discuss. Papers and demos are to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paint22). *** Publication *** Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. (To be confirmed: Proceedings will be post-workshop to give authors the opportunity to incorporate feedback obtained at the workshop.) AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: 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 before the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

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HCSE 2022 - Call for Participation - Aug 24-26 in Eindhoven NL

by Stefan Sauer

Apologies for cross-postings! Dear colleagues in HCI and SE, We kindly invite you to attend *HCSE 2022 - 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering* August 24-26, 2022 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands - live and in presence! We have compiled an*interesting program <https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/hcse2022/program.html>* including * one Keynote by Panos Markopoulus on "Past, Present and Future of Ambulatory Assessment Methods in Human-Computer Interaction" * one Invited Talk by Ilaria Bortone on "The Potential of Human-Centered Software Engineering in Promoting a Tailored and Adapted Rehabilitation" * 11 peer-reviewed paper presentations of Full Research Papers and Late-breaking Results * one Demo and Poster Presentations * a Walking Meeting and an Interactive Session / Panel on Redefining HCSE as a Venue * a Welcome Reception and a Conference Dinner The conference will be hosted by TU/e, Eindhoven University of Technology. Detailed information about attending the conference (registration, venue) and the program can be found on our *website *https://hcse-conference.org/ This is an excellent opportunity to learn about latest research results, exchange ideas, and meet again colleagues that you may not have seen for a while or make new relationships. We are looking forward to seeing you in Eindhoven! Regina Bernhaupt - Carmelo Ardito - Stefan Sauer HCSE 2022 Co-Chairs

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[Call for Papers - MUM '22] International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

by Sayan Sarcar

MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. The conference is currently being planned as an in-person event only. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to 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 high-quality submissions to a wide range of tracks dealing with, among others, the following topics: - Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges - Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications - Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services - Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field - Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services - Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems - Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising - Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems - Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia 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 Our tracks have the following submission deadlines (all AoE): - Papers: August 16, 2022 - Workshops and Tutorials: September 2, 2022 - Posters, Demos, and the Doctoral Consortium: September 29, 2022 Accepted papers, posters, and demos will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. For further details on each individual track, please visit https://mum-conf.org/2022/ We hope to see you all at MUM 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, João Guerreiro, LASIGE, ULisbon Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, ULisbon <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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CFP- International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Agnese Augello

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================== International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ========================================== Dear Colleagues, A friendly reminder to contribute to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org ). The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Agnese Augello CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission July 15, 2022 Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 9, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk -- Agnese Augello, Ph.D. ICAR - Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad alte prestazioni Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Ugo la Malfa 153 - 90145 Palermo +39-091-23894276 (Tel) +39-091-6529124 (Fax) agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it <a.augello(a)pa.icar.cnr.it> agnese.augello(a)cnr.it

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IxD&A Journal N. 51 - Meet the Authors Event: videos now available

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal -* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2021 = 0.353 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Videos of the on-line event are now avilable* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 51 *on:* Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education */guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth/ // *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=10&link=5…> Videos can be accessed from the IxD&A Journal website -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051 or from the IxD&A Youtube Channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> (play list issue 51: link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzgE7itwr8&list=PLe5rmM-FoE9HDjZPTpr1585-T…>) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join IxD&A Linkedin group -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Borsa di Dottorato su Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction

by Fabio Paternò

Abbiamo una bella borsa di dottorato di tre anni alla scuola di informatica del'università di Pisa per un/a giovane interessato/a a svolgere studi e ricerche nel settore adaptive human-computer interaction, quindi l'interessante area di studio che riguarda soluzioni nell'ambito dell'interazione tra le persone e le tecnologie digitali, e come adattarla in modo in modo da migliorarne usabilità, accessibilità e esperienza dell'utente. La scadenza è il 23 agosto alle 13. Per maggiori informazioni mi potete contattare o guardare a https://dottorato.unipi.it/index.php/it/concorsi-d-ammissione-a-a-2022-2023… Fabio _________________________________________________________________________ Fabio Paternò, PhD Tel: +39 050 3153066 Research Director Mobile: +39 348 3962624 HIIS Laboratory, CNR-ISTI Email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it Via G. Moruzzi, 1 http://giove.isti.cnr.it/~fabio/ 56124 Pisa, Italy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8355-6909 _________________________________________________________________________

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Sixth Call for Papers

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*** Sixth Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: August 22, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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CFP - Extended Deadline - International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Giuseppe Caggianese

************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ************** Call for Papers International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 Submit your paper by August 19, 2022 (extended) https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, the submission deadline to contribute to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org) is extended to August 19. The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Giuseppe Caggianese CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission August 19, 2022 (extended) Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 19, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission to Special Sessions and Workshops Papers

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission to Special Sessions and Workshops Papers *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 (*** Submission Deadline: July 20, 2022 AoE (firm!)) The IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. It is still possible to submit papers to the following Special Sessions (more information available here, https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-sessions/ ): • Special Session 1: 5G technology and cloud native solutions for smart grids and smart cities applications  • Special Session 2: Smartification from Pilot Projects to New Trends in Urban Ecosystems  • Special Session 3: Advances toward air pollution monitoring and mitigation solutions for smart cities as well as the following Workshops (more information available here, https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/workshops/ ): • First International Workshop on MARV: Multimodal and AI-Responsible data processing and deliVery in smart cities • First International Workshop on Sustainable Digital Transformation of Urban Landscape through Disruptive Technologies & Standards • Second International Workshop On Intelligent IoT Solutions for Smart Cities • First International Workshop on Smart and Circular Cities • First International Workshop on Improving Quality of Life for People with Disabilities (PwD) through the use of Technologies in Smart Cities Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Submission Deadline: July 20, 2022 AoE (firm!) • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Acceptance Notification: August 7, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Camera-Ready Deadline: August 15, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Author Registration Deadline: August 15, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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EXTENDED DEADLINE - CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities - Human-Computer Interaction journal

by Noemi Mauro

*** apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Computer Interaction journal ( https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current) Extended deadline for proposals: 1st August 2022 Submission website: https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639… We are aware of some issues with the new submission systems since it changed in the last few days. If you encounter any problems, please contact noemi.mauro(a)unito.it .We apologize for this inconvenience. Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities This special issue highlights state-of-the-art research in intelligent systems and technology for people with diverse abilities. To control scope, we focus on cognitive diversity, including but not limited to, neurodevelopmental disorders and autism, cognitive and learning disabilities, and dementia. This special issue targets the challenges and requirements inherent to the development and assessment of such systems. Submission of Proposals To help authors find a good fit, we encourage proposals. Proposals should be about 1000 words and provide a clear indication of what the paper is about. Proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the special issue theme, and guidance will be given. Both proposal and full paper submissions should be submitted to the HCI Editorial site ( https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639…). Follow the guidelines <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qx4__6fh-vUzmiNXqOuS9rFlCz3kX9C1lCghS3…> and instructions for submissions on the site. There is a place on the submission site to note that your submission is for the special issue. Special Issue submissions will be peer-reviewed to the usual standards of the HCI journal. Important Dates Proposals due: 1st August 2022 Response to authors: 16th August 2022 Full papers due: 15th November 2022 Reviews to authors: 15th February 2023 Revised papers due: 15th April 2023 Reviews to authors: 1st July 2023 Final papers due: 1st August 2023 Topics of Interest For this special issue, we are interested in works addressing topics that include, but are not limited to: - Conceptual models and framework for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; - How to model cognitive disabilities: which data to collect, how to collect them, formalisms to represent user data; - Interaction models for people with cognitive disabilities and user-centered design for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities, also considering universal design approach; - Search systems for people with cognitive disabilities, such as conversational and traditional modes of interaction with search systems; - Job training systems for people with cognitive disabilities; - Personalized support for people with cognitive disabilities; - Recommender systems for people with cognitive disabilities; - Recommendation and search based on expert/human in the loop paradigm; - Ethical and privacy issues in dealing with intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; - Evaluation and associated concerns (restrictions inherent to the population under study, lack of shared datasets or benchmarks to enable comparisons, metrics); - Usability and accessibility studies where the participants are people with cognitive disabilities. Contact Information For questions and further information, please contact one of the guest editors: Noemi Mauro (University of Torino) noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Federica Cena (University of Torino) federica.cena(a)unito.it Cynthia Putnam (DePaul University) cputnam(a)depaul.edu Maria Soledad Pera (Boise State University) SolePera(a)boisestate.edu David Roldán Álvarez (University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) david.roldan(a)urjc.es

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Summer school "AFIRM CHI22" places still available

by anna spagnolli

*AFIRM CHI22 - Young Researcher Meetup in Human-Computer Interaction* Padova, August 22-26 2022 https://rjc21.afihm.org Some place is still available! The meetup offers a set of interconnected workshops to provide enticing and convincing project illustrations. Such skills can be exploited to improve your dissertation, grant requests, and publications. Moreover, the meetup has a residential, team-based format that allows the participants to form new contacts and leave with an enlarged professional network. Ideal participants are Ph.D. students with a project in all areas of human-computer interaction, with a background in computer science, psychology, or design. The fee (172€) includes registration, single room accommodation, and meals for the whole duration of the meetup. The activities amount to approximately 30 hours of work, equalling 1 credit according to ECTS standards; the attendance is attested by a certificate issued by the summer school organizers upon completion of the activities. To see the program and access the application form, please visit https://rjc21.afihm.org. For more information and inquiries, please contact anna.spagnolli(a)unipd.it. The meetup is sponsored by UNIPD, Dept. of General Psychology and AFIHM. The Italian and French associations SIGCHI Italy and AFIHM endorse this initiative. -- ******************************* Anna Spagnolli Ph.D. Associate professor Dept of General Psychology & Human Inspired Technology Research Centre Università degli Studi di Padova via Venezia 8, 35121 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8276644 fax: +39 049 8276600

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Three PhD positions in Music Technology at CIMIL - University of Trento

by Luca Turchet

*** Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute *** One PhD and two Industrial PhD fully-funded positions are available at the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento: https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/openings/ To apply to the PhD calls it is necessary to have achieved a master degree by the end of October 2022 as well as to possess demonstrated English skills (e.g., via a master degree in English or via certificates such as TOEFL). All positions will start in November 2022 (or shortly after upon request). More PhD positions are planned to open in the near future. *1) PhD in "Connecting online musicians and audiences to reduce travels and pollution"* The PhD will focus on the creation of musical interactions in shared augmented/virtual environments, for performance settings. Related topics that may be investigated include music emotion recognition, binaural audio, virtual acoustics and 5G networking. Required skills: - M.Sc. degree in computer science, electronics, mathematics, physics, telecommunications or related fields - programming - sufficient music knowledge (e.g., proven experience in playing a musical instrument) - excellent English skills (read, written, and spoken) - strong self-motivation and independence Desirable but not strictly necessary skills: - XR frameworks (unity 3D, unreal, etc.) - human-computer interaction - audio digital signal processing - spatial audio - machine learning - networking - affective computing - music information retrieval - 5G slicing Deadline: 5th of August Main place of work: Trento (Italy). An abroad period at a company or academic institution is mandatory. Link to the call (go to page 217): http://old.iusspavia.it/documents/20181/0/Research+Programme+SDC+38/11f9a1c… The position is sponsored by the new National PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate change. Further information about the National PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate change can be found here: https://www.phd-sdc.it/ *2) Industrial PhD **"Design of a 5G slice for networked music performances" **at company Athonet * The PhD will focus on the design, simulation, and evaluation of a 5G slice for networked music performances in the context of both private and public 5G networks. As mobile networks are developing towards the support of new and augmented ways of interaction (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality), the corresponding requirements become more and more strict on the communications latency. Indeed, 5G is expected to represent a milestone in such a direction, enabling sub-10ms and 1ms access delay for applications involving human perception or robotic control. Such 5G setup will be implemented in the form of a network slice dedicated to the specific subset of applications requiring very low latency. However, no works in the literature specify the nature and setup of such a network slice. Required skills: - M.Sc. degree in telecommunications, computer science, electronics, mathematics, physics, or related fields - networking - programming - excellent English skills (read, written, and spoken) - strong self-motivation and independence Deadline: 23rd of August. Main places of work: Vicenza (Italy), Trento (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden) The PhD will be supervised by the team members of Athonet ( https://www.athonet.com/) as well as by researchers of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of University of Trento https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/ Link to the call (go to page 32): https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/79c1fd23-ddd2-… Further information is available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls *3) **Industrial PhD** "Networked music performance system for high numbers of musicians" **at company Maestranze Artistiche* The PhD will focus on the creation of a networked music performance system capable of supporting the collaborative music making of large numbers of musicians. Required skills: - M.Sc. degree in computer science, electronics, mathematics, physics, or related fields - Programming - sufficient music knowledge (e.g., proven experience in playing a musical instrument) - excellent English skills (read, written, and spoken) - strong self-motivation and independence Desirable but not strictly necessary skills: - knowledge of the JUCE framework - Web Audio, - Node.js Deadline: 23rd of August. Main place of work: Trento (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden). The PhD will be supervised by researchers of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of University of Trento https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/ Link to the call (go to page 52): https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/79c1fd23-ddd2-… Further information is available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet* Associate Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory *https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> 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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Dottorato di interesse nazionale in Design per il Made in Italy: Identità, Innovazione e Sostenibilità

by PATRIZIA MARTI

Buongiorno, Inoltro con preghiera di diffusione il bando per il nuovo dottorato di ricerca di interesse nazionale in Design per il Made in Italy: Identità, Innovazione e Sostenibilità. https://www.architettura.unicampania.it/ricerca/dottorato-di-ricerca-in-des… <https://www.unicampania.it/index.php/didattica/dottorati%20-di-ricerca/iscr…> Il dottorato partirà con il 38° ciclo e prevede 5 curricula che credo siano di interesse per la comunità di HCItaly: - Design per l'inclusione, - Innovazione sostenibile di sistemi di prodotti, servizi e processi per il Made in Italy - Made in Italy e transizione tecnologica e digitale - Made in Italy: manifattura e nuovi modelli economici e di business - Patrimoni Culturali del Made in Italy L'Università di Siena mette a disposizione una delle borse. Buona estate a tutti patrizia -- Professor Patrizia Marti, PhD Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Science, University of Siena www.patriziamarti.it

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CFP- International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Giuseppe Caggianese

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================== International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ========================================== Dear Colleagues, A friendly reminder to contribute to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org ). The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Giuseppe Caggianese CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission July 15, 2022 Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 9, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Researcher National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it

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Summer school "AFIRM CHI22" places still available

by anna spagnolli

*AFIRM CHI22 - Young Researcher Meetup in Human-Computer Interaction* Padova, August 22-26 2022 https://rjc21.afihm.org Some place is still available! The meetup offers a set of interconnected workshops to provide enticing and convincing project illustrations. Such skills can be exploited to improve your dissertation, grant requests, and publications. Moreover, the meetup has a residential, team-based format that allows the participants to form new contacts and leave with an enlarged professional network. Ideal participants are Ph.D. students with a project in all areas of human-computer interaction, with a background in computer science, psychology, or design. The fee (172€) includes registration, single room accommodation, and meals for the whole duration of the meetup. The activities amount to approximately 30 hours of work, equalling 1 credit according to ECTS standards; the attendance is attested by a certificate issued by the summer school organizers upon completion of the activities. To see the program and access the application form, please visit https://rjc21.afihm.org. For more information and inquiries, please contact anna.spagnolli(a)unipd.it. The meetup is sponsored by UNIPD, Dept. of General Psychology and AFIHM. The Italian and French associations SIGCHI Italy and AFIHM endorse this initiative. -- ******************************* Anna Spagnolli Ph.D. Associate professor Dept of General Psychology & Human Inspired Technology Research Centre Università degli Studi di Padova via Venezia 8, 35121 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8276644 fax: +39 049 8276600

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VL/HCC 2022: Call for Participation

by Emanuele Panizzi

*IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing * *VL/HCC 2022: Call for Participation* (Apologies for multiple postings) *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* *>>> 12-16 September 2022 <<<* *Rome, Italy* *https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022* <https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT LINKS* *REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION* early bird registration before/on *August 21st, 2022* - Registration: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/registration - Accommodation: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/accomodation *PROGRAM* The program is tentative and subject to change. - Complete program: https://conf.researchr.org/program/vlhcc-2022/program-vlhcc-2022/ *The Symposium is planned to be in person. In any case, we monitor the Covid situation and will act according to the authorities' decisions to ensure the safest and most comprehensive participation.* *KEYNOTES* We are thrilled to announce the following keynotes: 1. Creating Responsible and Human-Centered AI - Saleema Amershi <https://conf.researchr.org/details/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-vl-hcc-main-confer…> 2. The Power of Diagrams: Observation, Inference, and Overspecificity - Gem Stapleton <https://conf.researchr.org/details/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-vl-hcc-main-confer…> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2022* From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2022 symposium is scheduled to take place September 12-16 in Rome, Italy. Our special emphasis for 2022 is *Human-Centric AI*. VL/HCC 2022 is 100% Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). VL/HCC is indexed in Scopus, DBLP, IEEE Explore, WoS. We look forward to your participation in VL/HCC! Paolo Bottoni, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair Gennaro Costagliola, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *VL/HCC 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Co-Chair Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy General Co-Chair Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy Program Co-Chair Michelle Brachman, IBM Research, United States Program Co-Chair Mark Minas, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Publicity & Social Media Chair Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Finance Chair Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Publications Chair Kim Monch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany Web Chair Mattia De Rosa, University of Salerno, Italy Graduate Consortium Co-Chair Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Graduate Consortium Co-Chair, Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, United States Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Summer school "AFIRM CHI22" places still available

by anna spagnolli

*AFIRM CHI22 - Young Researcher Meetup in Human-Computer Interaction* Padova, August 22-26 2022 https://rjc21.afihm.org Some place is still available! The meetup offers a set of interconnected workshops to provide enticing and convincing project illustrations. Such skills can be exploited to improve your dissertation, grant requests, and publications. Moreover, the meetup has a residential, team-based format that allows the participants to form new contacts and leave with an enlarged professional network. Ideal participants are Ph.D. students with a project in all areas of human-computer interaction, with a background in computer science, psychology, or design. The fee (172€) includes registration, single room accommodation, and meals for the whole duration of the meetup. The activities amount to approximately 30 hours of work, equalling 1 credit according to ECTS standards; the attendance is attested by a certificate issued by the summer school organizers upon completion of the activities. To see the program and access the application form, please visit https://rjc21.afihm.org. For more information and inquiries, please contact anna.spagnolli(a)unipd.it. The meetup is sponsored by UNIPD, Dept. of General Psychology and AFIHM. The Italian and French associations SIGCHI Italy and AFIHM endorse this initiative. -- ******************************* Anna Spagnolli Ph.D. Associate professor Dept of General Psychology & Human Inspired Technology Research Centre Università degli Studi di Padova via Venezia 8, 35121 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8276644 fax: +39 049 8276600

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EXTENDED DEADLINE - CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities - Human-Computer Interaction journal

by Federica Cena

** *EXTENDED DEADLINE - CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities - Human-Computer Interaction journal* * *** apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Computer Interaction journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current>) Extended deadline for proposals submission: 11th July 2022 Submission website: https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639… <https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639…> We are aware of some issues with the new submission systems since it changed in the last few days. Please, send also the proposal to noemi.mauro(a)unito.it <mailto:noemi.mauro@unito.it>. We apologize for this inconvenience. Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities This special issue highlights state-of-the-art research in intelligent systems and technology for people with diverse abilities. To control scope, we focus on cognitive diversity, including but not limited to, neurodevelopmental disorders and autism, cognitive and learning disabilities, and dementia. This special issue targets the challenges and requirements inherent to the development and assessment of such systems. Submission of Proposals To help authors find a good fit, we encourage proposals. Proposals should be about 1000 words and provide a clear indication of what the paper is about. Proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the special issue theme, and guidance will be given. Both proposal and full paper submissions should be submitted to the HCI Editorial site (https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639… <https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=HHCI&_ga=2.1388639…>). Follow the guidelines <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qx4__6fh-vUzmiNXqOuS9rFlCz3kX9C1lCghS3…>and instructions for submissions on the site. There is a place on the submission site to note that your submission is for the special issue. Special Issue submissions will be peer-reviewed to the usual standards of the HCI journal. Important Dates *Proposals due: 11th July 2022* NEW *Response to authors: 22nd July 2022 * Full papers due: 15th October 2022 Reviews to authors: 15th January 2023 Revised papers due: 15th March 2023 Reviews to authors: 1st June 2023 Final papers due: 1st July 2023 Topics of Interest For this special issue, we are interested in works addressing topics that include, but are not limited to: * Conceptual models and framework for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; * How to model cognitive disabilities: which data to collect, how to collect them, formalisms to represent user data; * Interaction models for people with cognitive disabilities and user-centered design for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities, also considering universal design approach; * Search systems for people with cognitive disabilities, such as conversational and traditional modes of interaction with search systems; * Job training systems for people with cognitive disabilities; * Personalized support for people with cognitive disabilities; * Recommender systems for people with cognitive disabilities; * Recommendation and search based on expert/human in the loop paradigm; * Ethical and privacy issues in dealing with intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; * Evaluation and associated concerns (restrictions inherent to the population under study, lack of shared datasets or benchmarks to enable comparisons, metrics); * Usability and accessibility studies where the participants are people with cognitive disabilities. Contact Information For questions and further information, please contact one of the guest editors: Noemi Mauro (University of Torino) noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Federica Cena (University of Torino) federica.cena(a)unito.it Cynthia Putnam (DePaul University) cputnam(a)depaul.edu Maria Soledad Pera (Boise State University) SolePera(a)boisestate.edu David Roldán Álvarez (University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) david.roldan(a)urjc.es * -- Federica Cena, Ph. D. Associate Professor Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706779 www.di.unito.it/~cena/ https://unito.webex.com/meet/federica.cena

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CFP- International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Giuseppe Caggianese

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================== International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ========================================== Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to send a contribution to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org). The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Giuseppe Caggianese CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission July 15, 2022 Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 9, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Researcher National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Papers *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 (*** Submission Deadline: July 20, 2022 AoE (firm!)) The IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. It is still possible to submit papers to the following Special Sessions (more information available here, https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-sessions/ ): • Special Session 1: 5G technology and cloud native solutions for smart grids and smart cities applications  • Special Session 2: Smartification from Pilot Projects to New Trends in Urban Ecosystems  • Special Session 3: Advances toward air pollution monitoring and mitigation solutions for smart cities as well as the following Workshops (more information available here, https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/workshops/ ): • First International Workshop on MARV: Multimodal and AI-Responsible data processing and deliVery in smart cities • First International Workshop on Sustainable Digital Transformation of Urban Landscape through Disruptive Technologies & Standards • Second International Workshop On Intelligent IoT Solutions for Smart Cities • First International Workshop on Smart and Circular Cities • First International Workshop on Improving Quality of Life for People with Disabilities (PwD) through the use of Technologies in Smart Cities Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Submission Deadline: July 20, 2022 AoE (firm!) • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Acceptance Notification: August 7, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Camera-Ready Deadline: August 15, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Papers Author Registration Deadline: August 15, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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Call for Participation - ACM UMAP 2022

by Nasim Sonboli

Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === ACM UMAP 2022 is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. For the first time in the history of the conference, UMAP ’22 will be run in a hybrid mode between **July 4-7, 2022**, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate on-site or online. IMPORTANT DATES === * **Early-bird registration: May 27, 2022** * Regular registration: May 28 – June 24, 2022 * On-site registration: from June 28, 2022 * Conference: July 4-7, 2022 REGISTRATION === Registration is open at https://www.um.org/umap2022/registration. Register on or before **Jun 28** for a regular registration rate. On-site registration is available after June 28th. Online registration is available with fixed rates. To celebrate the co-location of 3 ACM conferences in Barcelona (ACM Hypertext <https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/>, ACM UMAP, and ACM WebSci <https://websci22.webscience.org/>), UMAP supports a joint registration discount. We also are making UMAP more equitable this year. In striving for a conference cost that is affordable for all, we also have deeply discounted rates available for those registering in countries designated by ACM as “economically developing”. These tickets are supported by SIGWEB to provide fair access. Know more about joint registration, grants, and support at https://www.um.org/umap2022/grants-and-support/ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: === **Program**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/program/ **Keynotes**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/speakers/ **Nuria Oliver**, ELLIS Unit Alicante Foundation, Alicante, Spain **Ben Shneiderman**, Dept of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA ** Francesco Ricci**, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, Italy **Paper sessions** * Research papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-papers/ * Theory, Opinion, and Reflection papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-theory-opinion-and-reflection-papers/ **Other Sessions** * Late-breaking results: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#lbr * Demonstrations: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#demo * Doctoral symposium: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-doctoral-consortium-papers/ **Tutorials**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-tutorials/ * Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization (ECUMAP) * Semantics-aware Content Representations for Reproducible Recommender Systems (SCoRe) * User Control in Adaptive Information Access (UCAIA) **Workshops**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-workshops/ * Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS) * Third International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR) * Explainable User Modeling and Personalized Systems (ExUM 2022) * Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP 2022) * Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP) * 7th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments (HAAPIE 2022) * The 13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) – Towards Hybrid CH Experience ORGANIZATION === **General Chairs** * Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy * Olga C. Santos, UNED, Spain **Others Chairs**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/organization/ *Nasim Sonboli (Tufts University) *Helma Torkamaan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) UMAP Publicity and Web Chairs

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India HCI 2022 || Call for Papers

by Korok Sengupta

India HCI 2022 <https://www.indiahci.org/2022/> is the 13th edition of the international conference series on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Sponsored by the HCI Professionals Association of India and in cooperation with ACM’s special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), India HCI brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, computer games, privacy, security, visualization, health, accessibility and aging, design, user modeling, engineering interactive systems, ICT for development, CSCW, and more. India HCI provides a special spotlight on papers that are relevant to South Asia, including those related to culture, language, socio-economic situations, and the industry of the region. The intimate size, single track, and comfortable surroundings make this conference an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences. THEMES: Significantly novel enabling technologies such as innovative input devices, displays, new interaction techniques, or new media that extend the boundaries of traditional interaction, such as natural user interfaces and interactions, mixed reality, mobile interaction, computer games, health, accessibility, and aging, user modeling. 1) User studies that engage qualitative research methods and/or offer critical perspectives on technology design, deployment, and/or use. 2) Engineering interactive systems design, ubiquitous computing (including wearables), social software, ICT for development (ICTD), and computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW). 3) Innovative user interfaces for difficult interaction contexts or challenging applications. Examples include managing large, complex information sets, usable privacy and security, multi-user interaction, crowdsourcing, automotive user experiences, and in-vehicle interactions (devices and interface automation, instrumentation evaluation, interactive systems, benchmarking driver performance and behavior), or techniques that span devices distributed in time and space. 4) Breakthrough user experiences leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, speech processing, networking, or human perception and cognition (e.g., analyzing driver distractions). 5) Innovative software architectures, design tools, toolkits, programming systems, and development environments that support the development and use of the above technologies in user interfaces. 6) User studies that engage qualitative research methods and/or offer critical perspectives on technology design, deployment, and/or use. Important Dates: *August 3, 2022: Papers due* August 14, 2022: Notification of desk rejects/quick rejects September 1, 2022: Authors will receive initial reviews of their papers September 8, 2022: Rebuttals due September 15, 2022: Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision October 3, 2022: Paper needing shepherding decisions October 5, 2022: Final camera-ready papers are due, and at least one author must register for the conference (All deadlines close at 23:59 IST) There will be three independent reviewers for each paper. In addition, a meta-review will be done by a program committee member. For more details, visit: https://www.indiahci.org/2022/paper-presentations/ If you have any queries please contact the Paper Chairs: Anirudha Joshi <anirudha(a)iitb.ac.in> Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Pushpendra Singh <psingh(a)iiitd.ac.in> ######################################## Korok Sengupta <https://koroksengupta.github.io/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Researcher Analytic Computing Group University of Stuttgart U32-314 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Skype: korok.sengupta -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- India HCI 2022: Outreach and publicity Chair <https://www.indiahci.org/2022/organizing-commitee/> --------------------------------------------------------------------

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 52 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2021 = 0.353 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 52 *on:* Beyond the Pandemics and the Wars: SLERD Reload** */guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio, Oscar Mealha /with a focus section on/ /*Educational Location-based Applications* /guest editors: //Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Esteban W. G. Clua, Jimmy Jaldemark, Heinrich Söbke/ is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 52 - ToC*/** **/ **/Preface to the special issue on/ *Beyond the Pandemics and the Wars: SLERD Reload */Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio, Oscar Mealha/* *p. 5 * */Duarte Luis Sousa, Pedro Filipe Campos, Vanessa Cesário/* Design Implications for Interactive and Analogue Technologies supporting Distance Education: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study during the Pandemic, */pp. 6 - 22/* */Carlo Giovannella/* Between Awareness and Acceptance: a more mature School Teachers’ Perspective on Integrated Learning one year after the pandemic outbreak, */pp. 23 - 43/* */Saul Delabrida /* A Hybrid Project-Based Learning course approach from face-to-face and remote experiences, */pp. 44 - 60/* */Cèlia Llurba, Gabriela Fretes, Ramon Palau/* Exploring the possibilities of real-time Emotional Recognition technology for secondary school students, */pp. 61 - 80/* */Erkki Rötkönen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naska Goagoses, Tariq Zaman, Helvi Itenge, Daniel Yong Wen Tan, Erkki Sutinen/* Creating Smart Connected Learning Ecosystems: A Hybrid Model for Design-Based Learning, */pp. 81 - 100/* */Laurentiu-Marian Neagu, Eric Rigaud, Vincent Guarnieri, Emanuel Ioan Radu, Sébastien Travadel, Mihai Dascalu, Razvan Rughinis/* OntoStrength: An Ontology for Psychomotor Strength Development, */pp. 101 - 118/* */Ingrid Mulder, Alberto Magni /* A collaborative learning infrastructure to build capacity for urban transformations, */pp. 119 - 140, /* * */Preface to the focus section on/ Educational Location-based Applications */Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Esteban W. G. Clua, Jimmy Jaldemark, Heinrich Söbke/* */Yasaman Nekoui, Eduardo Roig/* Children and the Mediated City. Place Attachment Development Using Augmented Reality in Urban Spaces, */pp. 144 - 157/* */Pedro Silveira, Davidson Cury, Crediné Silva de Menezes/* Exploring Education Techno-Monitoring Futures: A Participatory Speculative Critical Design Case, */pp. 158 - 178/* */Diego Ricca, Bianca Lupo, Jairo Diniz, Leonardo Veras, Clice Mazzilli/* In Pursuit of Inclusive and Diverse Digital Futures: Exploring the Potential of Design Fiction in Education of Children, */pp. 179 - 197/* */James Raber, Richard E. Ferdig, Enrico Gandolfi, Robert Clements/* Insights for Educational Practice from a Thematic Analysis of Student Experiences with Speculative Design Mini-Projects about Personal Issues, */pp. 198 - 220/* Regular papers */Eva Eriksson, Anne Linda Kok, Wolmet Barendregt, Camilla Gyldendahl Jensen, Elisabet M. Nilsson /* Teaching for Values in Interaction Design: A Discussion About Assessment, */pp. 221 - 233/* */Oguz Orkun Doma, Sinan Mert Sener/* Dreamscape Bricks VR: An Experimental Virtual Reality Tool for Architectural Design, */pp. 234 - 258/* * -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022): Last Call for Contributions

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Call for Contributions *** 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) 3–7 October, 2022, 4* Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/ Goals and Scope The IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order): • Change and defect management • Code cloning and provenance • Concept and feature location • Continuous integration/deployment • Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution • Evolution of non-code artifacts • Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution • Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods • Maintenance and evolution processes • Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps • Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems • Maintenance versus release process • Mining software repositories • Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution • Release engineering • Reverse engineering and re-engineering • Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration • Software and system comprehension • Software migration and renovation • Software quality assessment • Software refactoring and restructuring • Software testing theory and practice • Source code analysis and manipulation • Technical Debt ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. There are still a couple of tracks with open calls for submissions. These are listed below with more information, including submission instructions, available on the conference web site (submission dates are midnight, AoE, UTC-12). The submission link for all tracks is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme2022 . Please use this link and choose the appropriate track for your submission. Doctoral Symposium • Paper Submission: July 8th, 2022. • Notification: August 1st, 2022. • Camera-Ready: August 19th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-doctoral-symposium/ . Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival • Artifact Submission: August 26th, 2022. • Notification: September 16th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-joint-artifact-evaluation-… . Organisation General Chairs • Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland, USA Local Organising Chair and Industry Liaison • Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands • Christian Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Tool Demonstrations Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium Industry Track Chairs • Andrea Capiluppi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Shi Han, Microsoft Research Beijing, China Journal First Track Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Amjed Tahir, Massey University, New Zealand Doctoral Symposium • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand • Mark Hills, East Carolina University, USA Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival Chairs • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christoph Treude, University of Melbourne, Australia Most Influential Paper Awards Chairs • Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy • Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Diversity and Inclusion • Hadil Abukwaik, ABB Corporate Research, Germany • Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University, USA Registered Reports • Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy • Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Fifth Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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[Call for Full and Short Papers - MUM '22] Full and Short Papers deadline is two months away

by Sayan Sarcar

MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to 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 high-quality submissions to a wide range of tracks dealing with, among others, the following topics: - Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges - Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications - Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services - Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field - Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services - Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems - Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising - Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems - Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia 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 Our track has the following submission deadlines (in AoE): - Full and Short Papers: August 16, 2022 For further details on each individual track, please visit https://mum-conf.org/2022/ We hope to see you all at MUM 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, João Guerreiro, LASIGE, ULisbon Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, ULisbon <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Fwd: CFP- International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Giuseppe Caggianese

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================== International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ========================================== Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to send a contribution to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org). The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Giuseppe Caggianese CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, information access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments - Computational Interaction for XR - Quality and User Experience in XR - Cognitive Models for XR - Semantic Computing in environments - XR-based serious games - Virtual Agents in eXtended environments - Adaptive Interfaces - Visual Reasoning - Content Modelling - Responsible Design of eXtended Environments - XR systems for Human Augmentation - AI methodologies applied to XR - ML approaches in XR - Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission July 15, 2022 Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 9, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Researcher National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it

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Assegno di ricerca disponibile nell'ambito del progetto di ricerca PRIN TIGHT (responsabile Dott.ssa Barbara Leporini)

by Giulio Galesi

Presso il laboratorio di Segnali e Immagini dell'ISTI-CNR è disponibile un assegno di ricerca di un anno su progettazione e sviluppo di applicazioni e soluzioni informatiche, anche in ambito mobile, per favorire e supportare le persone con disabilità visiva nella propria autonomia. La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 24 giugno. Per maggiori informazioni consultare il bando al url: https://www.isti.cnr.it/images/pdf/jobs/2022/bando_ISTI_AR_010-2022.pdf Giulio Galesi -- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - ISTI Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa ITALY phone: +39 050 621 3117 fax: +39 050 621 2810 e-mail: giulio.galesi(a)isti.cnr.it

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PhD fellowship available at the HIIS Laboratory, CNR-ISTI

by Fabio Paternò

We are looking for candidates for one three-year PhD scholarships that will be carried out at the at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) Laboratory at CNR-ISTI (http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/): The fellowship is associated with the PhD school at the Computer Science department of the University of Pisa (https://dottorato.di.unipi.it/) in the Human-Computer Interaction area, with preference for topics related to Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction. The HIIS Laboratory is a creative and multi-disciplinary interactive technologies research laboratory, with deep and extensive research collaborations, industrial partners, and a supportive working environment. Pisa is a lively small town located in Tuscany, near the coast, characterised by the presence of a rich research ecosystem (three Universities and many research centres) very active in the ICT area. We are therefore looking for deserving candidates. It is useful to have some programming knowledge, interest and passion for the considered topics, and to carry out research activities. The application procedure will be soon available. Applicants must have earned a master degree by the end of October 2022. For further information any interested potential candidate can contact fabio.paterno at isti.cnr.it

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VL/HCC 2022: Author Registrations and Satellite Events

by Emanuele Panizzi

VL/HCC '22 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Important Updates The author registration and the entry fees are open and published for VL/HCC authors and detailed information could be found at the link below: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/registration <https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2022/registration> Also, we have announced two satellite events for which broadcasting is open and you could find further details about the events in the link below: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-workshops-and-tutori… <https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-workshops-and-tutori…> The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2022 symposium is scheduled to take place September 12-16 in Rome, Italy. Our special emphasis for 2022 is Human-Centric AI. VL/HCC 2022 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC).* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panel Members and Organizers - Andrew Fish, University of Brighton (chair) - Thomas LaToza, George Mason University (chair) - Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University - Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities - Human-Computer Interaction journal

by Federica Cena

*** apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Computer Interaction journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current>) Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities Guest Editors Noemi Mauro, University of Torino Federica Cena, University of Torino Cynthia Putnam, DePaul University Maria Soledad Pera, Boise State University David Roldán Álvarez, University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos This special issue highlights state-of-the-art research in intelligent systems and technology for people with diverse abilities. To control scope, we focus on cognitive diversity, including but not limited to, neurodevelopmental disorders and autism, cognitive and learning disabilities, and dementia. This special issue targets the challenges and requirements inherent to the development and assessment of such systems. Submission of Proposals The full Call for Papers and submission instructions can be found here: https://www.madpickle.net/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_dca.pdf <https://www.madpickle.net/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_dca.pdf> To help authors find a good fit, we encourage proposals. Proposals should be about 1000 words and provide a clear indication of what the paper is about. Proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the special issue theme, and guidance will be given. Both proposal and full paper submissions should be submitted to the HCI Editorial site (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hci <http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hci>). Follow the guidelines <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qx4__6fh-vUzmiNXqOuS9rFlCz3kX9C1lCghS3…>and instructions for submissions on the site. There is a place on the submission site to note that your submission is for the special issue. Special Issue submissions will be peer-reviewed to the usual standards of the HCI journal. Important Dates Proposals due: 1st July 2022 Response to authors: 15th July 2022 Full papers due: 15th October 2022 Reviews to authors: 15th January 2023 Revised papers due: 15th March 2023 Reviews to authors: 1st June 2023 Final papers due: 1st July 2023 Topics of Interest For this special issue, we are interested in works addressing topics that include, but are not limited to: * Conceptual models and framework for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; * How to model cognitive disabilities: which data to collect, how to collect them, formalisms to represent user data; * Interaction models for people with cognitive disabilities and user-centered design for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities, also considering universal design approach; * Search systems for people with cognitive disabilities, such as conversational and traditional modes of interaction with search systems; * Job training systems for people with cognitive disabilities; * Personalized support for people with cognitive disabilities; * Recommender systems for people with cognitive disabilities; * Recommendation and search based on expert/human in the loop paradigm; * Ethical and privacy issues in dealing with intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; * Evaluation and associated concerns (restrictions inherent to the population under study, lack of shared datasets or benchmarks to enable comparisons, metrics); * Usability and accessibility studies where the participants are people with cognitive disabilities. Contact Information For questions and further information, please contact one of the guest editors: Noemi Mauro (University of Torino) noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Federica Cena (University of Torino) federica.cena(a)unito.it Cynthia Putnam (DePaul University) cputnam(a)depaul.edu Maria Soledad Pera (Boise State University) SolePera(a)boisestate.edu David Roldán Álvarez (University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) david.roldan(a)urjc.es -- Federica Cena, Ph. D. Associate Professor Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706779 www.di.unito.it/~cena/ https://unito.webex.com/meet/federica.cena

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 (*** Submission Deadline Extension: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!) ***) The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!) • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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HAID 2022 - Reminder: Call for Works in Progress and Call for Demos

by Stefano Papetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] [Please forward to interested colleagues] Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for *Work in Progress *and*Demo* submissions is approaching *(June 26, 2022)*. Acceptance notifications will be sent on June 30, 2022. For the Work in Progress initiative we *encourage submissions from “newcomers”* such as master students or early-stage PhD Students e.g. whose supervisor is not part of the HAID discourse, especially from *underrepresented groups*. At the time of submission, authors will be asked to indicate whether they want to be paired with an experienced HAID researcher during the conference (on site or online) to help develop the work-in-progress into a co-authored future HAID submission. Demo submissions can be either standalone or associated with a paper or work in progress submission. --- HAID 2022 particularly welcomes contributions, both theoretical and empirical, in the following areas: Design of audio and haptic feedback for health & well-being Musical haptics & augmented instruments Contributions in the following areas are also welcome: Novel haptic and auditory interfaces Perception & evaluation of multimodal and cross-sensory interactions Design principles for haptic and auditory interfaces Design of audio and haptic feedback for entertainment and creative applications Affective and semiotic roles of haptics and audio in interaction Leveraging auditory-tactile correspondences in interaction design HAID 2022 will be held during August 24–26, 2022 at Queen Mary University of London (UK), and will be a hybrid event with in-person activities and online streaming sessions. It is organised by the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) <https://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/>in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ) <https://www.robotics.qmul.ac.uk/>, and it is supported by the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, EuroHaptics Society, Audio Engineering Society (AES), and Springer. Please stay tuned to all the latest news at: * HAID 2022 webpage https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ <https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/> * HAID Google group https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community <https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community> * HAID Twitter page https://twitter.com/HAID_conference <https://twitter.com/HAID_conference> --- Looking forward to meeting you in London! The HAID 2022 Programme Chairs Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis The HAID 2022 General Chairs Charalampos Saitis and Ildar Farkhatdinov

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13 PhD positions in HCI at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear students, Dear HCI colleagues, At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, we are looking for 13 PhD candidates with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction (deadline 1st July 2022). Topics include "Ethics, Societies, and AI", "the Design and Development of Next Generation Interfaces", "Design and Physical Computing", and "Agents and Computational Linguistics". Ethics, Societies, and AI: ========================== - E1: Human Creativity and Machine Learning for public awareness of AI - E2: Ethical Artificial Intelligence for Public Administration Data and Social Policies - F7-I C&C: Interfacing Creativity and Computation Design and Development of Next Generation Interfaces: ===================================================== Note: Four of these will be co-financed by the industry (BMW, SEFAR), which means that selected candidates can stay at the company for at least six months. - A2: Smart Knitted SpaceSuit - F5: How to bring the Metaverse into the vehicles for a novel video conferencing experience (co-financed by BMW Group) - F6: Entertainment in the car by using a cognitive seat with tactile feedback (co-financed by BMW Group) - ASE1: Unobtrusive thin-film sensors inside mono-filaments and woven textiles (co-financed by SEFAR AG) - ASE2: Unobtrusive physiological sensors for cognitive car seats (co-financed by BMW Group) Physical Design and Computing: ============================== - A7: IoT Design and Development with End Users for a Sustainable Future - E3: Teaching Physical Design and Computing Agents and Computational Linguistics: ===================================== - D1: Virtual Digital Assistants for Healthcare - D2: Emotions in Multilingual Texts - D3: Neural models of collaborative behaviours in conversational agents The language of the PhD. programme is English, and the university implements a trilingual model providing prospective students with a suitable environment to learn German and Italian. Our school is committed to fostering a caring and diverse environment, with students coming from over twenty countries (70% international students) and with a reasonable gender distribution, which we are committed to improving (24% women). We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and skills. The scholarship includes: - University Fees 3-year personal grant (approx. € 17,000 NET per year) - 50% pay increase to support international mobility for a period variable between six months and one year according to the type of projects - Personal budget for research and travel expenses (Euro 2,500) - State of the art technical equipment. A more detailed description of these projects (except ASE1 and ASE2) can be found here: https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/PhD/PhD-Project-proposals_CS_38cycle.… For more details about the projects ASE1 and ASE2 please check out https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/PhD/scheda-descrittva_ASE_38ciclo_EN_… Application deadline: 1 July 2022 at 12:00 midday (CEST). Further details on the application procedure and selection process can be found on the following link: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/ and for the proposals ASE1/2 under the following link: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/sciencetechnology/phd-advanced-systems-en… If you have any questions you can reach us at: - maria.menendezblanco(a)unibz.it and Antonella.DeAngeli(a)unibz.it (for the projects on Ethics, Societies, and AI) - gennari(a)inf.unibz.it and luisa.petti(a)unibz.it (for the projects on Physical Design and Computing) - michael.haller(a)unibz.it (for the projects on Design and Development of Next Generation Interfaces) Best regards, Antonella De Angeli, Maria Menendez Blanco, Rosella Gennari, Michael Haller

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RTDA at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

by Haller Michael

Dear HCI friends, I am very excited that at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, we are looking for a RTDA position with the focus on the design and development of next-generation interfaces. Our University has a strong international outlook, as testified by its multilingual courses (English, Italian, German) and a high number of students and teaching staff from abroad. We offer you an exciting environment and continuous innovation. Key Qualifications --------------------------------------------------------------- - PhD in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, or Electronic Engineering - Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces - Strong technical competencies in at least one of the following areas: Human Computer Interfaces, Embedded Systems - Outstanding academic performance - Excellent communication (English) and presentation skills as well as self-confidence We offer you --------------------------------------------------------------- - The opportunity to join our research lab in the development of cutting-edge technologies & interfaces - The opportunity to become part of our core team of dedicated researchers & engineers - An inspiring work environment - Collaboration with international customers (e.g., BMW / KTM / SEFAR) and travel opportunities - The possibility to shape the job according to your skills & talents Your activity will include the technical support of projects, ranging from basic to applied research. The tasks will be carried out at the Media Interaction Lab (www.mi-lab.org), which is now also located at the NOI Techpark (https://noi.bz.it/en), a science and technology park, hosting four research institutes, four Faculties of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and 40 scientific laboratories. The position is available for 3 years starting in fall 2022. The gross salary is approx. 42.000 EUR per year. More information about this call can be found here: https://www.unibz.it/en/home/position-calls/positions-for-academic-staff/58… More further information, just send me an email. Best wishes, —Michael ------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Haller Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Media Interaction Lab Piazza Domenicani 3 39100 Bolzano | ITALY E-Mail: michael.haller(a)unibz.it Web : www.unibz.it | www.mi-lab.org

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CFP- International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022

by Agnese Augello

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================== International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) - SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ ************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to send a contribution to the International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) at SITIS 2022 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (Conference website: https://www.sitis-conference.org). The workshop is about new approaches for designing and implementing intelligent eXtended Reality systems. Please find the call for papers below and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the workshop. For any questions and information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best Regards, Agnese Augello CFP ---------- eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the use of machine learning and AI methodologies to perform data analysis and reasoning, manage a multimodal interaction, and ensure an adaptation to users’ needs and preferences. The workshop is aimed at investigating new approaches for the design and implementation of intelligent eXtended Reality systems. It intends to provide a forum to share and discuss not only technological and design advances but also ethical concerns about the implications of these technologies on changing social interactions, inform ation access and experiences. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: · Intelligent User Interfaces in eXtended environments · Computational Interaction for XR · Quality and User Experience in XR · Cognitive Models for XR · Semantic Computing in environments · XR-based serious games · Virtual Agents in eXtended environments · Adaptive Interfaces · Visual Reasoning · Content Modelling · Responsible Design of eXtended Environments · XR systems for Human Augmentation · AI methodologies applied to XR · ML approaches in XR · Ethical concerns in XR VENUE ---------- University of Burgundy main campus, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Agnese Augello, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Giuseppe Chiazzese, Institute for Educational Technology, National Research Council, Italy Dimitri Darzentas, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland Martin Flintham, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ignazio Infantino, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Emel Küpçü, Xtinge Technology Inc., Turkey Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Pietro Neroni, Institute for high performance computing and networking, National Research Council, Italy SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------------------------- Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format. You can download the IEEE conference templates – Latex and MS Word A4 – at the following URL: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2022 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2022 Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission July 15, 2022 Acceptance/Reject Notification. September 9, 2022 Camera-ready September 16, 2022 Author Registration September 16, 2022 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------------------- All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Scopus, DBLP and major indexes. REGISTRATION ----------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the work. A single registration allows attending both track and workshop sessions. CONTACTS ---------------- For any questions, please contact us via email. Agnese Augello agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it Giuseppe Caggianese giuseppe.caggianese(a)icar.cnr.it Boriana Koleva B.Koleva(a)nottingham.ac.uk -- -- Agnese Augello, Ph.D. ICAR - Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad alte prestazioni Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Ugo la Malfa 153 - 90145 Palermo +39-091-23894276 (Tel) +39-091-6529124 (Fax) agnese.augello(a)icar.cnr.it <a.augello(a)pa.icar.cnr.it> agnese.augello(a)cnr.it

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[ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, HT 2022] Call for Participation

by Ujwal Gadiraju

Hi all, --- Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media is a premium venue for high-quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. For the first time in the history of the conference, HT ’22 will be run in a hybrid mode between **June 28 - July 1, 2022**, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate onsite or online. IMPORTANT DATES === * **Early-bird registration: May 27, 2022** * Regular registration: May 28 – June 24, 2022 * On-site registration: from June 28, 2022 * Conference: June 28 - July 1, 2022 REGISTRATION === Registration is open at https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/registration/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_regi…>. Register on or before **May 27** to benefit from an early-bird discount! Make sure to book your hotel stay at the Hotel Four Points by Sheraton conference hotel. The hotel is at the center of the conference activity, and will allow you to network easily with other conference attendees. See how to get access to a discount rate at https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/venue/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_venu…> PRELIMINARY PROGRAM === **Keynotes** * **m.c. schraefel**, University of Southampon * **Dene Grigar**, Washington State University Vancouver * **Nuria Rodríguez**, Universidad de Málaga **Paper sessions** * Research papers: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/accepted-papers/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_acce…> * Blue Sky Ideas papers: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/accepted-blue-sky-ideas-papers/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_acce…> **Other Sessions** * Late-breaking results: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/accepted-late-breaking-results-papers/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_acce…> * Demonstrations: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/accepted-demo-papers/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_acce…> **Workshops**: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/accepted-workshops/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_acce…> * HUMAN’22 – 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext * The Narrative and Hypertext (NHT) * Open Challenges in Online Social Networks * 7th edition of The International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors (SIdEWayS) ORGANIZATION === **General Chairs** * Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy **Others Chairs**: https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/organization/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ht.acm.org_ht2022_orga…> --- Best, Ujwal ____________________________________ Dr. Ir. Ujwal Gadiraju Assistant Professor Web Information Systems Delft University of Technology The Netherlands W: https://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/gadiraju W: https://www.ujwalgadiraju.com E: u.k.gadiraju(a)tudelft.nl https://www.academicfringe.org

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Last Call for Papers

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*** Last Call for Papers *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 (*** Submission Deadline Extension: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!)) The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!) • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ (*** Submission Deadline Extension (firm!): 6 June, 2022 ***) Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 6 June 2022 CEST (***extended and firm!***) • Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 15 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/

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International Summer School "Digital Interactive Smart Spaces" - Como Lake & Milan - July 2022

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, volevo richiamare la vostra attenzione sulla Summer School di cui trovate sotto la call già fatta circolare da Franca Garzotto. E’ una scuola incentrata su temi HCI, promossa dal SIGCHI Italy, con speaker internazionali di rilievo. E’ una delle poche opportunità di questo tipo in Italia. Le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte. Non esitate a contattare me o Franca per qualsiasi informazione. Cari saluti, Maristella -------------------- Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the International Summer School “Digital Interactive Smart Spaces” that will be held in Como and Milan in July 2022, organized by Politecnico di Milano in cooperation with the Lake Como School for Advanced Studies and EIT Digital. The School is devoted to Master/PhD students, researchers and professionals, who want to i) deepen their knowledge on Smart Spaces technology, and its potential/limitations; ii) to improve their competence on interaction design for Smart Spaces, and explore how applications can be developed to maximize usability, accessibility, and eﬀectiveness; iii) better understand the business opportunities in this arena and the social challenges involved. The Summer School is organized in 2 weeks. The first week (July 11-15, 2022) has a research focus, with outstanding speakers from prestigious universities and research centers in Europe and abroad, and will be held on the Como Lake at Villa del Grumello (www.villadelgrumello.it/it/<https://www.villadelgrumello.it/it/>) . The second week (July 18-22, 2022) has a business and industry perspective, with top-level speakers from large and medium companies in Italy and EU, and will be held in Milano at Politecnico Main Campus (https://www.polimi.it/en/ ). It is possible to attend both weeks, or the first week only. Please refer to the Summer School web site for the detailed program and further information https://uise.lakecomoschool.org/ Thanks for your attention Kind regards Franca Garzotto and Maristella Matera --- Maristella Matera – PhD Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria http://matera.faculty.polimi.it/

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Call for Participation - ACM UMAP 2022

by Helma Torkamaan

Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. For the first time in the history of the conference, UMAP ’22 will be run in a hybrid mode between **July 4-7, 2022**, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate onsite or online. IMPORTANT DATES === * **Early-bird registration: May 27, 2022** * Regular registration: May 28 – June 24, 2022 * On-site registration: from June 28, 2022 * Conference: July 4-7, 2022 REGISTRATION === Registration is open at https://www.um.org/umap2022/registration. Register on or before **May 27** to benefit from an early-bird discount! To celebrate the co-location of 3 ACM conferences in Barcelona (ACM Hypertext, ACM UMAP, and ACM WebSci), UMAP supports a joint registration discount. We also are making UMAP more equitable this year. In striving for a conference cost that is affordable for all, we also have deeply discounted rates available for those registering in countries designated by ACM as “economically developing”. These tickets are supported by SIGWEB to provide fair access. Know more about joint registration, grants and support at https://www.um.org/umap2022/grants-and-support/ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM === **Keynotes** * **Nuria Oliver**, ELLIS Unit Alicante Foundation, Alicante, Spain * **Ben Shneiderman**, Dept of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA * More keynotes will be announced soon **Paper sessions** * Research papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-papers/ * Theory, Opinion, and Reflection papers: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-theory-opinion-and-reflection-papers/ **Other Sessions** * Late-breaking results: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#lbr * Demonstrations: https://www.um.org/umap2022/late-breaking-results-and-demos/#demo * Doctoral symposium: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-doctoral-consortium-papers/ **Tutorials**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-tutorials/ * Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization (ECUMAP) * Semantics-aware Content Representations for Reproducible Recommender Systems (SCoRe) * User Control in Adaptive Information Access (UCAIA) **Workshops**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/accepted-workshops/ * Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS) * Third International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR) * Explainable User Modeling and Personalized Systems (ExUM 2022) * Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP 2022) * Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP) * 7th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments (HAAPIE 2022) * The 13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) – Towards Hybrid CH Experience ORGANIZATION === **General Chairs** * Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy * Olga C. Santos, UNED, Spain **Others Chairs**: https://www.um.org/umap2022/organization/ -- Helma Torkamaan Researcher Email: helma.torkamaan(a)uni-due.de

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Early Bird Registration - SLERD 2022: 7th conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development.

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing// /========================================================= /Early bird registration deadline: *May 31, 2022*/ ========================================================= *7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** **Toward a Polyphonic Construction of a new normality* *July 5-6, 2022 Hybrid format * Conference program <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/programme/> (preliminary) Registration form <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/registration-form/> ========================================================= *Keynotes* • *Philippe Dessus*/**(Université Grenoble Alpes)/ /(///*Intelligent Classrooms to Understand Instructional Events: an Ecological Approach*/)/ • *Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta*/(University College London)/ /(//*/Actioning the universal principles of ethical AI: an example of ethical AI in education/*) /• /*Yves Punie*/**(EC JRC – Unit Human Capital and Employment) // /(///*Shifting to competence-based learning and digital education in Europe. A view from European research and policy.*/)/ ========================================================= SLERD 2022 will host HYBRID open debates on: *“***Competence based learning as an essential foundation for European citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.*”* <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> -> Panelists <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-panelists/> *“****AI and education: ethical challenges and opportunities**”* <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> -> Panelists <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-panelists/> Although the partecipation in the open debates is free we kindly invite people interested to attend to fill the registration form -> registration form <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-registration-form/> on the 4th of July SLERD 2020 will host, as /satellite event/, an open debate (in Italian) on: *“Le tecnologie digitali per le life-skills a scuola (Digital technologies for life-skills at school)” *-> registration form satellite event <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/open-debate-registration-form/>*** * =========================================================

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PhD program (including HCI, VR, Serious Games, Persuasive Technology)

by Luca Chittaro

The PhD program in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Udine, Italy, welcomes candidates applying for 14 three-year positions (11 of which supported by scholarship). Applicants will focus their research project on topics that can be chosen in a wide range listed here https://www.dmif.uniud.it/dottorato/iai/collegio-docenti/ The PhD program in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence has also opened funded agreements with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (www.fbk.eu/en/) and CRO Aviano (www.cro.sanita.fvg.it/it/) The deadline for applications is *July 20, 2022, 14:00 CET * Detailed instructions as well as a link to the official call and application forms are available here: ENGLISH VERSION: https://www.uniud.it/en/research/doctorate-res/ammissione/active-notice/lug… VERSIONE ITALIANA: https://www.uniud.it/it/ricerca/lavorare-nella-ricerca/dottorato-ricerca/am… Prospective applicants can contact the Coordinator for further details and/or one or more PhD Supervisors for project-related questions. All contacts can be found in the PhD web site https://www.dmif.uniud.it/dottorato/iai/collegio-docenti/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Luca Chittaro HCI Lab (http://hcilab.uniud.it) Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics tel: +39 (0432) 558.450 University of Udine luca.chittaro(a)uniud.it Via delle Scienze, 206 http://www.dmif.uniud.it/chittaro 33100 Udine -- ITALY

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Nuovi ranking per IxD&A (Interaction Design & Architecture(s)) Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

Con piacere vi annuncio che la rivista interdisciplinare, "open access" e indipendente *Interaction Design & Architecture(s) * https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 nel 2021 è salita considerevolmente nei ranking internazionali e occupa il primo posto tra le riviste italiane in tutti i settori di riferimento: /SJR 2021 = 0.353 // // //• Architecture/Design: Q1 - 32nd in the World - 1st in Italy// //• Media Technology: Q2 - 25th in the World - 1st in Italy// // //• Social Science: Q2 - 246th - 1st in Italy// // //• Human Computer Interaction: Q3 - 86th in the World - 1st in Italy // //• Computer Science Application: Q3 - 447th in the World - 1st in Italy // // //• Education: Q3 - 701th in the World - 1st in Italy / Ciò nonostante, anche con il vostro aiuto e la vostra partecipazione, c'è ancora molto da fare ... Carlo Giovannella (Scientific Editor) Interaction Design and Architecture(s) - IxD&A Journal https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 is a SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal, founded in 2005, that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Deadline extended] CfP for the workshop "New trends in Sports and HCI" at MobileHCI 2022

by Eleonora Mencarini

*** Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, The deadline of the “New trends in sports and HCI” workshop at MobileHCI’22 has been postponed to *June 9, 2022, AoE*. CALL FOR PAPERS The field of HCI for sports is evolving under the push of new technological developments and worldwide natural events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Recent technological advancements have widened the possibilities of HCI in the sports domain by paving the way to augmented humans, inbodied interactions, esports, new forms of sociality thanks to virtual reality and the metaverse, and new ways for engaging the audience thanks to AI. Whereas contextual factors, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, seem to pull the sports trends in opposite directions: on the one hand, they foster the indoorisation and individualization of sports, as we can see by the spreading of home training systems such as bike rollers and related apps; and, on the other hand, they encourage practicing outdoor sports to take advantage of the ‘restorative power’ of nature. With this workshop, we invite the HCI community to discuss the current trends for portable technologies for sports and trace future directions for HCI research in this field. TOPICS OF INTEREST - Possible topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to):‬‬ - Wearable/mobile technologies for sports - Interactive systems for the indoorisation of outdoor sports - Phenomenology of sports (how to report the sports experience) - Augmented feedback for sports - Augmented human capabilities in sports - Immersive technologies for sports - Exergames - Gamification techniques for sports - Superhuman sports HOW TO APPLY? We invite paper submissions (*minimum 12.500 characters long/about 5 pages*) in the form of a research, reflection, pictorial, provocation, or design fiction using the ACM SIGCHI template via Easy Chair. A program committee will assess the submissions based on their potential to spark an interesting discussion. Proceedings of the accepted submissions will be published with CEUR and indexed in Scopus. IMPORTANT DATES *[NEW] submission deadline: June 9, 2022, AoE* Notification: June 24, 2022 Workshop: October 1, 2022 ATTENDANCE The “New Trends in HCI and Sports” will take place *online*. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, FBK (Italy) Amon Rapp, University of Torino (Italy) Ashley Colley, University of Lapland (Finland) Florian Daiber, DFKI (Germany) Micheal D. Jones, Brigham University (U.S.A.) Felix Kosmalla, DFKI (Germany) Stephan Lukosch, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Jasmin Niess, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Evangelos Niforatos, TU Delft (The Netherlands) Paweł W. Woźniak, Chalmers University (Sweden) Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento (Italy) For further information, visit our website: mobilehci22-hci-and-sports.dfki.de If you have any questions, please drop an email at: mencarini(a)fbk.eu Best regards, the New Trends in HCI and Sports workshop organizers <https://drive.google.com/u/0/settings/storage?hl=it&utm_medium=web&utm_sour…> <https://www.google.com/intl/it/policies/terms/> <https://www.google.com/intl/it/policies/privacy/> <https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/>

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VL/HCC 2022: Graduate Consortium - Extended Deadlines Announcement

by Emanuele Panizzi

*VL/HCC '22 Graduate Consortium* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates* - * Submission by e-mail: 8th June 2022- Notification of final decision: 13th June 2022 - Camera-ready deadline: 19th June 2022- Consortium date: 12th September 2022* (all deadlines are *23:59, AoE*) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Participation* The primary goal of this year's event is to stimulate graduate students' and other researchers' thinking about “*Human-Centric AI*”, addressing issues such as how to ensure that tools and explanations for AI fit the needs of the broad populations they need to serve. Research areas could involve the design, building, or evaluation of technologies involving or relating to human-centric AI and issues of human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness. This goal aligns with the theme of the 2022 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of VL/HCC are also welcome. *Why You Should Participate* - Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience - Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of experts - Meet other students working on similar problems - Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending VL/HCC (details below). *Who Can Participate?* The consortium is open to both master's and PhD students worldwide. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years. *Application Process* Email the following items with *_VLHCC22-GC_* in the subject line to *Andrew Fish at [andrew.fish `at' brighton.ac.uk <http://brighton.ac.uk>]* and *Thomas LaToza [tlatoza `at' gmu.edu <http://gmu.edu>]:* - A 2-page research abstract, formatted as a PDF in the standard IEEE Conference Proceedings format. NOTE: Accepted participants' abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. To make it easier for you to write a successful abstract, we provide examples from past years below. Your curriculum vitae (CV), as a second PDF file. This CV should mention whether you have previously participated in any graduate consortia at any conferences. - A letter of recommendation sent directly by your thesis advisor. This letter should summarize your accomplishments and describe how far along you are in your master's or PhD program, why attending the GC this year would be important for you, and please ask them to mention if you have already attended VL/HCC GC in any past year. In addition, if you are a member of a group designated by NSF as underrepresented, then the letter may mention this fact. *Selection Process* For one-third of the slots, students who have participated once before will be given priority. The remaining slots will be given to students who are new to the event. Each student from the returning group will be linked with new students in a mentoring arrangement. See _Who Can Participate?_ above for additional selection criteria. *Posters* Selected students will be asked to present a poster on their work at the Showpieces Reception during the main conference. Details will be provided to accepted applicants. *Travel Support* We expect to be able to offer partial funding for travel expenses for US participants to attend, contingent on the availability of funds. *Schedule* The consortium event will be a full day the Monday before the main conference. All participating students are expected to attend the main conference as well as the graduate consortium. Other conference attendees are invited to attend the consortium, to listen to the presentations, to interact with participants, and to give feedback to presenters. More details will be provided, closer to the event, including times and locations. *Examples of Successful Applications* To be successful, a submission to the VL/HCC Graduate Consortium generally has to have the following parts: 1. The paper starts with a sentence or two that describes a real-world setting. 2. It then identifies a problem in that setting. 3. The remainder of the paper's introduction outlines an approach for solving that problem. 4. In a subsequent section, the paper describes a prototype or preliminary study showing the feasibility of that approach. 5. The paper explains why more work is still required in addition to this prior work. 6. The paper concludes by describing future work that will build on this prior work in order to finish completing the approach. 7. Somewhere along the way, the paper explains how the approach builds on, or differs from, other related work. We have annotated three excellent submissions that exemplify the pattern described above (PDFs available via links at https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-graduate-consortium). We hope that you will find these examples thought-provoking and helpful as you design your own submission this year. - [Information on the Web: How End Users Make Use of Data] - [Roles in Online Collaborative Problem Solving] - [Re-forming the Internet with its End Users] *Panel Members and Organizers* - Andrew Fish, University of Brighton (chair) - Thomas LaToza, George Mason University (chair) - Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University - Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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VL/HCC 2022: Graduate Consortium - Extended Deadlines Announcement

by Emanuele Panizzi

*VL/HCC '22 Graduate Consortium* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates* - * Submission by e-mail: 8th June 2022- Notification of final decision: 13th June 2022 - Camera-ready deadline: 19th June 2022- Consortium date: 12th September 2022* (all deadlines are *23:59, AoE*) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Participation* The primary goal of this year's event is to stimulate graduate students' and other researchers' thinking about “*Human-Centric AI*”, addressing issues such as how to ensure that tools and explanations for AI fit the needs of the broad populations they need to serve. Research areas could involve the design, building, or evaluation of technologies involving or relating to human-centric AI and issues of human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness. This goal aligns with the theme of the 2022 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of VL/HCC are also welcome. *Why You Should Participate* - Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience - Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of experts - Meet other students working on similar problems - Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending VL/HCC (details below). *Who Can Participate?* The consortium is open to both master's and PhD students worldwide. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years. *Application Process* Email the following items with *_VLHCC22-GC_* in the subject line to *Andrew Fish at [andrew.fish `at' brighton.ac.uk <http://brighton.ac.uk>]* and *Thomas LaToza [tlatoza `at' gmu.edu <http://gmu.edu>]:* - A 2-page research abstract, formatted as a PDF in the standard IEEE Conference Proceedings format. NOTE: Accepted participants' abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. To make it easier for you to write a successful abstract, we provide examples from past years below. Your curriculum vitae (CV), as a second PDF file. This CV should mention whether you have previously participated in any graduate consortia at any conferences. - A letter of recommendation sent directly by your thesis advisor. This letter should summarize your accomplishments and describe how far along you are in your master's or PhD program, why attending the GC this year would be important for you, and please ask them to mention if you have already attended VL/HCC GC in any past year. In addition, if you are a member of a group designated by NSF as underrepresented, then the letter may mention this fact. *Selection Process* For one-third of the slots, students who have participated once before will be given priority. The remaining slots will be given to students who are new to the event. Each student from the returning group will be linked with new students in a mentoring arrangement. See _Who Can Participate?_ above for additional selection criteria. *Posters* Selected students will be asked to present a poster on their work at the Showpieces Reception during the main conference. Details will be provided to accepted applicants. *Travel Support* We expect to be able to offer partial funding for travel expenses for US participants to attend, contingent on the availability of funds. *Schedule* The consortium event will be a full day the Monday before the main conference. All participating students are expected to attend the main conference as well as the graduate consortium. Other conference attendees are invited to attend the consortium, to listen to the presentations, to interact with participants, and to give feedback to presenters. More details will be provided, closer to the event, including times and locations. *Examples of Successful Applications* To be successful, a submission to the VL/HCC Graduate Consortium generally has to have the following parts: 1. The paper starts with a sentence or two that describes a real-world setting. 2. It then identifies a problem in that setting. 3. The remainder of the paper's introduction outlines an approach for solving that problem. 4. In a subsequent section, the paper describes a prototype or preliminary study showing the feasibility of that approach. 5. The paper explains why more work is still required in addition to this prior work. 6. The paper concludes by describing future work that will build on this prior work in order to finish completing the approach. 7. Somewhere along the way, the paper explains how the approach builds on, or differs from, other related work. We have annotated three excellent submissions that exemplify the pattern described above (PDFs available via links at https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-graduate-consortium). We hope that you will find these examples thought-provoking and helpful as you design your own submission this year. - [Information on the Web: How End Users Make Use of Data] - [Roles in Online Collaborative Problem Solving] - [Re-forming the Internet with its End Users] *Panel Members and Organizers* - Andrew Fish, University of Brighton (chair) - Thomas LaToza, George Mason University (chair) - Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University - Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Last Call for Contributions

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*** Last Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ (*** Submission Deadline Extension (firm!): 6 June, 2022 ***) Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 6 June 2022 CEST (***extended and firm!***) • Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 15 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/

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[Call for Papers - MUM '22] International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

by Sayan Sarcar

MUM 2022, the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 27th - 30th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to 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 high-quality submissions to a wide range of tracks dealing with, among others, the following topics: - Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges - Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications - Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services - Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field - Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services - Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems - Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising - Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems - Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia 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 Our tracks have the following submission deadlines (all AoE): - Papers: August 16, 2022 - Workshops and Tutorials: September 2, 2022 - Posters, Demos, and the Doctoral Consortium: September 29, 2022 For further details on each individual track, please visit https://mum-conf.org/2022/ We hope to see you all at MUM 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, João Guerreiro, LASIGE, ULisbon Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, ULisbon

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[EICS 2023] First round CfP for the 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

by Carmen Santoro

Call for papers for the first submission round for EICS 2023 : The 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June, 2023 - Swansea, UK Submission deadline for the first submission round of PACM EICS 2023: July 22, 2022 Full Papers *and* Technical Notes EICS 2023 is the fifteenth 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: * Modeling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems * Model-based development of interactive software * 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 * Certification issues of methods, tools, and processes to create interactive systems * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Interactive data-driven systems * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, AI, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities...) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems…) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities,…) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., health, home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, civil protection, law enforcement, emergency services and calamity management...) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) * Building Human-centred AI systems (integrating explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware, interactive agents…) 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. New from this year: 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 above lengthy and verbose. More information about the next PACM-HCI (EICS series) review and publication process can be found at http://eics.acm.org/pacm. Full Papers should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions The PACM-EICS submission deadline for the first round of submissions is 22 July 2022. Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS full papers and technical notes chairs for EICS 2023, Carmen Santoro and Kris Luyten -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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International summer school for doctoral students in HCI - Padova 22-26 agosto 2022

by Davide Spano

Ricevo e volentieri inoltro ----- 2nd bienniAl Franco-Italian young Researcher Meetup in Computer-Human Interaction **Si prega di distribuire questa email alle scuole di dottorato in cui sono affrontate le tematiche HCI. Sono aperte le iscrizioni alla scuola internazionale estiva per dottorandi/e in human-computer interaction che si terrà a Padova il 22-26 agosto, in collaborazione con SIGCHI Italy e l'associazione francese di interazione persona-computer AFIHM. La scuola è residenziale ed oltre a permettere il networking tra dottorandi dellla stessa generazione tramite co-living e lavori in team, offre una serie di laboratori per migliorare la capacità di presentare le proprie proposte progettuali/pubblicazioni e le illustrazioni che le corredano. Tutte le attività sono in inglese. Il costo è di 172€ comprensivo di vitto (colazioni, pasti principali e coffe break) e alloggio in stanza singola. I posti sono limitati e si accolgono iscrizioni fino al 20 giugno tramite il modulo online disponibile sul sito: https://afirmchi2022.afihm.org/ L'esito della domanda di partecipazione e le modalità di pagamento saranno comunicate successivamente agli/alle interessati/e. Per informazioni, contattare anna.spagnolli(a)unipd.it La scuola è supportata finanziariamente da UNIPD, Dipart. di Psicologia Generale e AFIHM. Le associazioni SIGCHI Italy e AFIHM patrocinano l'iniziativa. -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities - Human-Computer Interaction journal

by Noemi Mauro

*** apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Computer Interaction journal ( https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current) Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities Guest Editors Noemi Mauro, University of Torino Federica Cena, University of Torino Cynthia Putnam, DePaul University Maria Soledad Pera, Boise State University David Roldán Álvarez, University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos This special issue highlights state-of-the-art research in intelligent systems and technology for people with diverse abilities. To control scope, we focus on cognitive diversity, including but not limited to, neurodevelopmental disorders and autism, cognitive and learning disabilities, and dementia. This special issue targets the challenges and requirements inherent to the development and assessment of such systems. Submission of Proposals The full Call for Papers and submission instructions can be found here: https://www.madpickle.net/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_dca.pdf To help authors find a good fit, we encourage proposals. Proposals should be about 1000 words and provide a clear indication of what the paper is about. Proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the special issue theme, and guidance will be given. Both proposal and full paper submissions should be submitted to the HCI Editorial site (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hci). Follow the guidelines <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qx4__6fh-vUzmiNXqOuS9rFlCz3kX9C1lCghS3…> and instructions for submissions on the site. There is a place on the submission site to note that your submission is for the special issue. Special Issue submissions will be peer-reviewed to the usual standards of the HCI journal. Important Dates Proposals due: 1st July 2022 Response to authors: 15th July 2022 Full papers due: 15th October 2022 Reviews to authors: 15th January 2023 Revised papers due: 15th March 2023 Reviews to authors: 1st June 2023 Final papers due: 1st July 2023 Topics of Interest For this special issue, we are interested in works addressing topics that include, but are not limited to: - Conceptual models and framework for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; - How to model cognitive disabilities: which data to collect, how to collect them, formalisms to represent user data; - Interaction models for people with cognitive disabilities and user-centered design for intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities, also considering universal design approach; - Search systems for people with cognitive disabilities, such as conversational and traditional modes of interaction with search systems; - Job training systems for people with cognitive disabilities; - Personalized support for people with cognitive disabilities; - Recommender systems for people with cognitive disabilities; - Recommendation and search based on expert/human in the loop paradigm; - Ethical and privacy issues in dealing with intelligent applications for people with cognitive disabilities; - Evaluation and associated concerns (restrictions inherent to the population under study, lack of shared datasets or benchmarks to enable comparisons, metrics); - Usability and accessibility studies where the participants are people with cognitive disabilities. Contact Information For questions and further information, please contact one of the guest editors: Noemi Mauro (University of Torino) noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Federica Cena (University of Torino) federica.cena(a)unito.it Cynthia Putnam (DePaul University) cputnam(a)depaul.edu Maria Soledad Pera (Boise State University) SolePera(a)boisestate.edu David Roldán Álvarez (University of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) david.roldan(a)urjc.es

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Fourth Call for Papers

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*** Fourth Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus

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research position on game-based motivational digital systems

by Massimo Zancanaro

*RESEARCH POSITION available on * *GAME-BASED MOTIVATIONAL DIGITAL SYSTEMS * At Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Digital Society Center, MoDiS Unit *RESEARCH POSITION (3 years) *available within the FBK Digital Society research center, Motivational Digital Systems <http://modis.fbk.eu/> research unit. The *areas of research investigation* include: game design, games user research, artificial intelligence for games, player modeling, game analytics and game studies. *Job description*: The research activity will aim at the design and validation of motivational games to study their effectiveness in terms of users’ engagement, awareness, and behavior change. In particular, the activities will focus on the following topics: - Design and development of motivational games and gamification initiatives targeting different users’ groups and sustainability challenges; - Design and execution of experimental studies to analyze the achieved impact and to evaluate the user experience; - Participation to the design and development of models, techniques, and tools supporting dynamic and personalized game content generation. The activities will be carried out within the scope of the following EU projects: Stand By Me and Stand By Me 2.0, coordinated by Amnesty International, aimed at contrasting violence against women and girls through educational programmes in high schools; NEVERMORE, coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, aimed at studying and developing innovative holistic and participatory solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation; other research projects carried out by the MoDiS unit. *Application deadline: 23rd May 2022* *More information and online application* can be found at this link <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_A_Research_position_in_the_field_of_Game_b…> -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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IxD&A Journal N. 51: Meet the Authors Event

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 - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - founded in 2005* *that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On-line Event* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 51 *on:* Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education */guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth/ // *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=27> on the /*30th of May - 15:00 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Janika Leoste & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddrLzWVI5LwdXPyNiTLp0q1-zVYo17JdS…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=ToC_5…> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Fifth Call for Papers

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*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2022 • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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CfP for the workshop "New trends in Sports and HCI" at MobileHCI 2022

by Eleonora Mencarini

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our workshop on “*New trends in sports and HCI*” at the upcoming *MobileHCI’22 conference*. The field of HCI for sports is evolving under the push of new technological developments and worldwide natural events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Recent technological advancements have widened the possibilities of HCI in the sports domain by paving the way to augmented humans, inbodied interactions, esports, new forms of sociality thanks to virtual reality and the metaverse, and new ways for engaging the audience thanks to AI. Whereas contextual factors, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, seem to pull the sports trends in opposite directions: on the one hand, they foster the indoorisation and individualization of sports, as we can see by the spreading of home training systems such as bike rollers and related apps; and, on the other hand, they encourage practicing outdoor sports to take advantage of the ‘restorative power’ of nature. With this workshop, we invite the HCI community to discuss the current trends for portable technologies for sports and trace future directions for HCI research in this field. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to):‬‬ - Wearable/mobile technologies for sports - Interactive systems for the indoorisation of outdoor sports - Phenomenology of sports (how to report the sports experience) - Augmented feedback for sports - Augmented human capabilities in sports - Immersive technologies for sports - Exergames - Gamification techniques for sports - Superhuman sports HOW TO APPLY? We invite paper submissions (*minimum 12.500 characters long*) in the form of a research, reflection, pictorial, provocation, or design fiction using the ACM SIGCHI template via Easy Chair. A program committee will assess the submissions based on their potential to spark an interesting discussion. Proceedings of the accepted submissions will be *published with CEUR and indexed in Scopus*. KEY DATES *Submission deadline: June 1, 2022, AoE* Notification: June 24, 2022 Workshop: October 1, 2022 ATTENDANCE The “New Trends in HCI and Sports” will take place *online*. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, FBK (Italy) Amon Rapp, University of Torino (Italy) Ashley Colley, University of Lapland (Finland) Florian Daiber, DFKI (Germany) Micheal D. Jones, Brigham University (U.S.A.) Felix Kosmalla, DFKI (Germany) Stephan Lukosch, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Jasmin Niess, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Evangelos Niforatos, TU Delft (The Netherlands) Paweł W. Woźniak, Chalmers University (Sweden) Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento (Italy) For further information, visit our website: mobilehci22-hci-and-sports.dfki.de If you have any questions, please drop an email at mencarini(a)fbk.eu Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the New Trends in HCI and Sports workshop organizers)

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Sixth Call for Contributions

by Announce Announcements

*** Sixth Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/

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MobileHCI - Associate Chair Recruitment 2023 & 2024

by Maristella Matera

Dear All, We want to call for volunteers for Program Committee members (paper Associate Chairs) for ACM MobileHCI 2023 and 2024. MobileHCI provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations toward effective interaction with mobile systems and services. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners in an informal and collaborative format. Themes cover the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. In 2023 we will transfer to a journal model and would like to ask for your help as ACs in selecting relevant and suitable papers. A typical workload for MobileHCI is 4 papers as 1AC, and for another 4 papers as 2AC. We are open to everybody interested in shaping the program of the conference series. MobileHCI strives for an equal representation of perspectives in shaping its program. Therefore, applications from diverse and/or underrepresented backgrounds are especially welcome. Please fill out the short survey available at this address: https://forms.gle/wpFuhmn69EhGsZ2p9 ***by May 31st, 2022***. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. MobileHCI 2023 PC Chairs

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AVI 2022: Call for Participation, 6-10 June 2022, Frascati, Rome, Italy

by Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi

(Apologies for multiple postings) AVI 2022 Call for Participation International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces >>> 6-10 June 2022 <<< Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES • Early Bird Registration open till 15th May 2022 • Registration link: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/registration --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) - 30TH ANNIVERSARY Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2022 is under the patronage of Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI2022! Paolo Bottoni, AVI 2022 General Chair Emanuele Panizzi, AVI 2022 Program Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year’s AVI conference includes keynote presentations, Long and Short Paper Track, Posters and Demo, 10 workshops, 3 tutorials and a social dinner. A tentative program is available at https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/program Details are as follows. RESEARCH PAPERS This year at AVI 2022, as usual, we received high quality papers reporting exciting new research. 41 long and short papers will be presented at the conference. The detailed program for the AVI 2022 Long and Short Paper Track will be available soon. POSTER & DEMO The AVI 2022 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress, whereas Demo Track allows authors to demonstrate a completed or ongoing research effort. This year 38 posters and demos will be presented at AVI. WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS This year AVI 2022 will host 10 co-located workshops: • Designing for Meaningful Interactions and Digital Wellbeing, June 06, Afternoon • AVI-CH 22 the 4th workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces for Cultural Heritage, June 06 Full day • 3rd International EMPATHY Workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems, June 06, Full day • Enhancing cross-reality applications and user experiences, June 06 - Afternoon • CoPDA2022 - Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI?, June 07, Full day • HCI and worker well-being in manufacturing industry, June 07, Full day • Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII), June 07, Full day • Visuo-Haptic Interaction, June 07, Full day • 3rd Workshop on Audio-Visual Analytics, June 07, Morning • Advanced Visual Interfaces for Augmented Video (AVIxAV), June 07, Afternoon For more details, see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/workshops AVI 2022 will also host 3 tutorials: • Open Research Data and Analysis - How to Implement and Publish in European Project Context, June 06 - Morning • Haptics to Enrich Visual Interfaces: From Theory to Prototyping, June 06 - Full day • Collaborative Sketching with Tangibles: Let's Stop Soulless Meetings, June 07 - Morning For more details, see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/tutorials SOCIAL EVENT A social event will be hosted by AVI 2022 on 9th June at a restaurant on a barge moored on the Tiber banks, in the heart of Rome: Baja. For more details about the tentative venue, see www.bajaroma.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Early bird registration is open until 15th May 2022. All accepted papers (conference and workshops) should be associated with a proper (i.e., non student) registration. Student registration should be accompanied by a proper certification of the student status (copy of the University card, letter from the advisor on letterhead, signed and stamped, etc.). Student registrations are not acceptable for presenting authors, i.e. if the only author attending the event and presenting the paper is a student, they still need to register in the normal category i.e., ACM member or non-member. For more information and for registering please see this link: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/registration For any issue or question about the registration procedure, please contact: eventi(a)consultaumbria.com and congressi(a)consultaumbria.com (both in CC) directly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE & ACCOMMODATION AVI 2022 will be held at Park Hotel Villa Tuscolana, in Frascati (pronounced [fraˈskaːti]), a city and comune in the metropolitan city of Rome, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located 20 kilometers (12 mi) south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills, close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific laboratories. Frascati produces the white wine with the same name. It is also a historical and artistic center. Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel is a 4-star historical hotel and convention center immersed in an elegant atmosphere and surrounded by a beautiful panoramic view of the Eternal City. Strategically located near Rome, Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel is the ideal accommodation solution for visiting the city, 5 minutes from the train station with hourly trains to get to downtown Rome in 30 minutes. Special rates are available for the attendees of AVI 2022 for the whole week and those willing to travel with their own families. For more details see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/venue-accommodat… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI organizing committee and AVI steering committee are anxiously looking forward to seeing you at the conference ! AVI2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Program Chair Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Long Papers Chairs Célia Martinie, University of Toulouse 3, France Fabio Pittarello, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs David Bell, Brunel University London, UK Marco Romano, University of Salerno, Italy Poster Chairs Marianna Di Gregorio, University of Salerno, Italy Antti Knutas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Demo Chairs Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Silvio Barra, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Alan Serrano-Rico, Brunel University London, UK Publicity Chairs Mehdi Rizvi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Laura Maye, University College Cork, Ireland Online Experience Chairs Enrico Bassetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For any issue or question specifically about the registration procedure, please contact: eventi[at]consultaumbria[dot]com and congressi[at]consultaumbria[dot]com (both in CC) directly. For any other information or queries, please see our website: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022 or write to us at avi2022[at]easychair[dot]org

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Final CfP: HAID 2022 - International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - London, UK, 24-26 August 2022

by Stefano Papetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] [Please forward to interested colleagues] Dear list members, HAID 2022 - 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design 24–26 August 2022, London, UK https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ <https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/> The submission portal for Papers is now open: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HAID2022/Submission/Index <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HAID2022/Submission/Index> Please note that the *final deadline**for Papers* submissions is *22 May 2022* (previously May 13). We have also extended the *deadline for Demo and Work in Progress* submissions to *26 June 2022*. HAID 2022 will be held 24–26 August at the Mile End Campus of Queen Mary University of London in the UK, and will be a hybrid event with in-person activities and online streaming sessions. HAID 2022 is organised by the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) <https://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/>in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ) <https://www.robotics.qmul.ac.uk/>. The workshop is supported by the Audio Engineering Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, EuroHaptics Society, and Springer. Please stay tuned to all the latest news at: * HAID 2022 webpage https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ <https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/> * HAID Google group https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community <https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community> * HAID Twitter page https://twitter.com/HAID_conference <https://twitter.com/HAID_conference> See you in London! The HAID 2022 Programme Chairs Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis The HAID 2022 General Chairs Charalampos Saitis and Ildar Farkhatdinov

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[CFP] ACM GoodIT 2022

by Catia Prandi

[apologies for multiple copies] ______________________________________________________________________ ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/ _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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Due posizioni senior post-doc (30 mesi) a University College Cork, Irlanda

by Ciolfi, Luigina

Two Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher positions (30 months) to work on a new project on Responsible Software Engineering funded by Lero – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Deadline for applications: Friday, 10 June 2022. The Researchers will be based at University College Cork (School of Applied Psychology) and will work directly with a group of HCI and Software Engineering Lero colleagues in University College Cork and University of Limerick. They will also have the opportunity to work with Lero Research Groups in other Irish universities to the mutual benefit of their Lero Projects and the RSE Project. The post details and application process is available here: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=056… If you experience any problems with that link, you can also see the vacancy and details at this webpage https://ore.ucc.ie/ using the Reference Number 056191. Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Professor John McCarthy, john.mccarthy(a)ucc.ie<mailto:john.mccarthy@ucc.ie> Position Summary We invite applications from suitably qualified Senior Post-Doctoral Researchers to work on a multi-disciplinary project on Responsible Software Engineering (RSE). People live with Algorithms, AI, Big Data, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, and Decision-Support Systems. But we also live with news reports, direct experiences and concerns about scamming or phishing, about how our confidential/health records can be subject to cyber-attacks, and even about how our very on-line interactions may harm us (opening email attachments, neglecting a field in our on-line job application that automatically disqualifies us for the job). These sociotechnical systems play roles in how we live, search for information, organise, socialise, and work together. They have a strong presence in our lives, often without our knowledge, and they can impinge on how secure, trusting or comfortable we feel with the decisions we make and the (system-mediated) actions we take. Although there is growing body of research on Software Ethics (e.g. ethical compliance, frameworks and disposition), the scope of our interest in this research project extends beyond the ethical. Arguably, people will only be able to take advantage of the social value of technologies like AI when trust and trustworthy practices align. With these opportunities and reservations in mind, this project focuses on Responsible Software Engineering, and the reflexive practices and values entailed in it, with a view to giving focussed attention to ‘representing and enriching lived experience, supported by software, and not bounded by it’. Aligning ‘responsibility’ with ethical and societal concerns (concerns like unlawful discrimination and undermining democracy) foregrounds critical reflection on what it means to improve the state of the world through software engineering and practice, including how to (and ‘who’ to) judge whether one state of the world is better than another. Civic education can play an important role in answering these questions and in preparing future citizens to continue to answer them. With these interests in mind, the RSE Project has been developed by Lero colleagues from a number of disciplinary backgrounds including: Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Applied Psychology, Sociotechnical Systems, Information Systems, and Public Engagement. The project is organised around four challenges: - To develop understanding(s) of reflexively responsible Software Engineering. - To understand Responsible Software Engineering as an embedded socio-technical practice by assessing the current state of RSE practice in cutting-edge software development projects. - To derive, develop and evaluate tools and practices for experiential practice-based understanding of Responsible Software Engineering. - To specify the education needed for citizens to be able to act knowledgeably in modern IT society; an integral part of reflexive RSE, founded in trusting and trustworthy relationships. We wish to appoint 2 Senior Post-Doctoral Researchers to work together full-time on this project for 30 months. Between them, the Senior Post-Doctoral Researchers will have the skills to deliver on the four challenges above. Core strengths in Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction would be particularly valuable. However, we would welcome applications from researchers in cognate areas who make the case in their application for the relevance of their skills and experience to the project. Moreover, it would be helpful to us if candidates with, say, a strong Software background (Software Engineering, Information Systems, etc.) could demonstrate experience and/or interest in the complementary research area (e.g. HCI, Interaction Design, CSCW) and vice versa. Applicants should have obtained their PhD in a relevant area and be able to demonstrate ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary team. Project Title: Responsible Software Engineering (RSE) Post Duration: 30 months Salary: €48,242 - €51,035 p.a. (IUA Salary Scale) For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/. Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Professor John McCarthy at john.mccarthy(a)ucc.ie<mailto:john.mccarthy@ucc.ie>. Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to recruitment(a)ucc.ie<mailto:recruitment@ucc.ie>, quoting the job-title and project name. Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday, 10 June 2022. No late applications will be accepted. Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector. UCC is committed to creating and fully embracing an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. As a University we strive to create a workplace that reflects the diversity of our student population where people from a wide variety of backgrounds learn from one another, share ideas, and work collaboratively. UCC is committed to being an employer that recognises the value of diversity amongst its staff. We encourage applicants to consult our policies at https://www.ucc.ie/en/edi/policies/ and initiatives at https://www.ucc.ie/en/edi/implementation/ and we welcome applications from everyone, including those who are underrepresented in the protected characteristics set out in our Equal Opportunities & Diversity Policy. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER — Prof Luigina Ciolfi (she/her) Professor of Human Computer Interaction School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland Tel +353 (0)21 490 4597 My UCC Research Profile<http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A011/LCiolfi@ucc.ie> Member, British Psychological Society; Senior Member & Distinguished Speaker<https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/ciolfi_15069>, ACM; Steering Committee Member, EUSSET<http://eusset.eu/> | Associate Editor, The CSCW Journal<http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606> | Personal Website<https://luiginaciolfi.net/> My working day may not be your working day. Please don’t feel obliged to reply to this e-mail outside of your normal working hours

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I: Interacting with Computers and BCS Interaction Group Online Seminar Series

by Fabio Paternò

Da: Helen Petrie <> Inviato: mercoledì 11 maggio 2022 13:08 A: anne.adams(a)open.ac.uk; Lynne Baillie <L.Baillie(a)hw.ac.uk>; Javier Bargas-Avila <bargas(a)google.com>; R.Beale(a)cs.bham.ac.uk; Regina Bernhaupt <r.bernhaupt(a)tue.nl>; rbrooks(a)beamerbrooks.com; Earthy, Jonathan <jonathan.earthy(a)lr.org>; Adrian Friday <a.friday(a)lancaster.ac.uk>; jgwizdka(a)acm.org; Marc.Hassenzahl(a)uni-siegen.de; Eva Hornecker <eva(a)ehornecker.de>; hourcade(a)cs.uiowa.edu; Effie Law <lai-chong.law(a)durham.ac.uk>; Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir <marta(a)ru.is>; yolee10(a)gmail.com; dlin(a)isu.edu.tw; liuzhj <liuzhj(a)dlmu.edu.cn>; roderick.mccall(a)list.lu; ian.r.oakley(a)gmail.com; F.Paterno(a)isti.cnr.it; jcread(a)uclan.ac.uk; mc(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk; shiyc(a)tsinghua.edu.cn; Sharon Tettegah <stettegah(a)ucsb.edu>; kaisa.vaananen(a)tuni.fi; p.van-schaik(a)tees.ac.uk; Jose Abdelnour-Nocera <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera(a)uwl.ac.uk>; jbowen(a)waikato.ac.nz; Nervo Verdezoto Dias <verdezotodiasn(a)cardiff.ac.uk>; Simon Attfield <S.Attfield(a)mdx.ac.uk>; Simone Stumpf <simone.stumpf(a)glasgow.ac.uk>; Shaun Lawson <shaun.lawson(a)northumbria.ac.uk>; Marco Winckler <Marco.Winckler(a)univ-cotedazur.fr>; Paula Kotze <paula.kotze(a)gmail.com>; Wesson, Janet (Prof) (Summerstrand Campus South) <Janet.Wesson(a)mandela.ac.za>; Flint, Tom <t.flint(a)napier.ac.uk>; Alessio Malizia <alessio.malizia(a)unipi.it>; Gavin Robert Sim <GRSim(a)uclan.ac.uk>; Charlotte Magnusson <charlotte.magnusson(a)certec.lth.se>; Lynne Hall (Staff) <lynne.hall(a)sunderland.ac.uk>; jonathan.hook(a)york.ac.uk; Katrina Attwood <katrina.attwood(a)york.ac.uk> Cc: Ian Borthwick <ian.borthwick(a)bcs.uk>; COCKSHULL, Francesca <Francesca.Cockshull(a)oup.com>; Florence Leroy <Florence.Leroy(a)bcs.uk> Oggetto: Interacting with Computers and BCS Interaction Group Online Seminar Series Hi All, As mentioned in the board meetings, we are starting a seminar series, particularly for authors with papers coming out in IwC (although others are also very welcome to present. First seminar is from Alan Dix, which I’m sure will be interesting. Please publicise to your networks (I attach a PDF version, I will put together a webpage in the next few days). If you would like to give a presentation or suggest someone, please let me know. More notes from the board meetings in the next couple of days. Cheers Helen Monthly online seminars on HCI and UX The Interaction Group of the British Computer Society and the journal Interacting with Computers are pleased to announce a monthly online seminar series on research on human-computer interaction and user experience. Seminars will be via Zoom on the last Monday of each month (apart from August), usually at 13:00 – 14:00 UK time (currently UTC + 1), but modulated to the time zone of the speaker. Presentations will be a mixture of those from authors of papers coming out in the journal and other HCI/UX researchers and practitioners presenting their recent work. All those interested in HCI/UX are welcome to attend (and to present). For more information, please contact Helen Petrie (helen.petrie(a)york.ac.uk <mailto:helen.petrie@york.ac.uk> ). Inaugural Seminar Monday 23rd May, 13:00 – 14:00 BST (UTC +1) Zoom link: <https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96975743704?pwd=a3p1U0dYMFNOWEhHWW9iU2pheEVZUT…> https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96975743704?pwd=a3p1U0dYMFNOWEhHWW9iU2pheEVZUT… Professor Alan Dix, Computational Foundry, Swansea University What Next for UX Tools: from screens to smells, from sketch to code, supporting design for rich interactions Every interaction with a digital device is set in some form of physical and human context, and yet the most commonly used tools for UX design are focused purely on the screen. Rather than being a scaffold to build better interfaces, wireframes can feel like the barriers in a cattle ranch, herding us towards a small range of design options, looking inwards towards the device rather than outwards towards our users. The situation is even more difficult when we want to design interactions that involve other senses, such as sound, smells, and touch; or new forms of interaction, such as flexible displays, autonomous cars, smart buildings, and digital fabrication. In this talk I’ll describe both some of my own personal journey and the InContext project that is thinking about more wholistic tools for design that incorporate rich context, multiple modalities, and end-to-end connections between design and development. The talk will outline both our own thinking and outcomes from a series of InContext workshops, most recently at CHI 2022. We do not have answers to all the open questions, but I will also demonstrate several early prototypes addressing different facets of design that are underrepresented in current generation design tools. Most important, I hope that this will open up a roadmap of ideas that others may also follow to create better tools for the next generation of UX designers and developers. June seminar Monday 27th June 10:00 BST (UTC +1) NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, a morning coffee seminar Zoom link: <https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99129384591?pwd=TmR3N2NmQ1E4ak5JU3lQYW96ZkdGZz…> https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99129384591?pwd=TmR3N2NmQ1E4ak5JU3lQYW96ZkdGZz… Professor Patrick Rau, Tsinghua University, China Talking with an Internet of Things conversational agent Internet of things conversational agents (IoT-CAs) are making human– computer interactions ubiquitous. In this study, we experimentally examined the effects of IoT-CA use on face-to-face conversations between close partners. One hundred and thirty-six participants (68 close relationship dyads) participated in the experiment. We prepared an IoT chat environment and provided chat topics for each dyad. The dyads were randomly assigned into one of two IoT-CA use pattern groups (joint use: two persons using an IoT-CA together; individual use: one person using an IoT-CA alone) and three interaction conditions (no IoT-CA use; conversation content-relevant IoT-CA use; conversation content-irrelevant IoT-CA use). The results showed that compared with no IoT-CA use, IoT-CA use did not have negative effects on conversation experiences but produced feelings of greater closeness to the IoT-CA in the partners. Furthermore, joint IoT-CA use in the content-relevant condition (IoT-CA made comments relevant to interpersonal interactions) helped increase interpersonal self-disclosure.

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Deadline Extension: Special issue on "Online Social Environments for Active Ageing" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/========================================================= Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> June 6, 2022 (new deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Online Social Environments for Active Ageing* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *** Since issue N. 47 integrates video presentations and issues e-certificates blockchain anchored*** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call53> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• //Ana Isabel Veloso, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ /• Carlos Santos//, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ /• Sonia Ferreira//, Polytechnic of Viseu, Portugal / /• Liliana Costa//, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *June 6*, 2022 /*(extended)*/ • Notification to the authors: July 25, 2022 • Camera ready paper: August 31, 2022 • Publication of the special issue: first half of September, 2022 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners to discuss the design, development, and evaluation of digitally mediated products for active ageing, senior's citizen sense of belonging and perceived wellbeing.The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging to address several research contexts and suddenly the “Online Social Environments for Active Ageing” were started to be perceived somewhat as the "new" environment. Three big factors contribute – processual, social, individual – to determine the technological environments evolution and its relationship with the active aging. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about their potential, and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Papers that report work that nurtures a post-pandemic view, namely, case studies, reviews and methodological proposals; pandemics/social confinement/ COVID-19; the socio-techno-ethical dimensions associated to the adopted digitally mediated strategies to overpass the boundaries of social distancing measures; digital policy strategies for active aging; impact of entrepreneur experiences are especially welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: Theory on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing, Design and Development of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing and Evaluation Methods of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better Active Ageing. *- Theory on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing* * Information and Digital Literacy * Use or Non-use of Socio-Gerontechnology * Acceptance and Use of Technology * Intergenerational Differences in Uses and Gratifications * Physio-, Psycho- and Social Digitally-mediated Approaches to Active Ageing * Ethics assessment in the use of digitally-mediated interventions for active ageing *- Design and Development of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing * * Designing Online Communities for Active Ageing * CoDesign and Community Centred Design Approaches * Accessibility tools and features * Experience Design for Active Ageing * Media Design Kits in Active Aging and Wellness * Development of Digital Services for Active Ageing *- Evaluation Methods of Online Social Environments for Active Ageing* * Process evaluation of digitally-mediated interventions * Prototype evaluation (Information, Interaction and Visuals) * Impact evaluation and Measure of Behaviour Changes * Social and ICT Usage Metrics * Scale Development and Validation =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: *“Online Social Environments for Active Ageing"*) 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: */"Online Social Environments for Active Ageing"/ * • aiv [at] ua [dot] pt • carlossantos [at] ua [dot] pt • sonia [dot] ferreira [at] esev [dot] ipv [dot] pt • lilianavale [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *

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HCSE 2022 - Extended submission period until May 23 - 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering - Call for Papers

by Stefan Sauer

***Extended Submission Period for Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results until May 23, 2022!*** *We have added an extended submission period and for Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results and aligned the further review and publication process for all types of submissions:* **** *** Submission: Friday,May 23th, 2022 (*NEW!*)** ** * Notification to authors: Monday, June 13th, 2022*(*NEW!*)* * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 27th, 2022 *(*NEW!*)* ** **** Apologies for cross postings **** * *************************************************************************** HCSE 2022 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering 24th to 26th of August, 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.hcse-conference.org *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design (http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/). We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: * contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design * involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the design and development process of interactive systems * innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems * integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes * methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) * models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems * methods and tools for low-code and no-code development paradigms * integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, (cyber)security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development and making them more accessible to developers and users * context-aware and adaptive interactive systems (e.g. in areas such as digital collaboration, digital and worker assistance) * design and integration of novel interaction techniques such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality * support for new kinds of human-machine interaction (HMI) for increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use or provide artificial intelligence (e.g. autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration) * socio-technical aspects of interactive software development * artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the development of interactive systems * software architectures and architectural patterns for interactive systems * rational design, design patterns and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2022 welcomes contributions as technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. In the present edition of HCSE 2022 we are particularly interested in studies focused on multi-stakeholder concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective, but on the systemic change level. This research area is central to the host of the current edition of the conference, the Eindhoven University of Technology, Industrial Design, Systemic Change group. In addition, building on the activities carried out by the WG13.2 during the workshop held at the INTERACT 2021 IFIP TC-13 conference, special consideration will be given to issues related to “changing the context of use”, which has significant impact on how to design and develop with a user-centered perspective and how usage of these systems changed for example in the current pandemic situation. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on user interface properties (such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among others) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a user-centered development process. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. HCSE welcomes the following types of contributions: * Technical full papers (up to 20 pages) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. * Late-breaking results (up to 12 pages) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. * Demonstrations and posters (5–8 pages, plus poster design draft) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. SUBMISSIONS AND REVIEWING PROCESS All contributions should be submitted via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hcse2022conference). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed double-blind, demonstrations and posters single-blind. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. PRESENTATIONS If we hold a physical conference, under the current circumstances, all accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. The conference will NOT enable hybrid participation. PROCEEDINGS Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0). Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. IMPORTANT DATES Technical full papers, late breaking results * Submission: Monday, May 23th, 2022 (*NEW!*) * Notification to authors: Monday, June 13th, 2022*(*NEW!*)* * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 27th, 2022 *(*NEW!*)* Demos, posters * Submission: Monday, May 30th, 2022 * Notification to authors: Monday, June 13th, 2022 * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 27th, 2022 CONFERENCE DATES: August 24th – 26th, 2022 ORGANIZERS General Conference Chairs: Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany *

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concorso RTD-B (include tematiche HCI)

by Luca Chittaro

Cari membri di HCITALY, segnalo il seguente bando di concorso, che include "Interazione utente-elaboratore" fra le competenze di particolare rilievo per la posizione: https://www.uniud.it/it/ateneo-uniud/concorsi-bandi-uniud/concorsi/bandi-do… (scadenza: ore 13:00 /ora italiana /del 24/03/2022) Saluti Luca Chittaro --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Luca Chittaro HCI Lab (http://hcilab.uniud.it) Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics tel: +39 (0432) 558.450 University of Udine luca.chittaro(a)uniud.it Via delle Scienze, 206 http://www.dmif.uniud.it/chittaro 33100 Udine -- ITALY University of Udine - Confidentiality Notice This message is exclusively addressed to the recipients. All the information contained in this message, including any attachments, is confidential in compliance with Regulation (UE) 2016/679 and Legislative Decree 196/2003. Therefore, forwarding, disclosing and making the above-mentioned information available without prior authorization from the sender is forbidden in any form or manner. If you have received this message in error, we kindly invite you to delete it permanently and to notify the sender. Università di Udine - Dichiarazione di Riservatezza Il presente messaggio è indirizzato esclusivamente ai destinatari. Tutte le informazioni contenute, compresi eventuali allegati, sono confidenziali ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 e del D. Lgs. 196/2003. Pertanto ne sono vietati l'inoltro, la divulgazione e la messa a disposizione in qualunque forma o modo, in mancanza di preventiva autorizzazione del mittente. Qualora il messaggio Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invitiamo cortesemente ad eliminarlo in modo definitivo dando immediato riscontro.

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ECCE 2022 conference Call for Work in Progress Papers

by Lammers, H.A. (Elly)

Call for Work in Progress Papers Apologies for multiple posting ECCE 2022 - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 33rd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 4-7 October 2022 | Kaiserslautern, Germany http://www.hciv.de/ecce2022 ECCE 2022 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including keynote talks, paper presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 33rd ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cognitive ergonomics and its role in design processes, information presentation and visualization, human factors and simulation, prototyping, cross / extended reality, user interfaces development, evaluations, and emerging ethical issues. The special theme of ECCE 2022 is: “Evaluating the Reality–Virtuality Continuum”. ECCE 2022 will feature three great keynote speakers: Patrick Baudisch, Kristina Höök, and Sebastian Pannasch. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS We are delighted to announce the new "Work in Progress" track of ECCE 2022, which gives researchers the opportunity to present exciting new contributions for which the research work has not yet been fully completed. This means that, for example, papers can be published where only a basic prototype has been developed so far, only a preliminary user study or none at all has been conducted, or which outline concepts and prospects for planned research. Topics of interest rank around the special theme of ECCE 2022. A list of possible topics can be found on the conference webpage. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES May 31, 2022: Deadline for submissions of Work in Progress papers June 30, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready version submissions August 15, 2022: Early registration deadline October 4, 2022: ECCE 2022 doctoral consortium and workshops October 5-7, 2022: ECCE 2022 main conference SUBMISSIONS All Work in Progress submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions must be PDF only and must be sent by email to the ECCE 2022 program chairs: ecce2022-wip(a)hciv.de<mailto:ecce2022-wip@hciv.de>. Further details can be found on the ECCE 2022 webpages. Proceedings will appear on ACM Digital Library. REGISTRATION The registration for ECCE 2022 is now open. It is also possible to make reservations for hotel rooms with special conference discounts. Alle details on how to register can also be found on the ECCE 2022 webpages. GENERAL CHAIRS Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Lachmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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PhD position in Skill transfer between interfaces at Université Grenoble Alpes and ESTIA Research, France

by Céline COUTRIX

(Apologies for any cross-posting) A full-time doctoral research position is open in co-supervision in the IIHM group (http://iihm.imag.fr) of LIG lab (https://www.liglab.fr), in Grenoble (France) and in the ESTIA-Recherche team (https://www.estia.fr/recherche), in Bidart (France). The fellowship is co-funded by Carnot LSI (https://carnot-lsi.com/) and ARTS (https://www.ic-arts.eu/) institutes for 36 months. The position will start before the end of 2022. Gross salary is approximately between 20K€ et 23K€ brut per year. The doctoral research will be co-advised by Céline Coutrix (http://iihm.imag.fr/coutrix/) and William Delamare (https://profils.estia.fr/w.delamare/) * Scientific Context The student is expected to integrate both the IIHM and the ESTIA-Recherche research groups (around 18 months each). The IIHM group is concerned with the design, implementation, and evaluation of interaction techniques that are effective, usable, and enjoyable. The group is present in the main Human-Computer Interaction conferences: CHI, UIST, AVI, Interact, EICS, etc. It has long-lasting connections to other research groups in France and abroad, and is well connected to the industry. IIHM is part of the LIG lab, which is equipped with the latest machines for physical fabrication of prototypes. ESTIA-Recherche mobilizes multiple disciplines to address the concept of intelligent and empowering interfaces for the engineering of complex systems. The multidisciplinary team focuses on scientific, technological, and societal themes to respond to cross-functional projects. ESTIA-Recherche hence studies and designs Human-Human, Human-System, and System-System interactions to contribute to energy and digital transitions and to the evolution towards the industry of the future. * Research Plan The PhD’s objective is to imagine novel ways to interact with augmented objects that best leverages users’ expertise with the existing objects in their environment. The Internet of Things (IoT) started to replace our traditional objects, both personal (e.g., smart home) and professional (e.g., smart office), with connected objects including augmented capabilities. Users are already able to use voice or direct touch to interact with these objects. Yet, users already developed extensive expertise with their traditional objects’ current physical interfaces. The PhD student will explore how users’ expertise can transfer from the UI of traditional objects to novel remote UIs (deformable tangible interaction, or mid-air inputs for instance). * Candidate We seek candidates with profound interest in Human-Computer Interaction, strong motivation, and creativity. A successful candidate: - Has a strong master’s degree in computer science or another area related to Human-Computer Interaction, - Has excellent written and oral communication skills, - Has excellent software and/or hardware skills. Curiosity toward cognitive sciences, statistics, and fabrication are not mandatory, but are a plus. * Application We start reviewing applications in May 2022, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should submit (1) a full CV, (2) copies of their university degree and/or study transcripts, (3) name and contact information of at least one reference, and (4) a brief description of their research interests. Please send your application via e-mail to Céline Coutrix and William Delamare: celine.coutrix(a)cnrs.fr, w.delamare(a)estia.fr. If you have any further questions, please contact Céline Coutrix and William Delamare: celine.coutrix(a)cnrs.fr, w.delamare(a)estia.fr

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ACM C&C Workshop: Virtual and in-person co-design activities, alternative or complementary approaches? – Call for research statements

by Simone Mora

Virtual and in-person co-design workshops: from alternative to complementary approaches. https://virtual-physical-codesign.webflow.io June 20th, 2022 Venice, Italy Workshop co-located with ACM Creativity&Cognition 2022 https://cc.acm.org/2022/ OVERVIEW The pandemic has forced us to re-think the ways we design and facilitate co-design. Activities once relying on in-person interaction, often mediated by physical artifacts (e.g. brainstorming cards, postITs, playing tokens), had to be quickly redesigned as virtual experiences – often with trade-offs involved. Can in-person and virtual workshops co-exist and complement each other? We invite a diverse pool of participants, including technologists, educators, psychologists, and sociologists to share their experiences and reflect on how to bring together virtual and in-person co-design workshops. Through discussion and hands-on sessions with physical, digital, and hybrid co-design toolkits created by the organizers we aim to reflect on the following research questions: • What are the challenges of transforming location, methods, and toolkits that are designed for in-person workshops into the digital? • How the diverse affordances available in the physical and digital realms impact on the ability of co-design tools and methods to foster participants’ creativity, collaboration and learning skills. • How does the virtual space influence the interaction between participants, e.g. virtual breakout rooms vs. different tables or corners in a real workshop room? • How do workshop facilitators can to adapt to virtual and hybrid settings? DATES • Research statement submission May 12st (extended) • Notification of acceptance May 15th • C&C Early Registration May 20th • Workshop June 20th ORGANIZERS • Simone Mora, MIT Senseable City Lab • Monica Divitini, NTNU • Albrecht Kurze, Chemnitz University of Technology • Arne Berger, Hochschule Anhalt • Martina Mazzarello, MIT Senseable City Lab • Dries de Roeck, Studio Dott. CONTRIBUTIONS Participants shall submit a 1-page research statement with a summary of their experience in the field and topics they would like to discuss during the workshop. Participants are also invited to bring and demo their own toolkits (contact us). We also encourage young researchers with little experience to participate. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Physical, digital and hybrid co-design workshop methods and toolkits • Evaluation of co-design methods and tools • Experience facilitating co-design workshops in formal and informal settings • The use of co-design workshops in education Please email your research statement to virtual-physical-codesign(a)mit.edu Best, Simone -- Simone Mora, PhD Research Scientist Senseable City Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology T +1 (617) 902-8703‬ W http://senseable.mit.edu

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International Summer School "Digital Interactive Smart Spaces" - Como Lake & Milan - July 2022

by Franca Garzotto

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the International Summer School “Digital Interactive Smart Spaces” that will be held in Como and Milan in July 2022, organized by Politecnico di Milano in cooperation with the Lake Como School for Advanced Studies and EIT Digital. The School is devoted to Master/PhD students, researchers and professionals, who want to i) deepen their knowledge on Smart Spaces technology, and its potential/limitations; ii) to improve their competence on interaction design for Smart Spaces, and explore how applications can be developed to maximize usability, accessibility, and eﬀectiveness; iii) better understand the business opportunities in this arena and the social challenges involved. The Summer School is organized in 2 weeks. The first week (July 11-15, 2022) has a research focus, with outstanding speakers from prestigious universities and research centers in Europe and abroad, and will be held on the Como Lake at Villa del Grumello (www.villadelgrumello.it/it/<https://www.villadelgrumello.it/it/>) . The second week (July 18-22, 2022) has a business and industry perspective, with top-level speakers from large and medium companies in Italy and EU, and will be held in Milano at Politecnico Main Campus (https://www.polimi.it/en/ ). It is possible to attend both weeks, or the first week only. Please refer to the Summer School web site for the detailed program and further information https://uise.lakecomoschool.org/ Thanks for your attention Kind regards Franca Garzotto and Maristella Matera -- prof. Franca Garzotto i3Lab (Innovative Interactive Interfaces Laboratory) Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://i3lab.polimi.it ph: +39 02 23993505 email: franca.garzotto(a)polimi.it<mailto:franca.garzotto@polimi.it>

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MIS4TEL 2022: Call for papers - 2nd Deadline Extension / 13-15 July 2022 / L'Aquila (Italy)

by MIS4TEL 2022 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Papers We are glad to invite you to submit a manuscript to MIS4TEL2022, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. The conference proceedings are published by Springer and indexed in Scopus, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== Important dates: Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to *** 10th May, 2022 *** - Notification of acceptance: 30th May, 2022 - Camera-Ready papers due: 17th June, 2022 - Conference celebration: 13th-15th July, 2022 ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 -- 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning >>> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality, or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL-oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide the design of such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education, psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working are used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 12th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL. >>> TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: # Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL # - AI technologies and tools for TEL - Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems - Knowledge representation, reasoning, and management systems for TEL - Natural language systems for TEL - Recommendation, personalization, and adaptation in TEL systems - Social networks for TEL - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL - Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL - Smart solutions or environments for TEL - Wearable technologies for TEL - Robotics for TEL - Virtual reality environments for TEL - Games for TEL or gamified TEL - Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments - Making and fabrication for TEL # Methodologies and experiences for TEL # - Methodologies for personalization, user modeling, and adaptation in TEL- Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modeling in TEL - Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL - Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems - Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL - Methodologies for informal learning for TEL - Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium, and large companies - Methodologies, tools, and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL - Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL - Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL # Learning analytics for TEL # - Big data and data visualization in TEL - Learning analytics for curriculum design - Learning analytics for personalizing the learner experience - Learning analytics for predicting behavior - Learning analytics for designing learning interventions - Learning analytics for stakeholders >>> SUBMISSIONS # Submitting papers # MIS4TEL papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. For further details, please see: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission # Review process # MIS4TEL welcomes the submission of papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Each contribution will be refereed by three experts in the field using the following set of criteria; relevance, originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research efforts related to any of the topics of the conference. # Publication # Accepted papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by LNNS series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/15179). At least one of the authors will be required to register for MIS4TEL and to attend the Conference in order to present their paper and to have it included in the conference proceedings. ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago.** ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE # General Chair # - Marco Temperini - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) # Technical Program Co-Chairs # - Ivana Marenzi - L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) - Vittorio Scarano - University of Salerno (Italy) # Paper Co-Chairs # - Milos Kravcik - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) - Rosa Lanzilotti - University of Bari (Italy) - Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania) # Workshop Co-Chairs # - Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) # Publicity Co-Chairs # - Agnese Addone - University of Salerno (Italy) - Federica Caruso - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Dalila Durães - University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) - John Jairo Páez Rodríguez - University Francisco José de Caldas of Bogotà (Colombia) # Steering Committee Representatives # - Fernando De La Prieta University of Salamanca (Spain) - Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) # Local Organizers Co-Chairs # - Tania Di Mascio - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L'Aquila (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22======================================…

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AVI 2022: Call for Participation, 6-10 June 2022, Frascati, Rome, Italy

by Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi

(Apologies for multiple postings) AVI 2022 Call for Participation International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces >>> 6-10 June 2022 <<< Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES • Early Bird Registration open till 15th May 2022 • Registration link: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/registration --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) - 30TH ANNIVERSARY Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2022 is under the patronage of Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI2022! Paolo Bottoni, AVI 2022 General Chair Emanuele Panizzi, AVI 2022 Program Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year’s AVI conference includes keynote presentations, Long and Short Paper Track, Posters and Demo, 10 workshops, 3 tutorials and a social dinner. A tentative program is available at https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/program Details are as follows. RESEARCH PAPERS This year at AVI 2022, as usual, we received high quality papers reporting exciting new research. 41 long and short papers will be presented at the conference. The detailed program for the AVI 2022 Long and Short Paper Track will be available soon. POSTER & DEMO The AVI 2022 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress, whereas Demo Track allows authors to demonstrate a completed or ongoing research effort. This year 38 posters and demos will be presented at AVI. WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS This year AVI 2022 will host 10 co-located workshops: • Designing for Meaningful Interactions and Digital Wellbeing, June 06, Afternoon • AVI-CH 22 the 4th workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces for Cultural Heritage, June 06 Full day • 3rd International EMPATHY Workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems, June 06, Full day • Enhancing cross-reality applications and user experiences, June 06 - Afternoon • CoPDA2022 - Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI?, June 07, Full day • HCI and worker well-being in manufacturing industry, June 07, Full day • Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII), June 07, Full day • Visuo-Haptic Interaction, June 07, Full day • 3rd Workshop on Audio-Visual Analytics, June 07, Morning • Advanced Visual Interfaces for Augmented Video (AVIxAV), June 07, Afternoon For more details, see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/workshops AVI 2022 will also host 3 tutorials: • Open Research Data and Analysis - How to Implement and Publish in European Project Context, June 06 - Morning • Haptics to Enrich Visual Interfaces: From Theory to Prototyping, June 06 - Full day • Collaborative Sketching with Tangibles: Let's Stop Soulless Meetings, June 07 - Morning For more details, see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/tutorials SOCIAL EVENT A social event will be hosted by AVI 2022 on 9th June at a restaurant on a barge moored on the Tiber banks, in the heart of Rome: Baja. For more details about the tentative venue, see www.bajaroma.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Early bird registration is open until 15th May 2022. All accepted papers (conference and workshops) should be associated with a proper (i.e., non student) registration. Student registration should be accompanied by a proper certification of the student status (copy of the University card, letter from the advisor on letterhead, signed and stamped, etc.). Student registrations are not acceptable for presenting authors, i.e. if the only author attending the event and presenting the paper is a student, they still need to register in the normal category i.e., ACM member or non-member. For more information and for registering please see this link: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/registration For any issue or question about the registration procedure, please contact: eventi(a)consultaumbria.com and congressi(a)consultaumbria.com (both in CC) directly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE & ACCOMMODATION AVI 2022 will be held at Park Hotel Villa Tuscolana, in Frascati (pronounced [fraˈskaːti]), a city and comune in the metropolitan city of Rome, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located 20 kilometers (12 mi) south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills, close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific laboratories. Frascati produces the white wine with the same name. It is also a historical and artistic center. Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel is a 4-star historical hotel and convention center immersed in an elegant atmosphere and surrounded by a beautiful panoramic view of the Eternal City. Strategically located near Rome, Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel is the ideal accommodation solution for visiting the city, 5 minutes from the train station with hourly trains to get to downtown Rome in 30 minutes. Special rates are available for the attendees of AVI 2022 for the whole week and those willing to travel with their own families. For more details see https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/conference/venue-accommodat… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI organizing committee and AVI steering committee are anxiously looking forward to seeing you at the conference ! AVI2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Program Chair Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Long Papers Chairs Célia Martinie, University of Toulouse 3, France Fabio Pittarello, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs David Bell, Brunel University London, UK Marco Romano, University of Salerno, Italy Poster Chairs Marianna Di Gregorio, University of Salerno, Italy Antti Knutas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Demo Chairs Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Silvio Barra, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Alan Serrano-Rico, Brunel University London, UK Publicity Chairs Mehdi Rizvi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Laura Maye, University College Cork, Ireland Online Experience Chairs Enrico Bassetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For any issue or question specifically about the registration procedure, please contact: eventi[at]consultaumbria[dot]com and congressi[at]consultaumbria[dot]com (both in CC) directly. For any other information or queries, please see our website: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022 or write to us at avi2022[at]easychair[dot]org

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Extended deadline 10 May 2022 – CfP: QUARE 2022 The 1st workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, at SIGIR 2022

by Alessandro Piscopo

[apologies for double posting] QUARE 2022: The 1st workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, co-located with SIGIR 2022 (https://sigir.org/sigir2022/), July 11-15, 2022, in Madrid, Spain and Online Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home Location: Hybrid - Madrid, Spain and Online IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- Extended paper submission deadline: 10 May 2022 Author notification: 17 May 2022 Final version deadline: 15 June 2022 Workshop date: 15 July 2022 WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: ---------------------------------------- - Alessandro Piscopo (BBC, UK) <alessandro.piscopo(a)bbc.co.uk<mailto:alessandro.piscopo@bbc.co.uk>> - Oana Inel (University of Zurich, CH) <inel(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:inel@ifi.uzh.ch>> - Sanne Vrijenhoek (University of Amsterdam, NL) <s.vrijenhoek(a)uva.nl<mailto:s.vrijenhoek@uva.nl>> - Martijn Millecamp (AE NV, BE) <martijn.millecamp(a)hotmail.com<mailto:martijn.millecamp@hotmail.com>> - Krisztian Balog (Google Research) <krisztianb(a)google.com<mailto:krisztianb@google.com>> CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------------------- Recommendations are ubiquitous in many contexts and domains due to a continuously growing adoption of decision-support systems. Explanations may be provided along with recommendations with the reasoning behind suggesting a particular item. However, explanations may also significantly affect a user's decision-making process by serving a number of different goals, such as transparency, persuasiveness, scrutability, among others. While there is a growing body of research studying the effect of explanations, the relationship between their quality and their effect has not been investigated in depth yet. For instance, at an institutional level, organisational values may require a different combination of explanation goals; also, within the same organisation some combinations of goals may be more appropriate for some use cases and less for others. Conversely, end-users of a recommender system may be bearers of different values, and explanations can affect them differently. Therefore, understanding whether explanations are fit for their intended goals is key to subsequently implementing them in a production stage. Furthermore, the lack of established, actionable methodologies to evaluate explanations for recommendations, as well as evaluation datasets, hinders cross-comparison between different explainable recommendations approaches, and is one of the issues hampering widespread adoption of explanations in industry settings. This workshop aims to extend existing work in the field by bringing together and facilitating the exchange of perspectives and solutions from industry and academia, and aims to bridge the gap between academic design guidelines and the best practices in the industry regarding the implementation and evaluation of explanations in recommender systems, with respect to their goals, impact, potential biases, and informativeness. With this workshop, we provide a platform for discussion among scholars, practitioners, and other interested parties. TOPICS AND THEMES: -------------------------------- The motivation of the workshop is to promote discussion upon future research and practice directions of evaluating explainable recommendations, by bringing together academic and industry researchers and practitioners in the area. We focus in particular on real-world use cases, diverse organisational values and purposes, and different target users. We encourage submissions that study different explanation goals and combinations of those, how they fit various organisation values and different use cases. Furthermore, we welcome submissions that propose and make available for the community high-quality datasets and benchmarks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Evaluation * Relevance of explanation goals for different use cases; * Soliciting user feedback on explanations; * Implicit vs. explicit evaluation of explanations and goals; * Reproducible and replicable evaluation methodologies; * Online vs. offline evaluations. * Personalisation * User-modelling for explanation generation; * Evaluation approaches for personalised explanations (e.g., content, style); * Evaluation approaches for context-aware explanations (e.g., place, time, alone/group setting, exploratory/transaction mode). * Presentation * Evaluation of different explanation modalities (e.g., text, graphics, audio, hybrid); * Evaluation of interactive explanations. * Datasets * Generation of datasets for evaluation of explanations; * Evaluation benchmarks. * Values * Evaluation of explanations in relation to organisational values; * Evaluation of explanations in relation to personal values. SUBMISSIONS: ---------------------- We welcome three types of submissions: * position or perspective papers (up to 4 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references): original ideas, perspectives, research vision, and open challenges in the area of evaluation approaches for explainable recommender systems; * featured papers (title and abstract of the paper, plus the original paper): already published papers or papers summarizing existing publications in leading conferences and high-impact journals that are relevant for the topic of the workshop * demonstration papers (up to 2 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references): original or already published prototypes and operational evaluation approaches in the area of explainable recommender systems. Page limits include diagrams and appendices. Submissions should be single-blind, written in English, and formatted according to the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official> templates are available from the ACM Website<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (use “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). Submit papers electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=quare22. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and accepted papers will be published on the website of our workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop (attendance may be either remote or in-person) and present the work. ________________________________ Dr Alessandro Piscopo Principal Data Scientist [Shape Description automatically generated] [signature_1413759244]

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In presenza al CHI?

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, so che molti di noi parteciperanno in presenza alla conferenza CHI (New Orleans) e sarebbe bello incontrarsi! Per questo propongo di riunirci mercoledì 4 maggio, alle 12.30, vicino ai desk di registrazione - dovrebbero essere fuori dalla Hall J del convention center. A presto per chi ci sarà! Maristella

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2nd CfP: International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) London, UK, 24-26 August 2022

by Stefano Papetti

[Apologies for cross-posting] [Please forward to interested colleagues] Dear list members, HAID 2022 - 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design 24–26 August 2022, London, UK https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ The*submission portal *for Papers is *now open:* https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HAID2022/Submission/Index Please note that the new*deadline *for*Paper submissions *is*13 May 2022*. We have also extended the *deadline *for*Workshop proposals *to*29 April 2022*. HAID 2022 will be held 24–26 August at the Mile End Campus of Queen Mary University of London in the UK, and will be a hybrid event with in-person activities and online streaming sessions. This edition of HAID introduces the *Work in Progress* initiative (*deadline 10 June 2022*), the objective of which is to increase the inclusiveness of our community. HAID 2022 is organised by the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ). The workshop is supported by the Audio Engineering Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, EuroHaptics Society, and Springer. Please stay tuned to all the latest news at: * HAID 2022 webpage https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ * HAID Google group https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community * HAID Twitter page https://twitter.com/HAID_conference See you in London! The HAID 2022 Programme Chairs Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis -- signature Stefano Papetti MHbook — — Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Zurich University of the Arts — Dr. Stefano Papetti Research Associate Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology — Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, P.O. Box, CH-8031 Zurich Phone +41 43 446 5516 stefano.papetti(a)zhdk.ch — www.zhdk.ch, www.icst.net — Musical Haptics - Open Access ebook - Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-58316-7>

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FedCSIS 2022 Final Call For Papers

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MIS4TEL 2022: Call for papers - Deadline extended / 13-15 July 2022 / L'Aquila (Italy)

by MIS4TEL 2022 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Papers We are glad to invite you to submit a manuscript to MIS4TEL2022, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. The conference proceedings are published by Springer and indexed in Scopus, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== Important dates: Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to *** 29th April, 2022 *** - Notification of acceptance: 30th May, 2022 - Camera-Ready papers due: 17th June, 2022 - Conference celebration: 13th-15th July, 2022 ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 -- 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning >>> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality, or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL-oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide the design of such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education, psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working are used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 12th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL. >>> TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: # Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL # - AI technologies and tools for TEL - Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems - Knowledge representation, reasoning, and management systems for TEL - Natural language systems for TEL - Recommendation, personalization, and adaptation in TEL systems - Social networks for TEL - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL - Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL - Smart solutions or environments for TEL - Wearable technologies for TEL - Robotics for TEL - Virtual reality environments for TEL - Games for TEL or gamified TEL - Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments - Making and fabrication for TEL # Methodologies and experiences for TEL # - Methodologies for personalization, user modeling, and adaptation in TEL- Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modeling in TEL - Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL - Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems - Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL - Methodologies for informal learning for TEL - Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium, and large companies - Methodologies, tools, and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL - Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL - Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL # Learning analytics for TEL # - Big data and data visualization in TEL - Learning analytics for curriculum design - Learning analytics for personalizing the learner experience - Learning analytics for predicting behavior - Learning analytics for designing learning interventions - Learning analytics for stakeholders >>> SUBMISSIONS # Submitting papers # MIS4TEL papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. For further details, please see: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission # Review process # MIS4TEL welcomes the submission of papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Each contribution will be refereed by three experts in the field using the following set of criteria; relevance, originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research efforts related to any of the topics of the conference. # Publication # Accepted papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by LNNS series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/15179). At least one of the authors will be required to register for MIS4TEL and to attend the Conference in order to present their paper and to have it included in the conference proceedings. ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago.** ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE # General Chair # - Marco Temperini - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) # Technical Program Co-Chairs # - Ivana Marenzi - L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) - Vittorio Scarano - University of Salerno (Italy) # Paper Co-Chairs # - Milos Kravcik - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) - Rosa Lanzilotti - University of Bari (Italy) - Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania) # Workshop Co-Chairs # - Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) # Publicity Co-Chairs # - Agnese Addone - University of Salerno (Italy) - Federica Caruso - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Dalila Durães - University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) - John Jairo Páez Rodríguez - University Francisco José de Caldas of Bogotà (Colombia) # Steering Committee Representatives # - Fernando De La Prieta University of Salamanca (Spain) - Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) # Local Organizers Co-Chairs # - Tania Di Mascio - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L'Aquila (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ======================================================================

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CFP [extended deadline]: Workshop on Reflections and Dialogues around Smart Technology (ResiSTo), co-located with MIS4TEL, L'Aquila, Italy | 13th-15th July, 2022

by Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi

(Apologies for multiple postings) ================================================ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS Workshop on Reflections and Dialogues around Smart Technology (ResiSTo) --- Proceedings in Springer Verlag; indexing in Scopus; fast review process --- Co-located with 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL), L'Aquila, Italy | 13th-15th July, 2022 ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Workshop papers submission deadline: 8th May, 2022 (extended) Workshop camera-ready papers: 17th June, 2022 Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published in the LNNS series of Springer Verlag (https://www.springer.com/series/15179), and will be Scopus indexed. ================================================ THEME ================================================ Smart technologies include, but are not limited to, AI-based devices for digital education, smart things, smart art-work, smart environments, smart cities and smart artefacts, in general. The workshop focuses on the role which reflections, as in design thinking, and dialogues, as in ethnographic research, play in imagining, conceptualising, using, assessing smart technologies for different contexts and people, with a preference for learning contexts and learners. Workshop papers are expected to describe frameworks, methods, toolkits, experiences, studies or provocations with reflections and dialogues around smart technologies. Examples are toolkits which enable young generations to design smart things and reflect across their design (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212868921000660). Other examples are studies concerning design as a means for reflecting on stereotypes (http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/-(448ba68b-ca74-4b06…). The workshop is intended as a forum to share provocations concerning past research work, novel ideas grounded in the literature, work-in-progress prototypes, as well as preliminary results which intercept the theme of the workshop. In other words, workshop papers are expected to report on early or ongoing research activities, which have not yet got the maturity expected for the main-conference submissions. ================================================ TOPICS ================================================ Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: -Reflections in the creation, usage or evaluation of smart technologies -Responsibility or other critical reflections in technology enhanced learning -The role of dialogue in digital education -Field studies and ecological studies for reflecting with/around smart technologies -Playfulness, gamification and critical reflections with/around smart technologies -Responsibility in the design of smart solutions -Critical thinking in the design of smart cities, environments, things, artwork, artefacts -Dialogue and reflections in designing smart technologies at a distance -Dialogue and reflections in using smart technologies at a distance -Dialogue and reflections in assessing smart technologies at a distance -Dialogues and reflections in making or physical computing -Creativity, dialogues, reflections and smart technologies -Biases in smart technologies -Unveiling ethics concerns with/around smart technologies ================================================ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================================ Workshop contributions should be 10-page papers or exceptionally 6-page papers, including references; papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS template, available on the main-conference website of MIS4TEL. Papers should be submitted as PDF via Easychair. The Easychair submission page can be accessed at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel22. Please take care in selecting the correct track i.e., “Workshop on Reflections and Dialogues around Smart Technology (ResiSTo)” when submitting. All submissions will undergo a fast yet careful peer review process by at least two members of the program committee. Publication of an accepted paper in the proceedings requires that at least one author of the paper registers for and participates in the conference. ================================================ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alessandra Melonio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Mehdi Rizvi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Elisa Rubegni, Lancaster University, United Kingdom ================================================ For more information, contact us at resisto.workshop(a)gmail.com or check out our webpage at https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/tracks/workshops/resisto

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Fourth Call for Contributions

by Announce Announcements

*** Fourth Call for Contributions *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 The Call-for-Contributions for the 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) is OPEN! The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Special Sessions Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-special-sessions/ . Workshops Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-workshop-proposals/ . Tutorials Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2022 • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Submission Deadline: April 25, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Selection: April 29, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline: May 27, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Selection: June 3, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Third Call for Papers

by Announce Announcements

*** Third Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus

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Fwd: SIGCHI Futures: Reflection and Action

by Luigi De Russis

Carissimi/e, dato che queste mail rivolte a tutti i membri SIGCHI non sembrano arrivare proprio a tutti, mi permetto di inoltrare quella che ho appena inviato a proposito del 40esimo anniversario di SIGCHI e delle iniziative che si vogliono portare avanti per il futuro dell’organizzazione. Credo che soprattutto il secondo punto della mail possa essere interessante per i più giovani della comunità italiana! Rimango a disposizione in caso di curiosità o domande. A presto e buona Pasqua! Luigi --- Luigi De Russis Assistant Professor (RTDb) Department of Control and Computer Engineering Politecnico di Torino, Italy ACM SIGCHI EC's Adjunct Chair for Community Support phone: +39 011 0907170 email: luigi.derussis(a)polito.it <mailto:luigi.derussis@polito.it> web: http://elite.polito.it/people/derussis twitter: @luigidr > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Luigi De Russis <luigi.derussis(a)POLITO.IT> > Subject: SIGCHI Futures: Reflection and Action > Date: 14 April 2022 at 17:37:41 CEST > To: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG > Resent-From: <d025734(a)polito.it> > Reply-To: Luigi De Russis <luigi.derussis(a)POLITO.IT> > > Dear SIGCHI members, > > We would like to share some upcoming events and updates in celebration of SIGCHI’s 40th anniversary! > > 1. Open Session: Imagining SIGCHI Futures > SIGCHI is turning 40 this year! This milestone gives us an opportunity to not only celebrate and reflect on how far HCI has come as a field but also imagine potential future trajectories. In this online open session, we will take stock of SIGCHI’s past and present and envision how it might evolve over the next few decades along the dimensions the community cares about most, such as infrastructures for mentorship, sustainability, accessibility, among others. This will be a precursor to our SIGCHI Turns 40 SIG at CHI 2022, where we will continue to develop aspirations and, importantly, concrete avenues towards a thriving SIGCHI community. > > Friday, April 22 @12pm UTC (in your time zone <https://dateful.com/eventlink/3195715725>) Zoom <https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92741561141?pwd=a25paExZZktrQVM5MGw0S0xaREZBUT09> > > Monday, April 25 @11:59pm UTC (in your time zone <https://dateful.com/eventlink/2818649841>) Zoom <https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/97683167594?pwd=a1BLYmg1aWhkNjJzVE5PVGVtMy9uUT09> > > > 2. Futuring SIGCHI Committee > To sustain discussions around SIGCHI’s 40th, the open session and the SIG will inform the workings of the new Futuring SIGCHI Committee. This committee aims to be a sandbox for (those who self-identify as) early-career professionals to create creative, well-motivated, public-facing pilot projects that help address community challenges and set SIGCHI up for better, stronger futures. Members will be able to iterate on and expand successful pilots to eventually integrate them into SIGCHI structures and long-term practices. You can read more about the committee on our Medium blog post <https://medium.com/sigchi/imagining-sigchi-futures-3ada9218ab01>. > > If you are interested in joining the Futuring SIGCHI Committee, let us know by completing the open call on our Submittable form <https://sigchi.submittable.com/submit/209146/open-call-for-volunteering>. > Feel free to reach out to sigchi-4all(a)acm.org <mailto:sigchi-4all@acm.org> if you have any questions or suggestions! > > All the best, > > Luigi De Russis (Adjunct Chair for SIGCHI Community Support) > Naveena Karusala (Chair, Futuring SIGCHI Committee) > On behalf of the SIGCHI Executive Committee > > > > You can unsubscribe at any time through this link: > Unsubscribe <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=SIGCHI-MEMBERS&RE=LUIGI.DERUSSIS@…>

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HCSE 2022 - New submission deadline April 25 - 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering - Call for Papers

by Stefan Sauer

***Submission deadline for Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results is extended until April 25, 2022!*** *** ** * **** Apologies for cross postings **** * *************************************************************************** HCSE 2022 9th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering 24th to 26th of August, 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.hcse-conference.org *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design (http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/). We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: * contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design * involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the design and development process of interactive systems * innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems * integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes * methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) * models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems * methods and tools for low-code and no-code development paradigms * integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, (cyber)security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development and making them more accessible to developers and users * context-aware and adaptive interactive systems (e.g. in areas such as digital collaboration, digital and worker assistance) * design and integration of novel interaction techniques such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality * support for new kinds of human-machine interaction (HMI) for increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use or provide artificial intelligence (e.g. autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration) * socio-technical aspects of interactive software development * artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the development of interactive systems * software architectures and architectural patterns for interactive systems * rational design, design patterns and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2022 welcomes contributions as technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. In the present edition of HCSE 2022 we are particularly interested in studies focused on multi-stakeholder concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective, but on the systemic change level. This research area is central to the host of the current edition of the conference, the Eindhoven University of Technology, Industrial Design, Systemic Change group. In addition, building on the activities carried out by the WG13.2 during the workshop held at the INTERACT 2021 IFIP TC-13 conference, special consideration will be given to issues related to “changing the context of use”, which has significant impact on how to design and develop with a user-centered perspective and how usage of these systems changed for example in the current pandemic situation. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on user interface properties (such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among others) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a user-centered development process. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. HCSE welcomes the following types of contributions: * Technical full papers (up to 20 pages) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. * Late-breaking results (up to 12 pages) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. * Demonstrations and posters (5–8 pages, plus poster design draft) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. SUBMISSIONS AND REVIEWING PROCESS All contributions should be submitted via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hcse2022conference). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed double-blind, demonstrations and posters single-blind. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. PRESENTATIONS If we hold a physical conference, under the current circumstances, all accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. The conference will NOT enable hybrid participation. PROCEEDINGS Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0). Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. IMPORTANT DATES Technical full papers, late breaking results * Submission: Friday, April 25th, 2022 (*NEW!*) * Notification to authors: Monday, May 16th, 2022 * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 13th, 2022 Demos, posters * Submission: Monday, May 30th, 2022 * Notification to authors: Monday, June 13th, 2022 * Camera-ready due: Monday, June 27th, 2022 CONFERENCE DATES: August 24th – 26th, 2022 ORGANIZERS General Conference Chairs: Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany *

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 51 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 51 *on:* Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education** */guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth / is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 51 - ToC*/** **/ *Preface* /Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth/ p. 5 - 7 (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051-001psi) /Alma Leora Culén and Nicholas Sebastian Stevens/ *Speculative and Critical Approach to Designing Technological Futures through HCI Education* pp. 8 - 31 /Joseph Lindley and David Philip Green/ *The Ultimate Measure of Success for Speculative Design is to Disappear Completely* pp. 32 - 51 /Inês Veiga/ *Transistórias: how a critical and speculative perspective contributes to rethink sustainability education in product design* pp. 52 - 80 /Jordi Tost, Paula L. Schuster, Frank Heidmann/ *Prototyping Inconvenience: A pedagogical experiment on designing for debate in design education* pp. 81 - 110 /Michael W. Beach and Tyler Fox/ *Value Sensitive Speculative Design: Exploring More-Than-Human Relations in the Age of Climate Catastrophe* pp. 111 - 131 /Eva Eriksson, Anne-Marie Hansen, Elisabet M. Nilsson/ *Envisioning Future Scenarios: Teaching and Assessing Values-based Design Approaches* pp. 132 - 151 /Natalia Pérez-Orrego, John Arango-Flórez, Claudia Fernandez-Silva, Juan David Mira-Duque/ *Be provoking. Schooling critical and speculative designers* pp. 152 - 171 /Lenneke Kuijer and Holly Robbins/ *Teaching alternative Paradigms through Critical Design* pp. 172 - 201 /Eva Durall Gazulla/ *Exploring Education Techno-Monitoring Futures: A Participatory Speculative Critical Design Case* pp. 202 - 218 /Sumita Sharma, Heidi Hartikainen, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Essi Kinnunen, Jenni Holappa, Marianne Kinnula, Tonja Molin-Juustila, Jussi Okkonen, Sirkku Kotilainen, Ole Sejer Iversen, Rocío Fatás Arana/ *In Pursuit of Inclusive and Diverse Digital Futures: Exploring the Potential of Design Fiction in Education of Children* pp. 219 - 248 /Kay Kender and Peter Purgathofer/ *Insights for Educational Practice from a Thematic Analysis of Student Experiences with Speculative Design Mini-Projects about Personal Issues* pp. 249 - 269 /Laurens Boer and Tom Jenkins/ *Fostering Creative Confidence with SCD in Interaction Design Education* pp. 270 - 302 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: QUARE 2022: The 1st workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, at SIGIR 2022

by Alessandro Piscopo

[apologies for double posting] QUARE 2022: The 1st workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, co-located with SIGIR 2022 (https://sigir.org/sigir2022/), July 11-15, 2022, in Madrid, Spain and Online Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home Location: Hybrid - Madrid, Spain and Online IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- Paper submission: 3 May 2022 Author notification: 15 May 2022 Final version deadline: 15 June 2022 Workshop date: 15 July 2022 WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: ---------------------------------------- - Alessandro Piscopo (BBC, UK) <alessandro.piscopo(a)bbc.co.uk<mailto:alessandro.piscopo@bbc.co.uk>> - Oana Inel (University of Zurich, CH) <inel(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:inel@ifi.uzh.ch>> - Sanne Vrijenhoek (University of Amsterdam, NL) <s.vrijenhoek(a)uva.nl<mailto:s.vrijenhoek@uva.nl>> - Martijn Millecamp (AE NV, BE) <martijn.millecamp(a)hotmail.com<mailto:martijn.millecamp@hotmail.com>> - Krisztian Balog (Google Research) <krisztianb(a)google.com<mailto:krisztianb@google.com>> CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------------------- Recommendations are ubiquitous in many contexts and domains due to a continuously growing adoption of decision-support systems. Explanations may be provided along with recommendations with the reasoning behind suggesting a particular item. However, explanations may also significantly affect a user's decision-making process by serving a number of different goals, such as transparency, persuasiveness, scrutability, among others. While there is a growing body of research studying the effect of explanations, the relationship between their quality and their effect has not been investigated in depth yet. For instance, at an institutional level, organisational values may require a different combination of explanation goals; also, within the same organisation some combinations of goals may be more appropriate for some use cases and less for others. Conversely, end-users of a recommender system may be bearers of different values, and explanations can affect them differently. Therefore, understanding whether explanations are fit for their intended goals is key to subsequently implementing them in a production stage. Furthermore, the lack of established, actionable methodologies to evaluate explanations for recommendations, as well as evaluation datasets, hinders cross-comparison between different explainable recommendations approaches, and is one of the issues hampering widespread adoption of explanations in industry settings. This workshop aims to extend existing work in the field by bringing together and facilitating the exchange of perspectives and solutions from industry and academia, and aims to bridge the gap between academic design guidelines and the best practices in the industry regarding the implementation and evaluation of explanations in recommender systems, with respect to their goals, impact, potential biases, and informativeness. With this workshop, we provide a platform for discussion among scholars, practitioners, and other interested parties. TOPICS AND THEMES: -------------------------------- The motivation of the workshop is to promote discussion upon future research and practice directions of evaluating explainable recommendations, by bringing together academic and industry researchers and practitioners in the area. We focus in particular on real-world use cases, diverse organisational values and purposes, and different target users. We encourage submissions that study different explanation goals and combinations of those, how they fit various organisation values and different use cases. Furthermore, we welcome submissions that propose and make available for the community high-quality datasets and benchmarks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Evaluation * Relevance of explanation goals for different use cases; * Soliciting user feedback on explanations; * Implicit vs. explicit evaluation of explanations and goals; * Reproducible and replicable evaluation methodologies; * Online vs. offline evaluations. * Personalisation * User-modelling for explanation generation; * Evaluation approaches for personalised explanations (e.g., content, style); * Evaluation approaches for context-aware explanations (e.g., place, time, alone/group setting, exploratory/transaction mode). * Presentation * Evaluation of different explanation modalities (e.g., text, graphics, audio, hybrid); * Evaluation of interactive explanations. * Datasets * Generation of datasets for evaluation of explanations; * Evaluation benchmarks. * Values * Evaluation of explanations in relation to organisational values; * Evaluation of explanations in relation to personal values. SUBMISSIONS: ---------------------- We welcome three types of submissions: * position or perspective papers (up to 4 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references): original ideas, perspectives, research vision, and open challenges in the area of evaluation approaches for explainable recommender systems; * featured papers (title and abstract of the paper, plus the original paper): already published papers or papers summarizing existing publications in leading conferences and high-impact journals that are relevant for the topic of the workshop * demonstration papers (up to 2 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references): original or already published prototypes and operational evaluation approaches in the area of explainable recommender systems. Page limits include diagrams and appendices. Submissions should be single-blind, written in English, and formatted according to the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official> templates are available from the ACM Website<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (use “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). Submit papers electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=quare22. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and accepted papers will be published on the website of our workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2022/home. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the work. ________________________________ Dr Alessandro Piscopo Principal Data Scientist [Shape Description automatically generated] [signature_154124144]

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: PATCH@UMAP 2022 - Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross-postings *** *PATCH Workshop @UMAP 2022 - Final Call For Papers - **** EXTENDED DEADLINE APRIL, 22 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) - Towards Hybrid CH Experience co-located with ACM UMAP 2022 - Online and Barcelona, Spain. https://patch2022.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2022 will be again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. For those using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009), visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes. However, personalization brings two main challenges: - Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only once, or they interact with digital services anonymously? - Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web? Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be preserved and valued. Submissions Full papers: up to 14 pages excluding references; Short papers/Position papers/Demo papers: up to 7 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://patch2022.di.unito.it/submission.html . All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "workshop PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22 . An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Important dates: April 22, 2022: EXTENDED Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 15, 2022: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 11, 2022: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 18, 2022: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com

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CHITALY 2023 - CALL FOR BIDS - Scadenza: 9 Maggio

by Maristella Matera

CHITALY 2023 - CALL FOR BIDS *** Scadenza per l'invio delle proposte: 9 Maggio 2022 *** ____________________________________________ Carissimi, a nome dello Steering Committee della conferenza CHItaly, comunico che accogliamo ora le proposte per l'organizzazione della prossima edizione della conferenza. CHItaly è la conferenza di ACM SIGCHI Italy, il capitolo italiano del gruppo speciale di interesse su HCI dell'ACM. Si svolge ogni due anni e accoglie contributi da membri e non membri della nostra comunità, dall'Italia e dall'estero. La lingua ufficiale della conferenza è l'Inglese. Gli atti della conferenza sono pubblicati nella Digital Library dell'ACM. L'ultima edizione del 2021 si è svolta a Bolzano (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/). Se siete interessati a organizzare la prossima edizione del 2023, inviate la vostra proposta rispondendo a questo messaggio entro e non oltre il 9 Maggio. Trovate in allegato una guida alla preparazione della proposta, con indicazioni sulle informazioni più rilevanti che guideranno il processo di selezione. Non esitate a contattarci in caso abbiate bisogno di ulteriori informazioni. Cari saluti, Maristella Matera (per lo Steering Committee di CHItaly)

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3rd International Workshop on Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems (EMPATHY) - Final Call for Contributions

by Andrea Mattioli

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Final call for papers* *Submission deadline extended to April 16th* EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems - 3rd Edition https://empathy-ws.github.io/2022/ June 6th, 2022 Rome, Italy Workshop co-located with AVI 2022 OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES April 16th: Paper submission deadline (extended) April 22th: Paper acceptance notice April 29th: Camera-ready submission June 6th: Workshop SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This workshop aims to serve as a venue for discussing ongoing research and sharing ideas for researchers and practitioners working on solutions to personalize the behavior of IoT ecosystems. We aim to encourage participation in order to have stimulating discussion from various perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited, to: - End-User Development (EUD) for IoT; - Interaction Paradigms for IoT; - Usability of IoT Systems; - Interface Design for IoT; - Intelligent Interface for IoT Systems; - Accessibility for IoT Systems; - Virtual and Augmented Reality for EUD in IoT settings; - Conversational User Interfaces for EUD; - Usable Privacy and Security in IoT systems; - Personalisation and Recommendations for IoT; - IoT for Cultural Heritage; - Personalization of humanoid robots; - Ubiquitous computing and mobile human-computer interaction; - Human-centered artificial intelligence in IoT contexts; - Industry case studies. PARTICIPATION This will be a one-day workshop, oriented towards discussions, hands-on sessions, and presentations. We invite submissions of two types: short papers (3-4 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages). Participants are asked to submit their paper describing their recent or future work in one of the areas indicated in the topics of interest. All submissions must be in the new ACM master article template (https://chi2022.acm.org/for-authors/). Papers should be submitted in PDF to Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2022). All papers will be reviewed by the organizers and by the program committee based on relevance and significance in order to provide constructive comments to the submitters. Reviewing will be double blind (i.e. the submissions must be anonymized). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. Final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, which is indexed by Scopus. ORGANIZERS - Fabrizio Balducci, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Bernardo Breve, University of Salerno - Federica Cena, University of Torino - Andrea Mattioli, CNR-ISTI - Mehdi Rizvi, Politecnico of Milano For more information, check our website at https://empathy-ws.github.io/2022/ or contact us at empathy2022(a)easychair.org

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ACM UMAP 2022: Second Call for Late-breaking Results and Demos

by Helma Torkamaan

* --- Please forward to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ----------------------------------------------------------------- # ** Second Call for LBR and Demos: 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22)** http://www.um.org/umap2022/ (*) Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates** ============================ *- Submission of demos and LBR papers: April 22, 2022 (Updated)* - Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2022 - Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2022 - Conference: July 4-7, 2022 **Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)** -------------------------------------------------------- ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years' chairs. The proceedings are published by the ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP 2022 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by April 22, 2022. -------------------------------------------------------- **Submission formats** ============================ For more details, see below! ** # Demonstrations - Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references - (Required) unpublished page describing how they would present the demo virtually and/or in person - (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system - Publication in ACM UMAP 2022 Adjunct Proceedings - Presentation as a (potentially virtual) demo + poster at the conference ** # Late-Breaking Results - Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references - (NEW: required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on - Publication in ACM UMAP 2022 Adjunct Proceedings - Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference **Submission via**: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22 **Demonstrations** ============================ Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 3 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2022. Given uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this extra page should also describe if/how the demo can be presented in a virtual setting (e.g. with a video or a live link to the system). **Late-Breaking Results** ============================ Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as (in-person and virtual) posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2022. -------------------------------------------------------- **Submission and Review Process** ============================ Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Papers (demo and LBR) must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): - LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… - Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… - MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-)reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2022 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap22 (choose *New Submission*and make sure to select *UMAP 2022 Demo and LBR*track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. -------------------------------------------------------- **Publication and Presentation** ============================ Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2022 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP '22 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. Due to the uncertainties regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the poster session may be partially or fully virtual. **To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.** -------------------------------------------------------- **Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs** ============================ - Cataldo Musto, University of Bari, Italy - Veronika Bogina, University of Haifa, Israel - Contact: umap2022-lpd(a)um.org -------------------------------------------------------- **Follow UMAP 2022 on Social Media** ============================ - Twitter: @UMAPconf #umap2022 (https://twitter.com/UMAPconf) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acmumap *

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MIS4TEL 2022: 5th Call for Paper / 13-15 July 2022 / L'Aquila (Italy)

by MIS4TEL 2022 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Papers We are glad to invite you to submit a manuscript to MIS4TEL2022, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. The conference proceedings are published by Springer and indexed in Scopus, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== Important dates: - Submission deadline: 22nd April, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 30th May, 2022 - Camera-Ready papers due: 17th June, 2022 - Conference celebration: 13th-15th July, 2022 ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 -- 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning >>> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality, or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL-oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide the design of such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education, psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working are used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 12th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL. >>> TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: # Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL # - AI technologies and tools for TEL - Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems - Knowledge representation, reasoning, and management systems for TEL - Natural language systems for TEL - Recommendation, personalization, and adaptation in TEL systems - Social networks for TEL - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL - Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL - Smart solutions or environments for TEL - Wearable technologies for TEL - Robotics for TEL - Virtual reality environments for TEL - Games for TEL or gamified TEL - Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments - Making and fabrication for TEL # Methodologies and experiences for TEL # - Methodologies for personalization, user modeling, and adaptation in TEL- Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modeling in TEL - Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL - Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems - Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL - Methodologies for informal learning for TEL - Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium, and large companies - Methodologies, tools, and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL - Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL - Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL # Learning analytics for TEL # - Big data and data visualization in TEL - Learning analytics for curriculum design - Learning analytics for personalizing the learner experience - Learning analytics for predicting behavior - Learning analytics for designing learning interventions - Learning analytics for stakeholders >>> SUBMISSIONS # Submitting papers # MIS4TEL papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. For further details, please see: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission # Review process # MIS4TEL welcomes the submission of papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Each contribution will be refereed by three experts in the field using the following set of criteria; relevance, originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research efforts related to any of the topics of the conference. # Publication # Accepted papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by LNNS series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/15179). At least one of the authors will be required to register for MIS4TEL and to attend the Conference in order to present their paper and to have it included in the conference proceedings. ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago.** ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE # General Chair # - Marco Temperini - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) # Technical Program Co-Chairs # - Ivana Marenzi - L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) - Vittorio Scarano - University of Salerno (Italy) # Paper Co-Chairs # - Milos Kravcik - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) - Rosa Lanzilotti - University of Bari (Italy) - Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania) # Workshop Co-Chairs # - Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) # Publicity Co-Chairs # - Agnese Addone - University of Salerno (Italy) - Federica Caruso - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Dalila Durães - University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) - John Jairo Páez Rodríguez - University Francisco José de Caldas of Bogotà (Colombia) # Steering Committee Representatives # - Fernando De La Prieta University of Salamanca (Spain) - Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) # Local Organizers Co-Chairs # - Tania Di Mascio - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L'Aquila (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ======================================================================

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Third Call for Contributions

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*** Third Call for Contributions *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 The Call-for-Contributions for the 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) is OPEN! The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Special Sessions Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-special-sessions/ . Workshops Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-workshop-proposals/ . Tutorials Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2022 • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Submission Deadline: April 15, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Selection: April 21, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline: May 27, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Selection: June 3, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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Extended Deadline - Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022)

by Giuseppe Caggianese

****** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ****** Call for Papers Special Session on "eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications" Abstract (1-2 pages) by April 15, 2022 (extended deadline) ************************************************************************ Dear Colleagues, Due to the several requests of deferral received in the last few days, the submission deadline to contribute to the special session on "eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications" has been extended to April 15, 2022. https://metroxraine.org/special-session-10 Please don't miss the opportunity to contribute to this special session with an abstract of 1-2 pages. See the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested. Conference information: IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022) - October 26-28, 2022 - Rome. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022. Sincerely, Giuseppe Caggianese ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-10 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022) https://metroxraine.org/ October 26-28, 2022 - Rome, Italy. ==================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ - Abstract (1-2 pages) Submission Deadline: April 15, 2022 (extended deadline) - Abstract Acceptance Notification: April 27, 2022 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 3, 2022 - Full Paper Acceptance Notification: July 4, 2022 - Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 30, 2022 - Early Bird Registration: September 10, 2022 - Conference Dates: October 26-28, 2022 SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the Metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the Metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the Metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry all human endeavors, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the Metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service, and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The Metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-10 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for Metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for Metaverse - Interoperability for Metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the Metaverse - Operations and Maintenance in Metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for Metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for Metaverse - Fraud-Detection in Metaverse - Cyber Security for Metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in Metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in Metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for Metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the Metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in Metaverse - Human factors issues related to Metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds 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. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29413 To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. All submissions will be reviewed by the special session organizers and other external reviewers. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. VENUE -------- National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy – October 26-28, 2022. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it For any questions related to the special session, please contact us via email.

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Fifth Call for Contributions

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*** Fifth Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Paper Submission The papers should not exceed eleven (11) pages single-column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition to a Main Track, the conference features 9 additional Special Tracks. More information on these tracks is available on the conference web site. Journal Special Issues and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to two special journal issues: • FGCS, Elsevier (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems) • MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good… ). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed nine (9) pages single column, including figures, tables, and references in the new ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/ ). Submission Instructions All papers must be submitted electronically via the hotcrp web site (https://goodit2022.hotcrp.com ). Once on the submission page, you will be able to select the track where to submit your paper. Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Conference Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/committees/

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Deadline extension SLERD 2022 - 7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ /========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 19, 2022 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= / ========================================================= *7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2022:**TOWARDS THE POLYPHONIC CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW NORMALITY* *July 5-6, 2022* /*Bucharest, Romania (hybrid)*/ slerd.uniroma2.it <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com To keep updated join the ASLERD LinkedIn page -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5103530/> Facebook page -> link <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063631144119> ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: */*April 19, 2022 (new hard deadline) */*call for papers <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= * *SLERD 2022* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD>/./ * * /*Short Intro*/ After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “*new normality*“. This is within a world that seeks to protect at best and incentivize the economic recovery that although relevant is still subjected to enormous risks. Among the main areas on which most of the industrialized countries and Europe are focusing on, there are: the transitions towards a green and circular economy, smart digitization of the production processes, social innovation, active citizen participation supported by technologies, and, finally, the education for all. In such a context,*collaboration*is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside/collaboration/, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of*Artificial Intelligence*(AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side,*competences*have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of*ethical nature*. Last but not least, they are likely to require an organizational and didactic revolution of the learning ecosystems, thus requiring to question the possible consequences in order to build a more adequate future. In turn, this step requires inspiration from best practices to leverage the advantage of the growth of individuals and the expectations of the communities. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>” as a contribution to theUnited Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld>? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? /Smart /referred to /learning ecosystems,/ in ASLERD and SLERD contexts, does not simply means “technology enhanced”. The smartness is a more complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players operating in the ecosystems and is affected by the improvement of any relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning, especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation. Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they are not a “sine qua non”. The achievement of the learning ecosystems’ smartness is a process that need a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals. ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *April 19**, 2022 (hard deadline)* • Notification to the authors: May 13, 2022 • Camera ready paper: May 23, 2022 • Conference: July 5-6, 2022 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- SLERD contributions of min. 4500 words and max. 16 pages. Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2022 =========================================================

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