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

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*** Last Call for Special Track Proposals *** 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 ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. In this case, 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 positive societal impact. GoodIT topics include but not limited to: • IT for education • Data Science • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Data sensing, processing, and persistency • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for development • Privacy and trust issues and solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Smart governance and e-administration • IT for smart living • Technology addressing the digital divide • IT for automotive • Frugal solutions for IT • Ethical computing • Decentralized approaches to IT • Citizen science • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable IT • Social informatics • Civic intelligence Journal Special Issue and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal 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. Special Tracks Proposals GoodIT 2022 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 the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. Special Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: • Title of the special track. • The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. • A short description of the scope and topics of the 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. • Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. • The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). • A tentative Program Committee list. • A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page). Publication Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk, and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. Important Dates • Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021 • Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021 Contact (Special Tracks Chairs) • Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) • Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) • Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

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[CfP] Understanding Digital Wellbeing within Complex Technological Contexts - special issue

by Luigi De Russis

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Special Issue on Understanding Digital Wellbeing within Complex Technological Contexts https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-s… <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-s…> Submission deadline: February 15, 2021 Nowadays, there is a growing — yet debated — discussion around the negative aspects of overusing technology, with many people that feel conflicted about the amount of time they spend on their devices. In this context, researchers and practitioners have started to consider a new kind of psychological digital wellbeing, giving rise to the flourishing of digital self-control tools (DSCTs), i.e., external applications that support users in self-regulating their technology use through interventions like timers and lock-out mechanisms. Currently, the digital wellbeing topic is nearly always contextualized to consider single technological sources at a time, with a prevalence of studies and DSCTs that focus on smartphones only. As many people nowadays own (and use) several devices, however, there is a need to better understand their complex and overlapping use (and non-use), and the relationships to other people’s digital wellbeing. The purpose of this special issue is to provide the academic and industry research communities a venue for work at the state-of-the-art on digital wellbeing and DSCTs, with a particular focus on digital wellbeing within complex technological contexts. Topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: - Critical and systematic reviews in the area of digital wellbeing and/or DSCTs - Evidence-based work that challenges and expands current definitions of digital wellbeing - Novel approaches and methodologies to overcome the contemporary single-device characterization of digital wellbeing - Digital wellbeing for under-served, under-resourced, and under-represented populations around the world - Data collection strategies, algorithms, interventions or evaluations for multi-device DSCTs - Multitasking and digital wellbeing - Strategies and tools for measuring digital wellbeing in a multi-device setting - Responsibility and role of tech companies and/or government - Social, educational, and political factors related to digital wellbeing. Important Dates ----------------------- Manuscript submission due: February 15, 2022 First round notification: April 15, 2022 Revised manuscript due: May 15, 2022 Final decision made: June 20, 2022 Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2022 Publication Date: Late 2022 Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Authors need to follow the manuscript format and allowable number of pages described at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-s… <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-s…>. To submit a manuscript for consideration for the special issue, please visit the journal submission website at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhcs/default.aspx <https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhcs/default.aspx> Guest Editors ------------------- - Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it <mailto:luigi.derussis@polito.it>) - Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (alberto.monge(a)polito.it <mailto:alberto.monge@polito.it>) - Danielle Lottridge, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand (d.lottridge(a)auckland.ac.nz) - Marta E. Cecchinato, University of Northumbria, UK (marta.cecchinato(a)northumbria.ac.uk)

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Deadline extension special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' " - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *January 10, 2022* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'* 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: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Tania Di Mascio, Università de L’Aquila, Italy • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 10*, 2022 (extended) • Notification to the authors: February 21, 2022 • Camera ready paper: March 10, 2022 • Publication of the special issue: to be defined =========================================== *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!). The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging to address several research contexts, suddenly the two dimensions that characterises the smart learning ecosystems – physical and virtual – started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur – processual, social, individual – to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2021. ----------------------------------------------------------- *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 design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens communities and co-design in smart learning 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 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 and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' ") 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 and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • tania [dot] dimascio [at] univaq[dot] it • oem [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 ----------------------------------------------------------

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: Multimedia Tools and Applications - Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI (deadline: January 10, 2022)

by Alessandra MELONIO

****** Apologies for multiple postings ***** ========================================================= Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI to be published in the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications https://www.springer.com/journal/11042/updates/19729376 <https://www.springer.com/journal/11042> ========================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------- Overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence. The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below. ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models · HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems · Multimodal interaction technologies · Collaborative and social computing and HCI · Accessibility and inclusive multimedia Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI · Humanities and multimedia-based HCI · Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI · Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems · Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI · Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI · Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI · Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI · Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI · Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI ----------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor) Department Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it <mailto:alessandra.melonio@unive.it> Maria De Marsico Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it <mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it> Cristina Gena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it <mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it> Rosella Gennari Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it <mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it> ----------------------------------------------------------- Important dates/Tentative Schedule: ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: November 30, 2021 January 10, 2022 (extended) Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website <https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx <https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Alessandra Melonio, PhD Assistant Professor Tenure Track Department Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

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IxD&A Journal N. 49: meet the authors and download the articles

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. 49 *on:* Collaborative multimedia applications in technology */guest editors: César A. Collazos, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun / *Meet the authors * on the /*29th of November - 16:00 CET*/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAuKmX5xPVZKpIt30HeeE_rcQ89PjG_Sq…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 49 - ToC* /** Preface **// by César A. Collazos, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun p. 5 - 7, Carlos Alberto Peláez Ayala, Andrés Solano, Toni Granollers *Proposal to Conceive Multimedia Systems from a Value Creation Perspective and a Collaborative Work Routes Approach,* pp. 8 - 28 Oscar Revelo Sánchez, César Collazos Ordóñez, Miguel Redondo Duque *Group formation in collaborative learning contexts based on personality traits: An empirical study in initial Programming courses*, pp. 29 - 45 Julian Grigera, Juan Cruz Gardey, Alejandro Fernandez, Alejandra Garrido *Tycho: Facilitation Support for Groupware User Tests*, pp. 46 - 63 Héctor Cardona-Reyes, Cristian Trujillo-Espinoza, Carlos Arevalo-Mercado, Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga *Training of Drone Pilots through Virtual Reality Environments under the Gamification Approach in a University Context*, pp. 64 - 83 Sushardjanti Felasari, Chengzhi Peng *Collating a city’s collective memory in co-production of an online urban design learning space*, pp. 84 - 96 Sergio Firmenich, Alejandro Fernandez, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Gustavo Rossi *Collaborative web extensions: a P2P approach*, pp. 97 - 110 Gökçe Elif Baykal, Olof Torgersson, Eva Eriksson Designing for Children’s Reflections in Collaborative Interaction Mediated by Technology: A Systematic Literature Review, pp. 111 - 134///////// ////*REGULAR PAPER* //// /////Elisabeth Rolf, Ola Knutsson, Robert Ramberg *Teachers’ Design Processes: An Analysis of Teachers’ Design Talk and Use of Pedagogical Patterns*, pp. 135 - 160// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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

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*** Second 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 Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard 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. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social 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. Separate call-for-papers will be announced for the special tracks (more information will be available on the conference web site). 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 four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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Mediterranean SIGCHI Committee - MedCHI

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, con il supporto dell'Executive Committee del SIGCHI e in collaborazione con i chair di altri chapter SIGCHI, stiamo cercando di individuare iniziative per costituire un gruppo di interesse allargato nell'area del Mediterraneo. Una prima idea riguarda la costituzione di un comitato esteso, il Mediterranean SIGCHI (MedCHI) Committee, che possa farsi promotore di iniziative per la collaborazione e lo scambio tra i diversi chapter coinvolti. Le vostre opinioni e i vostri suggerimenti sono importanti per noi. Per questo, vi chiediamo di dedicare pochi minuti alla compilazione del questionario che trovate al link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/med-chi certi che potrete darci spunti interessanti per consolidare l'iniziativa. Non esitate a contattarci qualora desideriate maggiori informazioni. Cari saluti, Maristella Matera, Lugi De Russis, Massimo Zancanaro

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for the Main Track and Third Call for Other Contributions

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*** Final Call for the Main Track and Third Call for Other Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still 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. 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, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). 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. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 21 November 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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[MUM 2021] Early-Bird registration deadline on Sunday 7 November 2021

by Adalberto Simeone

Apologies for cross-posting. The extension to the early-bird registration rates for the 2021 International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will end on Sunday 14 November (included). If you haven’t already, please register before that date. The early-bird rates apply for both physical and remote attendance. Register at: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/registration/ The ACM SIGCHI is also sponsoring 20 FREE online registrations to attend the conference remotely. More info at https://forms.office.com/r/VBG5E8TZjj See you soon in Leuven or virtually! -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients 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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WUD-SIGHItaly 2020: sono aperte le registrazioni

by Cristina Gena

Carissim* come già anticipato qualche giorno fa, il 12 novembre dalle ore 9,30 alle 13 ci sarà il online il primo WUD del SIGHitaly. L’evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare sul sito: http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>. Il WUD (World Usability Day), la giornata mondiale sull’usabilità promossa su scala globale dalla User Experience Professional Association (UXPA), 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 Human-Centered AI (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>). La giornata si aprirà con un intervento dell’assessore torinese all'innovazione Marco Pironti, a cui seguirà l’invited talk di apertura di Olivero Stock di FBK. Chiuderà la giornata l’intervento di Francesca Costabile su Teaching HCI for AI, e la mattinata è ricca di brevi, ma interessanti interventi sul tema della Human-Centered AI,di cui trovate il dettaglio sul sito. Ci fa ovviamente piacere la vostra partecipazione e potete anche diffondere l’invito ai vostri studenti interessati. Segnaliamo infine che nel pomeriggio del 12 novembre e anche nelle giornate del 10, 11 e 13 novembre potete seguire online i WUD days organizzati dalla Società Italiana di Ergonomia, trovate maggiori informazioni sul sito: http://www.wudtorino.org/ <http://www.wudtorino.org/> Buona giornata Cristina, con Maristella e Massimo ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena <https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena> Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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1st Call for Papers: AVI 2022 / June 6th-10th 2022 / Rome, Italy

by Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi

(Apologies for multiple postings) AVI 2022 Call for Papers 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 Workshop and tutorial proposals: Sunday, January 16, 2022 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Sunday, January 23, 2022 Paper submission: Sunday, January 30, 2022 Posters and Demo papers: Sunday, April 10, 2022 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 actual 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Coronavirus Pandemic and Human-Computer Interaction Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Interaction Design Tools Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Accepted long and short research papers will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2022 topics and describe original, unpublished research. The maximum length of long papers is eight pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is four pages (with one additional page for references). POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2022 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress and obtain precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. DEMO PAPERS Demo papers refer to something that authors can show at the Conference to demonstrate a completed or ongoing research effort. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. Demo submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above, i.e., long and short research papers, posters, and demos, require online submission. Authors must format these submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: - Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… - Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, or software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2022 We strongly encourage sending a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held on June 6 or June 7, 2022, at the AVI2022 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted on this Google form: https://forms.gle/36gjYKp2xkH28MAu5 TUTORIALS We encourage the proposal of tutorials on specific topics related to AVI and general HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. Tutorial proposals must be submitted on this Google form: https://forms.gle/PkgzwFUwp2bzbN4z8 PROCEEDINGS Accepted full and short research papers, poster papers, demo papers, and workshop descriptions will appear in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. They will be available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2022 by the early registration deadline and present the paper 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 more information or any queries, please see our website: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022 or write to us at avi2022[at]easychair.org

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Fourth Call for Papers

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*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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CFP: Multimedia Tools and Applications - Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI (deadline: 30 November, 2021)

by Melonio Alessandra

****** Apologies for multiple postings ***** ========================================================= Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI to be published in the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications https://www.springer.com/journal/11042 ========================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------- Overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence. The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below. ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models · HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems · Multimodal interaction technologies · Collaborative and social computing and HCI · Accessibility and inclusive multimedia Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI · Humanities and multimedia-based HCI · Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI · Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems · Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI · Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI · Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI · Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI · Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI · Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI ----------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor) Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it> Dr. Maria De Marsico Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it> Dr. Cristina Gena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it> Dr. Rosella Gennari Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it> ----------------------------------------------------------- Important dates/Tentative Schedule: ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: November 30, 2021 Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Second Call for Special Track Proposals

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*** Second Call for Special Track Proposals *** 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 ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. In this case, 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 positive societal impact. GoodIT topics include but not limited to: • IT for education • Data Science • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Data sensing, processing, and persistency • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for development • Privacy and trust issues and solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Smart governance and e-administration • IT for smart living • Technology addressing the digital divide • IT for automotive • Frugal solutions for IT • Ethical computing • Decentralized approaches to IT • Citizen science • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable IT • Social informatics • Civic intelligence Journal Special Issue and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social 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. Special Tracks Proposals GoodIT 2022 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 the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. Special Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: • Title of the special track. • The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. • A short description of the scope and topics of the 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. • Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. • The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). • A tentative Program Committee list. • A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page). Publication Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk, and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. Important Dates • Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021 • Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021 Contact (Special Tracks Chairs) • Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) • Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) • Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for Papers for the Main Track

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*** Final Call for Papers for the Main Track *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp… (*** Submission Deadline Extended to November 21st ***) Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still 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. 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, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions for the main track: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp… by selecting the main track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). 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. Important Dates - Paper submission: 21 November 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

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Luigi De Russis Adjunct Chair di ACM SIGCHI

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, è con grande piacere che annuncio l'ingresso di Luigi De Russis nell'Executive Committee di ACM SIGCHI come Adjunct Chair for Community Support: https://sigchi.org/executive-committee/ È un risultato importante per Luigi e anche per la nostra comunità. Congratulazioni a Luigi! Cari saluti, Maristella

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CFP: UD 2022 - 6th International Conference on Universal Design (deadline extended to November 20, 2021)

by Daniela Fogli

----------------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------------- UD 2022 - Sixth International Conference on Universal Design - Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development http://ud2022.unibs.it UD2022 will be hosted in Brescia, Italy, September 7-9, 2022, and is co-organized by the universities of Brescia, Trieste, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. ----------------------------- The vision of UD 2022 ----------------------------- The conference will be centered on the connection between Universal Design and 2030 sustainable development goals related to the built environment, sustainable communities, cities and urban environments, knowledge, information and life-long learning, human development, decent work, healthy aging and wellbeing. There will be a special session on Cultural Heritage. The conference brings together international research findings and best practices in Universal Design. ---------------------------- Themes for UD 2022 ---------------------------- Universal Design and: 1. Higher education and life-long learning 2. Health and healthcare 3. Mobility 4. Information and communication technology; assistive technologies; digital learning; artificial intelligence 5. Arts, culture, aesthetics and design 6. Cultural heritage 7. Inclusive and resilient cities 8. Public and private buildings and spaces 9. Navigation and wayfinding 10. Economic and legal perspectives 11. Ethical and philosophical perspectives 12. Systems, Standards, institutions and policies in the public and private sectors 13. Post COVID pandemic perspectives 14. Vulnerables and low and middle income countries 15. Tourism 16. Workplace and employment 17. Objects, products, services --------------------- Important Dates --------------------- 20th November 2021 (Extended): deadline for abstract submission 10th January 2022: abstract acceptance notification 31st March 2022: deadline for full papers 31st May 2022: end of review process for full papers 30th June 2022: deadline for final papers (camera ready) --------------------------- Conference web site --------------------------- http://ud2022.unibs.it ------------ Contacts ------------ Conference official mail: ud2022(a)unibs.it Alberto Arenghi: alberto.arenghi(a)unibs.it Giulia Bencini: giulia.bencini(a)unive.it Ilaria Garofolo: ilaria.garofolo(a)dia.units.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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Call-for-Papers Special Issue "Explainable User Models" (Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal)

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — Special Issue "Explainable User Models" A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088). Important Dates & Facts: Abstract/title submission: ideally until November 5, 2021 Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022 Notification to authors: March 15, 2022 Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models Benefits of submission: - Experienced Guest Editor - Open Access with quick processing time - High Visibility: Indexed within Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100945706>, ESCI (Web of Science)<https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>, Inspec<https://inspec-direct-app.theiet.org/>, and many other databases<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/indexing>. - Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (Computer Science Applications) Special Issue Information This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent. Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system. The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to: Detection and Modelling • Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences • Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.) • Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood) • Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities) • User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews) • Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models Ethics • Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation) • Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior) • User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits) Human understandability • Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations • Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models • Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring) • Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies) Effectiveness • Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance) • Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction) • Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security) Adaptive presentation of the explanations • For different types of user • Interactive explanations • Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction) Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev Ms. Oana Inel Guest Editors

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graduate and post-doc positions in ADvanced AIRspace Usability (Montreal and Toronto, Canada)

by Jeremy Cooperstock

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PhD grant at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) on "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors"

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear list members, At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano we have a 3-year fully-funded Ph.D. grant to work on the project "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors" within the Advanced-Systems Engineering programme. The project is done in collaboration with a company and aims to investigate how to integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the field of industrial automation. Please see the attached file for a more detailed description of the project. Applications can be submitted from *22 October to 5 November 2021*, by noon local time. Further details on the application procedure and selection process can be found on the following link: https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Applicants/PhD-37-Cycle/ASE_scheda-de… The language of the Ph.D. programme is English, and the university implements a trilingual model providing prospective students with a suitable environment to learn German and Italian. For this concrete grant, knowledge of Italian and/or German is preferred but not required. If you have any questions you can reach us at maria.menendezblanco(a)unibz.it and Antonella.DeAngeli(a)unibz.it. Best regards, María Menéndez-Blanco *Project Title: "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop Floors"* This interdisciplinary action-research project, which draws on psychological, IT, and engineering knowledge, aims to investigate how to integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the field of industrial automation. The case study is the GKN site in Bruneck/Brunico which is transforming its production process. The company is moving from an approach in which workers were traditionally assigned to fixed tasks into a dynamic approach in which workers will be automatically assigned to different tasks based on industrial needs and their skills. An algorithm tracks the individual's behaviour through a smartwatch that notifies the opening of a task through an interface where the user can accept or reject it. From a psychological perspective this change is dramatic and, as often documented in the literature, strong resistance factors have also been shown at GKN, even after the use of economic incentives. The project aims to investigate how the green challenge can become a facilitating factor in the acceptance of work processes that in turn lead to more sustainable development. New algorithms could, for example, take into account the reduction of waste or energy consumption within the company. Highlighting these criteria in the interface could help support user participation. In summary, the project aims to (a) identify performance parameters; (b) develop algorithms and models for predicting human tasks and behaviours and calculating optimal actions; (c) communicate suitable actions and parameters to the worker; (d) create new communities of practice as stipulated in the call for funding.

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Call for Papers ECCE 2022 4-7 October 2022 - Kaiserslautern, Germany

by Lammers, H.A.

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 CALL FOR PAPERS 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”. The Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones: * Cognitive processes in design * Cognitively-orientated human factors * Consequences of VR/AR/MR usage * Context awareness * Cross / Extended reality (XR): VR, AR, and MR * Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization * Design methods, tools, and methodologies for designing interactive systems * Ecological approaches to human cognition and human-technology interaction * Efficient collaborations * Ethical issues in virtual environments * Human-computer interaction * Human error and reliability * Human factors and simulation * Human-technology interaction in the Internet of Things era * Interactive learning * Intuitive interaction * Motivation, engagement, goal sharing * Multisensory perception * Resilience and diversity * Scalable evaluation spanning the reality–virtuality continuum * Situation awareness * Trust and control in complex virtual systems * User experience design * User interfaces * User research concepts, methods, and empirical studies Submissions All submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow for all information on formatting and templates to create your manuscript for submission. All submissions are handled through Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2022[AE1] Proceedings will appear on ACM Digital Library. Submission Categories * Long and Short Papers * Demonstrations * Workshops * Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium Important Dates and Deadlines March 15, 2022: Deadline for submissions June 22, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready version submissions July 15, 2022: Early registration deadline October 4, 2022: ECCE 2022 doctoral consortium and workshops October 5-7, 2022: ECCE 2022 main conference General chairs Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Lachmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Call for Participation: BHCC 2021 - 3rd symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

by Sihang Qiu

BHCC 2021 - Third symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) *Registration* Registration is now live for BHCC 2021: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/registration Registration is free and we welcome everyone to participate. Register before 25th October 2021 and be eligible to receive a cool BHCC 2021 welcome package. Only available for the first 50 registrations! *Program* An overview of BHCC 2021 Program is available here: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program On this page, you can find the details about BHCC Social Events, Interdisciplinary Panel on "Open Science & Good Research Practice", and the full schedule. *Invited Speakers* https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/invited-speakers - Ming Yin, Purdue University - Saiph Savage, Northeastern University - Alexandra Olteanu, Microsoft *Accepted Papers and Abstracts* View the list of accepted papers and abstracts: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program/accepted-papers-and-abstracts *Related Events* Please check out the workshop at ACM CSCW 2021: Investigating and Mitigating Biases in Crowdsourced Data on 23 October 2021! https://sites.google.com/view/biases-in-crowdsourced-data

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

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*** First 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 Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard 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. Special journal issues will be organised where the best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions. Separate call-for-papers will be announced for the special tracks (more information will be available on the conference web site). 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 four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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MUM 2021 - Registrations now open (early bird until November 7 2021)

by Benjamin Tag

The registration portal for the 21st edition of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Conference is now open. The situation in Belgium is stationary and coronavirus measures have been relaxed. The current plan is to hold the conference in a hybrid manner, with talks happening both in-person and online. We encourage you to attend the conference physically for the best experience. The registration website is available from https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/registration/ The Early Bird deadline is November 7 2021. You can still contribute to the conference via poster and demos (DL October 8), check the website for more details: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-posters/ https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-demos/ See you in Leuven in a few months!

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Fully funded PhD position (3 years) at the University of Bologna (Italy)

by Catia Prandi

*** Fully funded PhD position opening at the University of Bologna (Italy), Department of Computer Science and Engineering *** We have an open fully funded PhD position in topics related to sustainability, human-computer interaction, data visualization, machine learning, data science. Project title: Data-driven communities: Big Data, Data Visualization and Citizen science for a sustainable development Starting Date: January 01, 2022 (duration: 3 years) Application opening: from: October 05, 2021 to: October 19, 2021 Skills: We are looking for a person who has or will soon have (by October 31, 2021) an MSc degree in Computer Science, HCI, or related areas. Through past research and/or course project experiences, knows about: a) qualitative/quantitative research methods; b) data analysis, classification and aggregation; c) developing prototype interactive user interfaces (both mobile and web applications). Any previous experiences with publishing posters, papers or demos would be desirable (but not mandatory). Details: The position requires to spend at least 6 months working in a company (in Italy or abroad). If abroad, the stipend will be increased to cover the additional cost. Funding: The student will receive a stipend that covers living expenses and university fees (1.570,38 euro per month). The student will also have the opportunity to apply for additional scholarships and teaching assistantship positions. Supervision: The student will be part of the HCI-IoT group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the University of Bologna, Italy, the oldest university in continuous operation in the world (https://www.unibo.it/en/homepage). This project offers a unique opportunity for the student to connect with members from academia and industry. Location: The city of Bologna is located in the Emilia Romagna region, in Italy (https://www.bolognawelcome.com/en). Bologna is a very liveable city, full of art and history, and bars and restaurants where to enjoy an “aperitivo” and eat homemade local Italian food (lasagne, tortellini, mortadella, etc.). How to apply: Please contact me, Catia Prandi (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it<mailto:catia.prandi2@unibo.it>) for further information. I will be happy to answer all your questions and feed your curiosity. Many thanks, Catia ______________________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. * Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/catia.prandi2/en * International collaborator, ITI-LARSyS, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal https://iti.larsys.pt/ * Onboarding chair, INDCOR – COST Action CA18230 https://indcor.eu/ * H2020 FET SMARTLAGOON UniBo team leader https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017861

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Third Call for Papers and Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals

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*** Third Call for Papers and Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Proposals Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session proposal submission: October 15, 2021 • Special Session proposal acceptance: October 22, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Second Call for Contributions

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*** Second Call for Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still 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. 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, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). 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. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 31 October 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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ECCE2022 conference October 4-7-2022, Germany

by Lammers, H.A.

Save the Date 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 www.hciv.de/ecce2022 SAVE THE DATE 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”. The Call for Papers with detailed information on the topics of interest and how to submit will be sent around soon. Important Dates and Deadlines March 15, 2022: Deadline for submissions June 22, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready submissions July 15, 2022: Early registration deadline October 4, 2022: ECCE 2022 doctoral consortium and workshops October 5-7, 2022: ECCE 2022 main conference General chairs Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Lachmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): First Call for Special Track Proposals

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*** First Call for Special Track Proposals *** 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 ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. In this case, 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 positive societal impact. GoodIT topics include but not limited to: • IT for education • Data Science • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Data sensing, processing, and persistency • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for development • Privacy and trust issues and solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Smart governance and e-administration • IT for smart living • Technology addressing the digital divide • IT for automotive • Frugal solutions for IT • Ethical computing • Decentralized approaches to IT • Citizen science • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable IT • Social informatics • Civic intelligence Special Tracks Proposals GoodIT 2022 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 the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. Special Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: • Title of the special track. • The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. • A short description of the scope and topics of the 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. • Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. • The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). • A tentative Program Committee list. • A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page). Publication Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). 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. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk, and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. Important Dates • Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021 • Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021 Contact (Special Tracks Chairs) • Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) • Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) • Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

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CSCW 2021 Early Registration ending Oct 1st (1 week left)!

by Ciolfi, Luigina

Dear Colleagues, CSCW 2021<https://cscw.acm.org/2021/> will take place online from 23-27 October 2021. The Organizing Committee have prepared a fantastic program, which includes keynote addresses by Josephine Miliza (Association of Progressive Communications & LOCNET project, Kenya) and Mary L. Gray (Microsoft Research & Indiana University, USA). See details at: https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2021 There will also be plenty of networking and social interaction opportunities available on the online conference platform. Early Registration fees are available until October 1st. For information on how to register, please go to https://cscw.acm.org/2021/registration/ Join us at CSCW 2021 for a fantastic conference! Luigina Ciolfi & Jeremy Birnholtz CSCW 2021 General Co-Chairs

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Call for Papers: OpenCERT 2021 (10th Int. Work. on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology)

by Maria De Marsico

I receive and forward ================================================================================= [Apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers =============== OpenCERT 2021 =============== =================================================================================== 10th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology - towards "Open community approaches" CERTification processes - =================================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opencert2021 Paper Abstract Submission suggested deadline: Friday, 8 October 2021 (EXTENDED) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, 15 October 2021 (EXTENDED) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://opencert.github.io Tuesday, 7 December 2021 VIRTUAL EVENT organised by - Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan - the University of York, York, UK Satellite event of SEFM 2021 (https://sefm-conference.github.io) --- The concept of Open Community extends the idea of Open Source to other collaborative frameworks. It includes Open Content, under a form of non-restrictive license, and Open Knowledge, that is, the freedom to use, reuse, and redistribute knowledge without legal, social or technological restrictions. The 10th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology expands the scope of the International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification, whose 8 editions run from 2007 to 2014. The workshop promotes the use of Open Community approaches in Education and Research, with the aim to achieve wide diffusion and proper assessment of new, innovative Technology. The workshop general focus is on 1. EDUCATION, where aspects of interest are all those related to open and collaborative learning, in both formal and informal education contexts. 2. RESEARCH, with the aims at * establishing open research projects as "cauldrons" of open data, open knowledge and collaborative development, as well as devising methodologies and tools for the management and assessment of such projects; * defining open peer-review methodologies for the assessment of research outputs and appropriate bibliometrics based on the community open feedback rather than on a questionable analysis of citations; * defining, more specifically, quality metrics and a formal process to certify open source software (OSS) products and the outcomes of other peer-production efforts. 3. TECHNOLOGY, by fostering and unleashing the efforts of open communities towards global availability and acceptance of new technologies. Prominent interests, here, are in supporting the open communities during the production process, and in the validation of the information produced, or made available, by such communities, especially in the case of advices provided by thematic communities, such as the user/consumer support/review communities. This year OpenCERT is collocated with SEFM, so contributions connected to the themes of FORMAL METHODS and SOFTWARE ENGINEERING will be particularly appreciated. In addition to the thematic description provided above, we will be also interested in the following aspects: 1. EDUCATION: open and collaborative approaches in Software Engineering and in Formal Methods education; 2. RESEARCH: open community research in Formal Methods, formal modelling of learning and collaboration 3. TECHNOLOGY, integrating Formal Methods technologies and tools within OSS projects as a means for Formal Methods acceptance and diffusion; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit, via EasyChair research contributions or experience reports (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=opencert2021#). All papers should be written in English and prepared using the specific LNCS templates available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. There are nine categories of submissions RESEARCH PAPERS to present original research and the analysis, interpretation and validation of the research findings. POSITION PAPERS to present innovative, arguable ideas, opinions or frameworks which are likely to foster discussion at the workshop. PROJECT PAPERS to describe a new open community project (e.g. on a hosting provider or a dedicated portal) or a new research project, or the status of an ongoing project or the outcomes of a recently completed project. SURVEY PAPERS to collect previously published studies on topics related to the workshop and analyse them in the context of open communities. CASE STUDY PAPERS to report on case studies, preferably in a real-world setting. TOOL PAPERS to present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to an existing tool aiming at supporting open community approaches, or the use/customisation of an existing tool in the context of open communities. TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS to demonstrate the tool workflow(s) and human interaction aspects, and evaluate the overall role of the tool in supporting open community approaches. TEACHING EXPERIENCE PEPERS to report on teaching experiences using an open community approach in a formal education context (e.g. in a university/school context) or in informal education. LEARNING EXPERIENCE PAPERS to report on a learning experience within an open community in a formal education context (e.g. by university students) or in informal education. Contributions will be in the form of * FULL PAPERS between 12 and 15 pages excluding references for submission (and between 12 and 17 pages excluding references for post-proceedings camera-ready). * SHORT PAPERS between 6 and 8 pages excluding references for submission (and between 6 and 9 pages excluding references for post-proceedings camera-ready). * PRESENTATIONS extended abstract up to 4 pages, which will be included in the pre-proceeding but not published in the post-proceedings. "Short papers" and "Presentations" can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. The program committee may reject papers that are outside the above mentioned length limits. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. All submitted papers will be posted on GitHub at https://github.com/opencert/workshop-2021/ and the review process will be carried out as an interactive, open discussion between the authors and the reviewers. Final decisions about acceptance/rejection of papers will be made through a closed discussion among the PC members. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers (both "Regular papers" and "Short papers") will be included in the workshop programme and will appear in the workshop pre-proceedings as well as in the LNCS post-proceedings. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION * open education; * open learning communities and environments; * student experience in open communities; * open community approaches to teaching; * open learning in formal and informal education; * learning processes in open communities; * validation and certification of open education approaches; * Student Modeling, and Open Student Modeling * Open Educational Resources * collaborative, and social-collaborative learning; * methodologies and tool to support collaboration; * social constructivism; * peer assessment; * validation and certification of peer assessment approaches; * teaching software engineering through OSS project participation. RESEARCH * peer-production process; * open communities as peer-production models; * analytical models for peer-production processes; * business models for peer-production; * open community management and organisation; * knowledge management in open communities; * management and analysis of open data repositories; * management and analysis open source software repositories; * data mining and process mining of (software, communication, etc.) repositories; * community evolution; * community assessment; * peer review in OSS and other peer-production efforts; * quality assessment of OSS and other peer-production efforts; * certification of OSS and other peer-production processes; * peer-assessment of research outputs, citations analysis controversies, open-feedback-based bibliometrics; * legal implications in peer-production, OSS and peer-production licenses; * copyright and copyleft in OSS and peer-production, action research; * empirical studies. TECHNOLOGY * technological innovation in open communities; * open communities and technology diffusion; * information trustworthiness in thematic communities; * privacy in open communities; * recommender systems, reputation systems; * machine learning; deep learning architectures; * user/consumer reviews and quality assessment; * methodologies and tools for analysis, verification, validation, decision support, quality * assessment and certification. SEFM - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS * open and collaborative approaches in software engineering, formal methods, logics and mathematics education; * open community research in software engineering and formal methods; * formal modelling of learning and collaboration; * integrating formal methods technologies and tools within OSS projects as a means for formal methods acceptance and diffusion; * reverse engineering of OSS; * static analysis, testing and inspection of OSS; * safety, security and usability analysis in OSS; * automated source code analyses in OSS; * software evolution and reconfigurability in OSS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Antonio Cerone, Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (Program Co-chair) * Marco Temperini, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University Rome, Italy (Program Co-chair) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TBA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted regular and short papers will be published after the Workshop by Springer in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs), which will collect contributions to some workshops and symposia co-located with SEFM 2021. Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Workshop. One or more journal special issue(s) with selected papers may be planned, depending on the number and quality of submissions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All inquiries concerning submissions should be sent to opencert2021 AT easychair DOT org -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Associate Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312 <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Mail priva di virus. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals

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*** Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Proposals Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Important Dates • Special Session proposal submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session proposal acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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CFP: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' " - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'* 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: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Tania Di Mascio, Università de L’Aquila, Italy • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *November 29*, 2021 • Notification to the authors: January 17, 2022 • Camera ready paper: February 14, 2022 • Publication of the special issue: end of February 2022 =========================================== *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!). The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging to address several research contexts, suddenly the two dimensions that characterises the smart learning ecosystems – physical and virtual – started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur – processual, social, individual – to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2021. ----------------------------------------------------------- *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 design, data and other relevant literacies literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens communities and co-design in smart learning 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 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 and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' ") 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 and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal'/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • tania [dot] dimascio [at] univaq[dot] it • oem [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Spring 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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I: ACM Europe Council Webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors”

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, vi giro l’annuncio di un webinar, credo possa essere interessante per molti di noi. Ne approfitto per augurare a tutti un buon inizio di semestre, sperando che sia il più possibile in presenza! Cari saluti, Maristella Da: ACM Professional Chapter Officers in Europe <EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Per conto di Panagiota Fatourou Inviato: mercoledì 15 settembre 2021 23:53 A: EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Oggetto: ACM Europe Council Webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” Dear ACM Europe Professional Chapter Officers, I would appreciate it, if you disseminate the attached call for participation for the webinar “Getting recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” to the members of your chapter.The webinar aims at motivating Europeans to claim the recognition they deserve for their professional achievements through the ACM Awards and Member Grades programmes. Best regards, Panagiota Fatourou Chair of the ACM Europe Council --------------------------- Webinar “Getting Recognized by ACM Awards and Honors” organized by the ACM Europe Council through the ACM Europe RAISE Working Group Date: October 1, 2021, at 15:00 CET, 9:00 EDT Registration is now open at: https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SVghqti3RYWeZtFpmcONJQ Goal: To make Europeans more proactive in claiming the recognition they deserve for their professional achievements through the ACM Awards and Member Grades programmes. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get informed about the ACM member grades and awards and communicate directly with members of the ACM Awards and Member Grades Committees, getting better informed on how to prepare a successful nomination, providing feedback on the reasons that Europeans are willing to participate or not in these programmes, and helping us better understand the kind of support you find necessary in order to become more actively involved in these ACM programmes. The webinar will take place, online, on October 1 (at 15:00 CET). It will feature an open discussion with Gabriele Kotsis, the ACM President, and Panagiota Fatourou, the ACM Europe Council Chair, as well as a panel comprised by the following members of the ACM Awards and Member Grades Committees: • Jim Larus, Chair of ACM Fellows Committee • Roy Levin, Co-Chair of ACM Awards Committee • John R. White, Co-Chair of ACM Awards Committee • Nuria Oliver, Member of ACM Fellows Committee • Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Member of ACM Distinguished Member Committee • Anastasia Ailamaki, Chair of ACM Europe Fellows Working Group Registration is free but required. To register (and see the programme) follow the link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SVghqti3RYWeZtFpmcONJQ Register now! Your opinion does matter. We are looking forward to your participation. -- Prof. Panagiota Fatourou Chair of the ACM Europe Council Department of Computer Science University of Crete, GREECE & Institute of Computer Science, Collaborating Researcher Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Crete Island, GREECE http://www.ics.forth.gr/~faturu Tel: +30 2810 391727 Cellular: +30 6973 991277 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EUROPE-PROF-CHAPTERS list, click the following link: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?TICKET=NzM4MDc4IG1hcmlzdGVsb…

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Deadline extension IxD&A Journal: special issue on "Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education"

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *September 27, 2021* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education* 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: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Ingi Helgason, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom • Enrique Encinas, Aalborg University, Denmark • Ivica Mitrovic, Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia • Michael Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom / =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 27*, 2021 (extended) • Notification to the authors: November 20, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Speculative and Critical Design approaches and related Design Fiction practices are increasingly finding their place within interaction design and technology design educational programmes. The guest editors of this special issue are partners in the SpeculativeEdu (http://speculativeedu.eu/) project (Speculative Design – Educational Resource Toolkit), funded by the European Union, to explore novel educational skills and practices for the 21st century, especially those focused on the critical relations between technology and people. The inherently discursive and provocative nature of the Speculative or Critical Design approach makes it potentially useful for both teaching practical design skills and for reflecting on theoretical positions and the implications of introducing designed objects and systems into the world. There are however tensions and unresolved issues, and there is much potential for further development that deserves examination, particularly in the context of education, such as practical questions around; how to develop and share sets of tools, techniques and methods for concept creation, address aspects such as worldbuilding and the communication of narratives, and how best to apply criteria for assessment in educational domains as diverse as product and service design, architecture and urban studies, fashion design, media and communication, human-computer interaction, socio-technical studies and other creative fields. Further fundamental and overarching themes also deserve deeper interrogation, for example around; inclusion, diversity and participation, the influence of global and local cultures, understandings of the past, the present and the future, and the role of primary research in creative, imaginative work. Not least is the question of how to nurture the development of constructive tactics and strategies amongst students who are facing a world where problems seem too complex, too inextricably interwoven and too intractable to begin to address. For this special issue we invite contributions that extend knowledge on this domain, for example, submissions addressing how educators are tackling, or aspiring to tackle, these challenges both in the classroom and in professional situations, or which discuss the collation and presentation of resources, methods and perspectives specifically in educational contexts. These can include stories and experiences along with critical reflections on the outcomes, impacts and implications. Discussing research carried out by the SpeculativeEDU project, Julian Hanna (2019) explains, “our survey suggests that the influence of Speculative Design is constantly expanding into new regions and disciplines as new waves of designers embrace and adopt its techniques in different aspects of their work – and the approach itself is also evolving and adapting to new realities and calls for change.” The family of speculative, critical, provocative and fictional design approaches offers techniques and entry points for interrogating relationships between people and technology. This broad set of methods and perspectives places emphasis on developing imaginative designed concepts and provocations that might or “could” exist, rather than those that “should” exist or are deemed preferable or profitable. The purpose of this process is to experiment with alternative ways of living and being, and to question current norms, assumptions and structures by speculating on the world through designed objects and systems. Overviews and discussion of the speculative design approach can be found in writings such as; Galloway (2013), Dunne and Raby (2013), Auger (2013) and Malpass (2017). Addressing education more specifically, Ward’s (2019) essay, “Critical about Critical and Speculative Design” discusses the challenge of cultivating a critical design education, of “sharing and building a set of processes, practices and questions that allow for both production and reflection, analysis and making, critique and creation”. This challenge has been emerging in response to the driving forces that Ward lists as; “a shift away from an aging modernist educational culture; a growing acknowledgment and frustration with the cultural impact of mass consumption; a rapidly shifting technological culture, through the invention of microprocessors, personal computation and networked communication; and a growing disciplinary awareness of the impacts and responsibilities of the designer.”. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: • teaching and learning activities, methods and resources • reflections and viewpoints on critique and theory • assessment strategies, and program and course development • disciplinary and interdisciplinary working • skills development for post-education routes to employment and industry • the use of speculative and critical design in industry, and professional training and skills development • perspectives on globalization and the specifics of local contexts • future directions for the field =========================================== /*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: Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in 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: /Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education/ • i [dot] helgason [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Winter 2021 Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio • Springer 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: UD 2022 - 6th International Conference on Universal Design

by Daniela Fogli

-------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- UD 2022 Sixth International Conference on Universal Design - Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development http://ud2022.unibs.it The Sixth International Conference on Universal Design – UD2022 – will be hosted in Brescia, Italy, September 7-9, 2022, and is co-organized by the universities of Brescia, Trieste, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. ----------------------------- The vision of UD 2022 ----------------------------- The conference will be centered on the connection between Universal Design and 2030 sustainable development goals related to the built environment, sustainable communities, cities and urban environments, knowledge, information and life-long learning, human development, decent work, healthy aging and wellbeing. There will be a special session on Cultural Heritage. The conference brings together international research findings and best practices in Universal Design. ---------------------------- Themes for UD 2022 --------------------------- Universal Design and: 1. Higher education and life-long learning 2. Health and healthcare 3. Mobility 4. Information and communication technology; assistive technologies; digital learning; artificial intelligence 5. Arts, culture, aesthetics and design 6. Cultural heritage 7. Inclusive and resilient cities 8. Public and private buildings and spaces 9. Navigation and wayfinding 10. Economic and legal perspectives 11. Ethical and philosophical perspectives 12. Systems, Standards, institutions and policies in the public and private sectors 13. Post COVID pandemic perspectives 14. Vulnerables and low and middle income countries 15. Tourism 16. Workplace and employment 17. Objects, products, services --------------------- Important Dates --------------------- 31st October 2021: deadline for abstract submission 10th January 2022: abstract acceptance notification 31st March 2022: deadline for full papers 31st May 2022: end of review process for full papers 30th June 2022: deadline for final papers (camera ready) --------------------------- Conference web site --------------------------- http://ud2022.unibs.it ------------ Contacts ------------ Conference official mail: ud2022(a)unibs.it Alberto Arenghi: alberto.arenghi(a)unibs.it Giulia Bencini: giulia.bencini(a)unive.it Ilaria Garofolo: ilaria.garofolo(a)dia.units.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Early Call for Contributions

by Announce Announcements

*** Early Call for Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still 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. 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, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). 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. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 31 October 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions

by Announce Announcements

*** Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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BHCC 2021 - Deadline Extended

by Sihang Qiu

--- Apologies for cross-posting --- Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (BHCC 2021) The deadline for contributions to BHCC2021 has been extended to September 23. Website: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/ 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) BHCC 2021 is an event of the Academic Fringe Festival Organized by TU Delft and CHI Nederland *Important Dates* Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Full Papers and Short papers due: 23 September 2021 - Abstracts due: 23 September 2021 - Notifications: 22 October 2021 - Conference: 10-12 November 2021 *Overview* The goal of this symposium is to analyse both existing human biases in hybrid systems, and methods to manage bias via crowdsourcing and human computation. We will discuss different types of biases, measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent and solve bias. We welcome the submission of research papers and abstracts which describe original work that has not been submitted or currently under review, has not been previously published nor accepted for publication elsewhere, in any other journal or conference. We welcome the submission of the following types of contributions: - Full papers should be at most 10 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Short papers should be at most 5 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Abstracts should contain just a title and the abstract, and should detail demos or relevant work or ideas which are under development. They can not contain references. More details: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/submission *Submission* We implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must be anonymous and the submission must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhcc2021 We are committed to create an equal opportunity environment, without regard to race, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other status. For this reason, if you feel that you are in a disadvantaged situation or you require assistance please reach out to us (bhcc2021(a)easychair.org). We’ll be more than happy to help and allow everyone to submit a paper. We are keen to create a fair working environment for the crowd workers and annotators. For this reason, each submission should clearly state the policies implemented to pursue this aim; each paper should be clear about the amount of work required for an annotator to submit the task, the payment, the time spent by the annotators to finish the task, and all the relevant details aimed at making clear that workers and annotators obtained a fair compensation and treatment for their work.

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Last CFP: Special issue on "Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education* 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: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call50 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Ingi Helgason, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom • Enrique Encinas, Aalborg University, Denmark • Ivica Mitrovic, Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia • Michael Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom / =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 9*, 2021 • Notification to the authors: October 14, 2021 • Camera ready paper: November 11, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Speculative and Critical Design approaches and related Design Fiction practices are increasingly finding their place within interaction design and technology design educational programmes. The guest editors of this special issue are partners in the SpeculativeEdu (http://speculativeedu.eu/) project (Speculative Design – Educational Resource Toolkit), funded by the European Union, to explore novel educational skills and practices for the 21st century, especially those focused on the critical relations between technology and people. The inherently discursive and provocative nature of the Speculative or Critical Design approach makes it potentially useful for both teaching practical design skills and for reflecting on theoretical positions and the implications of introducing designed objects and systems into the world. There are however tensions and unresolved issues, and there is much potential for further development that deserves examination, particularly in the context of education, such as practical questions around; how to develop and share sets of tools, techniques and methods for concept creation, address aspects such as worldbuilding and the communication of narratives, and how best to apply criteria for assessment in educational domains as diverse as product and service design, architecture and urban studies, fashion design, media and communication, human-computer interaction, socio-technical studies and other creative fields. Further fundamental and overarching themes also deserve deeper interrogation, for example around; inclusion, diversity and participation, the influence of global and local cultures, understandings of the past, the present and the future, and the role of primary research in creative, imaginative work. Not least is the question of how to nurture the development of constructive tactics and strategies amongst students who are facing a world where problems seem too complex, too inextricably interwoven and too intractable to begin to address. For this special issue we invite contributions that extend knowledge on this domain, for example, submissions addressing how educators are tackling, or aspiring to tackle, these challenges both in the classroom and in professional situations, or which discuss the collation and presentation of resources, methods and perspectives specifically in educational contexts. These can include stories and experiences along with critical reflections on the outcomes, impacts and implications. Discussing research carried out by the SpeculativeEDU project, Julian Hanna (2019) explains, “our survey suggests that the influence of Speculative Design is constantly expanding into new regions and disciplines as new waves of designers embrace and adopt its techniques in different aspects of their work – and the approach itself is also evolving and adapting to new realities and calls for change.” The family of speculative, critical, provocative and fictional design approaches offers techniques and entry points for interrogating relationships between people and technology. This broad set of methods and perspectives places emphasis on developing imaginative designed concepts and provocations that might or “could” exist, rather than those that “should” exist or are deemed preferable or profitable. The purpose of this process is to experiment with alternative ways of living and being, and to question current norms, assumptions and structures by speculating on the world through designed objects and systems. Overviews and discussion of the speculative design approach can be found in writings such as; Galloway (2013), Dunne and Raby (2013), Auger (2013) and Malpass (2017). Addressing education more specifically, Ward’s (2019) essay, “Critical about Critical and Speculative Design” discusses the challenge of cultivating a critical design education, of “sharing and building a set of processes, practices and questions that allow for both production and reflection, analysis and making, critique and creation”. This challenge has been emerging in response to the driving forces that Ward lists as; “a shift away from an aging modernist educational culture; a growing acknowledgment and frustration with the cultural impact of mass consumption; a rapidly shifting technological culture, through the invention of microprocessors, personal computation and networked communication; and a growing disciplinary awareness of the impacts and responsibilities of the designer.”. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: • teaching and learning activities, methods and resources • reflections and viewpoints on critique and theory • assessment strategies, and program and course development • disciplinary and interdisciplinary working • skills development for post-education routes to employment and industry • the use of speculative and critical design in industry, and professional training and skills development • perspectives on globalization and the specifics of local contexts • future directions for the field =========================================== /*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: Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in 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: /Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education/ • i [dot] helgason [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Winter 2021 Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio • Springer 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: Multimedia Tools and Applications - Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI (deadline: 30 November, 2021)

by Melonio Alessandra

****** Apologies for multiple postings ***** ========================================================= Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI to be published in the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications https://www.springer.com/journal/11042 ========================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------- Overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence. The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below. ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models · HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems · Multimodal interaction technologies · Collaborative and social computing and HCI · Accessibility and inclusive multimedia Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI · Humanities and multimedia-based HCI · Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI · Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems · Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI · Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI · Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI · Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI · Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI · Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI ----------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor) Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it> Dr. Maria De Marsico Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it> Dr. Cristina Gena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it> Dr. Rosella Gennari Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it> ----------------------------------------------------------- Important dates/Tentative Schedule: ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: November 30, 2021 Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. Sollten Sie diese Nachricht irrtümlich erhalten haben, bitten wir Sie, diese zu vernichten ohne sie zu kopieren oder an Dritte weiterzuleiten. 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INTERACT 2021 - Call for Participation

by Paolo Buono

INTERACT 2021 - Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org Registration link: https://www.interact2021.org/registration.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. INTERACT 2021 is an hybrid conference. People are participating either in-person or online. The interactive program is available at: https://www.interact2021.org/final-program.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org -- --------------------------------------- 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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MUM 2021 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials (Dec 5-8, 2021, Leuven, Belgium)

by Wanling Cai

Apologies for Cross-Posting ********************************************************************************** MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium ********************************************************************************** # Important Dates (AoE) > September 15 | Submission (Workshop and tutorial) *********************** Call for Workshops *********************** The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2021) welcomes proposals for workshops. A MUM Workshop is a forum for attendees with shared interests to present, discuss, and develop new ideas around a specific theme or domain related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics. All workshops will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on the 5th of December. Because workshops are meant to encourage ideas exchange, we encourage proposals that go beyond being a mini-conference and that engage participants in hands-on activities and in discussion. We also encourage organisers to open the workshops to conference attendees without a workshop paper, but who would be interested in participating. If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org. # Submission and Templates Workshop proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), detailing your goals for the workshop, how you plan to run the workshop, and any planned outcomes. Workshop proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the workshop. Submissions will by juried by the Workshop chairs. Submissions must be submitted via e-mail. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *********************** Call for Tutorials *********************** The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2021) welcomes proposals for tutorials. We invite academic and industry leaders in all topics related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia to submit a proposal following the guidelines below. We encourage proposals that include practical activities inside and outside the classroom. All tutorials will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on the 5th of December and you can choose between three formats: 90min, half-day, or full-day. If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org. Tutorial proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), and include the following details: * Title * Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how they are relevant to the MUM community * Description of the tutorial activities * Short biography of the organisers * Proposed tutorial length (90min, half-day, full-day) * Room and material requirements * Maximum number of participants Tutorial proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the tutorial. Submissions will be juried by the tutorial chairs. Submissions must be submitted via email to the tutorial chairs (workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org). Accepted tutorial proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. # Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Bruno Dumas, University of Namur Adriana Wilde, University of Southampton > https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/ # More information: Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-workshops/ Twitter: @MUMconf E-mail: workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org

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Call-for-Papers Special Issue "Explainable User Models" (Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Journal)

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — Special Issue "Explainable User Models" A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088). Important Dates & Facts: Abstract/title submission: ideally until November 5, 2021 Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022 Notification to authors: March 15, 2022 Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models Special Issue Information This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent. Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system. The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to: Detection and Modelling • Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences • Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.) • Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood) • Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities) • User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews) • Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models Ethics • Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation) • Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior) • User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits) Human understandability • Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations • Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models • Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring) • Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies) Effectiveness • Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance) • Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction) • Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security) Adaptive presentation of the explanations • For different types of user • Interactive explanations • Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction) Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev Ms. Oana Inel Guest Editors

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CFP: Multimedia Tools and Applications - Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI (deadline: 30th November 2021)

by chitaly2021

We are happy to announce the call for papers: *we apologize for cross postings* ========================================================= Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI to be published in the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications https://www.springer.com/journal/11042 ========================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------- Overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence. The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below. ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models · HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems · Multimodal interaction technologies · Collaborative and social computing and HCI · Accessibility and inclusive multimedia Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI · Humanities and multimedia-based HCI · Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI · Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems · Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI · Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI · Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI · Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems · Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI · Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI · Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI · Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI ----------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors:  --------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor) Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it> Dr. Maria De Marsico Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it> Dr. Cristina Gena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it> Dr. Rosella Gennari Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it> ----------------------------------------------------------- Important dates/Tentative Schedule: ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: November 30, 2021 Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. [cid:5e2cd432-4bcb-4f75-bea8-031c88c81df6]

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[CFP] MUM 2021: Deadline Extension to August 13

by Adalberto Simeone

The paper submission deadline for the 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/) has been extended to August 13, but you still need to submit the abstract by the 6th. You will then be able to update your submission until the 13th AOE. ********************************************************************************** MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium ********************************************************************************** # Important Dates > August 6 | Abstract Submission (Long and Short papers) > August 13 | Paper Submission (Long and Short papers) > September 28 | Notification > October 10 | Camera Ready > December 5-8 | Conference 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. This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly. We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges * 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 * Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an * interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by August 6th, 2021 * AoE. An application for inclusion of the conference proceeding in the ACM International Conference * Proceeding Series is currently being processed. # Keynotes Professors Yvonne Rogers (Director of UCLIC) and Antonio Krueger will give this year's keynotes. More info coming soon on the website of the conference. # Submission and Templates The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single column Word Submission Template or the single column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution with 16 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as short papers in past editions. Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical or methodological advances in the field. Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work in progress reports but, instead, they offer complete, rigorously developed work, with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers. Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features both experts from the previous edition, as well as new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process. Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 5 minutes to support their submission. To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered. # Reviewing process There will be a single round of reviews with three potential outcomes: desk-rejects (papers that are significantly out of scope, not written in English, etc.), rejection, and conditional acceptance. No rebuttal phase is planned. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will find in the reviews a list of revisions and requested changes they need to satisfy to have their paper be officially accepted into the program. At least one author from each accepted paper must register to the conference. # Organisers: Adalberto L. Simeone, KU Leuven, Belgium, General Chair Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium, Program Chair Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy, Program Chair > https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/ # More information: Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/ Twitter: @MUMconf E-mail: mailto:general2021@mum-conf.org or mailto:papers2021@mum-conf.org -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/Adal_LS https://www.adalsimeone.me/

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): First Call for Papers and Special Sessions

by Announce Announcements

*** First Call for Papers and Special Sessions *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Call 2021 (2) - Application form open!

by Fabio Paternò

ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme ERCIM offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. The next round is open! Deadline for applications: 30 September 2021. Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics. Fellowships are of 12-month duration spent in one ERCIM member institute. Detailed description of the programme, application guide and application form : http://fellowship.ercim.eu/ <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffellowship… 1%7CSanna.Downing%40vtt.fi%7C1ef308820ada405612dd08d842bf52da%7C68d6b592500843b59b0423bec4e86cf7%7C0 %7C0%7C637332736822207490&sdata=D96GB9BjR5AVrsp3aFjQGk1PqFgZcz7146412HIhMLQ%3D&reserved=0> Conditions Applicants must: * have obtained a PhD degree during the last 8 years (prior to the application year deadline) or be in the last year of the thesis work with an outstanding academic record. Nevertheless, before starting the grant, a proof of the PhD degree will be requested. * complete, submit the application form and send via the online system: * a detailed curriculum vitae * a list of publications * two scientific papers in English * contact details of two referees * start the fellowship no later than 1 May 2022. -- Emma Lière <mailto:emma.liere@ercim.eu> <emma.liere(a)ercim.eu> https://www.ercim.eu ERCIM - 2004 route des Lucioles - Sophia Antipolis 06410 Biot - France Voice: +33.4.92.38.75.74 Fax: +33.4.92.38.50.11

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[CFP] Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (Paper Deadline: Aug 6)

by Adalberto Simeone

Apologies for Cross-Posting ********************************************************************************** MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium ********************************************************************************** # Important Dates > August 6 | Submission (Long and Short papers) > September 28 | Notification > October 10 | Camera Ready > December 5-8 | Conference 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. This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly. We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges * 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 * Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an * interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by August 6th, 2021 * AoE. An application for inclusion of the conference proceeding in the ACM International Conference * Proceeding Series is currently being processed. # Keynotes Professors Yvonne Rogers (Director of UCLIC) and Antonio Krueger will give this year's keynotes. More info coming soon on the website of the conference. # Submission and Templates The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single column Word Submission Template or the single column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution with 16 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as short papers in past editions. Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical or methodological advances in the field. Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work in progress reports but, instead, they offer complete, rigorously developed work, with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers. Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features both experts from the previous edition, as well as new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process. Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 5 minutes to support their submission. To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered. # Reviewing process There will be a single round of reviews with three potential outcomes: desk-rejects (papers that are significantly out of scope, not written in English, etc.), rejection, and conditional acceptance. No rebuttal phase is planned. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will find in the reviews a list of revisions and requested changes they need to satisfy to have their paper be officially accepted into the program. At least one author from each accepted paper must register to the conference. # Organisers: Adalberto L. Simeone, KU Leuven, Belgium, General Chair Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium, Program Chair Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy, Program Chair > https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/ # More information: Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/ Twitter: @MUMconf E-mail: mailto:general2021@mum-conf.org or mailto:papers2021@mum-conf.org -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients 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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BHCC 2021 - Call for Contributions

by Sihang Qiu

Website: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/ Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) BHCC 2021 is an event of the Academic Fringe Festival (https://www.academicfringe.org/) Organized by TU Delft and CHI Nederland --- Apologies for cross-posting --- *Overview* The goal of this symposium is to analyse both existing human biases in hybrid systems, and methods to manage bias via crowdsourcing and human computation. We will discuss different types of biases, measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent and solve bias. We welcome the submission of research papers and abstracts which describe original work that has not been submitted or currently under review, has not been previously published nor accepted for publication elsewhere, in any other journal or conference. We welcome the submission of the following types of contributions: - Full papers should be at most 10 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Short papers should be at most 5 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Abstracts should contain just a title and the abstract, and should detail demos or relevant work or ideas which are under development. They can not contain references. More details: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/submission *Important Dates* Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Full Papers and Short papers due: 26 August 2021 - Abstracts due: 2 September 2021 - Notifications: 22 October 2021 - Conference: 10-12 November 2021 *Submission* We implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must be anonymous and the submission must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhcc2021 We are committed to create an equal opportunity environment, without regard to race, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other status. For this reason, if you feel that you are in a disadvantaged situation or you require assistance please reach out to us (bhcc2021(a)easychair.org). We’ll be more than happy to help and allow everyone to submit a paper. We are keen to create a fair working environment for the crowd workers and annotators. For this reason, each submission should clearly state the policies implemented to pursue this aim; each paper should be clear about the amount of work required for an annotator to submit the task, the payment, the time spent by the annotators to finish the task, and all the relevant details aimed at making clear that workers and annotators obtained a fair compensation and treatment for their work.

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CFP: HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia

by Ilenia Galluccio

Dear colleague, we would like to attract your attention to HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia **Please forward to anyone who might be interested** Apologies for cross-posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia - HHEE 2021 (http://hhee.dibris.unige.it/) in conjunction with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - HT 2021 (https://ht.acm.org/ht2021/), 30 August – 2 September 2021 | Virtual event. IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 AoE - Anywhere on Earth) --------------- Paper deadline: Fri, July 23 Notification to authors: Mon, August 16 Workshop date: Mon, August 30 Camera-ready due: Sun, September 5 (note: papers will be made available to conference and workshop participants earlier) DESCRIPTION ------------ Education, together with the whole society, is experiencing a leap towards virtualization, speeding up a process that was already under way. Online learning is thus becoming a usual practice and experience for millions of students, and we can expect that this will impact on future education and learning models. Multimedia content and video-based learning are increasingly taking a central role, thus it becomes of paramount importance to take full advantage of them by providing and automating services that help to overcome issues, such as linear viewing and poor engagement, and to exploit the advantages through enhanced interactivity, multimodal interfaces, new visualization tools, knowledge graphs, summarization, personalized hypervideo. In this scenario, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, and Natural Language Processing can play an essential role to exploit educational resources in order to enable a new wave of enhanced educational services and improve the consumption itself of multimedia content. TOPICS ------- We are looking for contributions that address the challenges of interactive hypermedia and intelligent user interfaces for education, advance the state of the art in theories, methods, and technologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - multimodal intelligent user interfaces for education - adaptive learning environments - adaptive hypervideo - interactive knowledge graphs - multimedia-enriched knowledge graphs - knowledge extraction from educational resources - summarization and explanation - error detection, feedback and accountability - intelligent textbooks - augmented video services - semantically-enhanced educational services - modeling, visualization and exploration of multimedia resources - tracking and analysing learners behaviour with video content - learning analytics for improving multimodal learning services - cloud-based learning environments SUBMISSIONS: ----------------------- Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the HT21 conference and will be published in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage the submission of original contributions investigating hypermedia for enhanced education with interactive multimedia: - Full research papers (max 10 pages, including references); - Short papers (max 5 pages, including references) for position papers and research-in-progress papers. Note on length: appendices count toward the page limit. ACM HHEE ’21 uses a double blind review process Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors’ own prior work should be made in the third-person. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. 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. Using LaTeX is highly recommended to minimize the extent of reformatting for camera-ready. * 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… Submissions should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht21. When submitting, please select the track “Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia”. Authors are required to present their paper at the workshop. All the papers presented at the workshop will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Mauro Coccoli, University of Genoa, IT Ilenia Galluccio, University of Genoa, IT Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, IT CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: hhee2021(a)easychair.org Web page: http://hhee.dibris.unige.it On behalf of the workshop organisers Best Regards Ilenia Galluccio PhD Candidate University of Genoa

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Call for PhD applications (including HCI, VR, Persuasive Technology, Serious Games)

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/), CRO Aviano (www.cro.sanita.fvg.it/it/) and ISTC-CNR (www.istc.cnr.it/en). The deadline for applicationa is *July 21, 2021. * Detailed instructions as well as a link to the official call and application forms are available from https://www.dmif.uniud.it/dottorato/iai/ 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 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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IntRS'21 Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems - 2nd Cfp

by Giovanni Semeraro

Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems IntRS'21: https://intrs2021.wordpress.com/ Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021) Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25th September 2021. Full day. Submission deadline: Jul. 20th, 2021 Author notification: Aug. 20th, 2021 Camera-ready version: Aug. 31st, 2021 Submission site --------------------- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs2021 Recommender systems are developed to help users in finding items that match their interests, needs, and preferences. Since the emergence of recommender systems, the majority of research in this area focused on improving predictive accuracy of recommendation. Much less attention has been paid to how users interact with the system and the efficacy of interface designs from users perspectives. The field has reached a point where it is necessary to look beyond algorithms, into users interactions, decision making processes, and overall end user experience. The IntRS workshop series focuses on the human side of recommender systems. Its goal is to integrate modern HCI approaches and theories of human decision making into the construction of recommender systems. It focuses particularly on the impact of interfaces on decision support and overall satisfaction. IntRS workshops have been previously held at RecSys 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. The aim of the IntRS21 workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring the topics of designing and evaluating novel intelligent interfaces for recommender systems in order to: (1) share research and techniques, including new design technologies and evaluation methodologies, (2) identify next key challenges in the area, and (3) identify emerging topics. This workshop aims at establishing an interdisciplinary community with a focus on the interface design issues for recommender systems and promoting the collaboration opportunities between researchers and practitioners. We particularly encourage demos and mock-ups of systems to be used as a basis of a lively and interactive discussion in the workshop. In our opinion, the workshop will complement the technical aspects mainly discussed at the Conference with specific topics related to cognitive modeling and decision making. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: o Interaction, user modeling, and decision-making - Cognitive Modeling for recommender systems - Human-recommender interaction - Decision theories and biases (e.g., priming, framing, and decoy effects) - Detection and mitigation of decision biases (e.g., in item presentations) - Preference detection (e.g., eye tracking for automated preference detection) - Emotions and mood in recommender systems (e.g., emotion-aware recommendation) - Personality in recommender systems (e.g., personality-aware recommendation) - Trust inspiring recommender systems and interfaces (e.g., explanation-aware recommendation) - Controllability, transparency, and scrutability - Argumentation and persuasive recommendation (e.g., argumentation-aware recommendation) - Cultural differences (e.g., culture-aware recommendation) - Mechanisms for effective group decision making (e.g., group recommendation heuristics) - Decision theories for effective group decision making (e.g., hidden profile management) - Voting Advice Applications o User Interfaces - Visual interfaces for recommender systems - Explanation interfaces for recommender systems - Collaborative multi-user interfaces (e.g., for group decision making) - Spoken and natural language interfaces - Trust-aware interfaces - Social interfaces - Context-aware interfaces - Ubiquitous and mobile interfaces - Conversational interfaces - Example- and demonstration-based interfaces - New approaches to designing interfaces for recommender systems - User interfaces for decision making (e.g., decision strategies and user ratings) o Evaluation - Case studies - Benchmarking platforms - Empirical studies and evaluations of interfaces for recommender systems - Empirical studies and evaluations of new interaction designs - Evaluation methods and metrics (e.g., evaluation questionnaire design) Submissions ---------------- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs2021 We encourage two types of submissions, which address novel interface issues in recommender systems: - Short/Demo papers. The maximum length is 8 pages in the new single-column format. - Long papers. The maximum length is 14 pages in the 8 pages in the new single-column format. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. For short papers we will encourage alternative modes of presentation such as demos, playing out of scenarios, mockups, and alternate media such as video. Demonstration sessions will provide the opportunity to show innovative interface designs for recommender systems. Accepted papers will be included in workshop proceedings to be published on the CEUR-WS.org site. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register and attend the workshop. Organizers -------------- Peter Brusilovsky peterb(a)pitt.edu School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA Marco de Gemmis marco.degemmis(a)uniba.it Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Alexander Felfernig alexander.felfernig(a)ist.tugraz.at Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria Elisabeth Lex - elisabeth.lex(a)tugraz.at Graz University of Technology, Austria Pasquale Lops pasquale.lops(a)uniba.it Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Giovanni Semeraro giovanni.semeraro(a)uniba.it Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Martijn C. Willemsen - M.C.Willemsen(a)tue.nl Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Paper Invitation: [Applied Sciences] Special Issue "Human and Artificial Intelligence"

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

***** Apologies for multiple postings ***** Dear Colleagues, The following special issue of which we are the guest editors will be published in Applied Sciences (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci>), and is now open to receive submissions of full research articles and comprehensive review papers for peer-review and possible publication: Special Issue: "Human and Artificial Intelligence <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Human_Artificial_Intell…>" Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Human_Artificial_Intell… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Human_Artificial_Intell…> Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Micarelli (Roma Tre University, Italy) Dr. Giuseppe Sansonetti (Roma Tre University, Italy) Dr. Giuseppe D’Aniello (University of Salerno, Italy) Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2021 In recent years, significant advances have been made toward the realization of General Artificial Intelligence, especially in the Machine Learning (ML) (e.g., Deep Learning) domain. Several real-world tasks, however, cannot yet be solved by machines alone. Systems are hence needed that rely on the integration of Human and Artificial Intelligence to solve the most complex problems. In many academic and industrial intelligent agents, communication between humans and computers is a key factor. Many challenges, however, can hinder successful cooperation between the two actors. ML algorithms, for instance, fail to provide explanations for their actions, while human cognitive overload and human out-of-the-loop syndrome may result in lower performance. It is open to both original research articles and review articles covering all the relevant progress in these fields (though is not limited to the following): New technologies and frameworks that support human–machine interaction and human–machine collaborative intelligence; Machine learning (e.g., deep learning) to understand human behavior; Explainable Artificial Intelligence; Human factors in Artificial Intelligence; Human teaming with autonomous systems; Situation-aware intelligent systems; Artificial intelligence for cyberphysical–social systems; Emotion Artificial Intelligence (e.g., sentiment analysis); Brain–computer modeling for human–machine cooperation; Decision support systems in different domains (e.g., logistics, smart factory, healthcare); Personalized systems (e.g., user profiling, e-learning, recommender systems). Applied Sciences is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published quarterly by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) [search for "Applied Sciences-Basel"], Scopus, INSPEC (IET) and other databases. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 17 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.7 days (median values for papers published in the first six months of 2018). An Article Processing Charges (APC) of 2000 CHF for Applied Sciences apply to accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute has established an institutional membership with MDPI, for more information see http://www.mdpi.com/about/memberships <http://www.mdpi.com/about/memberships>. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions> We look forward to hearing back from you soon. Kind Regards, Alessandro Micarelli Giuseppe Sansonetti Giuseppe D'Aniello

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CfP - OzCHI 2021 - 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

by Alessandro Soro

Carissimi tutti, e’ un grandissimo piacere per me inoltrare questa CfP per la 33-esima edizione della conferenza australiana di human computer interaction OzCHI. Come nel 2020, OzCHI anche quest’anno sara’ online, che non e’ proprio come vedersi di persona, ma per lo meno permette di incontrarsi senza dover volare per 48 ore 😊 Un abbraccio a tutti, e non esitate a contattare me o uno degli altri track chairs per qualunque domanda. Alessandro. *apologies for cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, it is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute to the 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2021 http://www.ozchi.org/2021/) OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics, and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds and include interaction designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists. This year, OzCHI will be held as a virtual conference with Papers and Late-Breaking Work / Case Studies tracks, and more tracks to be announced soon. Important dates Conference Dates: 30 November - 03 December 2021 – Location ONLINE Papers 20 August 2021: Paper submission deadline 1 October 2021: Notification of accepted submissions 22 October 2021: Publication-ready deadline Late Breaking Work and Case Studies 17 September 2021: Paper submission deadline 7 October 2021: Notification of accepted submissions 22 October 2021: Publication-ready deadline Call for Contributions We invite original contributions on all topics related to human-computer interaction (HCI), interaction design and the design of interactive technologies. We welcome submissions from design, engineering, social science, creative industries, and other related disciplines. In acknowledgement of the effect that Covid-19 had on everyone’s ability to conduct research, we have pushed back the Paper deadline. We invite submission to the conference tracks: Papers, Late Breaking Works, and Case Studies. Papers should present original research and mature work in the fields of HCI and studies of use and design of interactive technologies. These papers may describe investigations of user needs or contexts of use, lab-based evaluations, or field deployments of prototypes, or other design-led or empirical investigations examining the relationship between people and technology. Given the impact of Covid-19 on conducting research studies, authors are encouraged to also consider submitting theory-based contributions that make a clear contribution to the field. Papers will be delivered as online presentations at OzCHI 2021. We are planning for accepted papers to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series available from the ACM Digital Library (pending approval by ACM). Late-Breaking Works (LBW) submissions present ideas that are emerging and would benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. These submissions may include initial findings from new research, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. Case Studies include industry and community papers that describe initiatives that could benefit from and contribute to valuable discussion in the HCI community, as well as research impact papers that report on the impact of a research initiative. Case studies differ from papers as they do not need to define themselves as part of the potentially longer-term body of academic research on that topic, and thus may not have an extensive literature review or explicitly add to HCI theory within academic schools of thought. Selection process All submissions will undergo a double-blind review by an international panel and will be assessed based on their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. At least one author of each accepted paper must register with OzCHI and present the paper at the virtual conference. We are aiming to keep costs for authors as low as possible again this year. Updates on registration and online presentation format will be published on the OzCHI website. Authors of all submitted papers are expected to contribute to the review process by volunteering to review one or more papers in their field of expertise. Review assignment will be guided by a bidding process, to ensure the best possible match between reviewers and paper topic. Submission details Papers should be between 9 and 18 pages (excluding references). Reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a submission relative to its length. Shorter, more focused submissions are encouraged and will be reviewed accordingly. Case Studies and LBW submissions may be up to 8 pages in the single-column ACM format, (excluding references). Anonymisation: Submissions must be anonymised for peer review. Citations of own work and general anonymisation standards should follow the CHI anonymisation policy https://chi2021.acm.org/for-authors/presenting/papers/chi-anonymization-pol…. Submission system: OzCHI will accept submissions through PCS, the submission link will be published on the OzCHI website soon. Submission format: single column format in PDF using Word or LaTeX, including source files. Template: Papers, Case Studies, and LBW submissions must follow the new Word/LaTeX Master Article template. For Word users: Use the Word submission template available from https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow If your paper gets accepted, download the Word master article template, available for Windows and Mac from https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow LaTeX Users can choose to download the template or use Overleaf: Download one of the approved LaTex packages available from https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow If you use Overleaf, you can find the master template on https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ Paper Chairs Hilary Davis - Swinburne University of Technology Abdullah Al Mahmud - Swinburne University of Technology Zhanna Sarsenbayeva - The University of Melbourne Alessandro Soro - Queensland University of Technology Late Breaking Works and Case Studies Chairs Diego Muñoz - Swinburne University of Technology Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor - Australian National University Jess Tsimeris - Google For all enquiries, please email mailto:paper.chairs@ozchi.org Dr Alessandro Soro | Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science Unit Coordinator IFB398 (IT Capstone) and IFN692 (Interaction Design for Emerging Technologies) 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| M +61 0467 478 956 CRICOS No. 00213J

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[CFP] MUM 2021 - Pictorials Track (Dec 5-8, 2021, Leuven, Belgium)

by Wanling Cai

Apologies for Cross-Posting ********************************************************************************** MUM 2021 - Pictorials Track MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium ********************************************************************************** # Important Dates (Pictorials Track) > September 23, 2021 | Submission > October 22, 2021 | Notification > October 29, 2021 | Camera Ready > December 5-8 2021 | Conference # General Information As aptly phrased by the time-old adage: "a picture is worth a thousand words", pictorials challenge contributors to rethink the ways in which we create and report knowledge. Pictorials are papers in which graphic elements (e.g. diagrams, sketches, screenshots, illustrations, renderings, photographs, collages) play a major role in conveying ideas and contributions of a study along with accompanying text. First introduced in DIS 2014, pictorials responded to the call for new approaches in documenting design perspectives for HCI research, which were – and are – growing increasingly complex in terms of spatial acumen and graphical ingenuity. In particular, ideas that are experientially complex or abstract can be conveyed more meaningfully in pictures than in verbal descriptions, such as the subtle undertones of a user’s emotions or the aesthetic-usability effect of a user interface. Pictorials have since been introduced in C&C 2017 and TEI 2020, and this year we are excited to offer the new Pictorials Track of MUM 2021. Through pictorials, we invite researchers, practitioners, industry professionals, artists, designers, and students from multidisciplinary fields to express and unpack their design practices and projects in visually rich ways. # Goal The goal of MUM Pictorials is to investigate the hedonic qualities, i.e. pleasant and unpleasant sensations, that can be provoked within mobile or ubiquitous systems, and the design processes that lead to these hedonic qualities. We emphasise the importance of communicating the experiential side of HCI research, from not only its research value but also the emotional and aesthetic qualities of the work. We believe that these qualities make a difference in HCI, but acknowledge that they can be difficult or even controversial to describe in the typical research paper. Pictorials offer the opportunity to use images and other media to facilitate readers in making hedonic value judgements of the work, as presented through the pictorial narrative. We invite convincing demonstrations or descriptions of original types of existing or future (speculative) systems, or the original design approaches that underlie them. Pictorials can thus reveal research prototypes, practices, and products, as well as novel tools and methods that provide the scaffolding for hedonic outcomes. Therefore, we encourage contributors to formulate possible tips or guidelines that can be demonstrated by a design rationale and/or the (iterative) (co-)design process. Possible ways to portray a hedonic quality is to use the pictorial as a low fidelity metaphor of the designed interface, illustrate the user’s journey of interacting with a system through a visual timeline, or create collages composed of screenshots and photographs that depict the experiential qualities of the system. We encourage contributors to be playful with the submission - after all, pictorials can be another kind of graphical interface designed to communicate research data. For more inspiration , please consult recent Call for Pictorials from other conferences such as: DIS, TEI, C&C, and IEEE VISAP, or contact the Pictorial chairs. # Template and Submission Pictorial submissions should be maximum 12 pages (excluding references). The correct template for pictorials is the MUM Template, which should be exported as a PDF when submitting. On the first page of submission, please keep with the template and include the submission’s title, author(s), and their affiliation(s) (leave blank for double blind review), and a written abstract of no more than 150 words describing the context and contribution of the pictorial to the MUM community. Further written parts known from other conference formats such as Introduction, Conclusion, and Discussion are optional. We strongly recommend using the InDesign Template. A Microsoft Word template is also available for authors without access to InDesign. The main part of the submission should be an annotated visual composition and we encourage submissions to use the format creatively. Pictorials must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by September 23rd, 2021. - Link to MUM Template: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-pictorials/ - Link to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=IYVCJFPAFssN681ICmszcT# # Relation to other submissions We encourage fully original work. However, you may submit previously published work to which you have added significant visual content, provided only that such work is clearly and prominently attributed by describing how the pictorial adds to a previous work, i.e. in a footwork to the title with a clear description of what the pictorial uniquely contributes or adds to previous work. In this case, at least 30% of the material must be original, as per ACM rules. We also encourage using visual materials that you have created or produced yourself. However, you may use third-party materials when following the "fair use" principles. We recommend the following article (https://rb.gy/hiom8d). Please be aware of these ACM copyright rules when submitting your work. # Reviewing process Pictorials must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Final camera-ready versions of accepted submissions must be accompanied by a signed copyright form. At least one author of an accepted submission will be expected to attend the conference to present their work.Accepted pictorials will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. [*] Parts of this text is based on the Call for Pictorials from DIS and TEI. # Organisers: Jihae Han, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pictorials Chair Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pictorials Chair > https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/ # More information: Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-pictorials/ E-mail: pictorials2021(a)mum-conf.org

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CfP ACM CHI PLAY 2021 - Work-in-Progress papers deadline: July 16th

by Fabrizio Balducci

-- apologies for cross-postings CfP: ACM CHI PLAY 2021 - Work in Progress track October 18-21, 2021, Virtual https://chiplay.acm.org/2021/work-in-progress/ CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). This area is called “player-computer interaction”. CHI PLAY is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Work-in-Progress contributions provide a unique opportunity for authors to present reports on original yet incomplete work that seeks to advance our current knowledge in games and play through innovative or thought-provoking ideas. We encourage submissions describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research. Submissions are evaluated on the basis of originality, innovation and contribution to the diversity of the conference program. Examples include: - Original and innovative technologies, techniques, or prototypes, with or without an accompanying evaluation - Qualitative or quantitative studies showing preliminary results - “Sequels” to a prior research contribution - “Prequels” to motivate or stimulate novel conversations or future work - Theoretical or methodological contributions that provoke disciplinary conversations Important Dates (all times are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth or AoE): - Papers submission deadline: July 16, 2021 - Notifications: August 20, 2021 - Camera Ready deadline: September 10, 2021 - Conference: October 18-21, 2021 (virtual) Submitting format Up to 8 pages in ACM Primary Article Template, single column manuscript style (references excluded). Submissions are NOT anonymous. Authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single column format, which is available for Word and LaTeX (use the “manuscript” call to create a single column format, rather than “acmsmall”). If you are using the ACM LaTeX Overleaf template, please select the “ACM Journals – New Primary Article Template”, not the “ACM Conference Proceedings ‘Master’ Template”. Detailed instructions on formatting can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. You are asked to provide alt-text descriptions for all figures in your submission so please look at http://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/describing-figures/ for guidance and examples. A pre-recorded video is only required upon acceptance and has to be submitted together with the camera-ready paper. For accessibility guidelines refer to https://chiplay.acm.org/2021/video-guidelines-and-technical-requirements/ Submit your work via Precision Conference System (PCS) 2.0: https://new.precisionconference.com/ Review Process Work in Progress submissions will be peer-reviewed, and evaluated on the basis of originality, innovation and contribution to conference program diversity. Upon Acceptance Authors will have three weeks to prepare a camera-ready version of the paper incorporating the feedback provided by reviewers as well as a pre-recorded video of their presentation. Authors will discuss their work in dedicated breakout rooms, where the author will be able to engage with the audience. After the Conference Work in Progress papers and the pre-recorded videos will be archived in the ACM Digital Library in the CHI PLAY 2021 Extended Abstracts. For questions and further information: Fabrizio Balducci (University of Bari, Italy), CHI Play 2021 Work-in-Progress Associate Chair fabrizio.balducci(a)uniba.it or wip(a)chiplay.acm.org <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Mail priva di virus. 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: HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia

by Ilenia Galluccio

Dear colleague, we would like to attract your attention to HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia **Please forward to anyone who might be interested** Apologies for cross-posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia - HHEE 2021 (http://hhee.dibris.unige.it/) in conjunction with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - HT 2021 (https://ht.acm.org/ht2021/), 30 August – 2 September 2021 | Virtual event. IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 AoE - Anywhere on Earth) --------------- Paper deadline: Fri, July 23 Notification to authors: Mon, August 16 Workshop date: Mon, August 30 Camera-ready due: Sun, September 5 (note: papers will be made available to conference and workshop participants earlier) DESCRIPTION ------------ Education, together with the whole society, is experiencing a leap towards virtualization, speeding up a process that was already under way. Online learning is thus becoming a usual practice and experience for millions of students, and we can expect that this will impact on future education and learning models. Multimedia content and video-based learning are increasingly taking a central role, thus it becomes of paramount importance to take full advantage of them by providing and automating services that help to overcome issues, such as linear viewing and poor engagement, and to exploit the advantages through enhanced interactivity, multimodal interfaces, new visualization tools, knowledge graphs, summarization, personalized hypervideo. In this scenario, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, and Natural Language Processing can play an essential role to exploit educational resources in order to enable a new wave of enhanced educational services and improve the consumption itself of multimedia content. TOPICS ------- We are looking for contributions that address the challenges of interactive hypermedia and intelligent user interfaces for education, advance the state of the art in theories, methods, and technologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - multimodal intelligent user interfaces for education - adaptive learning environments - adaptive hypervideo - interactive knowledge graphs - multimedia-enriched knowledge graphs - knowledge extraction from educational resources - summarization and explanation - error detection, feedback and accountability - intelligent textbooks - augmented video services - semantically-enhanced educational services - modeling, visualization and exploration of multimedia resources - tracking and analysing learners behaviour with video content - learning analytics for improving multimodal learning services - cloud-based learning environments SUBMISSIONS: ----------------------- Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the HT21 conference and will be published in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage the submission of original contributions investigating hypermedia for enhanced education with interactive multimedia: - Full research papers (max 10 pages, including references); - Short papers (max 5 pages, including references) for position papers and research-in-progress papers. Note on length: appendices count toward the page limit. ACM HHEE ’21 uses a double blind review process Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors’ own prior work should be made in the third-person. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. 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. Using LaTeX is highly recommended to minimize the extent of reformatting for camera-ready. * 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… Submissions should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht21. When submitting, please select the track “Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia”. Authors are required to present their paper at the workshop. All the papers presented at the workshop will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Mauro Coccoli, University of Genoa, IT Ilenia Galluccio, University of Genoa, IT Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, IT CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: hhee2021(a)easychair.org Web page: http://hhee.dibris.unige.it On behalf of the workshop organisers Best Regards Ilenia Galluccio PhD Candidate University of Genoa

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Second CFP: Special issue on "Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education* 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=call50 ========================================================= *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 9*, 2021 • Notification to the authors: October 14, 2021 • Camera ready paper: November 11, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Speculative and Critical Design approaches and related Design Fiction practices are increasingly finding their place within interaction design and technology design educational programmes. The guest editors of this special issue are partners in the SpeculativeEdu (http://speculativeedu.eu/) project (Speculative Design – Educational Resource Toolkit), funded by the European Union, to explore novel educational skills and practices for the 21st century, especially those focused on the critical relations between technology and people. The inherently discursive and provocative nature of the Speculative or Critical Design approach makes it potentially useful for both teaching practical design skills and for reflecting on theoretical positions and the implications of introducing designed objects and systems into the world. There are however tensions and unresolved issues, and there is much potential for further development that deserves examination, particularly in the context of education, such as practical questions around; how to develop and share sets of tools, techniques and methods for concept creation, address aspects such as worldbuilding and the communication of narratives, and how best to apply criteria for assessment in educational domains as diverse as product and service design, architecture and urban studies, fashion design, media and communication, human-computer interaction, socio-technical studies and other creative fields. Further fundamental and overarching themes also deserve deeper interrogation, for example around; inclusion, diversity and participation, the influence of global and local cultures, understandings of the past, the present and the future, and the role of primary research in creative, imaginative work. Not least is the question of how to nurture the development of constructive tactics and strategies amongst students who are facing a world where problems seem too complex, too inextricably interwoven and too intractable to begin to address. For this special issue we invite contributions that extend knowledge on this domain, for example, submissions addressing how educators are tackling, or aspiring to tackle, these challenges both in the classroom and in professional situations, or which discuss the collation and presentation of resources, methods and perspectives specifically in educational contexts. These can include stories and experiences along with critical reflections on the outcomes, impacts and implications. Discussing research carried out by the SpeculativeEDU project, Julian Hanna (2019) explains, “our survey suggests that the influence of Speculative Design is constantly expanding into new regions and disciplines as new waves of designers embrace and adopt its techniques in different aspects of their work – and the approach itself is also evolving and adapting to new realities and calls for change.” The family of speculative, critical, provocative and fictional design approaches offers techniques and entry points for interrogating relationships between people and technology. This broad set of methods and perspectives places emphasis on developing imaginative designed concepts and provocations that might or “could” exist, rather than those that “should” exist or are deemed preferable or profitable. The purpose of this process is to experiment with alternative ways of living and being, and to question current norms, assumptions and structures by speculating on the world through designed objects and systems. Overviews and discussion of the speculative design approach can be found in writings such as; Galloway (2013), Dunne and Raby (2013), Auger (2013) and Malpass (2017). Addressing education more specifically, Ward’s (2019) essay, “Critical about Critical and Speculative Design” discusses the challenge of cultivating a critical design education, of “sharing and building a set of processes, practices and questions that allow for both production and reflection, analysis and making, critique and creation”. This challenge has been emerging in response to the driving forces that Ward lists as; “a shift away from an aging modernist educational culture; a growing acknowledgment and frustration with the cultural impact of mass consumption; a rapidly shifting technological culture, through the invention of microprocessors, personal computation and networked communication; and a growing disciplinary awareness of the impacts and responsibilities of the designer.”. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: • teaching and learning activities, methods and resources • reflections and viewpoints on critique and theory • assessment strategies, and program and course development • disciplinary and interdisciplinary working • skills development for post-education routes to employment and industry • the use of speculative and critical design in industry, and professional training and skills development • perspectives on globalization and the specifics of local contexts • future directions for the field =========================================== /*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: Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in 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: /Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education/ • i [dot] helgason [at] napier [dot] ac [dot] uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Winter 2021 Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the 'new normal' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Mihai Dascalu, Tania Di Mascio • Springer 2022 'Gamification of the Learning Process' Guest editors: Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho, Rui Silva ----------------------------------------------------------

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ACM GROUP 2022 Doctoral Consortium Call for Participation! Deadline 25 August 2021

by Myriam Lewkowicz

*GROUP 2022 Doctoral Consortium Call for Participation! * (Please circulate to your University Listservs or other spaces where we can work to broaden participation) *Important Dates* Wednesday 25 August 2021, 11:59 pm ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD: Deadline for submissions Friday 10 September 2021: Notification Sunday 03 October: Camera-ready due 23 January 2021: Doctoral Consortium *Call for Participation* The GROUP 2022 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research in an international forum under the guidance of a panel of experienced HCI and CSCW researchers. The Doctoral Consortium will be held on 23 January as part of the ACM 2022 Conference on Supporting Group Work in Sanibel, Florida, USA. Selected applicants will be asked to give short, informal presentations during the Consortium. These will be followed by extensive group discussion in a friendly and constructive workshop. Participants will also present their research in an interactive poster session during the main technical program of the conference. We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches that inform human-centered computing, including anthropology, sociology, information science, computer science, cognitive science, organizational studies, design and related fields. We are particularly interested in applications from institutions and groups that have not traditionally been well-represented at past GROUP conferences. Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already established direction of research relevant to HCI and CSCW, but whose research would benefit from guidance provided by peers and senior colleagues at the Doctoral Consortium. Preference will be given to students who have a defined topic and program of work, i.e., who have proposed their topics and are within 2 years of graduation within a 5-year program or are half way through a 3 (or 4) year program. *Submission Guidelines* GROUP 2022 is using the Precision Conference System (PCS) 2.0. To submit, log in to PCS, click on “Submissions”, and then make a new submission to Group -> Group 2022 -> Group2022 Doctoral Consortium. You will be asked to provide: A FOUR-page overview (including references) of your doctoral research that describes your research question(s), work in progress, and expected contributions. This overview should also include (1) a paragraph that articulates what you hope to gain from attending the GROUP Doctoral Consortium, and (2) an abstract of no more than 100 words. Your overview will be published in the ACM Digital Library and distributed to all attendees as part of the Conference Extended Abstracts. Please submit your overview in the SIGCHI Extended Abstract Format (PDF). Supplementary material: A short (2-3 paragraph) biographical sketch. Two publications: (1) One publication that best illustrates your research interests + (2) one paper or book that you find most inspiring (perhaps something that you draw on to inform your work, or something that pushed your research in a given direction). A letter from your supervisor indicating that they support your application to the Consortium and they agree that your research is at an appropriate stage for participation. This letter should also make reference to how you might benefit from the Doctoral Consortium and how they expect that you might benefit the other students in this group experience. Comments about the availability of funds to attend the Consortium (e.g., complete funds available through the university/research grant, partial funds available, applied for the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant and was awarded, applied for a travel grant but was not awarded, etc.). See below under “Important Note on Funding.” *The deadline for submitting is Wednesday 25 August 2021, 11:59 pm ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. After this date, the system will be closed. * *All questions should be directed to dc2022(a)group.acm.org* *Important Note on Funding* We are currently able to offer financial support to Doctoral Consortium participants from the United States (US) through the National Science Foundation (NSF). Due to NSF rules, this funding can only be used on US-based Doctoral students. We will do our best to secure financial support from SIGCHI for accepted international students to attend. We also encourage accepted participants to investigate other opportunities for support. *GROUP 2022 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs* Myriam Lewkowicz (Troyes University of Technology, France) Bryan Semaan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) -- ** ** *Myriam Lewkowicz* Professeur des Universités / Full Professor *UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes * 12 rue Marie Curie - CS 42060 - 10004 TROYES CEDEX Bureau F214 Tél. : 33 (0)3 25 71 80 67 | Fax : 33 (0)3 25 71 76 98 | Mob.: 33 (0)6 16 47 13 53 twitter: myrlewko Head of Tech-CICO research group, Laboratoire Informatique et Société Numérique (LIST3N) https://recherche.utt.fr/technologies-for-cooperation-interaction-and-knowl… <https://recherche.utt.fr/technologies-for-cooperation-interaction-and-knowl…> Vice-Chair of the COST Action CA16121 From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy http://sharingandcaring.eu/ <http://sharingandcaring.eu/> Chair of EUSSET http://www.eusset.eu/ <http://www.eusset.eu/> Deputy Editor-in-Chief Journal of CSCW http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606 <http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606>

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CFP: IEEE/ACIS Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop (online). Extended deadline: June 25, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications: All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format: Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Please email your paper with the names and affiliations directly to the workshop organizer (miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca). Schedule: Submission deadline: June 25, 2021 (extended deadline) . Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: July 17, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: August 2, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards: The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee: Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) Veronica Zammitto (UX consultant, Canada) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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CHItaly 2021, July 11--13, Bolzano-online: Closing of Physical Registration

by chitaly2021

Dear friends and colleagues, We regret to inform you that due to legal requirements related to COVID’19, we have to close the physical registration in Bolzano. We went well above expected success, and we thank all the people who trusted us and wanted to join this extraordinary experience. Virtual registration will stay open until June 30 and we are working hard to provide the best hybrid experience as possible Antonella De Angeli (on behalf of the SIGCHItaly21 organising committee)

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Questionario sulla trasparenza dei validatori automatici di accessibilità

by Vanessa Palumbo

Gentilissimi, L'accessibilità è una dimensione fondamentale del mondo digitale per consentire pari opportunità a tutti per questo il suo monitoraggio e divenuto essenziale. Gli strumenti automatici di validazione danno un supporto utile anche se parziale nel monitorare il livello di accessibilità. Il laboratorio HIIS del CNR-ISTI sta conducendo uno studio sulla trasparenza degli strumenti di validazione dell'accessibilità allo scopo di migliorarne l'utilizzo. Vi chiediamo di contribuire a questo studio riempiendo il questionario che troverete a https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfipaNLFNPAWq-qtgPw0m8_wHYhMGlEbqZ… Grazie in anticipo per la vostra collaborazione, Saluti -- Vanessa Palumbo Research fellow HIIS Lab - ISTI/CNR Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa - ITALY

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Open call per CHI 2024: general chair e program chair

by DE RUSSIS LUIGI

Buongiorno, vi segnalo questa open call, nel caso non ne siate a conoscenza, uscita ieri sera: https://medium.com/sigchi/open-call-for-expressions-of-interest-for-chi2024… Il CHI Steering Committee sta raccogliendo espressioni di interesse per coprire il ruolo di General Chair o di Program Chair per CHI 2024. Per entrami i ruoli, i criteri sono: - Senior level or significant involvement with prior or upcoming CHI Conference Organizing Committees; and/or experience as an organiser of a SIGCHI-related conference and managing budgets - Regular participation in the CHI conference as an author and attendee - Ideally support from employer for the time needed for the role Se qualcuno fosse interessato, occorre inviare la propria Expression of Interest a chi-surveys(a)acm.org<mailto:chi-surveys@acm.org> entro il 16 Luglio 2021. Buona giornata, Luigi De Russis --- Luigi De Russis Assistant Professor (RTDb) Department of Control and Computer Engineering Politecnico di Torino, Italy ph: +39 011 0907170, +39 331 2689895 e: luigi.derussis(a)polito.it<mailto:luigi.derussis@polito.it> w: http://elite.polito.it/people/derussis t: @luigidr

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CFP: HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia

by Ilenia Galluccio

Dear colleague, we would like to attract your attention to HHEE @ ACM HT 2021: HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia **Please forward to anyone who might be interested** Apologies for cross-posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia - HHEE 2021 (http://hhee.dibris.unige.it/) in conjunction with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - HT 2021 (https://ht.acm.org/ht2021/), 30 August – 2 September 2021 | Virtual event. IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 AoE - Anywhere on Earth) --------------- Paper deadline: Fri, July 23 Notification to authors: Mon, August 16 Workshop date: Mon, August 30 Camera-ready due: Sun, September 5 (note: papers will be made available to conference and workshop participants earlier) DESCRIPTION ------------ Education, together with the whole society, is experiencing a leap towards virtualization, speeding up a process that was already under way. Online learning is thus becoming a usual practice and experience for millions of students, and we can expect that this will impact on future education and learning models. Multimedia content and video-based learning are increasingly taking a central role, thus it becomes of paramount importance to take full advantage of them by providing and automating services that help to overcome issues, such as linear viewing and poor engagement, and to exploit the advantages through enhanced interactivity, multimodal interfaces, new visualization tools, knowledge graphs, summarization, personalized hypervideo. In this scenario, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, and Natural Language Processing can play an essential role to exploit educational resources in order to enable a new wave of enhanced educational services and improve the consumption itself of multimedia content. TOPICS ------- We are looking for contributions that address the challenges of interactive hypermedia and intelligent user interfaces for education, advance the state of the art in theories, methods, and technologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - multimodal intelligent user interfaces for education - adaptive learning environments - adaptive hypervideo - interactive knowledge graphs - multimedia-enriched knowledge graphs - knowledge extraction from educational resources - summarization and explanation - error detection, feedback and accountability - intelligent textbooks - augmented video services - semantically-enhanced educational services - modeling, visualization and exploration of multimedia resources - tracking and analysing learners behaviour with video content - learning analytics for improving multimodal learning services - cloud-based learning environments SUBMISSIONS: ----------------------- Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the HT21 conference and will be published in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage the submission of original contributions investigating hypermedia for enhanced education with interactive multimedia: - Full research papers (max 10 pages, including references); - Short papers (max 5 pages, including references) for position papers and research-in-progress papers. Note on length: appendices count toward the page limit. ACM HHEE ’21 uses a double blind review process Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors’ own prior work should be made in the third-person. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. 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. Using LaTeX is highly recommended to minimize the extent of reformatting for camera-ready. * 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… Submissions should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht21. When submitting, please select the track “Workshop on HCI and Hypermedia for Enhanced Education with interactive multimedia”. Authors are required to present their paper at the workshop. All the papers presented at the workshop will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Mauro Coccoli, University of Genoa, IT Ilenia Galluccio, University of Genoa, IT Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa, IT CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: hhee2021(a)easychair.org Web page: http://hhee.dibris.unige.it On behalf of the workshop organisers Best Regards Ilenia Galluccio PhD Candidate University of Genoa

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[CFP] MUM 2021, Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (Dec 5-8, 2021, Leuven, Belgium)

by Adalberto Simeone

Apologies for cross-posting. ********************************************************************************** MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium ********************************************************************************** # Important Dates > August 6 | Submission (Long and Short papers) > September 28 | Notification > October 10 | Camera Ready > December 5-8 | Conference 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. This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly. We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * 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 * Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an * interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by August 6th, 2021 * AoE. An application for inclusion of the conference proceeding in the ACM International Conference * Proceeding Series is currently being processed. # Submission and Templates The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single column Word Submission Template or the single column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution with 16 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as short papers in past editions. Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical or methodological advances in the field. Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work in progress reports but, instead, they offer complete, rigorously developed work, with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers. Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features both experts from the previous edition, as well as new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process. Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 5 minutes to support their submission. To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered. # Reviewing process There will be a single round of reviews with three potential outcomes: desk-rejects (papers that are significantly out of scope, not written in English, etc.), rejection, and conditional acceptance. No rebuttal phase is planned. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will find in the reviews a list of revisions and requested changes they need to satisfy to have their paper be officially accepted into the program. At least one author from each accepted paper must register to the conference. # Organisers: Adalberto L. Simeone, KU Leuven, Belgium, General Chair Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium, Program Chair Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy, Program Chair > https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/ # More information: Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/ Twitter: @MUMconf https://twitter.com/MUMconf E-mail: general2021(a)mum-conf.org or papers2021(a)mum-conf.org -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS https://www.adalsimeone.me

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[CFP] IFIP ICEC 2021

by Catia Prandi

[apologies for multiple copies] —— The 20th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Date: November 2 - 5, 2021 Location: Coimbra, Portugal Website:www.ifip-icec.org<http://www.ifip-icec.org/> Submissions deadline: extended June 21st, 2021 Call for Papers The 20th International Federation for Information Processing - International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2021) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on Nov. 2-5, 2021: The conference is organized by the IFIP-ICEC TC14 - Entertainment Computing Technical Committee, and will be hosted by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), in association with the Portuguese Society for the Sciences of Videogames. IFIP-ICEC is the longest lasting and prime scientific conference series in the area of Entertainment Computing. It brings together practitioners, researchers, artists, designers, and industry on the design, creation, development, use, application and evaluation of digital entertainment content and experience systems. In addition, it brings together research on education and entertainment. This event covers a diverse array of related research issues, including game-based learning and other learning experiences associated with entertainment. COVID-19 Information We are fully aware that the situation regarding Covid-19 is a cause for concern. Hopefully, vaccination and traveling measures will have been adopted and the situation being normalised after the summer and therefore will hardly affect our conference schedule. Nevertheless, for those not being able to travel, we have measures to facilitate remote participation. It is our plan to bring all conference rooms online, enabling both local and distance engagement. All accepted papers will be indexed by EI, and be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. In addition, selected best papers from the conference will be invited for submission of an extended version to a special issue of Entertainment Computing (published by Elsevier). In addition, this edition will feature a special track where authors of selected recent papers from the Journal of Entertainment Computing (Elsevier), will be invited to present their work at the conference. Aims IFIP TC14 aims to encourage research, development and sharing of innovative ideas, models and practices, on computer applications in entertainment. To enhance computation and use studies in this field, the technical program committee invites original submissions. Topics can include but are not limited to: Design and Analysis Game Design: Theory, Creation & Testing Interactive Narratives & Digital Storytelling Entertainment Robots, Toys & Smart Gadgets Social Media / Social Computing Entertainments New Genres of Interactive & Digital Entertainment Interactive Art, Performance and Novel Interactions Digital Art & Installations Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality & Entertainment Ubiquitous/Pervasive Entertainment Sound, Music & Performance TransMedia and Entertainment Entertainment Devices, Platforms & Systems Digital Entertainment Hardware & Devices Entertainment for Nomadic Users Ambient Entertainment Digital Broadcasting and Digital Cinema Interactive Television and Broadcasting Theoretical Foundations and Ethical Issues Experiential Aspects in Entertainment Emotions and Affective Interaction Theoretical Basis of Entertainment Social / Cultural Impacts of Digital Entertainment Issues of Public Relations & Advertising Through Entertainment Entertainment for Purpose & Persuasion Serious Games Games for Learning, Health & Well-Being Games For Change & Social Impact Games Exergaming Advergames and Digital Marketing Computational Methodologies for Entertainment Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Entertainment Procedural Content Generation Computer Graphics & Visual Effects Big Data in Entertainment Security & Privacy in Entertainment Algorithmic research on board and card games New types of entertainment using information technologies Hardware technology research and development to implement entertainment systems Non-traditional human interface technologies for entertainment Important dates We invite submissions under the following categories (deadlines): Full Research Papers (extended June 21st, 2021) Works-in-Progress (extended June 21st, 2021) Interactive Entertainment / Experiential works (extended June 21st, 2021) Tutorial proposals (extended June 21st, 2021) Workshop proposals (extended June 21st, 2021) Early Submissions to Student Competition (extended June 21st, 2021) Notifications to authors (July 9th, 2021) Accepted Workshop calls published on our website by July 15th, 2021 "Camera ready" by 13th August, 2021 Submissions to Doctoral Consortium: September 30th, 2021 Late Submissions to Student Competition: September 30th, 2021 Submissions to Workshops: September 30th, 2021 For inquiries: icec2021(a)dei.uc.pt<mailto:icec2021@dei.uc.pt> _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Assistant professor (RTD A), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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CFP:IEEE/ACIS Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop (online). Extended deadline: June 25, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications: All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format: Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Please email your paper with the names and affiliations directly to the workshop organizer (miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca). Schedule: Submission deadline: June 25, 2021 (extended deadline) . Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: July 17, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: August 2, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards: The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee: Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) Veronica Zammitto (UX consultant, Canada) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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CHItaly 2021, July 11--13, Bolzano-online: Hybrid Program and Registration

by chitaly2021

Dear all, we are glad to announce that the program of CHItaly2021 is now available. The hybrid program includes several activities, intertwining arts and research and experimenting with different engagement styles. We will have: - 2 exciting keynotes by Prof. Albrecht Schmidt and Prof. Paola Bertola - 11 interactive experiences - a diverse range of academic papers and posters - 7 workshops - a doctoral consortium - a panel discussion - social events and much more, All accessible virtually as well as physically. Details of the hybrid program is available here: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/program.html There is still time to do an early bird registration up till 14th of June. The late registration will close on 30th of June. No extension in registration deadline and no on-site registrations would be possible, in order ensure an exciting program for all participants, attending both virtually or physically. Link for registration is here: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/registration.html We are committed to providing you with a safe and entertaining environment and warmly invite you to attend in presence. We also need your help in spreading the word. Yours sincerely, CHItaly 2021 Organising Committee https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it

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IxD&A Journal N. 48: meet the authors and download the articles

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. 48 *on:* /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities/*/ / *Meet the authors * on the /*17th of June- 10:00 CET*/ to attend the presentation of some of the authors please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHfSCARfrAyXBjoFVSgJ82VM0IsEjs2NN…> Articles are now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=ToC_4…> /After the opening of the youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos>, on the occasion IxD&A Journal makes another step into the future: the presenting authors will be awarded with a *blockchain-anchored e-certification* for the video presentation of their article./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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. 48 - ToC* /** Preface **by** **Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee** **pp. 5 - 7** **Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller, Beat Rossmy, Linda Hirsch, Luke Hespanhol , Martin Tomitsch** A Media Architecture Approach for Designing the Next Generation of Urban Interfaces **pp. 9 - 32** **Salvatore Andolina, Yi-Ta Hsieh, Denis Kalkofen, Antti Nurminen, Diogo Cabral, Anna Spagnolli, Luciano Gamberini, Ann Morrison, Dieter Schmalstieg, Giulio Jacucci** Designing for Mixed Reality Urban Exploration **pp. 33 - 49** **Faruk Can Ünal, Yüksel Demir** Augmented reality supported model for the use of local data in architectural design **pp. 50 - 74** **Michael Hunter, Alessandro Soro, Ross Brown** Enhancing Urban Conversation for Smarter Cities – Augmented Reality as an enabler of digital civic participation **pp. 75 - 99** **Brydon Wang** The Seductive Smart City and the Benevolent Role of Transparency **pp. 100 - 121** **Seungyoub Ssin, Hochul Cho, Woontack Woo** ***GeoACT: Augmented Control Tower using Virtual and Real Geospatial Data*** **pp. 122 - 142** ** Kavita Gonsalves, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell** Radical Placemaking: Utilizing Low-Tech AR/VR to engage in Communal Placemaking during a Pandemic **pp. 143 - 164** **////// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Deep Blue srl: Open position for Human Factors/Ergonomics Consultant

by Luca Save

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15 PhD scholarships at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear colleagues, Please see the call below and consider applying - or forwarding it to someone who might be interested in applying. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://www.unibz.it/) has opened a public competition for 15 PhD scholarships in Computer Science (deadline June 30). They cover a wide range of domains and applications from AI, software engineering, cloud computing, and data-science, through to cognitive, social, and political research surrounding human-computer interaction design. The language of instruction is English, and the University implements a trilingual model providing prospective students with the perfect environment to learn German and Italian. The scholarship includes - a 4-year salary to cover living expenses (approx. € 17,000 per year) - up to one year pay increase (50%) to support international mobility - Personal budget for research and travel expenses (Euro 2,500) - State of the art technical equipment 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 improve. The University is located in wonderful South Tyrol at the crossroads between the German-speaking and the Italian cultures and economies. It is a research-intense University with excellent facilities recognised by top positions in national and international rankings. The Faculty of Computer Science, in particular, is ranked within the best 150 departments worldwide. The call for applications can be found at http://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science We encourage students to get in touch with designated advisors to discuss informally their interests and motivations.

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CFP: IEEE/ACIS Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop (online). Extended deadline: June 25, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications: All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format: Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Please email your paper with the names and affiliations directly to the workshop organizer (miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca). Schedule: Submission deadline: June 25, 2021 (extended deadline) . Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: July 17, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: August 2, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards: The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee: Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) Veronica Zammitto (UX consultant, Canada) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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2nd International EMPATHY Workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems - Final Call For Papers

by Andrea Mattioli

INTERACT 2021 Workshop - deadline and workshop day update EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems https://empathy-ws.github.io/2021/ August 30th, 2021 Bari, Italy OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES June 20th: Paper submission deadline June 25th: Paper acceptance notice June 30th: Camera-ready submission August 30th: 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. 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 CHI Extended Abstracts format. Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2021). 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 single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. Final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, which is indexed by Scopus. ORGANIZERS - Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI - Fabiana Vernero, University of Torino - Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento

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SLERD 2021: program, registration and open events

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing// / ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development* *SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AND THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE PANDEMIC* *June 24-25, 2020 Fully on-line * Conference program <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/programme/> Registration form <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/registration-form/> ========================================================= *Keynotes* <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/keynotes/> • *Inger Birkeland* (University of South-Eastern Norway) /(Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place)/ • *Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) /(Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective)/ • *Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) / /(Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach)// ========================================================= on the 25th of June SLERD 20201 will host two *open debates* <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> on: *• Towards Learning Ecosystems Based on Competences: the promise of the micro-credentials* June 25 – h: 11:00 *• Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* June 25 – h: 15:40 Although the open debates are free we kindly ask people interested to attend the events to fill the registration form -> open debate registration form <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/open-debate-registration-form/> SLERD 2021 features also a free satellite event /on the 23rd of June//**//h: 15-18/ *• Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> * Also to attend the satellite event pople is kindly requested to fill the corresponding registration form -> satellite event registration form <http://isim03.mifav.uniroma2.it/satellite-event-registration-form/> "See" you at *SLERD 2021!!!*

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BHCC 2021 - Call for Contributions

by Sihang Qiu

Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online) Organized by TU Delft, CHI Nederland, and the Academic Fringe Festival --- Apologies for cross-posting --- Website: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/ *Overview* The goal of this symposium is to analyse both existing human biases in hybrid systems, and methods to manage bias via crowdsourcing and human computation. We will discuss different types of biases, measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent and solve bias. We welcome the submission of research papers and abstracts which describe original work that has not been submitted or currently under review, has not been previously published nor accepted for publication elsewhere, in any other journal or conference. We welcome the submission of the following types of contributions: - Full papers should be at most 10 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Short papers should be at most 5 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references), - Abstracts should contain just a title and the abstract, and should detail demos or relevant work or ideas which are under development. They can not contain references. More details: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/submission *Important Dates* Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - Full Papers and Short papers due: 26 August 2021 - Abstracts due: 2 September 2021 - Notifications: 22 October 2021 - Conference: 10-12 November 2021 *Submission* We implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must be anonymous and the submission must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhcc2021 We are committed to create an equal opportunity environment, without regard to race, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other status. For this reason, if you feel that you are in a disadvantaged situation or you require assistance please reach out to us (bhcc2021(a)easychair.org). We’ll be more than happy to help and allow everyone to submit a paper. We are keen to create a fair working environment for the crowd workers and annotators. For this reason, each submission should clearly state the policies implemented to pursue this aim; each paper should be clear about the amount of work required for an annotator to submit the task, the payment, the time spent by the annotators to finish the task, and all the relevant details aimed at making clear that workers and annotators obtained a fair compensation and treatment for their work.

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Two PhD fellowships available at HIIS Laboratory, CNR-ISTI

by Fabio Paternò

We are looking for candidates for two 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/): One 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 in the field of Methods and Tools for Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction. One fellowship is associated with the newly-established national PhD programme on Artificial Intelligence (https://www.phd-ai.it/) on the topic Human-centered automations in daily environments 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 2021. For further information any interested potential candidate can contact fabio.paterno at isti.cnr.it

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I: SIGCHI Equity Talks: SIGCHI Across Chapters (May 27)

by Maristella Matera

FYI Cari saluti, Maristella Da: Neha Kumar <neha.kumar(a)gmail.com> Inviato: domenica 23 maggio 2021 02:54 A: Eunice Sari <eunice.sari(a)gmail.com> Oggetto: SIGCHI Equity Talks: SIGCHI Across Chapters (May 27) Dear SIGCHI chapters and friends, Our next SIGCHI Equity Talks session, titled SIGCHI Across Chapters, will be held on May 27, 11.30am GMT. It will be co-organized by Eunice Sari (VP for Chapters) and myself (VP at Large). In this roundtable session, we will discuss prior and ongoing efforts to support and promote chapters, and how these efforts might be further cultivated towards the success of SIGCHI as a global institution. Chapters are of varying sizes across the globe, and feature different emphases on research vs. practice, different sizes, and different challenges facing sustainability and growth. We invite participation from all chapters, in the hope that this discussion can help in brainstorming approaches to support greater learning and exchange across chapters. The questions we propose to address are as follows: Naming the Problem(s): What are the challenges that chapters find themselves facing in being a part of SIGCHI that SIGCHI could better address? Fostering Solidarity: What might a more inclusive, supportive infrastructure and culture within SIGCHI look like for supporting chapters? Identifying Nuance: What are some barriers chapters might face in this regard? How do these impact different chapters differently? Actions Towards Change: Where does the responsibility for change lie, and what actions can and should SIGCHI take to effect this change? Join us on Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/93907948324?pwd=SEsvZlUyakc1a1hUNnZ2K2czV2RJZz09 Ask questions on Sli.do: https://app.sli.do/event/owzhgesl Join SIGCHI's Discord server: https://discord.gg/nAYVdWSpgZ Read more about our Equity Talks here: https://medium.com/sigchi/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477 Please forward widely, and apologies for cross-posting! Thank you, Neha Kumar (SIGCHI VP at Large) & Eunice Sari (SIGCHI VP for Chapters)

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Invitation to submit to Special Issue on "VR, AR, and HCI" (MDPI Open Access Journal)

by Lammers, H.A.

Invitation to submit to Special Issue on "VR, AR, and HCI" (MDPI Open Access Journal) Dear Colleagues, We are in the process of putting together a Special Issue on "Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction" in collaboration with MDPI Open Access Journa (https://www.mdpi.com<https://www.mdpi.com/>). Details about the Special Issue can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/Virt_Reality The deadline for the abstract (title and short outline of the planned content) is July 31, 2021. We would like to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue and are looking forward to your contributions! Best regards Achim, Peter, and Gerrit ---- Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Peter Dannenmann, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Virt_Reality_horizontal_light.png]

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CHItaly 2021, July 11--13, Bolzano-online: keynotes, program, registration

by chitaly2021

Dear all, we are glad to announce the keynotes of CHItaly 2021, the hybrid program of the conference and how to register for it. --------------------------- KEYNOTES --------------------------- We are excited to present the two keynote speakers of CHItaly 2021 (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/keynotes.html): 1) Prof. Albrecht Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) will open the conference on July 12th, talking about "THE END OF SERENDIPITY: Will Artificial Intelligence Remove Chance and Choice in Everyday Life?"; 2) Prof. Paola Bertola (Politecnico di Milano) will close the conference on July 13th, talking about: "FASHION WITHIN THE BIG DATA SOCIETY: How can data enable fashion transition towards more meaningful and sustainable products?". --------------------------- PROGRAM --------------------------- The hybrid program includes a number of interesting events, besides its keynotes: presentations of long and short research papers, workshops, interactive experiences, the doctoral consortium, social events. For details, kindly refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/index.html The program will be completed in due time. Meanwhile you may want to reserve the following dates in your agenda for CHItaly 2021: from Sunday the 11th of July, early afternoon, to Tuesday the 13th of July at 22:00. --------------------------- REGISTRATION --------------------------- Given its hybrid nature, CHItaly allows for two types of participation: either physical or virtual. Furthermore, due to the current uncertainty concerning travelling regulations in Europe, CHItaly adopts a 2-step registration process. STEP 1). Attendees, willing to benefit from the early-bird rate, *must* register their intention to participate - either physically - or virtually by June 7 (strict). NOTA BENE: at least one author for each long/short research article, at least one workshop organiser and at least one interactive experience organiser are requested to register by June 7 (strict). After June 7, registrations will be considered late. STEP 2). Payments are purposefully delayed. They will be based on the Step-1 registration choice. The conference organisers will allow to modify a physical into a virtual fee in case of serious COVID-19-related reasons. Payments for both physical and virtual fees will close on June 30. No on-site registration will be possible. Please, refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/registration.html for up-to-date and detailed information as well as for registering for CHItaly 2021. We apologise for the delay of this communication, due to the complexity of ensuring compliance with the COVID-19 regulations in South Tyrol, Italy, and Europe. We are committed to providing you with a safe and entertaining environment and warmly invite you to attend in presence. Yours sincerely, CHItaly 2021 Organising Committee https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it

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CFP: IEEE/ACIS Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop. Extended deadline: May 22, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Please email your paper with the names and affiliations directly to the workshop organizer (miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca). Schedule Submission deadline: May 22, 2021 (extended deadline) . Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: June 10, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: July 10, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) Veronica Zammitto (UX consultant) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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cfp IFIP IoT 2021

by Fabio Paternò

Dear colleagues, Please find enclosed the call for paper or the 4th IFIP International Internet of Things (IoT) Conference going to be held from 4 5 November 2021 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We solicit submissions of full papers and poster presentations. Proposals for special sessions can be submitted via the special form on the conference website. Submitted full papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Poster presentations will have to be student papers. Accepted submissions will be presented at the conference and included in the post-conference edited book published in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT) series by Springer Nature. Authors can choose to publish their paper as an open access paper, for details contact Leon Strous. Proceedings will be submitted for indexing in SCOPUS and Web of Science. Previous editions are already indexed in SCOPUS. Selected papers will be eligible for a special issue in the Springer Nature Computer Science (SNCS) journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979) All papers must be written in English. Full papers should be at most 18 pages long in total including references and appendices. The paper should be intelligible without having to read the appendices. Poster presentations should be at most 4 pages. Submissions should not be anonymized. Authors must follow the Springer formatting instructions for the IFIP AICT series, see https://www.springer.com/series/6102. Each paper will receive at least 3 reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date and present the paper. Poster presentations will have to be presented by the student(s). Full paper due 15 June 2021 Notification of acceptance 31 August 2021 Deadline for final version 15 December 2021 For paper submissions go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipiot2021 For more information visit the conference website http://ifip-iotconference.org/ or contact Leon Strous (strous(a)iae.nl <mailto:strous@iae.nl> ), Srinivas Katkoori (katkoori(a)usf.edu <mailto:katkoori@usf.edu> ) or Luis Camarinha-Matos (cam(a)uninova.pt <mailto:cam@uninova.pt> )

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CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop, deadline: May 10, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Schedule Submission deadline: May 10, 2021. Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: June 10, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: July 10, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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Call for Submission - Special issue on Interface Design Challenges for Smart Control Room

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Call for Submission - Special issue on Interface Design Challenges for Smart Control Room https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Interface_Design Dear Colleagues, Control rooms for mission critical operations and monitoring networks have changed considerably over the years, relying today on smart technology able to better support human-machine allocation tasks and decision support activities. The working conditions of the control room operators are characterized by high cognitive workload in terms of user’ attention and decision processes both in daily routine and extraordinary/unexpected circumstances. For that reason, in addition to the security, resilience and reliability issues, control rooms also should be usable, being usability defined by ISO 9241-11 (2018) as "the extent to which a system, product or service can be used by specific users to achieve specific objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a given context". Usability is an essential property for understanding the uses and the place of users in smart control rooms. The adoption of appropriate user centered design methodologies for future intelligent control room interfaces is paramount to achieve system usability and guarantee or restore safe and efficient operations, in a variety of application fields, from emergency, to healthcare, to surveillance, to agriculture, to industry. Interface design for control rooms may raise challenges of potential interest for researchers working in a variety of areas, including computer-human interaction, organizational psychology and anthropology, big data management and information visualization, Internet of Things, geographical information systems, and software engineering. As such, the special issue invites submission on new and innovative research results and industrial experience papers in the area of interface applications for smart control rooms. We particularly encourage submission covering any aspects of the problem, including, but not limited to, the following topics of interest: - Context-Aware Behaviour in Smart Control Rooms; - Cooperative Interaction in Smart Control Rooms; - Multimodal/Multitouch Interaction for Smart Control Rooms; - Smart Control Rooms for Emergency Management; - Smart Control Rooms for Healthcare Management; - Smart Control Rooms for the Internet of Things; - Smart Control Rooms for UAVs, Drones and Robotics; - Assessment of multiple properties (such as usability, security, etc.) affecting the use of smart control rooms; - Visualization techniques for monitoring and analyzing data collected in control rooms. Genoveffa Tortora, Giuliana Vitiello, Marco Winckler, *Guest Editor* Deadline for manuscript submissions: *15 June 2021*.

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Associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Bergen, Norway

by Morten Fjeld

Dear Colleague, There is a vacancy for a permanent associate professor position in information science in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Application deadline: 1st June 2021 https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/203893/associate-professor-i… Morten Fjeld, PhD, Professor t2i Interaction Laboratory Web: http://t2i.se Mobile, S: +46 73 079 1186 Mobile, N: +47 55 58 41 41 Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen, Postbox 7802, N-5020 Bergen Web: https://www.uib.no/en/fg/interaction Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/my/mfjeld E-mail: morten.fjeld(a)uib.no Visit: https://www.uib.no/en/fg/interaction/map, 6th floor

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SIGCHI Development Fund & Co.

by Luigi De Russis

Care tutte, cari tutti, dall’anno scorso faccio parte di un comitato in seno a SIGCHI, il SIGCHI Development Fund (SDF) Committee. Il comitato si è occupato e si occupa di varie iniziative di supporto alla comunità globale intorno a SIGCHI, con un supporto che va da quello economico (per eventi virtuali, al momento) a quello più di rete/comunicazione, come il calendario degli eventi di interesse alla comunità HCI (https://sigchi.org/community/ <https://sigchi.org/community/>). Vi scrivo per due motivi, sperando che queste informazioni possano essere utili a qualcuno di voi: 1) Da una parte, per farvi conoscere le varie iniziative su cui questo comitato ha lavorato nell’ultimo anno, per le quali posso condividere in anteprima un breve video (5 minuti) che sarà usato per la Town Hall di CHI 2021: https://youtu.be/uwLUjGcWpIU <https://youtu.be/uwLUjGcWpIU> 2) Dall’altra, soprattutto nel caso in cui non foste a conoscenza di alcune tra queste iniziative, per invitarvi a partecipare e/o inviare qualche proposta. Per esempio, attraverso il SDF è possibile avere fino a 5,000 dollari a supporto di una grande varietà di eventi virtuali (https://sigchi.org/resources/sigchi-development-fund/ <https://sigchi.org/resources/sigchi-development-fund/>), mentre il Gary Marsden Travel Award (https://sigchi.org/awards/gary-marsden-travel-awards/ <https://sigchi.org/awards/gary-marsden-travel-awards/>) è stato recentemente aggiornato per supportare economicamente studenti e persone all’inizio della loro carriera a partecipare (anche virtualmente) a varie conferenze SIGCHI. Attualmente, entrambe le iniziative sono sempre aperte per ricevere nuove proposte e domande. Grazie e a presto! Cordialmente, Luigi --- Luigi De Russis Assistant Professor (RTDb) Department of Control and Computer Engineering Politecnico di Torino, Italy ph: +39 011 0907170, +39 331 2689895 e: luigi.derussis(a)polito.it w: http://elite.polito.it/people/derussis t: @luigidr

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EUSSET CSCW Summer School in Como - 23rd to 27th August

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear all, Please see below the call for participation for the EUSSET Summer School on CSCW to be held in Como from 23rd to 27th August. Application deadline: May, 14th 2021. Please consider attending or forwarding it to Ph.D. candidates/post-docs that might be interested. For any information about the school contact the chairs at: summerschool(a)eusset.eu Best regards, Maria (on behalf of the summer school chairs) *Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work* 23-27 August 2021, Como, Italy. *About* The CSCW Summer School provides young researchers (PhD or post-doc) with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of CSCW as a research field and community. The interaction among the participants (both teachers and students) will promote the generation of new ideas and their confrontation with the experiences they have acquired in their field research. *Aims and scope* After the introduction of the acronym CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) in the late 1980’ the themes connected with the understanding of collaborative work practices and the design of artefacts supporting collaboration have become pervasive in many scientific, business and social discourses. The domains in which CSCW can inform sociotechnical design are constantly growing and changing. This asks for a continuous elaboration of the theoretical foundations of the underpinning disciplines through a reflection on the outcomes of the field studies, on the methods applied in the social and technological investigations and on the impact of the technologies on practices they are made part of. The combination of these perspectives should be the patrimony of any researcher who wants to grasp the complex and subtle issues that are involved in the CSCW research area. *Program* The course will present central themes, methods and discussions within CSCW by experienced scholars in conversations with participants. Full program TBA soon (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/) *Important dates* · Application deadline: May 14, 2021 · Notification of acceptance: May 21 , 2021 · Registration deadline: June 21, 2021 *Credits:* 7,5 ECTS *Location* The summer school will be held onsite at the Villa del Grumello, a nice villa close to Como, Italy. The center of the town can be reached in a ten-minute walk along the border of the lake. All attendees must adhere to the local and national requirements of their departure country and in Italy (e.g., tests, vaccination, COVID-19 passport, etc.). We are committed to comply to COVID-19 regulations and follow the necessary precautions to ensure a safe environment. *Fees* The registration fee for the course will be around 350€, not including accommodation or travel (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/) *Application* Please provide a document that includes one to two pages of CV and one page that includes your PhD topic, your research approach and why you want to participate at the summer school. Deadline May, 2021 (the specific date will be provide in Apr). Please send it to: summerschool(a)eusset.eu *Accommodation* A list of recommended accommodation will be provided later, however, participants may choose accommodation as they see fit. *Visa* International applicants might need a visiting student visa to come to Italy. Information about the required documents are available at the “Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” following this link <http://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en>. A request for a School Invitation Letter should be sent to summerschool(a)eusset.eu. The request must contain all the necessary information along with a digitized copy of the identification page of the student passport (with name and photo). *Contact* For any information about the school please contact: summerschool(a)eusset.eu *Chairs* · Antonella di Angeli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Italy) · Claus Bossen (Aarhus University – Denmark) · Nina Boulus-Rødje (Roskilde University – Denmark)

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Extended submission deadline (May 11): Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021

by Stefan Sauer

*_Submission deadline extended until May 11, 2021. (Apologies for cross-postings.)_*_**_ *International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: May 11, 2021 (extended!) April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: *May 11, 2021 (extended!) April 30, 2021* Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: Unified Call for Workshop Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

*** Apologies for Cross-Postings *** Dear Colleagues, CHItaly is the Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter. It is open to both members and non-members. The CHItaly edition of 2021 is the 14th of the series and will be hosted in Bolzano at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/). Several half-day online (or hybrid) workshops will take place in conjunction with this year's CHItaly conference: *** July 11th *** - W1) Gameful self-reflection: on HCI and the sustainability discourses - W2) Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island) - W3) Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban) - W4) Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML) *** July 12th *** - W5) Frontiers of Older Humans Computer Interaction - W6) The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions - W7) GHItaly21-4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction - W8) Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI) - W9) Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR) The attendance is free of charge for CHItaly main conference attendants and will be subject to a small fee for everyone else (registration fees are available on the CHItaly 2021 website: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/registration.html). There are still a few places available to join the rich set of satellite events accompanying CHItaly 2021. The deadline for expression of interest or paper submission for all workshops has been extended. Please check each workshop website for details about the new deadline. Details for each workshop are given in what follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W1) Gameful self-reflection: on HCI and the sustainability discourses https://islandfutures.net/chitaly-2021-workshop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Greta Adamo, ITI / LARSyS, Madeira, Portugal (greta.adamo(a)iti.larsys.pt) - Max Willis, M-ITI and ITI / LARSyS, Madeira, Portugal - Leysan Nurgalieva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland It could be said that sustainability has always been at the center of HCI as a field; the core tenets of HCI, usability and participation are both concerned with securing and maintaining continued, meaningful engagement between customers and publics with the products and services we design. Meanwhile, the concept of sustainability has taken on a more broad ecological meaning, and although a range of HCI academic and industry professionals are focussed on topics such as urban design, circular economy and citizen science that directly address human impacts and environmentally-sensitive quality of life there is much more to this discourse. This workshop invites each and every participant to self-reflect on their previous work, their current directions, and future aims, and ask just how much, or how little our own work, and that of our HCI community is addressing sustainability and sustainable development. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W2) Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island) https://easychair.org/cfp/VRISLAND1-VirtualRealitySpecialLanguageNeeds https://padlet.com/stagginigiulia/vfhbeh9yyvwbb7uc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Giulia Staggini, University of Genoa, Italy (contact person: stagginigiulia(a)gmail.com) - Rita Cersosimo, University of Genoa, Italy This workshop proposal is the result of a speculation about important issues, both in the academic world and everyday life, such as: accessibility to language learning and technology support. In particular, the reasons leading to this proposal are: enhance motivation and cross-cultural competence in students with SLN (Special Language Needs), e.g: dyslexic students and foreigner learners; overcome language obstacles; enhance multi-channel, multi-media, multi-modality and multisensorial language learning; develop digital literacy and digital awareness. This workshop proposal is based on two main objectives: the first one aims to make attendees familiar with accessible teaching methods; the other one is more practical and focuses on an introduction of IVR in everyday teaching of language. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W3) Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban) http://bit.ly/TransUrbanWorkshop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Mattia Thibault, Tampere University, Finland (mattia.thibault(a)tuni.fi) - Nikoletta Zampeta Legaki, Tampere University, Finland - Oğuz “Oz” Buruk, Tampere University, Finland - Seda Suman Buruk, independent urban designer, Tampere, Finland - Daniel Fernández Galeote, Tampere University, Finland This workshop aims at expanding the existent research and perspectives on the future of cities by making use of creative, emergent, and participative approaches. The concept of transurbanism emerges from the realisation that the future of humanity and the future of urban spaces cannot be understood is not by tackling them both at the same time. Future cities will be articulated around future citizens, and future citizens will be shaped by their urban environments. In order to investigate a far away transurban future, we will use the tools of speculative design, a well-established practice that uses design as a form of critique and speculation. The participative approach of the workshop will ensure that the different skills, backgrounds and perspectives of the participants will work in synergy to refresh and deepen the way we imagine future cities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W4) Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML) https://www.uni-kassel.de/go/CritML ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Goda Klumbytė, University of Kassel, Germany (goda.klumbyte(a)uni-kassel.de) - Claude Draude, University of Kassel, Germany - Alex Taylor, University of London, UK The purpose of the workshop is to experiment with how machine learning systems can be imagined and designed in a more situated, inclusive, contextualized and accountable way in order to reduce the systemic socio-cultural biases and develop more socially responsible frameworks of design. The premise of the work is that while computer science has developed sophisticated technical tools to improve machine learning accuracy and expand application fields, it is facing issues in particular with regards to systemic socio-cultural bias. Critical theories, particularly feminist and postcolonial critical theories, have developed tools to address societal bias and its embeddedness in systems of thought and technology, and to trace how these embeddings give rise to new and reproduce existing hierarchies of power in society. This workshop thus aims to translate insights developed by those critical study fields into approaches in machine learning systems design through an experimental workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W5) Frontiers of Older Humans Computer Interaction https://olderhcichitaly2021.wordpress.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Michela Cozza, Mälardalen University, Sweden (michela.cozza(a)mdh.se) - Alexander Peine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Helen Manchester, University of Bristol, UK The Socio-gerontechnology network brings together scholars from various social science and design disciplines interested in critical studies of ageing and technology. The network started from a joint interest of scholars in Science and Technology Studies – beginning to see ageing as an important field for critical studies of technology – and Ageing Scholars – beginning to see digitisation and technology as important but under-researched elements of ageing and later life. Our aim is to provide critical social science insights into ageing and technology that will lead to better policies and designs for older people in a digitising world. In the spirit of the SG Network and in line with the aim of CHItaly2021, this workshop is designed to attract contributions from diverse geographical areas and disciplines, which share a common interest in studying the relationships between age, ageing and technology design and development. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W6) The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions https://digi-rr.wineme.wiwi.uni-siegen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - David Unbehaun, University of Siegen, Germany (david.unbehaun(a)uni-siegen.de) - Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France - Chiara Bassetti, CNR, Italy - Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany - Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA - Johannes Schädler, University of Siegen, Germany Rural regions are of central importance to the economic, social and political stability of advanced Western societies. When national states do not offer sufficient quality of life to people living in rural regions liberal democracies tend to destabilize. Authoritarian, populist or even extreme rightist movements gain followers and political influence (see for instance the USA, former East Germany, Tchech Republic, Hungary, or Slovenia). In Central Europe some of the rural areas are at the same time industrialized, typically with old, traditional industries. Compared to metropolitan regions, the relative affordability of land, historically derived competitive advantages (e.g. mines, water conducts) as well as skill sets of the entrepreneurs and the work force lead to the location of rather traditional production-oriented industries. While high tech typically moves to or emerges out of metropolitan centers, old industries can often be found in rural regions. However, we believe that rural (industrialized) regions have very specific needs and opportunities when trying to improve the quality of life by means of innovative digital artefacts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W7) GHItaly21-4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction http://ghi.di.unimi.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Davide Gadia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (gadia(a)di.unimi.it) - Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy - Laura Anna Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Dario Maggiorini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Ilaria Mariani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy GHItaly21 is the fourth edition of a series of workshops focused on the multifaceted issues related to the design and development of human-game interfaces. This entails multidisciplinary competences and skills, and the final quality of the User eXperience depends on how consistently and smartly they are exploited. As a matter of fact, users’ engagement and satisfaction rely on the wise design and skilled evaluation of the produced (multidimensional) artifacts. This gains even more critical importance since the application of video games has long overcome the borders of amusement, to spur new possibilities for, e.g., continuous healthcare and education. In its first three editions (two of them held in conjunction to previous CHItaly conferences), the GHItaly workshops aimed at constituting a bridge among the many different disciplinary areas involved, trying to decrease the still existing cultural gaps and to establish a common ground and a crossroads for related research. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W8) Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI) https://sites.google.com/view/naturehci/home ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Eleonora Mencarini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (mencarini(a)fbk.eu) - Amon Rapp, University of Torino, University of Trento, Italy - Linda Tonolli, University of Trento, Italy - Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University, Denmark - Roberto Cibin, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Vincenzo D’Andrea, University of Trento, Italy - Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento, Italy In 2020, when most of the world population has experienced limitations to free mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialisation and outdoor life started to be strongly desired and dreamed. In this workshop, we are interested in exploring HCI issues and works related to the "outdoors", broadly intended as an open-air setting that includes cities, peripheries, rural areas, wild natural environments, etc. In this perspective, the natural context becomes of particular interest, given also the fact that in the last 10 years, part of HCI research has focused on nature, investigating both the activities that people conduct in the natural context and the impact that human activities have on it. In this workshop, we would like to bring together researchers exploring the role of technology in shaping the outdoor experience, with a special focus on the natural environment. By doing so, we aim to question how the different aspects of nature are treated in HCI research, from outdoor life to the epistemological implications of anthropocentrism, and to start a conversation capable of renovating HCI discourses and practices. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W9) Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR) https://mixr-chitaly2021.github.io ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers and contact: - Maurizio Mancini, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy (m.mancini(a)di.uniroma1.it) - Giovanna Varni, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France - David Murphy, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland - Fabio Pellacini, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy - Laura Maye, University College Cork, Ireland - Patrick O’Toole, University College Cork, Ireland XR, or eXtended Reality, is an umbrella term that encompasses the areas of AR, VR, and MR, with strong emphasis on immersiveness, multimodality and presence. XR is a multidisciplinary field incorporating subjects such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, and digital humanities. Within XR, collaborative environments is one of the fastest growing areas, as can be seen by the number of social VR worlds available today. Most of these environments focus on the graphical aspects of the environment, not fully taking advantage of multimodal and multi-party design. Interaction in these environments is largely limited to text chats and, in the case of a few systems, voice interaction. Deeper and more meaningful engagement and interaction in XR can be achieved by leveraging the principles of Social Signal Processing (SSP) and Affective Computing (AC). Due to the simultaneous one-to-one and one-to-many interactions that establish and evolve over time, Multi-party (group) Interaction in XR is a complex process, whose analysis is still an open challenge in SSP/AC. Nowadays, the need for exploring Multi-party Interaction in XR settings is expanding, as people are increasingly meeting remotely through teleconferencing tools for practical reasons (e.g., working and living abroad) or, for example, as a result of the social restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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[IxD&A] Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal has entered in the third age of the scientific communication.

by Carlo Giovannella

We are proud to announce that *Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal *(IxD&A) has entered in its *third age*. After /the paper age/ and the /electronic version age/, the journal made a transition to an "*/e-paper + video/*" age on occasion of the special issue N.47 (dedicated to "Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education"): Issue N.47 - ToC <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> After the "/Meet the Authors/" event the videos of the introduction and of the individual presentations have been linked to the ToC webpage and to the webpages of the articles' abstract. On the home-page of IxD&A you can find also a short updated video presentation of the journal given at the "Meet the Authors" event. On the occasion IxD&A Journal has inaugurated also its *youtube channel* youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA> where you can find also the playlist of "Meet the Authors" N. 47 Next IxD&A issues are expected to adopt the same format of issue N.47 Looking forward your future submissions to IxD&A Journal and your contribution to the third age of the scientific communication!

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[Extended CfP] MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality

by Maurizio Mancini

[apologies for cross-posting] MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality Hosted @CHItaly 2021 (14th Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter) July 12th, 2021 (morning) Website: https://mixr-chitaly2021.github.io XR, or eXtended Reality, is an umbrella term that encompasses the areas of AR, VR, and MR, with strong emphasis on immersiveness, multimodality and presence. XR is a multidisciplinary field incorporating subjects such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, and digital humanities. Within XR, collaborative environments is one of the fastest growing areas, as can be seen by the number of social VR worlds available today. Most of these environments focus on the graphical aspects of the environment, not fully taking advantage of multimodal and multi-party design. Interaction in these environments is largely limited to text chats and, in the case of a few systems, voice interaction. Deeper and more meaningful engagement and interaction in XR can be achieved by leveraging the principles of Social Signal Processing (SSP) and Affective Computing (AC). Due to the simultaneous one-to-one and one-to-many interactions that establish and evolve over time, Multi-party (group) Interaction in XR is a complex process, whose analysis is still an open challenge in SSP/AC. Nowadays, the need for exploring Multi-party Interaction in XR settings is expanding, as people are increasingly meeting remotely through teleconferencing tools for practical reasons (e.g., working and living abroad) or, for example, as a result of the social restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. MIXR seeks to progress research on Multi-party Interaction in XR by pursuing the following objectives: - to investigate how social science theories and models of Multi-party Interaction can be applied in or possibly adapted to XR scenarios - to develop techniques for collecting multimodal data of Multi-party Interaction - to promote interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration between scholars in Computer Science and Social Sciences on XR, Social Signal Processing, Affective Computing, Multi-party Interaction Topics We invite participants to submit short (6 pages) papers that focus on Multi-party Interaction in XR. Topics of interest include Multi-Party (team/group) Interaction in XR, covering the following research areas: - Emotion recognition and expression - Movement expressivity - Team emergent states and dynamics - Joint activity/collaboration - Immersive CSCW - Education and creativity - Serious games - Multimodality - Interaction fidelity - Theoretical models - System/interface ergonomics - Novel technologies Important dates May 2nd, 2021 - [Extended] Paper submission deadline May 14, 2021 - Notifications to contributors May 24, 2021 - Camera-ready/final version deadline July 12, 2021 - Workshops (All deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) Submissions/Proceedings Short papers (6 pages) can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mixr21# Authors should use the 1 column CEUR-ART style: - The style is available from: Vol-XXX - An Overleaf page is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt - The offline version with the style files is at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Accepted papers will be published on the free open-access repository CEUR-WS, which is indexed on SCOPUS. Organizing Committee Maurizio Mancini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Giovanna Varni (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France) David Murphy (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Fabio Pellacini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Laura Maye (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Patrick O’Toole (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland)

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Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021 (submit by April 30)

by Stefan Sauer

*_One week left until paper submission deadline!_*_*(Apologies for cross-postings.)*_ *International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: LAST-DAY Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers/ 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. Students at different stages of their research will be able to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. Papers must: identify a significant problem in the field of research outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her contribution the first day of the conference. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ If you have any question, please write an email to the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy, email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy, email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for doctoral consortium papers: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html

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[CFP] Track in Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence - XVIII Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS [ItAIS2021], 15-16 October 2021, Trento

by Tania Di Mascio

[Apologies for cross-posting] ============================================= ItAIS2021 XVIII Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS 15-16 October 2021, Trento Call for Papers Track in Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence website: http://www.itais.org/conference/2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2021/03/T0… ================================================ In a world in which ever more information systems drawing upon machine learning techniques and optimization algorithms become part of everyday life, machine learning contributes to interaction design and execution, often by focusing on specific user behaviors; the aim is to create new systems based on Artificial Intelligence: the AI-s. With respect to users that already have a clear understanding of the functionality and the outputs of traditional systems, a user, interacting with an AI-s, could be different expectations of what the system actually offers. AI-s usually have dynamic behaviors, which often confound users until users prefer to substitute the system or in some cases to refuse them. AI-s often has a tendency to sudden changes of attitude or behavior: they vary in capabilities and interaction paradigms, impacting user engagement and usability. It is not difficult finding examples of AI-s failures that damage users, ranging from "soft" (e.g., autocompletion errors) to "hard" situations in which users cannot effectively understand or control an AI-s (e.g., collaboration with semi-autonomous cars). Successful AI-s strengthen the tie to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) by creating a demand for new and better interaction. Usable AI-s might be realized by teams composed of HCI researchers employing AI techniques as well as AI researchers applying HCI methodologies, and not only! Despite the acknowledgment of equal importance of the usage of AI techniques and HCI methodologies, their balance in the realization of AI-s is more ideal than practice, since traditionally both AI techniques and HCI methodologies have been addressed by two distinct communities – Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial intelligence – using different processes, methods, and tools. Also, in recent years we have witnessed the emergence of new research topics in the borders between HCI and AI, such as Human-Based Computation (HBC) and Augmented Intelligence, i.e., problems in which humans and machines work together towards solving a common goal, either where the machine is assisted by humans (HBC) or the humans are assisted by the machines (Augmented Intelligence). Also, the intersection of HCI and AI is 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, most notably Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. This track aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of the usage of HCI and AI within the realization of AI-s, as well as experiences in related field in between, such as HBC or Augmented Intelligence. It also provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered within the realization of AI-s, in order to identify shared purposes and improving a mutual understanding for the next generation of researchers and system builders in the growing field of HCI&AI. ================================================ Track Main Topics ================================================ Topics include (but are not limited to): - Human Computer Interaction - Artificial Intelligence - Human-based Computation - Augmented Intelligence - Intelligent User Interface - Conversational User Interface - Intelligent Data Visualization - AI Methods for Adaptive User Interface ================================================ Important Dates ================================================ - Deadline for full paper submission: May 28, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2021 - Final paper submission: August 30, 2021 - Final notification of acceptance: September 11, 2021 - Conference: October 15-16, 2021 ================================================ Submission guidelines ================================================ Submissions will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process. Track chairs will select reviewers and ensure the anonymity of the review process. Authors are encouraged to seek guidance from Track Chairs prior submitting the paper. We encourage authors to submit an abstract (no more than 2000 words, providing information about the research aim, the theoretical framework and/or theories applied, the research methods, and the main/expected findings with potential implications, including a few references) to receive feedbacks by the Track Chairs before full paper submission. The page limit for a full paper (where the abstract in this case needs to include no more than 250 words) is equal to 12 pages (excluding references) More information about submission: http://www.itais.org/conference/2021/submission/ ================================================ Track Co-Chairs ================================================ - Tania Di Mascio, DISIM University of L’Aquila (Italy) - Luigi Laura, UniNettuno University (Italy) - Eleonora Veglianti, FGES department at the Catholique University of Lille (France) ================================================ Track Program Committee Members ================================================ - Federica Caruso, University of L'Aquila, Italy, federica.caruso(a)univaq.it - Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, luigi.derussis(a)polito.it - Fausto Fasano, University of Molise, Italy, fausto.fasano(a)unimol.it - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, maristella.matera(a)polimi.it - Gianluigi Me, LUISS University, Italy, gme(a)luiss.it - Maurizio Naldi, LUMSA University, Italy, m.naldi(a)lumsa.it - Laura Tarantino, University of L'Aquila, Italy, laura.tarantino(a)univaq.it - Massimo Zancanaro, FBK Trento, Italy, zancana(a)fbk.eu

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Bidding for The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction 2023 is now open

by Fabio Paternò

Bidding for 2023 The bidding for MobileHCI 2023 is open. From 2019 and onwards, we have been paying special attention to the *diversity* (gender, cultural, economic, etc.) both in the organizing committee and in how the organisers plan to attract diverse audience to MobileHCI. Bidding Process MobileHCI is the forum that provides academics and practitioners a valuable place to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. Beyond mobile devices and services, the conference covers issues in the whole ecosystem of mobile, smart and embedded devices and the related services. The exact nature of a bid can of course include and seek to extend or focus this as the proposers envisage. To bid please see the instructions here: https://mobilehci.acm.org/sc/bidding.html You can also contact the Steering Committee Chair: l.baillie(a)hw.ac.uk Kind regards Lynne Baillie Professor of Computer Science Heriot-Watt University

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Call for papers | MIST4TEL | 14th May 2021

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:6FAA4272-654D-4BFA-ABC5-4E5D18565221@homenet.telecomitalia.it]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> 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 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 is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to 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 10th 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 (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field. MIS4TEL 2021 will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference<http://www.paams.net/>. TOPICS 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, personalisation 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 Learning analytics for TEL * Big data and data visualisation in TEL * Learning analytics for curriculum design * Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience * Learning analytics for predicting behaviour * Learning analytics for designing learning interventions * Learning analytics for stakeholders Methodologies and experiences for TEL * Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL * Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling 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 SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from MIS4TEL will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals. [cid:E90DCF0A-3C71-4722-BA37-14EEF85E1F48@homenet.telecomitalia.it] <http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2255-2863/index> To Be Updated COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Fernando De la Prieta University of Salamanca Spain TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Rosella Gennari Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Marco Temperini Sapienza University, Rome Italy PAPER CO-CHAIR Tania Di Mascio University of L'aquila Italy Pierpaolo Vittorini University of L'aquila Italy PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca Spain PUBLICITY CHAIR Federica Caruso University of L'aquila Italy Nestor Dario Duque Mendes National University of Colombia Colombia Alessandra Melonio Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza National University of Colombia Colombia WORKSHOP CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova Comenius University of Bratislava Slovakia Elvira Popescu University of Craiova România TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS CHAIR Cesar Alberto Collazos Universidad del Cauca Colombia INVITED SPEAKERS [cid:68109A3F-26EC-45DD-A469-7851C7434378@homenet.telecomitalia.it] Yves Demazeau Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France) FORMAT All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (Main track and Workshops), including figures and references: Microsoft Word Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip> Latex Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/templates/ProcSci_TeX.zip> SUBMISSION All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2021<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> conference management system. [cid:CCDA3D8F-80A1-4312-B479-3CD508CD68D6@homenet.telecomitalia.it]<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series<http://www.springer.com/series/11156>. [cid:61FA188C-288B-4690-A7FA-A92F0346D907@homenet.telecomitalia.it]<http://www.springer.com/> ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings<http://www.webofknowledge.com/>, EI-Compendex<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/content/compendex>, DBLP<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/>, SCOPUS<http://www.scopus.com/>, Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/> and Springerlink<https://link.springer.com/> ** IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 30th April, 2021 14th May, 2021 7th June, 2021 28th June, 2021 6th-8th October, 2021 www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:99E67595-D7EE-41CF-A376-3766961B4405@homenet.telecomitalia.it] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. 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INTERACT 2021 - 2 days left to submit a contribution

by Paolo Buono

-- apologies for cross-posting -- Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the INTERACT 2021 conference by submitting a contribution to the following tracks by 16 April: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels Further information is available on the conference website (https://interact2021.org) and in the CfP reported below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks by *April 16th, 2021*: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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Opening for tenure-track and other positions at Univ. Genova

by volpe＠infomus.dist.unige.it

Apologies for possible cross-posting. Kind regards, Gualtiero Volpe ============================================================================================== Expression of interest for Tenure track positions at the level of Tenure track Associate Professor (Ricercatore di tip B), Assistant Professor (Ricercatore di tipo A), Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) in Computer Science/Engineering - Università di Genova Deadline: May 1st, 2021. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS) of the University of Genova, Italy, invites expression of interest for positions in Computer Science/Engineering at the following levels - Tenure track Associate Professor (Ricercatore di tipo B) - Assistant Professor (Ricercatore di tipo A) - Research Fellow (Assegnista di ricerca) Candidates should have an excellent background in Computer Science/Engineering and (in the case of application to a professor position) be able to teach at both the bachelor/master/PhD level. Research topics of interest include all aspects of Computer Science/Engineering. Successful candidates must have a strong publication record and an ability to work both independently and collaboratively with other research groups in the department. The Department is particularly active in the following areas: ● Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems (AIMS) ● Data Science and Engineering (DSE) ● Human Computer Interaction (HCI) ● Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) ● Science and Technology for Health (STH) ● Secure and Reliable Systems (SRS) ● Systems Engineering (SE) The Department has strong connections with industries and positions are also available to conduct research on industrial applications. In particular, at the moment we are looking for people interested in the following topics: ● AI and Data Analysis for railway transportation systems (position partly sponsored and in collaboration with Hitachi Rail) Interested researchers should send an email to enrico.giunchiglia(a)unige.it <mailto:enrico.giunchiglia@unige.it> including their CV and/or an URL where information on their background could be found. (Please start the subject line of your message with “[EoI2021]”.) Informal inquiries on the position can be addressed to prof. Enrico Giunchiglia by email (enrico.giunchiglia(a)unige.it <mailto:enrico.giunchiglia@unige.it> ). (Please start the subject line of your message with “[EoI2021]”.) Deadline for application is May 1, 2021. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Established in May 2012, DIBRIS research is mainly focussed in the areas of Computer Science and Technology, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering. The Department counts more than 70 faculties and is involved in 4 PhD programs. The University of Genova is one of the oldest universities in the world, dating back to the 15th century. The university currently features 22 Departments and more than 30.000 students. More information at www.dibris.unige.it <http://www.dibris.unige.it/> . On the Gulf of Genova <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Genoa> in the Ligurian Sea <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_Sea> , Genova is one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean, and one of the Italy’s major economic centers. Liguria is a narrow strip of land bordered by the sea, the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, very appreciated for its nice climate, sea, mountains and food. More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguria.

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 3rd Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. Students at different stages of their research will be able to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. Papers must: identify a significant problem in the field of research outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her contribution the first day of the conference. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ If you have any question, please write an email to the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy, email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy, email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for doctoral consortium papers: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html

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IxD&A Journal N. 47: meet the authors and download the articles

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. 47 *on:* Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education */guest editors: Oscar Mealha and Traian Rebedea / *Meet the authors * on the /*19th of April - 16:00 CET*/ to attend the presentation please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI_nSCMwLeb6vzSH4P6-7BLyPV6CX2R3m…> Articles are now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=ToC_4…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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. 47 - ToC* /** Preface **// by Oscar Mealha and ///Traian Rebedea/ p. 5 ****Roberto Araya** A collective brain to adapt teaching to quarantined first and second graders. **pp. 7 - 26** **Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Fandi Bi, Kathrin Land, Emanuel Trunzer** Transitions in Teaching Mechanical Engineering during COVID-19 crisis, **pp. 27 - 47** **Majid Rouhani, Veronica Farshchian, Monica Divitini** Teaching Programming in Secondary Schools: Stepping and Stumbling Stones, **pp. 48 - 68** **Eva Mårell-Olsson** Using gamification as an online teaching strategy to develop students’ 21st century skills, **pp. 69 - 93** **Rubén Buitrago, Jesús Salinas, Oscar Boude ** Designing and Representing Learning Itineraries: A Systematic Review of the Literature, **pp. 94 - 122** **/ /Stavros A. Nikou//** Web-based videoconferencing for teaching online: Continuance intention to use in the post-COVID-19 period, **pp. 123 - 143** **Janika Leoste, Mati Heidmets, Tobias Ley, Jelena Stepanova ** Classroom Innovation Becoming Sustainable: A Study of Technological Innovation Adoption by Estonian Primary School Teachers, **pp. 144 - 166 ///Carlo Giovannella, Marcello Passarelli, Alaa S.A. Alkhafaji, Adriana Peña Pérez Negrón/**/** A comparative study on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on three different national university learning ecosystems as bases to derive a Model for the Attitude to get Engaged in Technological Innovation (MAETI), **/**/pp. 167 - 190 // ///Catarina Lelis//** Smart Brands and Identities: building friendly bridges between Design and Smartness, **pp. 191 - 214/ // ///Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Novotný. Tomáš Štefek, Aldo de Moor, Jiřina Bělehradová Svitáková, Eliška Bartošová. Petr Škyřík, Barbora Buchtová, Eva Víchová//** Designing an incubator for social innovations in libraries: Learnings from the Research through Design approach, **pp. 215 - 236 /// ////Antonio Amado Lorenzo and Vicente López-Chao//** Analogue and Digital Access to Achitectural Information, **pp. 237 - 255 //// ////////Wrya Sabir Abdullah and Nahedh Taha Al-Qemaqchi//** The Impact of University Campus Spatial Organisation on Pedestrian Speed: A Comparison between the Old and New Campuses of Sulaimani University, **pp. 256 - 273 ////*REGULAR PAPER* //// /////Nuno M. Guimarães//** Complexity, Design and Culture: convergence for digital experiences, **pp. 274 - 305 /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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CfP Reminder: The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on Transferable UX on June 8, 2021

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, As a reminder, there is still time to participate in our workshop. The deadline for contributions is extended until Friday, April 23 and the submissions are really lightweight (2-4 pages position paper). We hope that it could be of interest to many of you. The details are below. The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services”<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html> aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working on conceptualization, maintenance, and preservation of transferable UX artifacts within their organizations. In this workshop, we aim on synthesizing the challenges and highlighting opportunities of transferring UX insights while developing multiple products and services. We ask: “How can we depart from a paradigm of designing a single product and turn to the holistic UX design approach at work?” Instead of focusing on a product, we call UX researchers, designers, experts and practitioners, to center on an ecology of artifacts, e.g. a portfolio. This, in turn, may help to improve existing work environments and to develop novel integrated work environments, where many actors need to effectively coordinate their actions using a myriad of tools. That change, ultimately, may lead not only to improved quality of work and create pleasurable experiences for the end-users, but also establish a ground for successful company-wide collaboration when it comes to preserving and transferring UX insights and rules. We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, enterprise architecture, product/portfolio management, and agile software development to create a UX research agenda for designing integrated digital work environments, unpacking development, users, and change perspectives to aid establishing long-living UX practices that extend across projects and overtime. More details: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html HOW TO APPLY? To apply, please submit a position paper (2-4 pages, template<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/>) explaining your interests and experience in transferable UX in relation to the workshop theme<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021/ws-theme.html> in PDF format by April 23, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:transferable-ux@ifi.uzh.ch> . To promote broader participation from UX design practitioners (e.g., UX researchers, UX designers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Enterprise Architects, Human Factors Specialists), and design leaders, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a case study, a poster of a relevant project, or the like. KEY DATES Submission deadline: April 23, 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification: April 30, 2021 Workshop: June 8, 2021 ATTENDANCE The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to 20 participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for the EUSSET members<https://www.eusset.eu/membership/>. The membership cost is 50 EUR for academics/practitioners and 35 EUR for students. Registration details: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/registration/ ORGANIZERS Anton Fedosov, University of Zurich, Switzerland Daniel Boos, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland Susanne Schmidt-Rauch, evux AG, Switzerland Jarno Ojala, Vincit Oyj, Finland Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France If you have any questions, please drop us an email at transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:transferable-ux@ifi.uzh.ch> Best regards, Dr. Anton Fedosov People and Computing Lab University of Zurich

4 years, 6 months

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Call for Papers for WHAT21 workshop at INTERACT

by Lammers, H.A.

Please distribute. Attached the call for Papers for WHAT21 workshop at INTERACT 2021 Website: www.hciv.de/what21 <http://www.hciv.de/what21> Important dates: Submission Deadline (extended abstracts): May 16, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: June 7, 2021 Camera-ready Submission: June 21, 2021 Workshop at INTERACT 2021 August 30, 2021 -- Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenmann Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften Hochschule RheinMain Postadresse: Postfach 3251 | 65022 Wiesbaden Besucheradresse: Am Brückweg 26 | 65428 Rüsselsheim | Gebäude A2 1.OG Raum A119 +49 6142 898 4494 www.hs-rm.de <http://www.hs-rm.de/>

4 years, 6 months

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[CFP] MRB-EICS 2021 - Management of Risks and Benefits when Engineering Interactive Digital Systems

by Davide Spano

Apologize for cross- posting --- Management of Risks and Benefits when Engineering Interactive Digital Systems --- IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 workshop at EICS 2021 Traditionally, most UX designers, computer scientists and software engineers have not had to consider risks to the public from using their systems. However, the current evolution of digital systems in terms of the increasing number of users, their growing complexity and the pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence techniques allow common HCI designers and engineers to build systems that create risks for the individual, groups of people, or even to the entire society. In this workshop, we aim at collecting the views and the current practice in the management of the risks and benefits in the engineering of interactive digital systems. Such a view will draw the way for new research, methods, and tools to incorporate the risk analysis into the current engineering and design practices. ## Important Dates - April 30, 2021 – Paper submission deadline - May 7, 2021 – Paper notification deadline - May 14, 2021 – Camera-ready deadline - Between June 7 and June 11, 2021 – Workshop day ## Topics and Scope The workshop will focus on the following topics, which are not properly covered by the current research, methods and tools for engineering digital systems: -Exploring the risks in digital system interaction and their implications. In particular, we would like to identify the risks drivers and to build a categorization of the risks they produce. - Factors that impact the risk-benefit analysis and the information required. In this category, we would like to list the available scientific theories, the techniques for building a shared knowledge on such factors (e.g., databases, models and tools). - Accounting the risks put by the application of Artificial Intelligence algorithms in digital interactive systems. They include (but not limited to): transparency, interactive control, controllability and automation, explainability, biases in algorithms and data, decision support design, accountability, fairness and digital sobriety. - Techniques and interfaces for helping and/or nudging people on perceiving and understanding the risks in interacting with digital systems. ## Target Audience Different communities and disciplines are involved in developing such a topic, both in the research and in the development practice. Besides the UI engineering community, we expect relevant contributions by designers, safety and privacy experts, sociologists, psychologists, ethicists, etc. The workshop’s ultimate goal is to set-up a shared view on the risks related to the interaction, their severity, and their likelihood. ## Goals and Expected Outcome The workshop will last one day. We will start with a brief introduction of the elicited topics and a sequence of presentations of the different position papers in the first half. The second half will contain group activities for reaching a global consensus among the participants, which will result in the draft of a joint position paper, authored by all participants, which will depict the challenges and the opportunities raised in the discussion and the group’s view on future research in future risk and benefits management for interactive system engineering. The finalised version of such paper will be submitted for publication in an HCI journal. ## Submissions We solicit the submission of a two-page abstract describing the view and identifying the risks in one or more workshop topics. We also encourage to propose further applications of risk management in engineering interactive digital systems. The abstract may include the description of a major challenge or opportunity set by risk management and/or the analysis of related work in the literature. The abstracts will serve as the basis for the discussion during the workshop. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair and formatted according to LNCS guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). We plan to publish revised papers electronically (e.g CEUR-WS) after the workshop. Submit a paper through EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mrbeics2021) ## Organizers José Creissac Campos – University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC (Portugal) T.C. Nicholas Graham – School of Computing, Queen’s University of Canada (Canada) Jan Van Den Bergh – Hasselt University – EDM – IBBT (Belgium) Lucio Davide Spano – Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy) -- [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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ITAC - Special Session on Information Technology against COVID19 @GoodIT

by Marcos Baez

[Apologies for cross-posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITAC - Information Technology against COVID19 at GoodIT 2021 - ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good September 9-11, 2021 - Rome, Italy https://itac.polimi.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: The emergency resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic has led to a radical change in our lives. At home, at school, at work, in free time and beyond: people have been asked to change their habits, adopting a lifestyle that can protect the collective well-being. The persistence of the emergency situation and the lockdown is putting a strain on the population; among the main problems, we cite social distancing for the most vulnerable individuals, distance learning for children, health pressure for doctors and patients, forced closures for traders, the uncontrolled spread of fake news that confuse the population, the tourism stop that hinders culture, etc. The ongoing change requires the adoption of innovative solutions to tackle emerging problems and technology offers great opportunities for social good. The whole society can make use of technological tools to the health, physical, mental and psychological well-being safeguard of individuals. The goal of this session is to assess the state of tools and methods to support the population and institutions during the management of the COVID19 emergency, creating new opportunities for the future. TOPICS: Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: - IT for education in a COVID-19 era - Decision support systems and algorithms for COVID-19 data analysis - IT for remotely delivered solutions for Cultural Heritage - Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications in a COVID-19 Era - Health and social care toward protection from contamination - Privacy and trust issues and solutions in a COVID-19 Era - IT solutions for safe and healthy environments - IT solutions addressing the Isolation - IT solutions empowering initiatives by local communities in a COVID-19 Era - Ethical computing in a COVID-19 Era - IT solutions to disseminate reliable and high-quality information in a COVID-19 Era We welcome both theoretical and empirical studies, as well as contributions from industry / organizations dealing with the special session topic. SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted via the HotCRP submission website: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: May 1, 2021 Notification deadline: June 22, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2021 Conference: September 9-11, 2021 CHAIRS: - Andrea Masciadri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Marcos Baez, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France Further information at https://itac.polimi.it We will be grateful to you for advertising this special session, for contributing and for inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. We hope to meet you in Rome in September.

4 years, 6 months

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INTERACT 2021 - 10 days left to submit a contribution

by Paolo Buono

-- apologies for cross-posting -- Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the INTERACT 2021 conference by submitting a contribution to the following tracks by 16 April: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels Further information is available on the conference website (https://interact2021.org) and in the CfP reported below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks by *April 16th, 2021*: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

4 years, 6 months

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GaLePro Workshop Promotion

by Mariana Reimão Queiroga Valério De Carvalho

Hello, Hope this email finds you well. Can you please help promote our Workshop? Many thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Mariana Reimão Carvalho ************************************************************************** 1st workshop on the Gamification of the Learning Processes (GaLePro) https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/tracks/workshops/galepro To be held in the 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021 ************************************************************************** ================================= SCOPE ================================== Thanks to recent technological developments in several fields, the learning process can now be augmented in many different ways, achieving goals such as teaching personalization, efficient communication processes, better content management, among others. While these developments are relevant in any form of learning, they are much more so in Blended or Distance Learning. In these forms of learning, in which Student are often physically apart from the Professor, maintaining adequate levels of engagement and motivation in Students is a major challenge. The use of technologies that are interactive, appealing, and provide a sense of reward for learning tasks are thus paramount. This is the main motivation for this workshop. Specifically, it focuses on the use of technologies, approaches or methodologies that fall under the Gamification umbrella. Gamification can be briefly defined as the use of game elements in an otherwise nongame environment. In education, game elements the use of gamification can include simple aspects such as a change in language or assignments, to the implementation of competitions, rewards, leaderboards, or the use of actual games to implement and test the learned concepts. Using these approaches, gamification has been shown to improve student engagement, motivation and overall satisfaction with the learning process. This workshop thus aims to be a multi-disciplinary forum for practitioners from several fields including Education, ICT, Artificial Intelligence or Psychology to discuss novel approaches, methodologies or technologies in which game concepts are used with the purpose of improving the learning process. ================================= TOPICS ================================== The topics of GaLePro include, among others: - Gamification in the classroom - Gamification in distance learning - Use of digital/physical games in the grading process - Innovative game elements - Serious games - Gamification in STEAM - Collaborative tools in education - Storytelling in teaching/learning - Gamification and student motivation - Psychology and Human factors - Gamification design principles - Gamification frameworks - Practical use cases of gamification in education - Legal aspects of using gamification in education ================================= VENUE ================================== The 1st workshop on the Gamification of the Learning Processes (GaLePro) will take place in the context of the 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL). MIS4TEL will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference. =============================== SUBMISSION ================================ Papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing) Template. Contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages), including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL conference management system. To submit a paper follow de instructions at https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission and then select the appropriate workshop in the submission system. Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL 2020 Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by AISC Springer Verlag. ============================= IMPORTANT DATES ============================= Deadline for paper submission: 30th April, 2021 Notification of acceptance: 7th June, 2021 Camera-Ready papers: 28th June, 2021 Conference: 6th-8th October, 2021 ============================== ORGANIZATION ============================== Davide Carneiro CIICESI/ESTG.IPP dcarneiro(a)estg.ipp.pt Mariana Reimão Carvalho CIICESI/ESTG.IPP mrc(a)estg.ipp.pt Rui Silva CETRAD/UTAD ruisilva(a)utad.pt

4 years, 7 months

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International EMPATHY workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems

by Andrea Mattioli

INTERACT 2021 Workshop EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems https://empathy-ws.github.io/2021/ August 31st, 2021 Bari, Italy OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES June 15th: Paper submission deadline June 20th: Paper acceptance notice June 24th: Camera-ready submission August 31st: 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. 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 CHI Extended Abstracts format. Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2021). 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 single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. Final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, which is indexed by Scopus. ORGANIZERS - Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI - Fabiana Vernero, University of Torino - Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento

4 years, 7 months

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 2nd Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. Students at different stages of their research will be able to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. Papers must: identify a significant problem in the field of research outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her contribution the first day of the conference. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ If you have any question, please write an email to the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy, email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy, email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for doctoral consortium papers: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for participation

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Participation *** * Virtually hosted by Texas A&M University * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: registration2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Registration deadline April 9, 2021 ## Registration link https://iui.acm.org/2021/registration.html ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning.

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Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021 (submit by April 30)

by Stefan Sauer

Broken Weblink to workshop homepage fixed! Sorry for the erroneous posting! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021 (submit by April 30)

by Stefan Sauer

*International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/site/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/site/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Call for WS] MIST4TEL'21 Extended deadline 9th April

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:CC8EEEC9-C61F-49D4-B3AB-C88A7D95CEB7@zyxel.com]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Following the successful initiative from previous years, the International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2021 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals. The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference. Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2021 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings. [cid:ECA3A5FB-BB61-41AD-B6FE-A4C1930C3AC6@zyxel.com]<http://www.springer.com/> Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management). For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 9, 2021 * Workshop papers submission deadline: April 30, 2021 (recommended) * Workshop camera-ready papers: June 28, 2021 (mandatory) Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers. The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information: * Workshop title * Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information * Workshop description and topics * Relevance of the workshop to the conference * Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable) * Program Committee members (tentative) * Estimated number of submitted papers * Draft CFP Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> (Subject: MIS4TEL 2021 Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. 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CfP: CoPDA 2021 "Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI?"

by Barbara Rita Barricelli

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- CoPDA 2021 - 6th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI? https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2021/ July 6, 2021 - Limassol, Cyprus In conjunction with IS-EUD 2021 (http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/) -------- Overview -------- This one-day workshop edition addresses the theme "AI for Humans or Humans for AI?". The workshop will explore the relationship between AI, aimed at replacing human beings, and Intelligence Augmentation (IA), focused on empowering human beings in their daily life and work. Balancing between these two perspectives means changing the research paradigm from traditional Human-Centered Design (HCD), to designing the collaboration between humans and computers. This will foster creativity, meaningful work, intersubjectivity, and learning, and eventually improve the quality of life of individuals. However, a variety of issues and ethical problems need to be addressed in this new age – e.g., privacy intrusions, massive unemployment, knowledge and competence loss, lack of control, autonomous weapons, etc. The workshop organizers encourage researchers to submit position papers that will consider these aspects. In summary, the workshop will aim at discussing the importance of HCD in the AI Age by considering several topics including (but not limited to): - Cooperative problem-solving systems - Collaborative learning - Meaningful human control - Distributed cognition - Tacit knowledge and meaning making - Multi-dimensional aspects of learning - Big data and privacy - Learning analytics - Human-machine teaming systems - Explainability and accountability of AI-based decisions - Evaluation of AI-based systems - End-User Development for AI-based systems ------------------- Topics and Keywords ------------------- The workshop will explore specific questions around the relationship between AI and HCD, such as: - Can we identify success stories and inspirational prototypes of systems where humans and AI components have created unique opportunities that neither one could achieve on their own? - Can we identify failures of AI systems that we can learn from? - How can we orient future development when considering the differences and complementarity between adaptive systems (focus on AI) and adaptable systems (focus on HCD)? - Do the concepts of co-evolution and appropriation of human-machine team-ing/cooperative systems change in the AI age? - How can End-User Development methods and techniques be used in AI-based systems to actively involve all stakeholders in design and development process? - How do we measure the overall benefits of AI decision-making support? - What are examples of collective human-centered design environments? - Do insights derived from AI systems (e.g., from Big Data analysis and Learning Analytics) constitute unique contributions that humans are not able to contribute on their own? - Will the current understanding of advanced technologies help us better under-stand who we are as human beings and what are our unique abilities? Keywords: Cultures of Participation (CoP); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Intelligence Augmentation (IA); Human-Centered Design (HCD); Design Trade-Offs; Quality of Life (QoL). ----------- Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit a 5-page (including references) position paper (LNCS format). The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2021 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. --------------- Important dates --------------- - Apr 30th: Submission deadline for position papers - May 15th: Notification of acceptance - May 31th: Camera ready - Jul 6th: CoPDA 2021 workshop -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy) Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) For any further information, please contact copda2021(a)easychair.org Barbara Rita Barricelli Assistant Professor Department of Information Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155 <http://www.unibs.it/node/8155>

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[EICS 2021] Last days for submitting to DC (March 31th)

by Davide Spano

Apologize for cross posting. ======= DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31th ========== The EICS’2021 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and studies in the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering field. DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research goals as well as intermediate results, and to discuss them with leading experts in the field as well as with peers. Students can be in intermediate or advanced stages of their research, but should not have completed their work yet, and should thus still be able to take into account feedback from the DC. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide PhD students with the opportunity to: - Receive constructive feedback and advice on their research, - Meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Human Computer Interaction Engineering field, - Interact with other PhD students and exchange ideas and suggestions among participants, - Discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues, - Present their work as a poster at the EICS’2021 conference. A submission consists of a short paper (max 4 pages standard ACM SIGCHI format (2020), references excluded), a free-form CV of the PhD candidate and a draft poster. Submissions must be submitted using the PCS system by the deadline (see the firm deadline below). Papers suitable for (virtual or presence) demonstration at the conference should also submit a supplementary video of the system in action. The submission should not be anonymous and must: - identify a significant problem in the field of research, - clearly formulate the research question, - outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions (main related works) - present clearly (preliminary) ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far, - describe the research methodology that is applied or planned, - make explicit the current status of the doctoral work (e.g. when research started, how long to reach the end, papers already accepted) - outline the expected contributions to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Submissions must be made through the PCS system by the deadline (see the Important dates section below). In addition to the DC chairs, additional leading experts will be invited to the DC to discuss the participants' research DC participants will have their registration fee waived. The SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) program also be of interest to help covering traveling expenses. For more information about this grant and for applying online, please visit: https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/gary-marsden-student-d… . # Important dates Submission deadline: Friday, March 12, 2021 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications: April 16th, 2021 Camera Ready: April, 30th, 2021 # Doctoral Consortium Chairs Regina Bernhaupt (Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) dc2021(a)eics.acm.org -- [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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Call for papers | MIST4TEL'21 | 6-8 Oct 2021 | Salamanca (Spain)

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:838C96DE-19CE-4F70-A539-FDF4701B03D8]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> 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 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 is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to 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 10th 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 (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field. MIS4TEL 2021 will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference<http://www.paams.net/>. TOPICS 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, personalisation 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 Learning analytics for TEL * Big data and data visualisation in TEL * Learning analytics for curriculum design * Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience * Learning analytics for predicting behaviour * Learning analytics for designing learning interventions * Learning analytics for stakeholders Methodologies and experiences for TEL * Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL * Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling 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 SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from MIS4TEL will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals. [cid:38148EC3-5410-4C81-AF10-E84EA5738157] <http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2255-2863/index> To Be Updated COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Fernando De la Prieta University of Salamanca Spain TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Rosella Gennari Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Marco Temperini Sapienza University, Rome Italy PAPER CO-CHAIR Tania Di Mascio University of L'aquila Italy Pierpaolo Vittorini University of L'aquila Italy GENERAL CHAIR Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca Spain PUBLICITY CHAIR Federica Caruso University of L'aquila Italy Nestor Dario Duque Mendes National University of Colombia Colombia Alessandra Melonio Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza National University of Colombia Colombia WORKSHOP CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova Comenius University of Bratislava Slovakia Elvira Popescu University of Craiova România TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS CHAIR Cesar Alberto Collazos Universidad del Cauca Colombia INVITED SPEAKERS [cid:DF9CE750-056E-4B8A-BDD8-2B9904813ACD] Yves Demazeau Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France) FORMAT All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (Main track and Workshops), including figures and references: Microsoft Word Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip> Latex Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/templates/ProcSci_TeX.zip> SUBMISSION All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2021<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> conference management system. [cid:D1A76C26-D19D-484B-94E7-284ED38C6DD3]<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series<http://www.springer.com/series/11156>. [cid:4EC0A648-78AB-40CB-8BAF-470828C5B668]<http://www.springer.com/> ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings<http://www.webofknowledge.com/>, EI-Compendex<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/content/compendex>, DBLP<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/>, SCOPUS<http://www.scopus.com/>, Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/> and Springerlink<https://link.springer.com/> ** IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 30th April, 2021 7th June, 2021 28th June, 2021 6th-8th October, 2021 www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:E2353C4A-AF8F-4684-87E7-F356DA6FDCBE] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. 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ACM UMAP 2021: Final Call for Demo and LBR Papers

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Final Call for Demo and LBR Papers Important Dates • Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 26, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2021 • Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2021 • Conference: June 21-25, 2021, online from Utrecht, the Netherlands Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2021 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 March 26th, 2021. Submission formats For more details, see below! Demonstrations • Max. 3 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 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a 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 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a virtual poster at the conference Submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 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 2021. 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 2021. 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. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2021 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP 2021 Demo and LBR”). 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 2021 Adjunct Proceedings 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. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA • Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

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INTERACT 2021 - prossima scadenza per inviare un contributo: 16 aprile

by Carmelo Ardito

Cari Colleghi e Amici, come sapete la conferenza internazionale INTERACT 2021 si svolgerà a Bari dal 30 agosto al 3 settembre. Noi vorremmo avere la più ampia partecipazione da parte della comunità italiana di HCI a questo importante evento. Alcuni di voi hanno già sottomesso full papers e/o proposte di workshop. INTERACT consente varie altre possibilità di partecipazione. Le prossime scadenze sono tutte il 16 aprile 2021 e si può contribuire sottomettendo: - Short papers - Interactive demos - Courses - Posters - Doctoral consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels Tutti i dettagli sono sul sito https://interact2021.org Siamo fiduciosi che nei prossimi mesi la campagna vaccinale per il COVID-19 in Italia e nel mondo subirà un'accelerazione e la situazione migliorerà. Avremo molto piacere ad accogliervi in presenza a Bari ma siamo anche organizzati per consentire la partecipazione in modalità mista o online. Confidando nella vostra più ampia partecipazione, vi salutiamo cordialmente. Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] -- apologies for cross-posting -- INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks by *April 16th, 2021*: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it Personal Home Page: http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/ardito.htm Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. 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ws on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots@UMAP2021: DEADLINE EXTENDED

by Cristina Gena

DEADLINE EXTENDED ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 2, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ****************************************************************************************** All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including 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 using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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Deadline extension IxD&A Journal: Special issue on "Collaborative multimedia applications in technology" and Focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics"

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *March 31, 2021* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Collaborative multimedia applications in technology* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48>* * **Guest Editors: **• César A. Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia • Freddy Paz, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Perù • Habib Fardoun, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain & King Abdulaziz University. Saudi Arabia** **The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted Collaborative multimedia applications in technology includes, but is not limited to: Frameworks and Methodologies for Collaboration Collaboration Enabling Technologies Architectures & Design of Collaboration Systems Platforms, Artifacts and Tools for Collaboration Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms Interfaces for Collaborative Work Intelligent, Autonomous and Multi Agents in Collaboration Cognitive and Psychological Issues in Collaboration Virtual Communities and Communities of Practice Group Characteristics and Social Factors Ontologies and Ethnographic Approaches Human-machine Collaboration and Interaction Awareness in Collaboration Systems Contextual and Situation-based Collaboration Visualization of Collaborative Processes & Applications Privacy-preserving Collaboration Grid and Cloud-based Collaboration Environments** **and Focus Section on* **Design during and for Pandemics *http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48fs <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4…>* * **Guest Editors:** • Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, University of Gothenburg, Sweden • Guido Giunti, University of Oulu, Finland and TU Delft, Netherlands Are you working in the research or industry fields related to HCI, Interaction Design, Health Informatics, Health and Wellbeing, Information Processing Sciences, and Industrial Design? Then it is vital to contribute to this focused issue with your experiences on: how the COVID-19 influenced the way you work with users of technology how the pandemic influenced your designs different type of designs you develop to support people during a pandemic e.g. HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 prevention and management to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2008 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… *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 31, 2021* (extended) • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end of May, 2021 ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) - ACM UMAP Workshop

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NEWS: Extended Deadline! Due to several requests, papers are now due by* April 2, 2021.* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 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 Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 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://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. 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 2, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it 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 Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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EXTENDED DEADLINE - ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems

by Giovanni Semeraro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NEWS: Extended Deadline! Papers now due: April 2, 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021) June 21-25, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2021 (http://www.um.org/umap2021) - Online Conference Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (select "Workshop-ExUM") For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it <mailto:cataldo.musto@uniba.it> , marco.polignano(a)uniba.it <mailto:marco.polignano@uniba.it> ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a hybrid conference. We will be happy to welcome all of you who are willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. We are still figuring out all the details, which we hope to announce bit by bit during the next couple of months. Stay tuned for further updates. ========= ABSTRACT ========= Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users' right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent algorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems. The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: · TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES o Scrutable User Models o Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction o Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies o Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms · DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS o Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties o Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) o Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information o Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) · DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES o Transparent User Interfaces o Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies o Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models · EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY o Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization o Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms o Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability o Novel metrics and experimental protocols · OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS o Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems o Privacy management of Personal and Social data o Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models. (A) Regular papers (max. 10 pages + references - single-column ACM format); (B) Demo and Position Papers (max. 5 pages + references - ACM format); Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exum2020 All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. 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://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-te mplate/acmart-primary.zip Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-t emplate/pnrfvrrdbfwt MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission _template.docx Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (AoE). All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Full paper submission: April 2, 2021 (EXTENDED!) * Paper notification: April 26, 2021 * Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Oanal Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen ======================= PROGRAM COMMITEE (TBA) ======================= Walter Anelli, Politecnico di Bari Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ludovico Boratto, PEURECAT Robin Burke, University of Colorado Ivan Cantador Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University Cristina Conati, The University of British Columbia Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa Eelco Herder, Radboud University Nijmegen Andrea Iovine, Università degli Studi di Bari Kyriaki Kalimeri, I.S.I. Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus Aonghus Lawlor, University College Dublin Benedikt Loepp, University of Duisburg-Essen Fedelucio Narducci, Politecnico di Bari Amon Rapp, University of Turin Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari Alain Starke University of Bergen Panagiotis Symeonidis, Free University of Bolzano Markus Zanker Free University of Bozen - Bolzano

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CFP workshop "Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI" at CHItaly 2021

by Eleonora Mencarini

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our *workshop on Nature and HCI* at the upcoming *CHItaly'21 conference*. In 2020, when most of the world population has experienced limitations to free mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialization and outdoor life started to be strongly desired and dreamed. Technologies such as smartphones, cameras, sports trackers, electronic tourist guides, head-mounted displays have the potential to enable, enhance or disrupt users' experience of and interaction with nature, broadly intended as an open-air setting that includes cities, peripheries, rural areas, wild natural environments. Thus, the use of technology outdoors offers a wide range of interesting aspects and challenges to be investigated, such as individual wellbeing, knowledge generation, sustainability, and social issues. Resonating with the CHItaly theme "Frontiers of HCI", this workshop aims to bring together researchers exploring the frontiers of i) using technology outdoors, in terms of scope, opportunities, and limitations; ii) spaces that are not only natural or artificial but hybrid and offer opportunities for remote and asynchronous outdoor experiences; iii) interaction design in accounting for human interests over a variety of non-human ecologies. For further information, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/naturehci/home. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Technology enabling/enhancing/augmenting the natural experience - Ecotourism - The political ecology of interaction design - Outdoor sports - Citizen science - Socialization outdoors (e.g., parks and public spaces, community gardening) - Education & Serious leisure outdoors - Environmental sustainability - Technology for outdoor safety and safety when using technology outdoors - Natural and cultural heritage (e.g., cultural landscapes) - The indoorisation of natural elements (e.g., indoorisation of outdoor sports, virtual/augmented reality) HOW TO APPLY? Three types of submissions are welcome: - *Position papers* where authors discuss one of the workshop topics and describe how their expertise may be of interest for the workshop discussion (2 pages, references excluded); - *Original research presenting preliminary insights/results*. We welcome work at all development stages: papers can describe applied systems, empirical findings, or theoretically grounded positions (from 4 to 6 pages, references excluded); - *Critical design fiction*, in which authors may explore the future consequences of a prolonged distancing, limited experience of the outdoors, or the different mediating roles technology can have (from 4 to 6 pages, references excluded). KEY DATES *Submission deadline: April 23, 2021, 11.59 pm CET on Easychair: *https:// easychair.org/conferences/?conf=naturehci21 Notification: May 14, 2021 Workshop: July 12, 2021 ATTENDANCE CHItaly and the NatureHCI workshop will be organized in a hybrid manner. *Participants can choose whether to participate remotely or in-person in Bolzano*. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy) Linda Tonolli, University of Trento (Italy) Amon Rapp, University of Torino (Italy) Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University (Denmark) Roberto Cibin, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento (Italy) Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento (Italy) If you have any questions, please drop an email at mencarini(a)fbk.eu. Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the NatureHCI organizers) Eleonora Mencarini, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher i3 Unit - Digis Centre - FBK0461/314576

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CFP: GHItaly21 - 4-th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction

by Maria De Marsico

GHItaly21 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction In Conjunction with CHItaly 2021 - The biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction – GHItaly21 is the fourth edition of a series of workshops focused on the multifaceted issues related to the design and development of human-game interfaces. GHItaly21 aims at establishing a common venue for scholars and industry practitioners, where they can exchange ideas on all the topic related to this multidisciplinary field, and possibly create new collaborations. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion on the development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on HCI applied to design and production of video games. The application range of video games has to be intended in its broadest sense: from entertainment and to “serious” applied finalities (health, education, etc). GHItaly21 will be held *online* in conjunction with the 14th Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter, from 11 to 13 of July 2021 in Bolzano. TOPICS The workshop aims at collecting contribution advancing the research applied to *video games*. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): *Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces* *Agency of objects * *Artificial Intelligence applications * *Biometric measures for interaction* *Critical or meaningful play experience * *Distributed and Online systems * *Full-body Interaction* *Game Design & Level Design * *Human Computer Interaction applied to visual interfaces * *Immersive VR systems * *Information Visualization* *Interaction Design Tools* *Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation* *Motion-based Interaction* *Moral choices * *Multimodal Interfaces* *(Multi)Sensory Interfaces* *Procedural rhetoric * *Sensemaking * *Storytelling * *Usability and Accessibility* *Visualization techniques * *Virtual and Augmented Reality* SUBMISSION All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed nine (9) pages in length, including references. The papers must be formatted using the *ACM single-column submission template*. ACM *single-column submission templates* are available for *Word* and *LaTeX*. · *Word template*. Download and use the most recent Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…> from the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow#h-2.-the-workf…> . · *LaTeX template*. There are two alternatives: 1. Download the *Master Article Template - LaTeX* folder from the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow#h-2.-the-workf…>. Then choose "sample-sigconf" from the "sample" subfolder. For the one-column format, *comment* "\documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and *uncomment* " \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart}". 2. Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings "Master" Template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…>. For the one-column format, *comment* " \documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and *uncomment* " \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart}". 3. For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>. Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ghitaly21 All the papers will be subject to a double review process by the members of the Programme Committee. The proceedings with the papers accepted to the GHItaly21 workshop will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (*http://ceur-ws.org/ <http://ceur-ws.org/>*), and will be indexed by SCOPUS. Important Dates April 23, 2021 Submission deadline May 14, 2021 Notifications to contributors May 24, 2021 Camera-ready submission July 12, 2021 GHItaly21 workshop July 11-13, 2021 CHItaly 21 conference (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Maria *De Marsico* - Sapienza Università di Roma Laura Anna *Ripamonti* - Università degli Studi di Milano Davide *Gadia* - Università degli Studi di Milano Dario *Maggiorini* - Università degli Studi di Milano Ilaria *Mariani* - Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Associate Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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Extended deadline SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing / ========================================================= *EXTENDED DEADLINE**--> **March 31, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ - mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com *========================================================= SLERD 2021 *will feature:* keynotes *by:* • Inger Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24* */Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place/* • Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) – June 24* */Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective/* • Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25* */Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach/* * * the *Student Scientific Video Contest* ** call for contributions <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> ** with the award of the “*BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”* (three prizes: 500,00 €, 300,00 €, 300,00 € and free participation to the conference) * * ** two Open Debates <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> – June 25 – on *• Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* ** *• ***Towards Learning Ecosystems Based on Competences: the promise of the micro-credentials** and a Satellite Event <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem”* *orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership *SLERD 2021* 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. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other 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*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • 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**31, 2021 (extended)* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 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=slerd2021 ========================================================= 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 for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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[Reminder] Call for Participation - Interactive Experiences at CHItaly

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear list members, The submission deadline for the Interactive Experiences at CHItaly is approaching! We welcome prototypes and installations that explore, represent, and challenge the frontier of HCI. Please check further details and the submission options on our website: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html And don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. All the best, Seçil, Jennifer, and Maria **** In the last months, we have been shaping the Interactive Experiences track at CHItaly'21. It is the first time the conference will be hosting this track and we want it to be a venue for exploring, representing, and challenging the frontiers of HCI through prototypes and installations. The call for participation is now open and we thought it could be of interest to some of the members of this list. So, what could be an example of an Interactive Experience? A prototype of a digital platform empowering grassroots, an interactive visualization of a complex issue, an artistic experiment exploring more-than-human interactions, a critical design artifact that challenges predominant narratives of digital futures, and not only. If it sounds interesting, check the details, submission options, and our fantastic committee on our website: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html We are hoping to safely welcome some of you to Bolzano (Italy) in July but, in case it is not possible, online participation will also be available. Submission deadline: 19th March 2021

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[CfP] 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds

by Luca Turchet

*2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds* *(part of Audio Mostly 2021 - Virtual conference)* September 1-3, 2021. < Apologies for cross-posting > < Please distribute > *Call for papers and demos* After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and Music Computing domains. The workshop will run virtually. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - Ecoacoustics - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - Smart Musical Instruments - Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things - Participatory live music performances - Networked music performances - Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things - Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts - Ubiquitous music - Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds - Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds - Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications - Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds - Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds - Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining - Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases - Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8 pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference ( https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference taking place between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the workshop will have access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly conference. The paper templates are available at https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/ *Important dates* - Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021 - Author notification: June 15, 2021 - Camera ready due: July 15, 2021 - Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021 *Publications* All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) - Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes) - Chris Chafe (Stanford University) - Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University) - Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Paolo Casari (University of Trento) *Sponsors* - Elk (www.elk.audio) - Orastron (www.orastron.com) *Logistics* Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory 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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Second Call for Papers ExUM@UMAP 2021

by Oana Inel

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021) June 21-25, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2021 (https://www.um.org/umap2021/) - Online from Utrecht, the Netherlands Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum/ Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM") For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it<mailto:cataldo.musto@uniba.it>, marco.polignano(a)uniba.it<mailto:marco.polignano@uniba.it> ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Full paper submission: March 26, 2021 * Paper notification: April 19, 2021 * Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021 ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a virtual conference. We are still figuring out all the details, which we hope to announce bit by bit during the next couple of months. Stay tuned for further updates. ========= ABSTRACT ========= Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users’ right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent al-gorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems. The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: - TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES - Scrutable User Models - Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction - Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies - Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms - DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS - Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties - Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) - Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information - Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) - DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES - Transparent User Interfaces - Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies - Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models - EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY - Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization - Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms - Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability - Novel metrics and experimental protocols - OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS - Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems - Privacy management of Personal and Social data - Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models. (A) Regular papers (max. 10 pages + references - single-column ACM format); (B) Demo and Position Papers (max. 5 pages + references - ACM format); Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM") All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. 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://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… Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (AoE). All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Maastricht University, The Netherlands Oana Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen

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CFP: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) - ACM UMAP Workshop

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 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 - Conversational agents for CH - 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 Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 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://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. 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: March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it 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 Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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CFP: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics @ ACM GoodIT2021

by Chilean Scholar

Call For Papers: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) The GoodIT conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society. The conference focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. The Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics focuses on new data technologies based on artificial intelligence, data governance, machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis to aid experts in analyzing large volumes of social media data in order to detect fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. A number of open challenges need more investigation from the research community, such as recent trends in composing information disorder by combining false and real content, the mechanisms that drive fake content diffusion during pandemics, how to differentiate fake content from personal viewpoints, why people tend to believe fake content and make decisions based on it during pandemics, and what are the different motivations behind the dissemination of fake content. Fact-checking and claim verification are two important strategies that are worth incorporating in the automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. ************ Key Dates ************ Papers Submission Due: May 1, 2021 Authors Notifications: June 22, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2021 GoodIT 2021: September 09-11, 2021 ************ Important Links ************ Special Track Website: https://aitdmp.conceptechint.net Submission Link: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com/ ************ Submission Guidelines ************ All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. The ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors at: www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special issues associated with the conference are being organized. ************ Topics ************ Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in various topics related to rumors, fake news, misinformation, and disinformation during and after pandemics, are invited, with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools for automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. Topics include (but are not limited to): -AI approaches for the detection of online influence and manipulation -AI approaches to identify misinformation and disinformation campaigns -AI approaches for spotting misinformation and disinformation spreaders. -Social media mining for automated detection of misinformation propagation and disinformation circulation -AI approaches for automated identification and verification of claims -AI approaches for intention detection for misinformation and disinformation contents -AI approaches for credibility assessment of Social media sources -AI approaches for fake news curtailment, filtering and prevention. -AI approaches for analysis/detection of distributed and multi-platform misinformation and disinformation disseminations -AI approaches for predicting the Impact of misinformation and disinformation during pandemics -New datasets and evaluation methodologies to aid in automated detection and analysis of misinformation and disinformation content in social media channels **********The Conference Sponsored by********** Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society http://www.sigcas.org/

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Call for Scientific Video Documents - SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC VIDEO * ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> ========================================================= Deadline for video submission: *April 30, 2021 call for scientific video contest <http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> * *========================================================= * ** Videos offer a dynamic way to communicate any kind of content and are used especially by young generations to share ideas, connect and discuss. Even in the academic sector, scientific video documents are an emerging way to communicate concepts and research results and might become in the near future an excellent alternative to scientific papers. With this call – which is targeting Ph. D students, graduate students (within 2 years after the graduation), students with research fellowships, master's degree students– we aim to explore this new scientific communication channel. Candidates are invited to submit a scientific video document (max. duration 3 mins.), where they are expected to elaborate on the notion of “smart learning ecosystem” in the context of their research (what's a smart learning ecosystem?) and present their contribution to the field (what are you doing to further develop the notion?). Videos should be creative and lively objects, similar to ‘elevator pitches’. Nonetheless, while answering to the above mentioned questions, you should keep your video a “scientific communication document”, thus following - as far as this is possible in 3 mins - a “scientific format” (for example stating your research questions, mentioning the methods, describing your results). IMPORTANT: If you need support and/or want to learn more about how to produce a scientific video document, we invite you to participate in one short free-of-charge workshop“HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH VISIBLE”. See thefull text of the call <http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/>, for more information about the workshop and how to register. A Jury will select a maximum of 6 videos as finalists for presentation at the conference during a dedicated session. Finalists will be invited to participate in the session and their contribution to the discussion will also be taken into consideration by the Jury for the final awarding. A maximum of 3 “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”will be awarded with a certificate issued by ASLERD, as well as with a prize as it follows: * 500 € for the 1st prize· * 300 € for the 2nd prize· * 300 € for the 3rd prize. The 3 best videos will be uploaded on the ASLERD website/YouTube channel. The Jury reserves the possibility to award special mentions. *Important dates:*Video submission: 30thApril, 2021Notification to candidates: 31stMay, 2021Participation by finalists in the live session at the conference and prize awarding: possibly 25thJune, 2021 (to be confirmed).** ========================================================= 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 for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

4 years, 7 months

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I: Equity Talks #1: On Being Global

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, Porto all’attenzione di tutti una iniziativa promossa dal SIGCHI Executive Committee: una serie di panel che affronteranno questioni diverse relative alla comunità del SIGCHI. Trovate sotto maggiori dettagli sugli argomenti che saranno affrontati e le informazioni per partecipare. Il primo panel si svolgerà questo lunedì, 8 Marzo. Luigi De Russis sarà uno dei panelists! Cari saluti, Maristella From: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>> Subject: SIGCHI Equity Talks, starting March 8th! Date: 1 March 2021 at 23:09:37 CET To: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG<mailto:SIGCHI-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Reply-To: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>> Dear SIGCHI members, In coming weeks, we'll be hosting a series of Equity Talks. You can find the details in our living blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477>. You are all invited to join in, ask questions, to listen, and to share. These are roundtable sessions that will be recorded, captioned, summarized, and uploaded onto SIGCHI's YouTube channel. We trust that they will help in better understanding our community, leading to more equitable futures for SIGCHI overall. The upcoming three (of more) sessions are as follows: ET#1: Being Global (Zoom<https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/91783833909?pwd=c09YdlFrRk4vcjNGeEZoRmRDR05ZQT09>/Sli.do<https://app.sli.do/event/bpnebm84>) March 8th at 11.30am EST | 4.30pm GMT | 10pm IST March 9th at 1.30am JST ET#2: Making SIGCHI Accessible March 18th at 12pm EDT | 4pm GMT | 9.30pm IST March 19th at 1am JST ET#3: Reviewing & Mentorship March 31st at 4.30pm EDT | 8.30pm GMT April 1st at 2am IST | 5.30am JST Check our blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477> for more information/updates! Those of you who would call in if not for inconvenient times, please accept our apologies in advance. Looking forward! Neha Kumar & Shaowen Bardzell (VPs at Large) Adriana S. Vivacqua & Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (ACs for Equity) Stacy Branham & Soraia Prietch (ACs for Accessibility) Theresa Tanenbaum (VP Publications) On behalf of the SIGCHI Executive Committee

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The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services” on June 8, 2021

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, We are happy to open the call for papers in our workshop on transferable UX at the upcoming ECSCW’21. We hope that you can consider participating. The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services”<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html> aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working on conceptualization, maintenance, and preservation of transferable UX artifacts within their organizations. In this workshop, we aim on synthesizing the challenges and highlighting opportunities of transferring UX insights while developing multiple products and services. We ask: “How can we depart from a paradigm of designing a single product and turn to the holistic UX design approach at work?” Instead of focusing on a product, we call UX researchers, designers, experts and practitioners, to center on an ecology of artifacts, e.g. a portfolio. This, in turn, may help to improve existing work environments and to develop novel integrated work environments, where many actors need to effectively coordinate their actions using a myriad of tools. That change, ultimately, may lead not only to improved quality of work and create pleasurable experiences for the end-users, but also establish a ground for successful company-wide collaboration when it comes to preserving and transferring UX insights and rules. We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, enterprise architecture, product/portfolio management, and agile software development to create a UX research agenda for designing integrated digital work environments, unpacking development, users, and change perspectives to aid establishing long-living UX practices that extend across projects and overtime. More details: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html HOW TO APPLY? To apply, please submit a position paper (2-4 pages, template<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/>) explaining your interests and experience in transferable UX in relation to the workshop theme<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021/ws-theme.html> in PDF format by April 9, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch . To promote broader participation from UX design practitioners (e.g., UX researchers, UX designers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Enterprise Architects, Human Factors Specialists), and design leaders, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a case study, or the like. KEY DATES Submission deadline: April 9, 2021, AoE Notification: April 30, 2021 Workshop: June 8, 2021 ATTENDANCE The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to twenty participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for conference attendees. ORGANIZERS Anton Fedosov, University of Zurich, Switzerland Daniel Boos, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland Susanne Schmidt-Rauch, evux AG, Switzerland Jarno Ojala, Vincit Oyj, Finland Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France If you have any questions, please drop us an email at transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch Best regards, Anton Fedosov, Ph.D. 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

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Call for papers: VR-ISLAND WORKSHOP, CHitaly 2021

by Giulia Staggini

To whom it may concern: I am Giulia Staggini, an Italian PhD student at the University of Genoa and, together with my colleague Rita Cersosimo, I outlined a Workshop "VR-Island" that has been selected for CHitaly 2021, a computer-human interaction conference. Our Workshop is about the application of immersive reality input (both AR and VR) to language teaching with a special focus on special educational needs, students with dyslexia, students in special contexts (e.g: migrants, prisoners, people with chronic deseases...). Interdisciplinary papers with various approaches and perspectives are welcome. If you're interested in participating, I invite you to submit your abstract. You can find any detail, clicking here: https://easychair.org/cfp/VRISLAND1-VirtualRealitySpecialLanguageNeeds?remi… If you need more info, please contact me. Thank you in advance for your attention. Best regards, Giulia Staggini

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Gregorio Convertino

by Fabio Paternò

Care/i, è con tristezza che vi segnalo la morte di Gregorio Convertino , persona italiana molto attiva nel settore HCI, che poi ha fatto molte esperienze all'estero, era UX Research Manager a Google nella Bay area https://www.gregorioconvertino.com/ Fabio

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Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021

by Cristina Gena

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including 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 using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 26, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

4 years, 8 months

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MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality

by Maurizio Mancini

[apologies for cross-posting] MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality Hosted @CHItaly 2021 (14th Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter) July 12th, 2021 (morning) Website: https://mixr-chitaly2021.github.io XR, or eXtended Reality, is an umbrella term that encompasses the areas of AR, VR, and MR, with strong emphasis on immersiveness, multimodality and presence. XR is a multidisciplinary field incorporating subjects such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, and digital humanities. Within XR, collaborative environments is one of the fastest growing areas, as can be seen by the number of social VR worlds available today. Most of these environments focus on the graphical aspects of the environment, not fully taking advantage of multimodal and multi-party design. Interaction in these environments is largely limited to text chats and, in the case of a few systems, voice interaction. Deeper and more meaningful engagement and interaction in XR can be achieved by leveraging the principles of Social Signal Processing (SSP) and Affective Computing (AC). Due to the simultaneous one-to-one and one-to-many interactions that establish and evolve over time, Multi-party (group) Interaction in XR is a complex process, whose analysis is still an open challenge in SSP/AC. Nowadays, the need for exploring Multi-party Interaction in XR settings is expanding, as people are increasingly meeting remotely through teleconferencing tools for practical reasons (e.g., working and living abroad) or, for example, as a result of the social restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. MIXR seeks to progress research on Multi-party Interaction in XR by pursuing the following objectives: - to investigate how social science theories and models of Multi-party Interaction can be applied in or possibly adapted to XR scenarios - to develop techniques for collecting multimodal data of Multi-party Interaction - to promote interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration between scholars in Computer Science and Social Sciences on XR, Social Signal Processing, Affective Computing, Multi-party Interaction Topics We invite participants to submit short (6 pages) papers that focus on Multi-party Interaction in XR. Topics of interest include Multi-Party (team/group) Interaction in XR, covering the following research areas: - Emotion recognition and expression - Movement expressivity - Team emergent states and dynamics - Joint activity/collaboration - Immersive CSCW - Education and creativity - Serious games - Multimodality - Interaction fidelity - Theoretical models - System/interface ergonomics - Novel technologies Submissions/Proceedings Short papers (6 pages) can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mixr21# Authors should use the 1 column CEUR-ART style: - The style is available from: Vol-XXX - An Overleaf page is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt - The offline version with the style files is at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Accepted papers will be published on the free open-access repository CEUR-WS, which is indexed on SCOPUS. Important dates April 23, 2021 - Submission deadline May 14, 2021 - Notifications to contributors May 24, 2021 - Camera-ready/final version deadline July 12, 2021 - Workshops (All deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) Organizing Committee Maurizio Mancini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Giovanna Varni (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France) David Murphy (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Fabio Pellacini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Laura Maye (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Patrick O’Toole (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland)

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 1st Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. Students at different stages of their research will be able to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. Papers must: identify a significant problem in the field of research outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her contribution the first day of the conference. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ If you have any question, please write an email to the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy, email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy, email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for doctoral consortium papers: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html

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1st Call for papers PATCH@UMAP 2021

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online and in Utrecht, The Netherlands. https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 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 - Conversational agents for CH - 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 Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 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://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. 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: March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it 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 Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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[CHItaly 2021] Last Call for Long and Short Research Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by Gennari Rosella

** Apologies for cross-posting/please share ** ================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI The Hybrid International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI LAST CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS Deadline (strict): Feb 28th 2021 ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it<https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/>) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS ================================================ The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed. 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. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction. Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI. Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies • HCI theories • HCI design and evaluation methods • HCI studies • Interaction processes and models • Collaborative and social computing and HCI • Affective computing and HCI • Accessibility and inclusive HCI Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI • Design & arts and HCI • Humanities and HCI • Cultures, culture production and HCI • Education and HCI • Technology enhanced learning and HCI • Learning analytics and HCI • Values, ethics and HCI • Society and HCI Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI • Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI • Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI • Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI • Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI • Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI • Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI • Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI • Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI • Human-robot interaction and HCI • Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI Artificial Intelligence and HCI • AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI • Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI • Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI • Formal methods and HCI • Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI • Business processes and HCI including process analysis, modelling and visualisation • Natural language processing and HCI • Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI ================================================ FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================================ For specifications please refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html ================================================ PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS ================================================ Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library, which is Scopus indexed. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines. After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ LONG PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>) Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>) ================================================ SHORT PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>) Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>) ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers: • workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html • interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html • doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html • industry event, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/industry_event.html

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Invito partecipazione indagine università

by Carlo Giovannella

/Gentilissimi, // //// //a distanza di un'anno dall'inizio della pandemia e della prima indagine realizzata per "scattare" con il vostro aiuto un'istantanea della didattica che, come sapete, alcuni hanno definito d'emergenza, vi saremmo grati se - in quanto docenti universitari - poteste ancora una volta mettere a disposizione una piccola porzione del vostro tempo per esprimere le vostre opinioni sullo stato attuale della didattica integrata, nonché se lo credete, far circolare il link tra colleghi di altri Atenei. // //Sarebbe importate per poter monitorare la trasformazione in atto. // //// //L'indagine è coordinata dall'ASLERD (Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and regional Development) e per l'Italia, oltre a chi vi scrive, coinvolge colleghi dell'Istituto di Tecnologie Didattiche del CNR di Genova. // //// //Il questionario è anonimo e gli esiti dell'indagine (che coinvolge anche un campione di studenti) saranno restituiti pubblicamente, come già fatto in passato. Tempo di riempimento previsto tra i 15 e i 25 minuti. // //// //Link al questionario: // //https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgi6SpVVDy6Cwko47kCri4c5NAOgqJGdQZxGNfRHtIbrhw_Q/viewform//// //// //Grazie anticipate per il vostro contributo e coinvolgimento empatico Carlo Giovanella / /================================================================= Vi saremmo altresì grati se poteste coinvolgere anche i vostri STUDENTI, facendo pervenire loro il seguente invito Grazie //Gentilissimi, // //// //vi saremmo grati se - in quanto studenti universitari - poteste mettere a disposizione una piccola porzione del vostro tempo per esprimere le vostre opinioni sullo stato attuale della didattica integrata, nonché se lo credete, far circolare il link tra colleghi di altri corsi di laurea, facoltà e Atenei. // //// //L'indagine è coordinata dall'ASLERD (Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and regional Development) // //// //Il questionario è anonimo e gli esiti dell'indagine saranno restituiti pubblicamente.Tempo di riempimento previsto tra i 15 e i 25 minuti. // //// //Link al questionario: // //https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-Kl0jfhzOFcxlmgEjkP8eP23a7xTQo3p7UUY8SoWYSu8xZA/viewform //// //Grazie anticipate per il vostro contributo e coinvolgimento empatico.// /

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium Important Dates • Paper Submission: March 9, 2021 • Notification to authors: March 31, 2021 • Camera ready submission: April 11, 2021 • ACM UMAP 2021 conference: June 21-25, 2021 • ACM UMAP 2021 DC Session: TBD, 2021 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. It includes a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. 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. How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium To apply for the ACM UMAP 2021 doctoral consortium, students should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized under the following headings: • Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation outlining the relevance of the problem; • Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work will make a new contribution; • Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and the thesis methodology; • Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date (including a clear description of the approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research. Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2021 key areas. Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design. Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but the student should be early enough in their studies to still benefit from guidance and advice. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 by selecting the “UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium” track. Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Submissions should be a single pdf document consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 7 pages long + references) in the new ACM single-column style. 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,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… NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order 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. ACM UMAP Proceedings The accepted ACM UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference and present the paper for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Financial Support ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant applications. Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy • Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, Germany email: umap2021-dc AT um.org<http://um.org/>

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I: SIGCHI 2021 award winners

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, Con grande piacere annuncio che Fabio Paternò è uno dei recipients dei SIGCHI Awards di quest'anno: è entrato nella SIGCHI Academy. Congratulazioni a Fabio per questo prestigioso e meritato riconoscimento, che rispecchia in pieno il suo contributo all’HCI. Cari saluti, Maristella Da: ACM SIGCHI Members List <SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Per conto di Gloria Mark Inviato: martedì 16 febbraio 2021 21:43 A: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Oggetto: SIGCHI 2021 award winners SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2021 Award Recipients. You can find more details about the awardees here: https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/ SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: Scott Hudson – Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award: John T. Richards– IBM (U.S.) SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award: Wendy A. Kellogg – IBM (retired) (U.S.) Philippe Palanque – Université Toulouse (France) SIGCHI Social Impact Award: Cecilia Baranauskas – State University of Campinas (Brazil) Andy Dearden – Sheffield Hallam University (UK) Juan E. Gilbert – University of Florida (U.S.) SIGCHI Academy: Maneesh Agrawala – Stanford University (U.S.) Ann Blandford – University College London (UK) Jeffrey Heer – University of Washington (U.S.) Jonathan Lazar – University of Maryland (U.S.) Fabio Paternò – CNR-ISTI (Italy) Rosalind W. Picard – MIT Media Lab (U.S.) Fernanda Viégas – Google (U.S.) Allison Woodruff – Google (U.S.) SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award: Josh Andres – RMIT University (Australia) Arunesh Mathur – Princeton University (U.S.) Qian Yang – Cornell University (U.S.) Congratulations to all! Gloria Mark SIGCHI Awards chair ________________________________ You can unsubscribe for this list at any time through this link: Unsubscribe<https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=SIGCHI-MEMBERS&RE=MARISTELLA.MATE…>

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Final CfP SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ - mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 15, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= * *SLERD 2021* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD>/./ * Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD 2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively attend it physically or virtually. If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the previous 2020 SLERD *SLERD 2021*will feature: ** *keynotes* <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/keynotes/> by***• Inger Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24**Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place***• Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) – June 24**/Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective/***• Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25**Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach the *Student Scientific Video Contest* ** call for contributions <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> with the award of the “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS” (prizes: 500,00 €, 300,00 €, 300,00€ and free participation to the conference) an Open Debate – June 25 – on *Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* and as Satellite Event <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem”* *orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership *SLERD 2021* 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. /*Short Intro*/ In 2020 the pandemic has affected the learning processes all over the world and learning ecosystems have reacted showing different degrees of resilience and promptness with emergence of similarities, differences and inequalities. Among the similarities, a tendency of the individuals to remain in a comfort zone and a general unpreparedness to operate in a full virtual space. Suddenly the two dimensions that characterizes the smart learning ecosystems - physical and virtual - started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur - processual, social, individual - to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Some scholars refer to an age characterized by a so-called “new normality”. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are already 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?/ 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. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other 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*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • 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**15, 2021* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 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=slerd2021 ========================================================= 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 for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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I: SIGCHI 2021 award winners

by Carlo Giovannella

congratulazioni Carlo Il 17/02/21 08:35, Maristella Matera ha scritto: > > Carissimi, > > Con grande piacere annuncio che Fabio Paternò è uno dei recipients dei > SIGCHI Awards di quest'anno: è entrato nella SIGCHI Academy. > > Congratulazioni a Fabio per questo prestigioso e meritato > riconoscimento, che rispecchia in pieno il suo contributo all’HCI. > > Cari saluti, > > Maristella > > *Da:*ACM SIGCHI Members List <SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> *Per > conto di *Gloria Mark > *Inviato:* martedì 16 febbraio 2021 21:43 > *A:* SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG > *Oggetto:* SIGCHI 2021 award winners > > SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2021 Award Recipients. You can > find more details about the awardees here: > https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/ > <https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/> > > > > SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: > > > > Scott Hudson – Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) > > > > SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award: > > > > John T. Richards– IBM (U.S.) > > > > SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award: > > > > Wendy A. Kellogg – IBM (retired) (U.S.) > > > > Philippe Palanque – Université Toulouse (France) > > > > SIGCHI Social Impact Award: > > > > Cecilia Baranauskas – State University of Campinas (Brazil) > > > > Andy Dearden – Sheffield Hallam University (UK) > > > > Juan E. Gilbert – University of Florida (U.S.) > > > > SIGCHI Academy: > > > > Maneesh Agrawala – Stanford University (U.S.) > > > > Ann Blandford – University College London (UK) > > > > Jeffrey Heer – University of Washington (U.S.) > > > > Jonathan Lazar – University of Maryland (U.S.) > > > > Fabio Paternò – CNR-ISTI (Italy) > > > > Rosalind W. Picard – MIT Media Lab (U.S.) > > Fernanda Viégas – Google (U.S.) > > > > Allison Woodruff – Google (U.S.) > > > > SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award: > > > > Josh Andres – RMIT University (Australia) > > > > Arunesh Mathur – Princeton University (U.S.) > > > > Qian Yang – Cornell University (U.S.) > > > > Congratulations to all! > > > > Gloria Mark > > SIGCHI Awards chair > > > > > > > > > > ** > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > You can unsubscribe for this list at any time through this link: > Unsubscribe > <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=SIGCHI-MEMBERS&RE=MARISTELLA.MATE…> > > > > -- > Hcitaly mailing list > hcitaly(a)isti.cnr.it > https://mailman.isti.cnr.it/postorius/lists/hcitaly.isti.cnr.it/

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EICS 2021 Tech Notes CfP

by Davide Spano

[Apologizes for cross-posting] The Tech Notes track focuses on exclusively strong technical engineering contributions. EICS Tech Notes are 6-page papers (excluding the reference list) that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work, including (but not limited to): - Infrastructures and architectures (high-level toolkits, frameworks, networking infrastructures, the big systems picture) - Technical realizations of specific interaction techniques (e.g., sensing & recognition, computer vision implementations, rendering pipelines) - Engineering of physical interactive systems (e.g., toolkits for physical computing or fabrication, hacking or modding of machinery for interactive purposes) - Computational constructs (e.g., optimization methods, mathematical modelling of HCI systems, model-driven UI design) - Specification and verification (e.g. language representations for HCI, formal approaches, optimization methods, semantic models, testing / checking interactive systems) Tech notes can be submitted through the Precision Conference System: <https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi> https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Important Dates - Submission deadline: 12/03/2021 - Notifications: 16/04/2021 - Camera-Ready: 30/04/2021 Content Tech Notes is a venue created to elaborate on the technical aspects of research work, which would typically only be a short part of a longer article. The presented research can be related to previous publications, however, the tech note should present additional technical details and reflections that are not covered in the original publication(s). Authors are encouraged to refer to previously published research papers and elaborate on technical components or discuss specific technical implications of their previous work. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. The focus lies specifically on elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system. They do not include formal evaluations or user studies. Format Tech Notes are published as a 6-page paper in the standard ACM SIGCHI format <https://sigchi.org/templates> (excluding references). In line with recent policies by ACM regarding publishing software and data artifacts in the ACM Digital Library (https://www.acm.org/publications/artifacts), authors are strongly encouraged to provide supplemental material. This could include additional diagrams detailing the technical contribution, (online) demos, links to source code repositories, videos, or example applications. We suggest, wherever applicable the paper to be accompanied by a (max) one-minute video presenting the technical contribution. The URL of the video must be mentioned in the paper itself. We also highly encourage authors to share a public repository of their software. Tech Notes Chairs - Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock - Javed Khan, Eindhoven University of Technology technotes2021(a)eics.acm.org Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between Tech Notes, Full Papers and Late-Breaking Results? EICS Tech Notes are not journal articles that describe the full cycle of a research project (concept, implementation, evaluation, reflection), but are focused technical engineering research contributions. Tech Notes do not require a formal evaluation nor an in-depth reflection on related work, but can focus on very specific implementation details that are novel and interesting to the EICS community. Thus, the reflection of the related work should target in clarifying the technical novelty of the Tech Note. EICS Tech Notes do not describe work-in-progress, as they require a novel technical contribution to be finalized and completely described within the space of the Tech Note. They are more similar to a traditional four-page note than to a work-in-progress extended abstract. Late-Breaking Results are intended for eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, that can benefit from discussions with colleagues in the EICS community. Why should I submit an EICS Tech Note? EICS Tech Notes aims to be the primary submission venue for impactful technical engineering work. EICS Tech Notes is a high-quality engineering venue that is complementary to the main research-oriented track at EICS. It shows new and exciting technical work of high relevance to the community. The best Tech Notes will be awarded with the Tech Note Award. EICS Tech Notes provides a platform to publish and present detailed technical engineering aspects of HCI research. We specifically encourage authors of previous papers to elaborate on technical challenges, technical innovations or frameworks / systems / approaches / toolkits / algorithms that enable them to conduct novel HCI research. How are EICS Tech Notes disseminated? EICS Tech Notes get a presentation slot at the conference and will be published as 6-page papers in the ACM Digital Library (excluding the reference list). How are EICS Tech Notes reviewed? EICS Tech Notes will be reviewed by an international committee of leading experts within the technical HCI, engineering and interactive systems communities. Because there is a difference in scope between tech notes, full papers, and late-breaking results, reviewers will use specific criteria to identify high-quality tech notes, including technical novelty, research impact, and the potential to enable new HCI innovations. -- [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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[Reminder] CfP Posters and Demos Track at ECSCW’21 (June 7-11, 2021) in Zurich, Switzerland

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming ECSCW conference in the summer. There are still opportunities to contribute by submitting a short contribution (2000 words max) to the Posters and Demos track until February 22. The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is an international venue on practice-centered computing and the design of cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe that was established in 1989. The 19th edition of ECSCW will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 7th to 11th June 2021. The presentation of posters and demos is a key element of the ECSCW conference. For presenters as well as recipients, the poster & demo session provides a lively environment for getting in touch with late-breaking research, preliminary results, innovative ideas, and early-stage research and design explorations. At a special session during the conference, authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as to involve them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress relating to CSCW. Posters provide a great opportunity to present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger ECSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies. Demos may be submitted in various forms. These may be interactive research prototypes or products, but also low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will provide space for exhibiting innovative materials that have been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centered) research methods – for example, innovations in storyboards, personas, and other materials that foster creativity in the design process. How to apply? Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (2000 words maximum excl. references, figures, and a 150-word max. abstract) in the PDF format through the EasyChair platform<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecscw2021#>. More details about the submission process (incl. templates) can be found at our website https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/posters-demos/ All accepted submissions will be published as short papers in the European Society for Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library Key dates Submission deadline: February, 22 2021, 23:59 AoE Notifications: March 31, 2021 Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 Attendance As of now, the conference is planned in Zurich, Switzerland from 7th until 11th of June 2021. The final format of the conference is currently under discussion. Remote participation will be possible. If you have questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact the Posters and Demo co-chairs: demoposters2021(a)ecscw.eusset.eu Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg, Austria) Anton Fedosov (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 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

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Fwd: Agenda Now Online!

by Massimo Zancanaro

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INTERACT 2021 - Deadline extension for Workshop proposals - February 10th

by Davide Spano

Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals has been extended to February 10th. ----------------------- apologies for cross-posting ------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finteract2…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. INTERACT workshops provide a one-day or two-day forum for participants to compare their experiences and explore research issues or topics of special interest to the HCI community. Workshop proposal submissions are accepted via PCS by February 10th. Further information on the workshop proposals and workshop organization can be found on the INTERACT 2021 website: https://www.interact2021.org/tracks/workshops.php Workshops will take place on 30 and 31 August 2021, immediately preceding the main conference. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir and Davide Spano INTERACT 2021 Workshops co-chairs workshops[at]interact2021.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org Keep updated through our socials: https://www.facebook.com/Interact2021 https://twitter.com/INTERACT2021

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INTERACT 2021 - Deadline extension for Workshop proposals - February 10th

by Davide Spano

Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals has been extended to February 10th. ----------------------- apologies for cross-posting ------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finteract2…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. INTERACT workshops provide a one-day or two-day forum for participants to compare their experiences and explore research issues or topics of special interest to the HCI community. Workshop proposal submissions are accepted via PCS by February 10th. Further information on the workshop proposals and workshop organization can be found on the INTERACT 2021 website: https://www.interact2021.org/tracks/workshops.php Workshops will take place on 30 and 31 August 2021, immediately preceding the main conference. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir and Davide Spano INTERACT 2021 Workshops co-chairs workshops[at]interact2021.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org Keep updated through our socials: https://www.facebook.com/Interact2021 https://twitter.com/INTERACT2021 -- [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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Fifth International Summer School on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

by De Angeli Antonella

Dear Colleagues, This may be an important opportunity for Phd students, post-doc, or early career researchers who have an interest in CSCW Antonella [Apologies for cross-posting] Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 23-27 August 2021, Como, Italy. About The CSCW Summer School provides young researchers (PhD or post-doc) with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of CSCW as a research field and community. The interaction among the participants (both teachers and students) will promote the generation of new ideas and their confrontation with the experiences they have acquired in their field research. Aims and scope After the introduction of the acronym CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) in the late 1980’ the themes connected with the understanding of collaborative work practices and the design of artefacts supporting collaboration have become pervasive in many scientific, business and social discourses. The domains in which CSCW can inform sociotechnical design are constantly growing and changing. This asks for a continuous elaboration of the theoretical foundations of the underpinning disciplines through a reflection on the outcomes of the field studies, on the methods applied in the social and technological investigations and on the impact of the technologies on practices they are made part of. The combination of these perspectives should be the patrimony of any researcher who wants to grasp the complex and subtle issues that are involved in the CSCW research area. Program The course will present central themes, methods and discussions within CSCW by experienced scholars in conversations with participants. Full program TBA soon (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/<http://www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/>) Important dates (final dates will be announced later) • Application deadline: May, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: May, 2021 • Registration deadline: June 2021 Credits: 7,5 ECTS Location We plan to hold the summer school onsite at the Villa del Grumello, a nice villa close to Como, Italy. The center of the town can be reached in a ten-minute walk along the border of the lake. If the current Corona-situation does not permit us to hold the school onsite in Italy, it will be held online. The final decision as to whether the summer school will be held onsite or online, will be made medio Apr- beginning of May, 2021. Chairs • Antonella De Angeli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Italy) • Claus Bossen (Aarhus University – Denmark) • Nina Boulus-Rødje (Roskilde University – Denmark) Fees The registration fee for the course will be around 350€, not including accommodation (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/<http://www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/>) Application Please provide a document that includes one to two pages of CV and one page that includes your PhD topic, your research approach and why you want to participate at the summer school. Deadline May, 2021 (the specific date will be provide in Apr). Please send it to: summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu> Accommodation A list of recommended accommodation will be provided later, however, participants may choose accommodation as they see fit. Visa International applicants might need a visiting student visa to come to Italy. Information about the required documents are available at the “Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” following this link<http://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en>. A request for a School Invitation Letter should be sent to summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu>. The request must contain all the necessary information along with a digitized copy of the identification page of the student passport (with name and photo). Contact For any information about the school please contact: summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu> _______________________________________________ EUSSET mailing list EUSSET(a)listserv.uni-siegen.de<mailto:EUSSET@listserv.uni-siegen.de> https://listserv.uni-siegen.de/mailman/listinfo/eusset _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Antonella De Angeli, PhD Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Dominikanerplatz 3 - piazza Domenicani, 3 39100 - Italy UniBZ

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 3rd Call for Workshop Proposals / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

*Apologies for cross-posting/please share* ================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ Workshops in CHItaly are events which will open the main conference providing a physical and digital forum for discussion on new and emerging HCI topics, relevant for the theme of CHItaly 2021 (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/). All workshops will be half-day, and will be held in the morning of July 12th. Workshop proposals will be reviewed according to quality criteria, which consider the relevance of workshop proposals for CHItaly 2021, their potentials of gathering quality contributions, their review process. A paper describing each accepted workshop will undergo a quality check (so as to clarify the relevance of the workshop topic for the HCI community, the open challenges, the innovative aspects, the received contributions, etc.) before being accepted and included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later). ================================================ STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSAL ================================================ - Workshop title - Workshop acronym (if any) - Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees and links to the websites - List of organizers (with short bio) and main contact person - Motivation and objectives - List of topics - Target audience and expected number of attendees - Papers Review process (if any): the strategy used to collect contributions (such as online conference management systems or submitting by emails to the workshop chairs, etc.), minimum numbers of reviews,... Note that workshop organisers need to organise themselves how to collect and review papers/abstract/etc., and prepare a web page where the workshop will be advertised - Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …) - Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of paper, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …) - PC tentative list ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ================================================ February 1, 2021 - Submission deadline February 15, 2021 - Review notification Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ================================================ Submission deadline: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Workshops: July 12th Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET. ================================================ SUBMISSION: HOW TO ================================================ Proposals should be submitted in PDF form (no specific template is required) at this address: workshops.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it ================================================ WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================================================ Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (barbara.barricelli(a)unibs.it) Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it) ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for workshops: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Demo and LBR Papers

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Demo and LBR Papers Important Dates • Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 26, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2021 • Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2021 • Conference: June 21-25, 2021 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2021 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 March 26th, 2021. Submission formats For more details, see below! Demonstrations • Max. 3 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 2021 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 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference Submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 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 2021. 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 2021. 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. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2021 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP 2021 Demo and LBR”). 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 2021 Adjunct Proceedings 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. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA • Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria— Apologies for cross-posting —

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium Important Dates • Paper Submission: March 9, 2021 • Notification to authors: March 31, 2021 • Camera ready submission: April 11, 2021 • ACM UMAP 2021 conference: June 21-25, 2021 • ACM UMAP 2021 DC Session: TBD, 2021 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. It includes a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. 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. How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium To apply for the ACM UMAP 2021 doctoral consortium, students should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized under the following headings: • Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation outlining the relevance of the problem; • Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work will make a new contribution; • Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and the thesis methodology; • Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date (including a clear description of the approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research. Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2021 key areas. Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design. Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but the student should be early enough in their studies to still benefit from guidance and advice. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 by selecting the “UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium” track. Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Submissions should be a single pdf document consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 7 pages long + references) in the new ACM single-column style. 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,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… NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order 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. ACM UMAP Proceedings The accepted ACM UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference and present the paper for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Financial Support ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant applications. Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy • Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, Germany email: umap2021-dc AT um.org<http://um.org>

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INTERACT 2021 - Full paper and workshop proposal deadline is January 27th, 2021

by Paolo Buono

-- apologies for cross-posting -- INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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MobileHCI 2021 - Cfp

by anna spagnolli

(Apologies fro cross-postings) The MobileHCI Conference Series (http://mobilehci.acm.org/2021/) has shaped research, development and practice in services used on mobile or within mobile contexts for over two decades now. Our interpretation of mobility is inclusive and broadly construed. We welcome contributions related to any aspect of mobile HCI technology, systems, devices, techniques, experience, application, methods, tools, theories, and new perspectives. The conference theme in 2021 is “Mobile Apart, Mobile Together.” Technological advances allow us to bridge a potential geographical distance in a digital fashion, thereby bringing us closer together while being physically apart. These opportunities and interactions are extremely valuable - not only for families living apart, but in particular during an extraordinary situation, such as the Corona-pandemic in 2020, where many started working from and/or on the go. With advances in multisensory and multimodal interactions, this is no longer limited to screen-based interaction. MobileHCI 2021 embraces this expanded horizon, and invites submissions and contributions that reflect the strength of mobile technologies of bringing people together while being apart. Submissions dates Submissions will be managed through Precision Conference (PCS). Submission deadline: February 4, 2021 (anywhere on earth) Reviews sent to authors: March 19, 2021 Revise and Resubmit deadline: April 19, 2021 Conditional acceptance notification: May 17, 2021 Camera ready version: May 31, 2021 Suggested Topics Systems and Infrastructure. The design, architecture, deployment, and evaluation of systems and infrastructures that support development of or interaction with mobile devices and services. Devices and Techniques. The design, construction, usage, and evaluation of devices and techniques that create valuable new capabilities for mobile human-computer interaction. Applications and Experiences. Descriptions of the design, empirical study of interactive applications, or analysis of usage trends that leverage mobile devices and systems. MobileHCI for social good. Using mobile HCI to address societal challenges of our times such as health care, mobility, sustainability, social engagement, and civic engagement. Methods and Tools. New methods and tools designed for or applied to studying or building mobile user interfaces, applications, and mobile users. Theories and Models. Critical 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 Perspectives. Well-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. Situation with Coronavirus/Covid-19 Because of the evolving situation with covid-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, Mobile HCI will be held virtually. Revisions The editorial board members will make decisions for any submitted papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejected. These notifications are sent to authors on March 19 2021. If the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will have a revision cycle within the current to address these changes, from March 19 until April 19, 2021. After the revised paper is submitted on April 19, the final decisions will be sent to authors on May 10. If the initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in the following round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that the same primary and secondary Board Members are assigned to continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major revisions" will not submit on the revision deadline on April 19, but in the next full review cycle for the following MobileHCI 2022. This is to allow extra time in case the authors need to perform significant new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is possible. Paper Length and Format Important: This year, MobileHCI will be using the new ACM Master Article Templates and Publication Workflow! The complete instructions can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Word users can submit their initial documents in a simplified single-column format which is then converted to the final formatting only if the paper is accepted. LaTeX users should use the latest template on that same web page (please use the manuscript template [sample-manuscript.tex]). Note that we will provide instructions on word/character count in the near future. However, as a guidance, the final 2-column papers should be between 6 and 10 pages long. For checking the length of your paper you can either use an older 2-column template or have a look at the ACM website: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. At the very bottom there is a rough estimation of word counts and estimated page count. Paper length during the submission stage will not be handled as strictly as for previous MobileHCI conferences, but if your paper gets accepted we might request that you need to shorten it. Authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution. References are not included in the paper length. Reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a submission relative to its length, so papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will be rejected. Shorter, more focused papers (akin to Notes or Short Papers in previous years) are encouraged, and will be reviewed appropriately. Papers need to be anonymised for blind review. We use a relaxed model that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. However, you do need to completely remove identifying information from the title/header/acknowledgements area of the paper, and also make sure that it does not appear in the document’s meta-data. Citations to your own previous work do NOT need to be anonymised, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account. However, you should refer to your prior work in third person. As an ACM conference, MobileHCI papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. Presentation at the Conference Upon acceptance, you have to present your paper at the conference. At least one author of each paper must register. The exact talk duration will be determined when the program is finalised. Paper Chairs (program2021(a)mobilehci.acm.org) Anne Roudaut, University of Bristol, UK Sebastian Boring, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark Kent lyons, Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA -- ******************************* 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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Deadlines approaching / Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 2nd Call for Long and Short Research Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by Gennari Rosella

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS ================================================ The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed. 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. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction. Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI. Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies * HCI theories * HCI design and evaluation methods * HCI studies * Interaction processes and models * Collaborative and social computing and HCI * Affective computing and HCI * Accessibility and inclusive HCI Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI * Design & arts and HCI * Humanities and HCI * Cultures, culture production and HCI * Education and HCI * Technology enhanced learning and HCI * Learning analytics and HCI * Values, ethics and HCI * Society and HCI Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI * Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI * Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI * Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI * Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI * Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI * Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI * Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI * Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI * Human-robot interaction and HCI * Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI Artificial Intelligence and HCI * AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI * Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI * Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI * Formal methods and HCI * Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI * Business processes and HCI including process analysis, modelling and visualisation * Natural language processing and HCI * Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================================ All paper manuscripts must be in English. All manuscripts must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera ready versions, in case of acceptance. All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee. All authors must submit manuscripts for review using the ACM single column submission template. The recommended lengths are: 1. at most 10 pages for long research papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references) 2. at most 6 pages for short papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references). ACM single-column submission templates are available for Word and LaTeX at <https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html>. Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair. The Easy Chair submission system will be opened in February 2021. ================================================ PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS ================================================ Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines. After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ LONG PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>) Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>) ================================================ SHORT PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>) Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>) ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers: * workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html * interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html * doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html * industry event, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/industry_event.html

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

[ Sorry for multiple-posting] ================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 11–13 July 2021 https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ Workshops in CHItaly are events which will open the main conference providing a physical and digital forum for discussion on new and emerging HCI topics, relevant for the theme of CHItaly 2021. All workshops will be half-day, and will be held in the morning of July 12th. A paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later). ================================================ STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSAL ================================================ - Workshop title - Workshop acronym (if any) - Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees and links to the websites - List of organizers (with short bio) and main contact person - Motivation and objectives - List of topics - Target audience and expected number of attendees - Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …) - Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of paper, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …) - PC tentative list ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ================================================ February 1, 2021 - Submission deadline February 15, 2021 - Review notification Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ================================================ Submission deadline: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Workshops: July 12th Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET. ================================================ SUBMISSION: HOW TO ================================================ Proposals should be submitted in PDF form (no specific template is required) at this address: workshops.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it ================================================ WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================================================ Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (barbara.barricelli(a)unibs.it) Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it) ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for workshops: long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html

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Post-doc position on “Remote music pedagogy in virtual reality”

by Luca Turchet

Dear all, (Please excuse any cross posting) The Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory at University of Trento is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years on the topic “Remote music pedagogy in virtual reality”. The project aims at developing prototypes of virtual reality systems targeting novel kinds of interactions between music teachers and students in networked contexts. The project is funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology as well as the European Space Agency. To apply, please visit: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/bando/65337/department-of-information-engine… Best wishes Luca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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[CFP] 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds

by Luca Turchet

*2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds* *(part of Audio Mostly 2021)* September 1-3, 2021. Trento, Italy < Apologies for cross-posting > < Please distribute > *Call for papers and demos* After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and Music Computing domains. The workshop will be hosted at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - Ecoacoustics - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - Smart Musical Instruments - Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things - Participatory live music performances - Networked music performances - Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things - Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts - Ubiquitous music - Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds - Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds - Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications - Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds - Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds - Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining - Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases - Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8 pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference ( https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference also hosted at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the workshop will have access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly conference. The paper templates are available at https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/ *Important dates* - Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021 - Author notification: June 15, 2021 - Camera ready due: July 15, 2021 - Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021 *Publications* All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) - Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes) - Chris Chafe (Stanford University) - Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University) - Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Paolo Casari (University of Trento) *Logistics* Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/ How to reach the venue: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/info-attendees/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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IxD&A Journal N. 46 is 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. 46 *on:* Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19 */guest editors: ASLERD/ is now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 46 - ToC* /** Preface **- link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…>** **to the special issue/ /*The Year of Living Dangerously* by ASLERD Executive Committee Carlo Giovannella (President), Mihai Dascalu, Gabriella Dodero, Oscar Mealha, Matthias Rehm pp. 5 - 12 ****Kee-Man Chuah and Fitri Suraya Mohamad** Emergency Remote Teaching Scenarios, Struggles and Soundboxes: A Case Study on Malaysian Teachers **pp. 13 - 28** **Jenna Conan Simpson** Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives, **pp. 29 - 46** **Terje Väljataga, Katrin Poom-Valickis, Kirsti Rumma, Kati Aus** Transforming higher education learning ecosystem: teaching staff perspective, **pp. 47 - 69** **Chun-Hua Tsai, Guillermo Romera Rodriguez, Na Li, Jenay Robert, Alex Serpi, John M. Carroll** Experiencing the Transition to Remote Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic, **pp. 70 - 87 ** **Mohammad Rokibul Kabir, Md. Aminul Islam, Shahera Afroz Deena** Explaining the adoption of technology-based design of higher education during and after COVID 19 period from a developing country perspective **pp. 88 - 119** **/ /Carlo Giovannella and Marcello Passarelli//** The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic seen through the lens of the Italian university teachers and the comparison with school teachers’ perspective, **pp. 120 - 136** **Andrea Manciaracina ** A tool for designing hybrid learning contexts in higher education, **pp. 137 - 155 ///Eleonora Faggiano and Federica Mennuni/**/** A tool for designing hybrid learning contexts in higher education, **/**/pp. 156 - 174 /****/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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ACM UMAP 2021: Third Call-for-Papers - Updated submission information

by Oana Inel

--- Apologies for cross-posting --- ———— Updated Submission and Review Process Information ———— ============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research" Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online June 21-25th (tentative), 2021 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ ============================ Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper due: January 24, 2021 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ 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 ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions. Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Personalized Recommender Systems • Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto • Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web • Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen • Intelligent User Interfaces • Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Denis Parra • Personalized Social Web • Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang • Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning • Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis • Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy • Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand • Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Long (14 pages + references) and Short (7 pages + references) papers in the new ACM single-column style. Appendices count toward the page limit, we recommend that supplementary material is linked to an external source using an anonymised URL. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. * Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM SIG publications. The templates and instructions are available here: Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.<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… NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order 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. UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper: January 24, 2021 Notification: March 8, 2021 Camera-ready: April 11, 2021 Video submission: May 5th, 2021 Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative) Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Program chairs Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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First CfP SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ or mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 15, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= * *SLERD 2021* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD>/./ * Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD 2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively attend it physically or virtually. If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the previous 2020 SLERD. * *SLERD 2021* 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. /*Short Intro*/ In 2020 the pandemic has affected the learning processes all over the world and learning ecosystems have reacted showing different degrees of resilience and promptness with emergence of similarities, differences and inequalities. Among the similarities, a tendency of the individuals to remain in a comfort zone and a general unpreparedness to operate in a full virtual space. Suddenly the two dimensions that characterizes the smart learning ecosystems - physical and virtual - started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur - processual, social, individual - to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Some scholars refer to an age characterized by a so-called “new normality”. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are already 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?/ 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. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other 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*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • 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**15, 2021* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 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=slerd2021 ========================================================= 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 for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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Deadline approaching: INTERACT 2021 - 18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Call for Papers

by Paolo Buono

INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021) Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online June 21-25, 2021 https://www.um.org/umap2021/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1). Workshop Format 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 Instructions for Proposers Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows: • Workshop title and acronym • Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events • Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest • Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time • Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions • Intended audience and expected number of participants • List of (potential) members of the program committee • Requested duration (half day or full day) • Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual) • When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics Submission and Review Process Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> 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. Schedule • Proposal submission: January 15, 2021 • Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021 • Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021 • (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021 • (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021 • (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021 • (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021 • Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1). Tutorial Topics 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, human-robot interaction 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 Instructions for Proposers 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. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: • Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum) • Tutorial description: • learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021 • targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills • a brief outline of the tutorial structure • Information about potential practical sessions • Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours) • Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions • Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual) • Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience Submission and Review Process Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are: • ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research • clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description • organization, as appearing from the outline • background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics Timeline • Proposals due: January 15, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021 • Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021 • Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration. Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria dietmar.jannach(a)aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED (JAN 15) - ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CFP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 15, 2021 Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, held (online) in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 - April 13-17 - Virtual Conference Website: http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster 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 online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC) * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors * 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 Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: * Full papers (6 pages excluding references) * Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned * Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University * Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> IMPORTANT DATES * Submission date: Jan 15, 2021 (extended) * Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 * Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 * Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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Extended deadline: Special issue on "Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing //========================================================= *Extended Deadline is approaching: *//**January 11*, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * 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=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 11, 2021* (extended deadline) • Notification to the authors: January 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 15, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *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. *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 *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • 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 =========================================== /*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: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <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 and Smart 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: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun with a focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics" Guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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EICS 2021 Call for Papers (Round 3)

by Davide Spano

Apologies for cross-posting. EICS 2021 : Engineering Interactive Computing System The 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 8-11 June, 2021 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands https://eics.acm.org/eics2021/ Keynote Speakers: Rick Kazman and Albert Ali Salah EICS 2021 is the thirteenth international 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 processes at any stage of the development life-cycle (requirements, specification, validation and verification, testing, deployment, maintenance). Any of the following topics of interest may be addressed as long as their engineering contribution is made explicit and highlighted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS EICS 2021 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. The Conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from: Design, HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Modelling, Programming. Submissions are invited that advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: Modeling,Specification and Analysis * Modelling and analysis of interaction and interactive systems (including user interface) * Requirements engineering for interactive systems * Specification of interactive systems (methods, principles and tools) * Software architectures for interactive systems * Formal methods within interactive systems engineering * Certification issues of interactive systems Methods, Tools, and Processes * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems (e.g., API usability, interaction-driven API design) * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Processes for engineering interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) * 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 * Design and engineering issues in interactive data-driven systems Applications and integrations * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, tangible, touch and multitouch input, voice, gesture, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, machine learning, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems, etc.) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, military) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS Topics described above may be described in contributions of one, or more, of the following types: * Proof of Concept - demonstration of the applicability of an approach/tool/method/architecture/framework/design space * Case Study - collect detailed project data to demonstrate the benefits/shortcomings of the approach/artefacts used. May include datasets derived from the study. * Comparative Study - monitor several projects to collect data on impact of the technology/method * Formal Analysis - uses a formal analysis method or tool to analyse an artefact, e.g formal proof, model-driven approach, graph-based approach, user, UI and/or interaction modelling. Applying an approach. * Theory/Formal Method - describes a new method/engineering approach for addressing research questions in EICS. * Literature Review/Survey - Evaluate published studies that analyse the behaviour of similar methods/tools. Systematic mapping, systematic literature review etc. * Experiment - perform a qualitative/quantitative analysis of a project/artefact. A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300960. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS EICS papers are now published as articles in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (EICS series) <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J1598&picked=prox>, Vol. 7, Issue EICS. Paper submissions still follow the normal conference review process, but this process is iterated multiple times per year. Submissions to this venue should present original and mature research work. There are no length restrictions on papers, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. Papers may be accepted after submission and review, or recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions should indicate the type and topics of the contribution from the lists above so that the paper will be reviewed according to the criteria given above. Submissions which do not match the above topics and types of contributions will be desk-rejected. More information about the next PACM-HCI (EICS series) review and publication process can be found at http://eics.acm.org/pacm. Papers should be written in the ACM format, see: https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/author-guidelines Upcoming deadlines for full papers to be presented at EICS 2021 are (AoE-Anywhere on Earth): - EICS 2021 round 3: Submission deadline February 19th, 2021 - Final Decision and Notification to Authors April 16th, 2021 Submissions can be made through http://new.precisionconference.com Further information about EICS 2021 can be found here: https://eics.acm.org/2021 -- [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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INTERACT 2021 -18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Call for Papers

by Paolo Buono

----------------------- apologies for cross-posting ------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) - Deadline extension

by Axel Soto

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates (submission deadline extended): Submission deadline: January 6, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/). The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, hosted online held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster 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. The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * 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; Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: Full papers (6 pages excluding references) and Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned; and Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes. Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> ************Important Dates************** Submission date: Dec 23, 2020 Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended)

by Axel Soto

Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended) --------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference series sponsored by ACM (SIGCHI and SIGAI) and has been held annually since 1993 as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. To involve the greater IUI community in conference organization and better plan for the conference, we request proposals for hosting and organizing IUI two years ahead of time. We regularly rotate the conference locations to engage with IUI research communities around the globe. Below shows the location and time of the three most recently scheduled IUI conferences: IUI 2020 Cagliari, Italy March 17-20 IUI 2021 College Station, Texas April 13-17 IUI 2022 Helsinki, Finland March 22-26 Why host IUI? There are several benefits of hosting and organizing an IUI conference. First, conference hosts/organizers have an opportunity to publicize their work, build relationships, and interact with the international IUI community. Second, this is a great opportunity for the organizers/hosts to introduce their students and colleagues to the IUI community and help grow the community as a whole. Third, hosts/organizers can use the opportunity to build local IUI communities, connecting representatives from both academia and industries. Bid Requirements All proposals must be written in English with a readable font not smaller than 12 point and margins not less than one inch on all sides. The proposal should address each aspect outlined below but not exceed 15000 characters (approx. 5-6 pages). Based on the merits of the proposals and factors such as ensuring a diversity of conference locations, the board will choose the top candidates and then a finalist will be chosen and announced at IUI 2021. Please note that the bid requirements have been modified from previous years. Please read the requirements below carefully before writing up your bid. Hosts/Organizers The conference hosts/organizers should have knowledge of the IUI community, such as having attended and published regularly at IUI, and have experience with conference organization. One of the main IUI goals is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. For that reason, the bid proposal must suggest ONLY the conference general chairs. The IUI steering committee will work with the selected bid proposers on building the conference organizing team. We especially encourage that the key conference organizers consist of people from both industry and academia, representing both AI and HCI since the work presented at IUI is at the intersection of these disciplines. Please include short bios of the proposed conference general chair(s). Location Since IUI is an international forum, we expect that attendees will travel from different parts of the world to the conference location. It is important that the proposed location is conveniently located for all attendees to reach by available means of transportation. Time IUI conferences have been held at various times during late winter through early spring, most typically in March though earlier times will be considered. Your bid should include a proposed time with key dates (e.g., paper submission and notification). The choice of time should also take into account the weather conditions of the proposed location to avoid potential weather-caused travel delays and potential conflicts with other conferences and their submission deadlines. Virtual Attendance and the Impact of COVID-19 We hope that by the time of the 2023 conference that it will be possible to hold a physical conference similar to those held before 2020. Organizers should still prepare for decreased attendance and to offer virtual participation options for those who may not yet be comfortable traveling long distances. Conference Venue Please describe the proposed conference venue, including the following aspects: * Capacity. In recent years, IUI has typically had around 250 attendees, though IUI 2018 had a record high of over 350 participants and IUI 2019 had a similar number. No conference has been held since COVID, however current ACM recommendations are to anticipate a 30-40% decrease in attendance in the near term. IUI has typically taken place over four days, the first of which consists of workshops and tutorials hosted in parallel separate rooms (10-20 people). To encourage interaction among the attendees, during the main conference, it is also desirable to have additional space at the venue to put up IUI posters for the attendees to visit during coffee breaks. * Facilities. The venue should provide basic conference facilities, such as high speed internet access that can support the participants in parallel effectively and LCD projectors. * Location. The venue should be centrally located for attendees to reach quickly by ground transportation and have access to other amenities (e.g., restaurants). * Accessibility. The venue should be accessible to attendees with disabilities. * Reception and poster session dinner. Traditionally, IUI opens with a welcome reception on the night before the 1st day of the conference. The first night of the conference features a dinner reception with the poster and demo session. The location(s) of the receptions are not required to be co-located with the venue, however the location criterion above should still be used to minimize the travel for the attendees. * Social event. Traditionally, IUI has a social event + dinner on the second day of the main conference * Special events. Traditionally, during the conference the “test of time” paper award is given to the most influential IUI paper, which is accompanied by a plenary talk session for its authors. TiiS papers published in the last year are also integrated into the technical program, there is a “town hall meeting” where IUI community issues are discussed, and there is IUI steering committee lunch with current and upcoming conference and program chairs. These events need to be considered while planning the conference Accommodation Most attendees will need accommodation during the conference period. One of the responsibilities of the conference hosts/organizers is to locate and reserve a bulk of affordable lodging for attendees. Please describe the proposed accommodation options, including the price range of the hotel rooms and the distance to the main venue. Provisionary Budget Plan The proposal should also include a provisional budget, outlining the cost of major items, including the rental of the conference venue, cost/per person for the reception and banquet, and the estimated conference registration fee. Please consider including meals for participants in the budget, especially if there are limited food options near the conference venue. Important Dates Jan 29, 2021 (Extended): Bids are due. Please submit your bid to steering-chair(a)iui.acm.org Feb 26, 2021 (Extended): Notifications are sent to all submissions. For further information, please contact: jeff(a)jeffreynichols.com

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Special Issue "AI and HCI Methods and Techniques for Cultural Heritage Curation, Exploration and Fruition"

by Noemi Mauro

****** Apologies for multiple postings *****We invite you to submit to the special issue about:"AI and HCI Methods and Techniques for Cultural Heritage Curation, Exploration and Fruition" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/AI_HCI_Cultural_Heritage Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28th February 2021. Special Issue Editors Prof. Dr. Liliana Ardissono ( <http://www.di.unito.it/~liliana/> liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it) <http://www.di.unito.it/~liliana/> Guest Editor University of Torino, Italy Dr. George E. Raptis <https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/people/raptis/>( raptisg(a)upnet.gr) Guest Editor University of Patras, Greece Dr. Noemi Mauro (noemi.mauro(a)unito.it) <http://www.di.unito.it/~mauro/> Guest Editor University of Torino, Italy If you are interested in submitting a paper, please, contact us via email.Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, The richness of tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage (CH) poses great opportunities and challenges to the development of successful ICT tools for its curation, exploration and fruition. On the one hand, the digitalization of information is not enough to support a rich presentation of CH content if it is not sustained by curation methods enhancing information discovery, analysis and interactive visualization. On the other hand, as CH sites are extremely rich in objects and data, they expose people to much more information than it might be realistically experienced; therefore, efficient methods for information search, filtering and presentation are needed to help users find the items they are most interested in and to explore them online and onsite, focusing on personal viewpoints and information needs. This Special Issue aims at collecting leading research at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction and Cultural Heritage in an effort to highlight the latest exciting developments in this field and to discuss methods and techniques for designing, implementing and evaluating digital services for Cultural Heritage curation, exploration and fruition. We encourage the submission of research papers describing theoretical and experimental contributions, as well as visionary contributions discussing research trends and future perspectives in this field. In both cases, papers should describe mature work and include experimental validations of the proposed models, or a thorough analysis of the ground for future developments. Topics of interest for the special issue include (but are not limited to): - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Semantic knowledge representation and reasoning in CH - Mobile museum guides - 3D and virtual reality for CH - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Navigation and browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Personalization and recommendation strategies for CH - NLP techniques for accessing CH information - Integration of virtual and physical collections - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Collective CH information authoring and management - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Living lab in museum - Robots in museums - Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Use of Personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Visualization techniques in CH - Multimodal interaction in CH Prof. Dr. Liliana Ardissono Dr. George E. Raptis Dr. Noemi Mauro Guest Editors Keywords Creativity, Collaboration, Semantic knowledge representation and reasoning, Museum guides, 3D and Virtual Reality, Gestural Interfaces, Information exploration, Interactive User Interfaces, Personalization, Recommender systems, Natural Language Processing, Context-awareness, IoT, Living lab, Robots, Augmented Reality, Personality, InfoViz, Multimodal interaction Manuscript Submission Information Please visit the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions> page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form <https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=applsci>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021) Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online June 21-25, 2021 https://www.um.org/umap2021/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1). Workshop Format 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 Instructions for Proposers Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows: • Workshop title and acronym • Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events • Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest • Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time • Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions • Intended audience and expected number of participants • List of (potential) members of the program committee • Requested duration (half day or full day) • Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual) • When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics Submission and Review Process Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> 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. Schedule • Proposal submission: January 15, 2021 • Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021 • Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021 • (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021 • (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021 • (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021 • (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021 • Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1). Tutorial Topics 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, human-robot interaction 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 Instructions for Proposers 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. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: • Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum) • Tutorial description: • learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021 • targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills • a brief outline of the tutorial structure • Information about potential practical sessions • Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours) • Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions • Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual) • Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience Submission and Review Process Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are: • ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research • clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description • organization, as appearing from the outline • background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics Timeline • Proposals due: January 15, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021 • Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021 • Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration. Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria dietmar.jannach(a)aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>

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CfP Posters and Demos Track at ECSCW’21 (June 7-11, 2021) in Zurich, Switzerland

by Anton Fedosov

Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to the following event that will happen in Zurich next summer. There are still opportunities to contribute by submitting a demo or a poster. The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is an international venue on practice-centred computing and the design of cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe that was established in 1989. The 19th edition of ECSCW will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 7th to 11th June 2021. The presentation of posters and demos is a key element of the ECSCW conference. For presenters as well as recipients, the poster & demo session provides a lively environment for getting in touch with late-breaking research, preliminary results, innovative ideas, and early-stage research and design explorations. At a special session during the conference, authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as to involve them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress relating to CSCW. Posters provide a great opportunity to present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger ECSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies. Demos may be submitted in various forms. These may be interactive research prototypes or products, but also low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will provide space for exhibiting innovative materials that have been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centered) research methods – for example, innovations in storyboards, personas, and other materials that foster creativity in the design process. How to apply? Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (2000 words maximum excl. references, figures, and a 150-word max. abstract) in the PDF format through the EasyChair platform<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecscw2021#>. More details about the submission process (incl. templates) can be found at our website https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/posters-demos/ Key dates Submission deadline: January, 22 2021, 23:59 AoE Notifications: March 31, 2021 Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 Attendance As of now, the conference is planned in Zurich, Switzerland from 7th until 11th of June 2021. If you have questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact the Posters and Demo co-chairs: demoposters2021(a)ecscw.eusset.eu<mailto:demoposters2021@ecscw.eusset.eu> Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg, Austria) Anton Fedosov (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Best regards, 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

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2nd CFP: IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)

by Axel Soto

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates: Submission deadline: December 23, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/). The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second call-for-papers

by Oana Inel

--- Apologies for cross-posting --- ============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research" Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online June 21-25th (tentative), 2021 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ ============================ Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper due: January 24, 2021 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ 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 ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions. Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Personalized Recommender Systems • Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto • Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web • Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen • Intelligent User Interfaces • Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Denis Parra • Personalized Social Web • Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang • Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning • Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis • Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy • Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand • Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. * Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper: January 24, 2021 Notification: March 8, 2021 Camera-ready: April 11, 2021 Video submission: May 5th, 2021 Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative) Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Program chairs Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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[CFP] Special issue on ''Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction Development" (31 Dec 2020)

by Catia Prandi

Apologize for unintended cross-mailing. ************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************** ''Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction Development" Special issue of MPDI Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability>, Open Access Journal Link to the CFP: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Human_Computer_I… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Human_Computer_I…> This Special Issue will contribute to an integrated understanding of the relevance of HCI methodologies and practices in the design and development of sustainable infrastructures and tools, engaging communities and stakeholders, in critical initiatives to foster sustainable development. Contributors from different fields are invited to submit their articles on this topic, presenting how HCI researchers and practitioners can contribute to the broader research on developing sustainability. Guest editors: Catia Prandi, University of Bologna Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna ************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************** - Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2020 Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Please, feel free to contact: catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it <mailto:catia.prandi2@unibo.it> in case of interest. ****************************************************************************** _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Assistant professor (RTD A), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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INTERACT 2021 -18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

by Paolo Buono

------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Poster - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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Last CFP: Special issue on "Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * 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=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 21*, 2020 • Notification to the authors: January 20, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *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. *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 *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • 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 =========================================== /*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: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <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: Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart 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: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun with a focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics" Guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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[CHItaly2021] - Call for Papers

by chitaly2021

[Sorry for multiple postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2021- Frontiers of HCI The Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 27 June - 29 June 2021 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI and SIGCHI Italy ================================================ [ Long and Short Specifications ] ================================================ Long papers should present original, substantially new research for CHItaly. They should place the work within the field of HCI and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for CHItaly and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and provocative research or novel applications, relevant for CHItaly. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. All submissions must be in English. Both types of papers are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee. Submissions must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera-ready version of the accepted papers. Inclusion in the main proceedings is conditional upon registration of the presenter within the recommended deadline. ================================================ [ Review Process ] ================================================ All long and short paper submissions will be reviewed by at least two PC members in a double-blind process. Reviewers will have three weeks to return their reviews. In case revisions are requested, acceptance is conditional to successful revision. Revised articles will be reviewed by the program and general chairs. Authors are allotted 10 days to submit their revisions. ================================================ [ Important Dates ] ================================================ February 22, 2021: Submission deadline April 9, 2021: Notification to authors May 3, 2021 : Camera ready version (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ [ Submission: how to ] ================================================ Submissions, in PDF format, must be submitted via Easy Chair (to open). ================================================ [ Long Paper Chairs ] ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it) ================================================ [ Short Paper Chairs ] ================================================ Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it) Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it) ================================================ We hope to meet you in presence at CHItaly 2021. Stay safe and healthy! Federica Caruso, Publicity Co-Chair CHItaly 2021

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[CFP] Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

by Luca Turchet

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society CALL for PAPERS Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds http://cimil.disi.unitn.it/JAES_SI_Internet_of_Sounds.pdf *** Apologies for cross-postings *** We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (http://www.aes.org/journal/) on the subject of Internet of Sounds. Acknowledging the ever-rising importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) in our environment, we believe that the time has come to bring together researchers who are considering the use of IoT components to pursue research in Sound and Music computing. The Internet of Sounds (IoS) is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the IoT, Sound and Music Computing and Semantic Audio domains. IoS can also be seen as the union of two paradigms, the Internet of Musical Things and the Internet of Audio Things, which respectively address musical and non-musical domains in networked contexts. This Special Issue aims to present high-quality original research reporting the current state of the art of IoS systems as well as their interactions with end-users. We are interested in submissions covering different aspects related to the use of sound and music processing in relation to local or remote networks, including technological, perceptual, and artistic perspectives. *Topics* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: • Wireless acoustic sensor networks • Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks • Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks • Ecoacoustics • Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks • Networked music performances • Smart Musical Instruments • Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things • Participatory live music performances • Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things • Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts • Ubiquitous music • Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds • Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds • Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications • Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds • Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds • Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining • Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases • Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases • Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications *Important dates* • Manuscript submission due: March 1st, 2021 • First round decision made: May 15th, 2021 • Revised manuscript due: June 15th, 2021 • Final paper due: July 15th, 2021 • Publication: October 2021 *Guest Editors* • Luca Turchet (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento) • George Fazekas (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London) • Cristina Rottondi (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polytechnic University of Turin) • Carlo Fischione (Department of Network and Systems Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) *Author guidelines* Please submit complete 6 to 8-page papers by March 1, 2021. All submissions will be peer-reviewed according to standard JAES review procedures. We welcome original research including revised and expanded versions of “IWIS 2020” or AES conference papers addressing the theme of this special issue. Please follow the Author Guidelines found at: http://www.aes.org/journal/authors/guidelines/. Papers should be submitted online at: http://www.aes.org/journal/submit/. When submitting a paper, please choose the category “Special Issue (Internet of Sounds)” rather than Research Paper or Engineering Report. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory 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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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Cristina Gena

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, hosted online held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster 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. The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * 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; Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: Full papers (6 pages excluding references) and Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned; and Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes. Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> ************Important Dates************** Submission date: Dec 23, 2020 Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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Call for Participation HCSE 2020 Nov 30 - Dec 02 - ONLINE ONLY!

by Stefan Sauer

In the course of the latest developments of the COVID pandemic, the organizers of *HCSE 2020* have decided to hold the conference *completely virtual*. Full program available at http://www.hcse-conference.org. Participation is free of charge. Registration will be open soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HCSE 2020* Call for Participation 8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering November 30th – December 2nd, 2020 (ONLINE ONLY!) http://www.hcse-conference.org HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/> in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-5/>. We aim at bringing together researchers and practitionersinterested 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. In order to allow for participation from anywhere in the world, HCSE 2020 sessions will run from *13:00 h to 17:00 h CET (UTC+1*) only. HCSE 2020 will be held ONLINE as a *ZOOM meeting*. Access information will be provided to registered participants. HCSE 2020 presents *3 technical full papers and late breaking results sessions* and a *demonstrations and posters session*. Each session has a duration of 90 minutes. Technical sessions are dedicated to the following themes: * *User-Centred Design Approaches* * **Model-Based and Model-Driven Approaches** * ***Software Development Strategies*** All sessions will contain significant time for discussions and be chaired by a a session moderator. Please see the conference program <https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/hcse2020/program.html> for full details. The technical program will be accompanied by a *virtual social program* to meet and further discuss with the community. The selected papers have been peer-reviewed and will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCSseries. Participation in HCSE 2020 will be *free of charge*. However, *registration *is mandatory to participate and obtain the access information. Registration will be open soon. We hope to meet you online for HCSE 2020. Stay safe and healthy! Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany General Conference Chairs

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Call for Participation - The Academic Fringe Festival

by Sihang Qiu - EWI

The Academic Fringe Festival (TAFF) First edition on *Crowd Computing & Human-Centered AI* --- Apologies for cross-posting — Website: https://www.academicfringe.org/ * The Academic Fringe Festival is free of cost and open to everyone who is interested to participate. Let there be light! * ABOUT TAFF: ============================ The Academic Fringe Festival is an exciting concoction of invited talks and panel discussions around important themes of research and innovation in Computer Science. The series features prominent researchers and practitioners, whose work has made fundamental contributions in these fields. Calling this collection of academic events "The Academic Fringe Festival" is an ode to the story of the eight theatre companies which turned up uninvited at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 and performed on the fringe of the event. Over the years, such acts gained popularity and gradually snowballed into what is now the world's largest arts festival, the "Edinburgh Fringe Festival". Our aim is not to create the world's largest academic festival, but to create a forum for open, accessible, and inspiring dissemination of knowledge from renowned scientists across the globe. This first edition is on "Crowd Computing and Human-Centered AI". The unprecedented rise in the adoption of artificial intelligence techniques in many contexts is concomitant with shortcomings of such technology with respect to robustness, interpretability, usability, and trustworthiness. Crowd computing offers a viable means to engage a large number of human participants in data-related tasks and in user studies. In the context of overcoming the computational and interactional challenges facing the current generation of AI systems, recent work has shown how crowd computing can be leveraged to either debug noisy training data in machine learning systems, understand which machine learning models are more congruent to human understanding in particular tasks, or to advance our understanding of how AI systems can influence human behavior. INVITED SPEAKERS: ============================ - Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin / Amazon, 23 Nov 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland, 30 Nov 2020, 09:00 (CET) - Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Microsoft, 7 Dec 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Shamsi Iqbal, Microsoft, 14 Dec 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Edith Law, University of Waterloo, 22 Feb 2021, 16:00 (CET) - More speakers coming soon... REGISTRATION: ============================ Online registration is available now! There will be NO registration fees. Please use the following link to register: https://www.academicfringe.org/registration. ORGANIZERS: ============================ – Ujwal Gadiraju, General Chair – Jie Yang, General Chair – Oana Inel, Local Chair – Sihang Qiu, Local Chair

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Fwd: Questionario su "tecnologie didattiche" e "modelli didattici" innovativi

by Maria De Marsico

Carissimi, può essere interessante riempire questo questionario ;-) Marilena ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Marco Porta <marco.porta(a)unipv.it> Date: gio 5 nov 2020 alle ore 18:37 Subject: Questionario su "tecnologie didattiche" e "modelli didattici" innovativi To: Maria De Marsico <demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it> Cc: Virginio Cantoni <virginio.cantoni(a)unipv.it> Cara Marilena, nell'ambito del progetto Erasmus+ *HiEdTec* (Modernization of *Hi*gher *Ed*ucation in Central Asia through new *Tec*hnologies, https://hiedtec.ecs.uni-ruse.bg/ ), a cui partecipiamo per l'Università di Pavia, si stanno raccogliendo informazioni su "tecnologie didattiche" e "modelli didattici" innovativi utilizzati nelle università europee (in generale, anche prima della pandemia). Ti saremmo davvero molto grati se potessi rispondere al questionario https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZWLwMumvoudoQ5s0S0tq6N3-IvTSXzfZ… entro il 13 novembre (richiede una decina di minuti), e ancor di più se potessi diffonderlo tra i tuoi contatti italiani. Grazie! Marco e Virginio -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Associate Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312 <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Mail priva di virus. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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CFP: IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)

by Axel Soto

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates: Submission deadline: December 23, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/). The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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ACM UMAP 2021

by Oana Inel

--- Apologies for cross-posting — ============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research" Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online June 21-25th (tentative), 2021 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ ============================ Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper due: January 24, 2021 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ 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 ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions. Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Personalized Recommender Systems • Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto • Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web • Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen • Intelligent User Interfaces • Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Dennis Parra • Personalized Social Web • Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang • Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning • Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis • Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy • Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand • Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. * Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper: January 24, 2021 Notification: March 8, 2021 Camera-ready: April 11, 2021 Video submission: May 5th, 2021 Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative) Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Program chairs Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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[CHItaly2021] - Call for Workshop Proposals

by Federica Caruso

[Sorry for multiple postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2021- Frontiers of HCI The Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 27 June - 29 June 2021 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI and SIGCHI Italy ================================================ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ================================================ [ Specifications] ================================================ Workshops in CHItaly are co-located events which are held the day before the main conference starts. They represent forums where specific topics, relevant for CHItaly, get discussed. All workshops will be half-day. A paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later). ================================================ [ Structure of the proposals ] ================================================ - Workshop title - Workshop acronym (if any) - Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees and links to the websites - List of organizers (with short bio) and main contact person - Motivation and objectives - List of topics - Target audience and expected number of attendees - Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …) - Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of paper, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …) - PC tentative list ================================================ [ Important Dates for workshop proposal] ================================================ Submission deadline: February 1, 2021 Review notification: February 15, 2021 (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ [ Important Dates for workshop papers] ================================================ Submission deadline: April 16th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ [ Submission: how to ] ================================================ Proposals should be submitted in PDF form (no specific template is required) at this address: workshops.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it ================================================ [ Workshop Chairs ] ================================================ Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (barbara.barricelli(a)unibs.it) Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it) ================================================ We hope to meet you in presence at CHITALY 2021. Stay safe and healthy!

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IxD&A Journal N. 45 is 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. 45 *on:* Designing for ownership in technology-enhanced learning (TEL): a core element for learners’ SRL and agency */guest editors: Ilona Buchem, Gemma Tur, Jesus Salinas/* *with a focus section on* End-user development challenges for creative computing */guest editors: Juan Manuel Dodero, Hongji Yang, Antonio Balderas /* *+* Regular papers* is now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 45 - ToC* /** Preface **to the special issue on/ /*Designing for ownership in technology-enhanced learning (TEL): a core element for learners’ SRL and agency* by Ilona Buchem, Gemma Tur, Jesus Salinas pp. 5 - 14** **Victoria I. Marín, Bárbara de Benito, Antònia Darder** Technology-Enhanced Learning for Student Agency in Higher Education: a Systematic Literature Review, **pp. 15 - 49** **Linda Castañeda, Gemma Tur** Resources and Opportunities for Agency in PLE-Related Pedagogical Designs, **pp. 50 - 68** **Virginia Rodés-Paragarino, Adriana Gewerc-Barujel** Ownership and Agency in the adoption of Open Educational Resources, **pp. 69 - 86** **Elena Barberà, Iolanda Garcia, Marcelo Fabián Maina** Fostering psychological ownership in MOOC through a self-regulation design layer, **pp. 87 - 111 ** **Ilona Buchem, Gemma Tur, Tobias Hoelterhof** The role of learner control and psychological ownership for self-regulated learning in technology-enhanced learning designs, **pp. 112 - 132** **Eva Durall, Marjo Virnes, Teemu Leinonen, Begoña Gros** Ownership of learning in monitoring technology, **pp. 133 - 154** **Kamakshi Rajagopal, Rani Van Schoors, Stefanie Vanbecelaere, Lien de Bie, Fien Depaepe** Designing personalised learning support for K12 education, **pp. 155 - 176** Preface **to the focus section on** End-user development challenges for creative computing **by Juan Manuel Dodero, Hongji Yang, Antonio Balderas pp. 177 - 179** **Peter Kun, Ingrid Mulder, Gerd Kortuem** Developing a Design Inquiry Method for Data Exploration, **pp. 180 - 206** **Nurfarahani Norman Anuar, Mohd Kamal Othman** Integrating User-Centered Design with the Agile Software Development Methodology for a Cultural Heritage Information System, **pp. 207 - 225** **Michaela R. Reisinger, Johann Schrammel, Stefan Suette, Peter Fröhlich** Home Smart Home: Approachable Interfaces for Intelligibility, Modification, and End-User Programming, **pp. 226 - 245** **Iván Ruiz-Rube, Rubén Baena-Pérez, José Miguel Mota, Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez** Model-driven development of augmented reality-based editors for domain specific languages, **pp. 246 - 263** Regular papers **Carlo Giovannella, Marcello Passarelli, Donatella Persico** The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Italian Learning Ecosystems: the School Teachers’ Perspective at the steady state, **pp. 264 - 286** **Sara Eloy, Flávio Serpa** How non-designers understand the architecture design project: a comparative study using immersive virtual reality, **pp. 287 - 301** ** Alice Barana, Marina Marchisio** An interactive learning environment to empower engagement in Mathematics, **pp. 302 - 321//** **/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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WUD-SIGCHItaly 2020: sono aperte le registrazioni

by Cristina Gena

Carissim* come già anticipato qualche giorno fa, il 12 novembre dalle ore 9,30 alle 13 ci sarà il online il primo WUD del SIGHitaly. L’evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare sul sito: http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>. Il WUD (World Usability Day), la giornata mondiale sull’usabilità promossa su scala globale dalla User Experience Professional Association (UXPA), 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 Human-Centered AI (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>). La giornata si aprirà con un intervento dell’assessore torinese all'innovazione Marco Pironti, a cui seguirà l’invited talk di apertura di Olivero Stock di FBK. Chiuderà la giornata l’intervento di Francesca Costabile su Teaching HCI for AI, e la mattinata è ricca di brevi, ma interessanti interventi sul tema della Human-Centered AI,di cui trovate il dettaglio sul sito. Ci fa ovviamente piacere la vostra partecipazione e potete anche diffondere l’invito ai vostri studenti interessati. Segnaliamo infine che nel pomeriggio del 12 novembre e anche nelle giornate del 10, 11 e 13 novembre potete seguire online i WUD days organizzati dalla Società Italiana di Ergonomia, trovate maggiori informazioni sul sito: http://www.wudtorino.org/ <http://www.wudtorino.org/> Buona giornata Cristina, con Maristella e Massimo ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena <https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena> Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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rinnovo chair SIG CHI Italy

by Massimo Zancanaro

Care tutte e cari tutti, Tra poche settimane, scade il mandato della nostra attuale chair Maristella Matera. Come sapete, è tradizione del nostro chapter incoraggiare che la posizione di chair venga riproposta per un secondo mandato e quindi, in qualità di vice-chair vorrei incoraggiare Maristella a candidarsi per un secondo mandato. In ogni caso, la candidatura è aperta a tutti i soci e le socie iscritti ad ACM e al SIG CHI Chapter (oltre ovviamente alla nostra associazione). Vi chiederei quindi di mandare a me (facendo reply a questa email) le eventuali candidature con un breve profilo e motivazione. La raccolta delle candidature si chiuderà Mercoledì 21 Ottobre e contestualmente verranno aperte le votazioni fino a Venerdì 30 Ottobre. La procedura di spoglio verrà fatta dal me e dalla secretary/treasurer Franca Garzotto. Vi ricordo che per regolamento, per votare è necessario essere membri ACM oppure SIG CHI e registrati al sito web http://sigchitaly.eu/en/members/ come Voting Members (nel caso scrivete a me per aggiornare la lista). Saluti, -M. -- Massimo Zancanaro Professor of Computer Science/Human-Computer Interaction - Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science - University of Trento Head of Intelligent Interfaces and Interaction (i3) research unit - Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) -- -- 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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INVITO convegno 25° KM TRACKS (23 novembre 2020, dalle ore 9.00 in live web) - hcitaly

by JEKPOT - Customer Office

Gent.ma Maristella, nel congratularmi per il rinnovo del mandato come chair del SIGCHI Italy, in occasione del 20° anniversario di JEKPOT, è con grande orgoglio e piacere che la invito al 25° KM TRACKS (23/11/2020, dalle ore 9.00 in live web), edizione speciale del convegno su knowledge management e tecnologie per gestire, comunicare, proteggere la conoscenza organizzativa di cui unisco più sotto il programma. Linvito è naturalmente rivolto a tutti i colleghi del SIGCHI (una cosa buona del live web è che non abbiamo problemi di posti!). A disposizione per qualsiasi chiarimento. Cordiali saluti / Best regards Dr. Carlo Sorge General manager, <http://www.jekpot.com/> JEKPOT SRL, T. 0382 572287, Via Ardengo Folperti 44/d, 27100 Pavia PV, Italy Editor in chief, <http://www.jekpot.com/kappaemme> KappaeMme Journalist, OdG Lombardia - Per sapere chi siamo e che cosa facciamo: leggi la <http://www.jekpot.com/testi/000JEKPOT2019.pdf> Brochure o visita il <http://www.jekpot.com/> Sito web - Per gestire il trattamento dei propri dati personali: vai sul sito <http://www.jekpot.com/pagine/privacy.htm> Privacy Se non visualizzi correttamente il messaggio vai al web dell'evento <http://www.jekpot.com/pagine/km25-kmt.htm> I N V I T O 25° KM TRACKS Lunedì 23 Novembre 2020 dalle ore 9.00 in live web 25° KM TRACKS Knowledge management e tecnologie per gestire, comunicare e proteggere la conoscenza organizzativa chaired by Carlo Sorge direttore responsabile KappaeMme Platinum Sponsor Consoft Informatica Technical partner GoToWebinar by LogMeIn Media partner KappaeMme by JEKPOT INGRESSO GRATUITO PREVIA REGISTRAZIONE WEB ENTRO IL 19 NOVEMBRE <http://www.jekpot.com/pagine/km25-kmt-04.htm> LEGGI IL PROGRAMMA E ISCRIVITI EVENTO Km Tracks nasce nel 2000 come convegno sul knowledge management (KM), fondativo di JEKPOT. Il KM è una teoria manageriale per l'incremento della competitività delle organizzazioni e la professionalità dei suoi collaboratori, declinata su un approccio di innovazione culturale, organizzativa, tecnologica e sull'ottimizzazione dei processi connessi con la gestione, la comunicazione e la protezione della conoscenza organizzativa, cioè dati, informazioni, documenti, beni digitali e intangibili come competenze, emozioni, relazioni, valori delle persone. Una teoria che JEKPOT ha fatto propria sviluppando una metodologia di rappresentazione della conoscenza organizzativa per segmenti (km tracks: esplicito, tacito, creabile, cross) abilitata dalla tecnologia. Il convegno prospetta contenuti di natura scientifica (rivenienti da call for papers), operativi (progetti basati su soluzioni) e culturale rappresentati per tipologia (management track, communication track, protection & cross track). DESTINATARI Chief Information Officer e IT manager, EDU, HR, KM, MARCOM, R&D manager direttori e responsabili di grandi organizzazioni private/pubbliche e PMI Ricercatori di organizzazioni e istituzioni Giornalisti (evento accreditato CNOG: 3 CF al mattino + 3 CF al pomeriggio) AGENDA 9.00 - 9.30 Registrazioni e accesso al convegno 9.30 - 9.45 Welcome da Pavia (videoconferenza) Marco Ferretti professor UNIVERSITA' DI PAVIA 9.45 - 10.00 Vision KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ALLO STATO DELL'ARTE Carlo Sorge general manager JEKPOT, giornalista, direttore responsabile KappaeMme 10.00 - 10.15 Scenario KM glory - Interview: LA GESTIONE DELLA CONOSCENZA SUL WEB Oreste Signore past office manager W3C ITALY, expert in (semantic) web technologies MANAGEMENT TRACK 10.15 - 10.30 GESTIONE DELLA CONOSCENZA E QUALITA' DEI DATI Domenico Natale President Commission UNI/CT504 Ingegneria del software UNINFO 10.30 - 10.45 KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND SOCIAL LEARNING IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY IN CROWDSOURCING Adriano Solidoro researcher UNIVERSITA' DI MILANO BICOCCA 10.45 - 11.00 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT Massimo Cimbali project manager JEKPOT 11.00 - 11.30 Break COMMUNICATION TRACK 11.30 - 11.45 RIPENSARE LA DISTANZA: MODELLI, CONOSCENZA E PERSONE Stefania Bandini professor UNIVERSITA' DI MILANO BICOCCA 11.45 - 12.00 COMUNICARE IN LIVE WEB NELLE EMERGENZE E NEL DAY BAY DAY - La soluzione Armando D'Angelo digital transformation manager CONSOFT INFORMATICA 12.00 - 12.15 COMUNICARE IN LIVE WEB NELLE EMERGENZE E NEL DAY BAY DAY - L'esperienza Enrico Parisini chief information officer CONSERVE ITALIA, president ASSI 12.15 - 12.30 DALLE SOCIAL NETWORK AGLI SCENARI DI MULTI-SOCIAL NETWORK: OPPORTUNITA' E PROBLEMATICHE Antonino Nocera professor UNIVERSITA' DI PAVIA 12.30 - 13.00 Panel e Test di apprendimento 13.00 - 14.00 Break 14.00 - 14.30 Registrazioni sessione pomeridiana 14.30 - 14.45 KM glory - Interview: LE FOTOGRAFIE COME VETTORE PER TRASMETTERE CONOSCENZE Roberto Polillo photographer 14.45 - 15.00 COLLABORARE CON L'INTERAZIONE MEDIATA DA ARTEFATTI: CHE COSA, PERCHE' E COME Marco Bettoni km consultant KM COMMUNITY PROTECTION & CROSS TRACK 15.00 - 15.15 LA SITUAZIONE DEGLI ATTACCHI DIGITALI INTENZIONALI IN ITALIA: I DATI 2020 DELL'OSSERVATORIO ATTACCHI DIGITALI (OAD) IN ANTEPRIMA Marco Bozzetti president AIPSI 15.15 - 15.30 INDAGINI A TUTELA DEL PATRIMONIO AZIENDALE: LA GESTIONE DELLA CONOSCENZA A FINI INVESTIGATIVI Nicola Borzi giornalista investigativo freelance 15.30 - 15.45 STRATEGIE DI COINVOLGIMENTO DEI COLLABORATORI NEI PROCESSI DI INNOVAZIONE Marco Pedroni professor UNIVERSITA' DI FERRARA 15.45 - 16.30 KM AWARD 2020 & CONCLUSIONI Marco Ferretti professor UNIVERSITA' DI PAVIA Carlo Sorge general manager JEKPOT, giornalista, direttore responsabile KappaeMme Armando D'Angelo digital transformation manager CONSOFT INFORMATICA 16.30 - 17.00 Test di apprendimento & Closing RELATORI Carlo%20Sorge Stefania%20Bandini Marco%20Bettoni Marco%20Bozzetti Nicola%20Borzi Carlo Sorge Stefania Bandini Marco Bettoni Marco Bozzetti Nicola Borzi Massimo%20Cimbali Armando%20D'Angelo Marco%20Ferretti Domenico%20Natale Antonino%20Nocera Massimo Cimbali Armando D'Angelo Marco Ferretti Domenico Natale Antonino Nocera Marco%20Pedroni Enrico%20Parisini Roberto%20Polillo Oreste%20Signore Adriano%20Solidoro Marco Pedroni Enrico Parisini Roberto Polillo Oreste Signore Adriano Solidoro IN COLLABORAZIONE CON AIPSI, ANIPA, ASSI, ASSINTEL, BUSINESS COMMUNITY, CLUBTI, CONSERVE ITALIA, CONSOFT INFORMATICA, ITALIANOTIZIE24, KM COMMUNITY, UNINFO, UNIVERSITA' DI FERRARA, UNIVERSITA' DI MILANO BICOCCA, DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA INDUSTRIALE E DELL'INFORMAZIONE - UNIVERSITA' DI PAVIA, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO TI ASPETTIAMO ! 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ACM IUI 2021: Call for tutorials - Deadline extended

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, Texas April 13-17, 2021 https://iui.acm.org/2021/ Tutorial CO-CHAIRS Osnat Mokryn, University of Haifa Vijay Rajanna, Sensel Emails: ossimo(a)gmail.com vijay.drajanna(a)gmail.com CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (emails above), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of tutorials, including but not limited to: - "Hands-on" or "project-centric" tutorials around a specific problem or topic. - Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc. Tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the tutorial chairs. We encourage you to consider virtual and semi-virtual options for the tutorial in the submission. The organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Tutorial organizers are also required to set up their own website with information about the tutorial and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to this website. PROPOSAL FORMAT Tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the LaTex sigconf template. The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. - Description of tutorial topic: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the tutorial is of particular interest. - Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Also please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the tutorial. -Tutorial format: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc. - Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial. - Length: Half-day or Full-day. Please submit your proposal via https://new.precisionconference.com/ selecting the IUI 2021 Tutorials track. IMPORTANT DATES Discuss your topic with the workshop and tutorials chairs: ASAP (tutorials2021(a)iui.acm.org) Proposals due: Wednesday, 25 November 2020 Reviews Sent: Monday, 15 December 2020 Revised Proposal Submissions: Wednesday, 30 December 2020 Notifications to authors: Tuesday, 14 January 2021 Camera-ready for Tutorial summary: Wednesday, 10 February 2021 Tutorials held: Tuesday, 13 April 2021

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SAVE THE DATE: 12 novembre ore 9,30 - WUD-SIGCHItaly 2020

by Cristina Gena

Carissim* Il World Usability Day 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 Human-Centered AI (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>). Visto il forte interessamento del SIGCHItaly per questo tema, testimoniato dal recente workshop HCI4AI (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/participating/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/participating/>), abbiamo pensato di organizzare l’evento del WUD non legato alle singole città, ma a respiro nazionale e sotto il cappello della nostra organizzazione. Il 12 novembre dalle ore 9,30 alle 12,30 si terrà online il primo WUD-SIGCHItaly, seguiranno ulteriori email per dettagli e aggiornamenti sul nostro sito (http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>). Il programma, in fase di definizione, vede la giornata aprirsi con un intervento dell’assessore torinese Marco Pironti, uno dei promotori della recente nascita dell’Istituto Italiano di Intelligenza Artificiale. Seguirà l’invited talk di apertura di Olivero Stock di FBK. Chiuderà la giornata l’intervento di Francesca Costabile su Teaching HCI for AI. Segnate la data per ora, a breve pubblicheremo il programma completo! Cristina Gena, Maristella Matera, Massimo Zancanaro, per il team HCI4AI ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena <https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena> Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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Info su insegnamenti di HCI per AI

by Maria Francesca Costabile

Cari Tutti, lo scorso 7 luglio si e' svolto il workshop Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus, che era stato pubblicizzato anche su questa mailing list. Coi Chair e Vice-Chair di SIGCHI Italy abbiamo pensato di raccogliere informazioni sugli insegnamenti che trattano di HCI per AI svolti lo scorso anno accademico 2019-2020 e e su quelli che si svolgeranno nel corrente 2020-2021 nei corsi di laurea triennali, magistrali e di dottorato. Finora noi abbiamo le seguenti informazioni: A:A: 2019-2020: Docente: Luigi De Russis (Politecnico di Torino) Titolo insegnamento: Human-AI Interaction Corso di studio: Dottorato di ricerca nell'area Informatica del Politecnico di Torino. A. A: 2020-2021: Docenti: Rosa Lanzilotti, Giuseppe Desolda, Nadja De Carolis (Università di Bari Aldo Moro) Titolo Insegnamento: Human-Computer Interaction for AI Corso di studio: Dottorato di ricerca in Informatica e Matematica dell'Università di Bari Aldo Moro. Docenti: Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Torino), Luigi De Russis (Politecnico di Torino), Massimo Zancanaro (University of Trento and FBK) Titolo Insegnamento: Human-Computer Interaction for AI Corso di studio: Dttorato di ricerca nell'area Informatica del Politecnico di Milano. ------------- Vi chiediamo cortesemente di segnalarci altre iniziative simili, non solo di insegnamenti per corsi di dottorato ma anche di insegnamenti a triennali, magistrali, master erogati nelle università italiane. Vi chiediamo di farlo inviando una email a me, Maristella e Massimo con Oggetto: Insegnamento di HCI per AI riportando nel testo della email Docente(i) Titolo insegnamento Corso di studio e possibilmente anche il link ad una pagina web dove si possono avere ulteriori informazioni. La lista degli insegnamenti erogati sarà pubblicata sul sito di SIGCHI Italy. Ringraziandovi in anticipo per la collaborazione, salutiamo cordialmente, M.F. Costabile, M. Matera e M. Zancanaro -- ------------------------------------------------ Prof. Maria Francesca Costabile Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Via Orabona 4 70125 Bari - Italy tel +39-080-5443300 fax +39-080-5443300 email maria.costabile(a)uniba.it www http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/costabile.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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HWID'21: AI and Designing for Positive Work Experiences in Low Desire Society

by Barbara Rita Barricelli

Human Work Interaction Design 2021 (HWID'21) Artificial Intelligence and Designing for Positive Work Experiences in Low Desire Society Working Conference of the IFIP WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design Beijing, China - May 15-16, 2021 http://www.hwid2021.com/ Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers are considering to enable a remote partecipation modality. Rates and instructions will be published later this year on the website. -------------------------------------------------------------- In continuation with the series of the Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) working conferences, this sixth edition's theme is Artificial Intelligence and Designing for Positive Work Experiences in the ‘Low Desire’ Society. --- THEME, SCOPE, AND FOCUS HWID has been endeavouring to enhance the positive work experiences at workplaces by providing employees pleasurable and meaningful user experiences via the tools used at work. HWID'21 directs attention to the ‘low desire’ phenomenon, which is that people have lower desire for success, no ambitions, needs, or expectations, they push back against working around the clock, avoid conflicts, yearn to be free of strong feelings, and do not to take anyone or anything too seriously. HWID'21 attempts to look into the relationship between happiness and IT-enabled overworking, the resulting work experiences, and how to provide solutions from the perspective of Human Work Interaction Design. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a difference to the workplace and complicating the situation further. On one hand, AI replace human workers by working faster with fewer errors than humans, which enable AI to do many of the boring and redundant jobs. On the other hand, many organisations are already beginning to use the AI as a design element to enhance human intelligence, and design positive experiences in the workplace. As a result, there are growing concerns that AI will take away jobs from humans. The theme of HWID'21 emphasizes the insights into the relationship between low desire and work experience, and how AI will moderate their relationship because parts of the work might be taken away by AI. Examples of relevant questions include: - Is the ‘low desire’ phenomenon making work less interesting? - How to improve work experience supported by AI? - How to support the symbiosis of human and AI in workplace through HWID? - How to maintain work motivation? - How to evaluate the impact of AI on work experience? - How to address ethical factors (e.g. privacy, safety and equity) of using AI in the workplace? This working conference aims to answer these and more questions by involving professionals working in academia, national labs, and industry who are engaged in human work analysis and interaction design for the workplace. We will discuss tools, procedures, and professional competences needed to face issues and opportunities provided by AI in a Low Desire Society. --- SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of submissions: Full papers (max 15 pages, excluding references) and Poster submissions (max 4 pages, excluding references). For both types of submissions, the authors must use the LNCS templates available on Springer website(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-procee…. Please submit your anonymized paper in PDF format on OCS: https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/HWID2021 Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. The collection of all accepted papers will be distributed to the participants as digital proceedings. During the review process, the reviewers will be asked to evaluate whether an extended version of the paper is suitable for an IFIP Springer book (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) that will be edited and published after the conference. We aim at including most of the accepted papers. --- IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission deadline: February 14th, 2021 Poster submission deadline: February 21st, 2021 Acceptance notifications: March 14th, 2021 Early bird registration deadline: March 21st, 2021 Final versions of papers and posters: April 4th, 2021 --- ORGANIZERS General Chairs - Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy - Xiangang Qin, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China Program Chairs - Ganesh Bhutkar, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India - Arminda Guerra Lopes, ITI/LARSyS/Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Funchal, Portugal - Fei Lyu, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China - Frederica Gonçalves, ITI/LARSyS, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal - Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London, London, United Kingdom - Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Poster Chairs - Shrikant Salve, MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune, India - Stefano Valtolina, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy HWID Legacy chairs - Philippe Palanque,ICS-IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France - Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark HWID membership chair - Judith Molka-Danielsen, Molde University College, Norway - Pedro Campos, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal Local Organizing Chairs - Ronggang Zhou, Beihang University, Beijing, China - Wenjun Hou, Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, Beijing, China --- CONTACT Ganesh Bhutkar: ganesh.bhutkar(a)vit.edu -- *Barbara Rita Barricelli* Assistant Professor Department of Information Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia http://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155 <http://www.unibs.it/node/8155>

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INTERACT 2021 -18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Preliminary Call for Papers

by Carmelo Ardito

INTERACT 2021 -18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy www.interact2021.org Preliminary Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------- INTERACT is the International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 “Sense, Feel, Design” highlights the new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 represents the right venue to debate such new challenges. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series, available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline January 27th, 2021 - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshop proposals Tracks with submission deadline April 16th, 2021 - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Industry Case Studies - Courses - Panels - Doctoral Consortium All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. Papers accepted in all the tracks will be published in the proceedings edited by Springer in the LNCS series. A selection of papers accepted and presented in workshops organized by the IFIP TC-13 Working Groups will be published as post proceedings in a Springer LNCS volume. Submission Information will be available at the Conference Website. Carmelo Ardito (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information please visit the web site: http://interact2021.org/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it Personal Home Page: http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/ardito.htm Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La preghiamo di eliminarlo senza copiarlo e di non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Grazie. Privacy Information - This message, for the Regulation (UE) 2016/679, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation.

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ACM CSCW 2021 Call for Papers

by Ciolfi, Luigina

Cari Colleghi, Sperando di fare cosa gradita, inoltro la Call for Papers per ACM CSCW 2021. La conferenza si terrà molto probabilmente online o in formato ibrido. Saluti, Luigina Ciolfi CSCW 2021 General Co-Chair CSCW is the premier international venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. We invite authors to submit their best research on all topics relevant to collaborative and social computing. Accepted papers are published in two annual CSCW issues of the Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI). Submissions are accepted at four deadlines per year. The upcoming deadline is October 15, 2020, which will be followed by January 15, April 15, and Jul 15, 2021. Submissions accepted for publication in the October 2020, January 2021 and April 2021 cycles will be invited to present at CSCW 2021. Papers accepted from July 2021 onwards will be invited to present at CSCW 2022. *Please consult the CSCW website for comprehensive details.* <https://cscw.acm.org/2021/index.php/papers/> *CALL FOR PAPERS* We invite authors to submit papers that inform the design or deployment of collaborative or social systems; introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms; or, study existing collaborative or social practices. The scope of CSCW 2021 includes social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, open and remote collaboration, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, such as video-conferencing and other remote-presence technologies, CSCL, MOOCs and related educational technologies, multi-user input technologies, collocated work practices, work articulation and coordination, awareness, and information sharing. This scope spans socio-technical domains of work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, sociality, entertainment, and ethics. Papers can report on novel research results, designs, systems, or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities. CSCW encourages papers that make a contribution to building CSCW systems, including (but not limited to) engineering and technical enablers for CSCW applications, methods and techniques for new CSCW services and applications, and evaluation of both early-stage and fully-built CSCW systems in lab or field settings. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW uses a minimum of two-cycle review process with opportunity for major revisions reviewed by the same reviewers. Additionally, no arbitrary length limit is imposed on submissions. Accepted papers are published in the Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) journal. We invite contributions to CSCW across a variety of research techniques, methods, approaches, and domains, including: - Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds or collaborative information behaviors. - System development. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences. - Theory. Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems, within and beyond work settings. - Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or studies of practices, communication, collaboration, or use, as related to collaborative technologies. - Data mining and modeling. Studies, analyses and infrastructures for making use of large- and small-scale data. - Methodologies and tools. Novel methods, or combinations of approaches and tools used in building collaborative systems or studying their use. - Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including applications to healthcare, transportation, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains. - Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition, big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSs, or sensing systems. - Ethics and policy implications. Analysis of the implications of socio-technical systems and the algorithms that shape them. - Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries. *Please reach out to papers2021(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:papers2021@cscw.acm.org> <papers2021(a)cscw.acm.org<mailto:papers2021@cscw.acm.org>> for queries about paper submissions.* CSCW 2021 Communication and Outreach Co-Chairs Nazanin Andalibi, Mateusz Dolata, and Konstantinos Papangelis CSCW 2021 Papers Co-Chairs Shaowen Bardzell, Siân Lindley, Aleksandra Sarcevic CSCW 2021 General Co-Chairs Jeremy Birnholtz, Luigina Ciolfi — Luigina Ciolfi, PhD Professor of Human Centred Computing Postgraduate Research Tutor, Computing Sheffield Hallam University Tel. +44 114 225 6826 - Personal Website<https://luiginaciolfi.net/> – SHU Webpage<http://shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/luigina-ciolfi> - New Books: “Human-Computer Interactions in Museums<http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?produ…>”, "Made To Work<https://www.routledge.com/Made-To-Work-Mobilising-Contemporary-Worklives/Gr…>" - The CultureLabs Project<https://culture-labs.eu/> - UK Representative and STSM Chair, EU COST Action “SharingAndCaring”<http://sharingandcaring.eu/> - General Co-Chair, CSCW 2021 - MBPsS; Member, EUSSET<http://eusset.eu/>; Senior Member, ACM - Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, The CSCW Journal<http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606> (Springer)

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Esiti dell'analisi condotta con i docenti universitari sulla didattica durante il periodo del lockdown

by Carlo Giovannella

Probabilmente qualcuno di voi ha partecipato all'indagine e quindi spero di farvi cosa gradita segnalandovi la pubblicazione del preprint dedicato all'analisi condotta con i docenti delle università italiane durante il periodo del lockdown, simile a quella che abbiamo pubblicato qualche tempo fa dedicata alle scuole. Nella seconda parte dell'articolo gli esiti delle due indagini vengono messe a confronto ... e penso (spero) che tale comparazione possano indurre a riflettere sulle necessarie azioni da intraprendere ! L'articolo è consultabile su Research Gate The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic seen through the lens of the Italian university teachers and the comparison with school teachers’ perspective https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344521085_The_effects_of_the_Covid…'_perspective Cordialità Carlo Giovannella

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers (update on paper format)

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## IMPORTANT UPDATE Please check the updated paper format and length restrictions for short and long papers on https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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