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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

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*** 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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