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MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
December 5-8, 2021
Leuven, Belgium
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# 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We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia.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
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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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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>
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Catia Prandi, PhD.
Assistant professor (RTD A),
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Bologna
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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)
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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
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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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
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- up to one year pay increase (50%) to support international mobility
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** 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)
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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
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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*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
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Conference program <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/programme/>
Registration form <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/registration-form/>
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*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)//
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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/>
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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!!!*
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
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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.
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
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)
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
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Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Peter Dannenmann, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dear all,
we are glad to announce the keynotes of CHItaly 2021, the hybrid program of the conference and how to register for it.
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KEYNOTES
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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?".
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PROGRAM
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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.
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REGISTRATION
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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
** 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
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> )
** 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
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*.
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
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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
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)
*_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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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:
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W1) Gameful self-reflection: on HCI and the sustainability discourses
https://islandfutures.net/chitaly-2021-workshop
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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.
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W2) Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island)
https://easychair.org/cfp/VRISLAND1-VirtualRealitySpecialLanguageNeedshttps://padlet.com/stagginigiulia/vfhbeh9yyvwbb7uc
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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.
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W3) Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban)
http://bit.ly/TransUrbanWorkshop
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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.
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W4) Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML)
https://www.uni-kassel.de/go/CritML
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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.
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W5) Frontiers of Older Humans Computer Interaction
https://olderhcichitaly2021.wordpress.com
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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.
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W6) The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions
https://digi-rr.wineme.wiwi.uni-siegen.de
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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.
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W7) GHItaly21-4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction
http://ghi.di.unimi.it
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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.
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W8) Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI)
https://sites.google.com/view/naturehci/home
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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.
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W9) Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR)
https://mixr-chitaly2021.github.io
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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.
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!