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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing //========================================================= *Extended Deadline is approaching: *//**January 11*, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 11, 2021* (extended deadline) • Notification to the authors: January 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 15, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. *Places for smart education* • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning • role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) • People in place centered design for smart education *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun with a focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics" Guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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EICS 2021 Call for Papers (Round 3)

by Davide Spano

Apologies for cross-posting. EICS 2021 : Engineering Interactive Computing System The 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 8-11 June, 2021 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands https://eics.acm.org/eics2021/ Keynote Speakers: Rick Kazman and Albert Ali Salah EICS 2021 is the thirteenth international conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all processes at any stage of the development life-cycle (requirements, specification, validation and verification, testing, deployment, maintenance). Any of the following topics of interest may be addressed as long as their engineering contribution is made explicit and highlighted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS EICS 2021 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. The Conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from: Design, HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Modelling, Programming. Submissions are invited that advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: Modeling,Specification and Analysis * Modelling and analysis of interaction and interactive systems (including user interface) * Requirements engineering for interactive systems * Specification of interactive systems (methods, principles and tools) * Software architectures for interactive systems * Formal methods within interactive systems engineering * Certification issues of interactive systems Methods, Tools, and Processes * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems (e.g., API usability, interaction-driven API design) * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Processes for engineering interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Design and engineering issues in interactive data-driven systems Applications and integrations * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, tangible, touch and multitouch input, voice, gesture, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, machine learning, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems, etc.) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, military) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS Topics described above may be described in contributions of one, or more, of the following types: * Proof of Concept - demonstration of the applicability of an approach/tool/method/architecture/framework/design space * Case Study - collect detailed project data to demonstrate the benefits/shortcomings of the approach/artefacts used. May include datasets derived from the study. * Comparative Study - monitor several projects to collect data on impact of the technology/method * Formal Analysis - uses a formal analysis method or tool to analyse an artefact, e.g formal proof, model-driven approach, graph-based approach, user, UI and/or interaction modelling. Applying an approach. * Theory/Formal Method - describes a new method/engineering approach for addressing research questions in EICS. * Literature Review/Survey - Evaluate published studies that analyse the behaviour of similar methods/tools. Systematic mapping, systematic literature review etc. * Experiment - perform a qualitative/quantitative analysis of a project/artefact. A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300960. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS EICS papers are now published as articles in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (EICS series) <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J1598&picked=prox>, Vol. 7, Issue EICS. Paper submissions still follow the normal conference review process, but this process is iterated multiple times per year. Submissions to this venue should present original and mature research work. There are no length restrictions on papers, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. Papers may be accepted after submission and review, or recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions should indicate the type and topics of the contribution from the lists above so that the paper will be reviewed according to the criteria given above. Submissions which do not match the above topics and types of contributions will be desk-rejected. More information about the next PACM-HCI (EICS series) review and publication process can be found at http://eics.acm.org/pacm. Papers should be written in the ACM format, see: https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/author-guidelines Upcoming deadlines for full papers to be presented at EICS 2021 are (AoE-Anywhere on Earth): - EICS 2021 round 3: Submission deadline February 19th, 2021 - Final Decision and Notification to Authors April 16th, 2021 Submissions can be made through http://new.precisionconference.com Further information about EICS 2021 can be found here: https://eics.acm.org/2021 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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

by Paolo Buono

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

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

by Axel Soto

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

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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, hosted online held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: Full papers (6 pages excluding references) and Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned; and Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes. Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> ************Important Dates************** Submission date: Dec 23, 2020 Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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

by Axel Soto

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

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

by Noemi Mauro

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

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021) Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online June 21-25, 2021 https://www.um.org/umap2021/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1). Workshop Format In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: • Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement • Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes • Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation • Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics. • Joint panels for different workshops Instructions for Proposers Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows: • Workshop title and acronym • Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events • Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest • Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time • Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions • Intended audience and expected number of participants • List of (potential) members of the program committee • Requested duration (half day or full day) • Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual) • When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics Submission and Review Process Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. Schedule • Proposal submission: January 15, 2021 • Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021 • Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021 • (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021 • (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021 • (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021 • (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021 • Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1). Tutorial Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • new user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) • user modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot interaction etc.) • application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems • eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors Instructions for Proposers An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: • Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum) • Tutorial description: • learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021 • targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills • a brief outline of the tutorial structure • Information about potential practical sessions • Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours) • Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions • Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual) • Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience Submission and Review Process Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are: • ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research • clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description • organization, as appearing from the outline • background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics Timeline • Proposals due: January 15, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021 • Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021 • Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration. Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria dietmar.jannach(a)aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>

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

by Anton Fedosov

Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to the following event that will happen in Zurich next summer. There are still opportunities to contribute by submitting a demo or a poster. The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is an international venue on practice-centred computing and the design of cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe that was established in 1989. The 19th edition of ECSCW will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 7th to 11th June 2021. The presentation of posters and demos is a key element of the ECSCW conference. For presenters as well as recipients, the poster & demo session provides a lively environment for getting in touch with late-breaking research, preliminary results, innovative ideas, and early-stage research and design explorations. At a special session during the conference, authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as to involve them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress relating to CSCW. Posters provide a great opportunity to present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger ECSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies. Demos may be submitted in various forms. These may be interactive research prototypes or products, but also low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will provide space for exhibiting innovative materials that have been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centered) research methods – for example, innovations in storyboards, personas, and other materials that foster creativity in the design process. How to apply? Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (2000 words maximum excl. references, figures, and a 150-word max. abstract) in the PDF format through the EasyChair platform<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecscw2021#>. More details about the submission process (incl. templates) can be found at our website https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/posters-demos/ Key dates Submission deadline: January, 22 2021, 23:59 AoE Notifications: March 31, 2021 Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 Attendance As of now, the conference is planned in Zurich, Switzerland from 7th until 11th of June 2021. If you have questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact the Posters and Demo co-chairs: demoposters2021(a)ecscw.eusset.eu<mailto:demoposters2021@ecscw.eusset.eu> Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg, Austria) Anton Fedosov (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Best regards, Dr. Anton Fedosov People and Computing Lab (ZPAC) antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch> antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/> University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zürich Switzerland

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

by Axel Soto

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

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second call-for-papers

by Oana Inel

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

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

by Catia Prandi

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

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

by Paolo Buono

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 21*, 2020 • Notification to the authors: January 20, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. *Places for smart education* • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning • role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) • People in place centered design for smart education *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun with a focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics" Guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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[CHItaly2021] - Call for Papers

by chitaly2021

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

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

by Luca Turchet

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society CALL for PAPERS Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds http://cimil.disi.unitn.it/JAES_SI_Internet_of_Sounds.pdf *** Apologies for cross-postings *** We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (http://www.aes.org/journal/) on the subject of Internet of Sounds. Acknowledging the ever-rising importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) in our environment, we believe that the time has come to bring together researchers who are considering the use of IoT components to pursue research in Sound and Music computing. The Internet of Sounds (IoS) is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the IoT, Sound and Music Computing and Semantic Audio domains. IoS can also be seen as the union of two paradigms, the Internet of Musical Things and the Internet of Audio Things, which respectively address musical and non-musical domains in networked contexts. This Special Issue aims to present high-quality original research reporting the current state of the art of IoS systems as well as their interactions with end-users. We are interested in submissions covering different aspects related to the use of sound and music processing in relation to local or remote networks, including technological, perceptual, and artistic perspectives. *Topics* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: • Wireless acoustic sensor networks • Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks • Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks • Ecoacoustics • Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks • Networked music performances • Smart Musical Instruments • Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things • Participatory live music performances • Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things • Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts • Ubiquitous music • Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds • Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds • Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications • Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds • Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds • Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining • Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases • Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases • Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications *Important dates* • Manuscript submission due: March 1st, 2021 • First round decision made: May 15th, 2021 • Revised manuscript due: June 15th, 2021 • Final paper due: July 15th, 2021 • Publication: October 2021 *Guest Editors* • Luca Turchet (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento) • George Fazekas (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London) • Cristina Rottondi (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polytechnic University of Turin) • Carlo Fischione (Department of Network and Systems Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) *Author guidelines* Please submit complete 6 to 8-page papers by March 1, 2021. All submissions will be peer-reviewed according to standard JAES review procedures. We welcome original research including revised and expanded versions of “IWIS 2020” or AES conference papers addressing the theme of this special issue. Please follow the Author Guidelines found at: http://www.aes.org/journal/authors/guidelines/. Papers should be submitted online at: http://www.aes.org/journal/submit/. When submitting a paper, please choose the category “Special Issue (Internet of Sounds)” rather than Research Paper or Engineering Report. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Cristina Gena

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, hosted online held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: Full papers (6 pages excluding references) and Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned; and Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes. Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> ************Important Dates************** Submission date: Dec 23, 2020 Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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

by Stefan Sauer

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

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Call for Participation - The Academic Fringe Festival

by Sihang Qiu - EWI

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

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

by Maria De Marsico

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

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

by Axel Soto

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

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ACM UMAP 2021

by Oana Inel

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

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[CHItaly2021] - Call for Workshop Proposals

by Federica Caruso

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

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IxD&A Journal N. 45 is available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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by Cristina Gena

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

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