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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Posters and Demos - DEADLINE EXTENSION

by amon rapp

POSTERS AND DEMOS DEADLINE EXTENSION ==================================================== CONTRIBUTION TYPES Posters and demos provide a unique opportunity to share valuable new ideas, elicit feedback on early-stage work, and foster discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Demos also provide a space for researchers and practitioners to bring hands-on experiences to conference attendees. A poster is a concise report of recent findings or other innovative or thought-provoking work relevant to the CHItaly community. Appropriate submissions should be complete enough to contribute to the HCI knowledge and inspire future works, and must not have been presented elsewhere. Besides presenting the poster during the posters & demos session, authors will have the possibility to: preview their poster in a 1-minute slot within the plenary session; present their poster within the Metaverse session. Posters will be published in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, a special jury will check all the accepted contributions and the best posters will be awarded with a best-poster certificate. A demo is an interactive demonstration of a completed or ongoing research effort, in the form of software or any working prototype or technical solution of direct relevance to HCI. We welcome demos from students and researchers in all stages of their careers. We particularly encourage undergraduate students and authors of accepted full and short papers to contribute their demos. Demo submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. An appealing and innovative demonstration presents an opportunity to display further and disseminate your research and attract attendees’ participation. Note that demos must be about research: the track is not meant for presenting commercial products. Business-related visibility is achieved via sponsorship. Demos can have been presented elsewhere. Posters and demos will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. ==================================================== TOPICS In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit submissions related to the conference’s main topics: methods, approaches, and systems relating to the Human and the AI; innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, and; experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. You may refer to the main call for papers for a more detailed list of topics of interest. ==================================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The poster should have “Poster:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. Demo submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The demo should have “Demo:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. The submission must also outline how the authors plan to present their work, with a description of any special equipment for setup that will be required. All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM single column submission template, available for Word and LaTeX. Word template. Download and use the most recent Submission Template ( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…) from the ACM website ( https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a… ). LaTeX template. There are two alternatives: Download the Primary Article Template – LaTeX folder from the ACM website. The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX. Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template ( https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…). The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX ( https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow). For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website. Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=chitaly2023) by selecting the proper track (“posters and demos” submissions). ==================================================== PRESENTATION FORMAT At least one author of a demo or a poster must register to the conference. Authors will be assigned a time and location to present their posters and demos to CHItaly. Posters should include (1) the title, authors’ names, and affiliations, (2) a concise overview of the research, (3) clear illustrations of key aspects of the poster, and (4) a compelling visual design. Posters might also include QR codes to link to online materials (e.g., scenario videos, interactive prototypes). Demos will be presented according to the plan included in the related submissions. Posters and demos will also have a 1-minute presentation at the plenary session in addition to the dedicated sessions. The presentation must be supported by 2 slides: a title-slide and a slide with the content. ==================================================== MAIN DEADLINES (AOE) EXTENDED Submission deadline: June 25th, 2023 Notification: July 15th, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: July 31st, 2023 Deadline for sending the slides for the 1-minute presentation: September 15th, 2023 All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. ==================================================== PAPER CHAIRS Anna Spagnolli (Università di Padova) Alberto Monge Roffarello (Politecnico di Torino) email: demo_poster(a)chitaly2023.it ==================================================== SUBMISSIONS Submit on EasyChair by selecting the “posters and demos” track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Posters | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR POSTERS - MUM 2023 *** Deadline for Posters: 9th of October 2023, AoE * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=posters* * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting the advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This year's edition aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. The MUM poster track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their early-stage and ongoing work on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, services, interactions and experiences. The submissions can also describe preliminary research results that have not been fully designed, implemented or tested but show great promise, summarise several small-scale studies, or introduce novel, challenging and provoking research directions. Posters provide the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work to the MUM community in an informal manner, receive valuable feedback on their research, discuss potential collaborations and address burning issues. *Submission Guidelines and List of Topics* * Topics of interest are those defined for the main paper conference track. They include, but are not limited to: * Prototypes and systems tackling relevant technical challenges * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, learning, entertainment, social networking, and advertising * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation * Fabrication and device prototyping * Poster submissions should be maximum 3 pages long (excluding references), and should contain an abstract of maximum 150 words, that clearly states the poster's contribution to the field. The submission should be prepared as a PDF file, in single-column format, using either Word or LaTeX ACM Primary Article Templates.<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-…> If LaTeX is used, single-column mode should be configured by using "\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}" as document class setting. * Poster papers must be submitted via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230>. The submissions will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the poster chairs. The authors of the accepted submissions will receive instructions about the format requirements for the poster. They are also expected to bring the posters to the conference site with them and be present throughout the posters and demos session of the conference. * Submissions should be anonymized and will undergo a double-blind review process. They should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission elsewhere. Final camera-ready versions of accepted submissions must be accompanied by a signed copyright form. Accepted posters will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. The proceedings will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. * Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 3 minutes to support their submission, which will be on acceptance published in the ACM Digital Library (as additional material to the paper). To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use 720p or 1080p resolution, H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered. Link to Submission System: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Important Dates * Submission: October 9th, 2023 (AoE) Notification to authors: November 2nd, 2023 Conference dates: December 3th - December 6th, 2023 * Poster Chairs * Christina Schneegass, Delft University of Technology Markus Löchtefeld, Aalborg University All questions about submissions should be emailed to: posters2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:papers2023@mum-conf.org>

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Mile for Paper Submission

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

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

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AI and Sustainability in the Wine Industry (workshop at CHItaly 2023)

by Alessandro Soro

Cari Tutti! Vorrei segnalare il workshop AI and Sustainability in the Wine Industry, in programma per mercoledi 20 Settembre, a Torino, parte del programma di CHItaly 2023. Stiamo pianificando un fantastico programma denso di talk e presentazioni (al mattino) e visite ad alcune wineries locali (pomeriggio) per riflettere sul futuro dell’industria eno-gastronomica. Tutte le informazioni per partecipare sul sito della conferenza https://chitaly2023.it/accepted-workshops/ e maggiore dettagli al sito del workshop https://jeni92.wixsite.com/sustainablewine Un salute dall’Australia 😊 Alessandro Associate Professor Alessandro Soro | School of Computer Science Academic Lead International & Engagement (School of Computer Science) Faculty of Science | Queensland University of Technology S Block, Level 10, Room 1050, Gardens Point Campus E: alessandro.soro(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:alessandro.soro@qut.edu.au> | P: +61 07 3138 9569 CRICOS No. 00213J

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Deadline extension special issue on "Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= D*EADLINE EXTENSION -> June 19th 2023* (hard deadline) Special Issue on *Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/design-education-for-hybrid-environments-pedagogies-frame…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Dina El Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Peter Scupelli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • *Extended Deadline*: *June 19th, 2023 /(hard deadline)/* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few decades, interactive technologies have become more and more embedded in and blended with our physical world. These technologies—mobile computing, AR and VR, interactive IoTs, tangible interfaces, and responsive architectures—are increasingly shaping our daily experiences in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities. We call these physical-digital spaces Hybrid Environments . As these technologies continue to transform the way we live, many new opportunities emerge for design education and practice. Within higher education, more and more programs aim to cross-train designers, architects, creative technologists, and artists to operate in these emerging terrains. This is a complex pedagogical practice. Designing for Hybrid Environments requires knowledge and training in the design of both physical environments and interactive technologies. Solutions cut across, and often operate at multiple, scales: from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. Consequently, the design of good physical-digital spaces must often bridge fundamental knowledge in design, architecture, art, interactivity, and computation. How are we meeting this emergent need? How do we educate cross-trained students to creatively respond and adapt to these complex design spaces? In this special issue, we invite design educators to share their pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. We hope to gather, reflect, and share valuable examples and instructional practices so that we might learn from one another and critically examine how to teach students to design Hybrid Environments. Ultimately, we seek to form a common understanding and begin building the foundations for design education in this emerging field. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Design Education for Hybrid Environments includes, but is not limited to: • Teaching for and within VR, AR, and XR technologies. • Teaching for interactive IoT, spatial computing, ambient media, and responsive architecture. • CAD and CAM tools to help conceive, represent, prototype, and test Hybrid Environments. • Theoretical frameworks and representational techniques to navigating scales of design —from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. • Cognitive approaches to explain and study reasoning, conceiving, and building Hybrid Environments. • Post-Pandemic Hybrid Environments, including telepresence, distributed spaces, and the temporality of experience. • Assessment and performance methods, including pilot studies, curricula, or cases of evaluating Hybrid Environments design and instruction. • Instructional experiences resilient to rapid change in technology infrastructures and toolsets. • Research methods supporting the design process and evaluation of Hybrid Environments. =========================================== /*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 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Design Education for Hybrid Environments") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Design Education for Hybrid Environments/ • drosenb2 [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *

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Workshop on "creating custom visualization templates with RAWGraphs 2.0"

by Tommaso Elli

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *** We invite you to the workshop: Creating custom visualization templates with RAWGraphs 2.0 20 September 2023 @ CHItaly conference (Turin, IT) [6475b91bf36e14ee9baac43b_Screenshot 2023-05-30 at 10.50.28.png] Focusing on expanding access to data visualization, RAWGraphs (https://www.rawgraphs.io/) is an open-source software that offers a variety of visualization templates, such as Sankey diagrams, bubble charts, bump charts, horizon charts, and many more. In this upcoming workshop, participants will be taught how to develop custom visualization templates using RAWGraphs. The new version, 2.0, has simplified the process of creating templates, allowing for easy usage through a straightforward loading function (to be released soon). This 4-hour workshop will be held during the CHItaly 2023 conference and is intended for visualization experts, designers, developers, and researchers (including PhDs) who desire to create specialized tools to support specific requirements and/or progress in their research. Our objective is to guide participants in creating 5 new templates. Hence, a fundamental prerequisite is a good understanding of data visualization and Javascript development. Participation is possible as individuals or groups. It is also possible to participate in the idea of someone else in case you just want to learn more about the software. Use this form to submit your participation: https://forms.gle/gbzLzUM7DSdg8JhM7 Further information at https://www.rawgraphs.io/ws-chitaly2023 Important dates Deadline for submissions: 23 June 2023 (11:59 p.m. AoE) Notification to authors: 14 July 2023 Date of the workshop: 20 September 2023 (detailed schedule TBA) Feel free to contact us in case you need further information at: hello(a)rawgraphs.io<mailto:hello@rawgraphs.io> (with email subject: WS CHItaly 2023). Best, The RAWGraphs Team Tommaso Elli, PhD – Junior Researcher Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano dipartimentodesign.polimi.it<http://dipartimentodesign.polimi.it/> ––– Recent publications Elli, T., Benedetti, A., Pallacci, V., Spadini, E., & Mauri, M. (2023). Designing network visualizations for genetic literary criticism<https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.31.176>. Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education, 16(31), 25–38 Elli, T., Bradley, A., Hinrichs, U., & Collins, C. (2022). Visualizing Stories of Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Community Empowerment through Qualitative Data<https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2022/research…>. Proceedings of DRS 2022, Bilbao Parigini,M., Elli,T (2022). The Shape of Doubt: Employing data visualization to inquiry stylistic features in the narrative works of Italo Calvino<https://zenodo.org/record/6573372>. DH Benelux 2022 Mauri, M., Vantini, S., Gobbo, B., Elli, T., Aversa, E., Benedetti, A., Briones Rojas, M. D. L. A., & Colombo, G. (2022). Making posters to understand statistics: Towards a didactical approach in communication design<https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2022/research…>. Proceedings of DRS 2022, Bilbao Elli, T (2022). Research through Visualization in Literary Criticism. Adaptations of data visualization to scholars’ interpretive work<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TK0OCk_MseNV1HEy2aIrgqfkktZJGUy1/view?usp=…> [Doctoral Thesis]. Politecnico di Milano

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Final Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) Submission Deadline: Abstracts by June 25, 2023; Full Papers by July 2, 2023 AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 25th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: July 2nd, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: August 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: August 21st, 2023 (AoE) • Author registration due: August 21st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 55 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2022 = 0.356 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 55 *featuring a special issue **on:* **Smart Learning Ecosystems: **toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality** */guest editors: ///Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi/ /+ Regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 55 - ToC*/** **//****/*Preface to the special isue on* *Smart Learning Ecosystems: **toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* /Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi/ p. 5 – 8 /Marcel Schmitz, Maren Scheffel, Roger Bemelmans, Hendrik Drachsler/ *Evaluating the Impact of FoLA on Learning Analytics Knowledge Creation and Acceptance during Multidisciplinary, Co-Design of Learning Activities*, pp. 9/–/ 33 /Francesca Mattioli, Laura Cipriani, Andrea Giuseppe Manciaracina, Andrea Taverna/ *Exploring Innovation in the Teaching of Design. A Study on the Experimental Teaching Practices in the Context of a School of Design*, pp. 34 – 53, /Maria José Fonseca, Óscar Mealha / *Student experience and new media to leverage an Infocommunicational case study model*, pp. 54 – 82 /Carlo Giovannella, Licia Cianfriglia, Antonello Giannelli / *The Italian School Ecosystems two years after the pandemic in the perceptions of schools’ principals and teachers – part 2 (a segmented analysis)*, pp. 83 – 108 /Alessia Pece, Patrizia Marti/ *Designing inclusion: a smart learning ecosystem for hearing parents of deaf children*, pp. 109 – 122 *Regular papers* /Carlo Giovannella/ F*rom simplex to complex: designing for wellbeing at scale*, pp. 123 – 138 /Ulisses da Silva Fernandes, Glívia Angélica Rodrigues Barbosa, Bruno Azevedo Chagas, Gabriel Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Raquel Oliveira Prates/ *Lessons Learned from Modeling the Interaction with Conversational Agent*s/, /pp. 139 – 173 /Rebecca Wiczorek/ *Evaluation of Thermotactile and Vibrotactile Cues to Improve Hazard Perception of Older Pedestrians*/, /pp. 174 – 193 /Uğur Efe Uçar, Gözde Gökdemir, Ervin Garip/ *A Study of the Application of Virtual Reality Technology as an Anthropometric Measurement Tool*/, /pp. 194 – 211 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CALL FOR PAPERS -- WFIOT 23 -- Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations

by Publicity Chair FedCSIS

Call for Papers Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/future-platforms-cloud-edge-continuum-%E2%80… Special Session (SPES-01) organized within the scope of 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT2023) Aveiro, Portugal, October, 12-27, 2023https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/ Internet of Things (IoT) brings fundamental changes to all sectors of society and economy. However, realization of the IoT vision requires data processing (stream, static, or both) in an “optimal location” within the cloud-edge continuum. Within such continuum, data can be produced, stored, and processed “anywhere”. For instance, (1) far/nano-edge devices produce data act upon it locally, (2) fog nodes process data stream locally, while (3) cloud/HPC facilities deliver “unlimited” processing capabilities, need, for instance, to train (large) AI models. Taking into account the, systematically increasing, scale of IoT deployments the question arises: what capabilities must be facilitated by future IoT platforms, which will have to manage processes in multi-stakeholder, multi-cloud, federated, large-scale IoT ecosystems. Here, key challenges are related to the fact that such platforms (encompassing operating systems, up to applications), will have to jointly leverage continuous progress of multiple enabling technologies, e.g.: 5G/6G networking, privacy and security, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, trust management, autonomous computing, distributed/smart applications, data management, etc. Moreover, they must facilitate intelligent (autonomous) orchestration of physical/virtual resources and tasks, by realizing them at the “optimal location” within the ecosystem (e.g., closer to where data is produced). To achieve this, resource-aware frugal AI is needed, to facilitate self-awareness and decision support, across heterogeneous ecosystem. Finally, it is also absolutely necessary that resource management will consider the CO2 footprint of the ecosystem and efficiently deploy data and tasks and also use multi-owner, heterogeneous sources of renewable energy. In this context, contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects of the following topics are invited (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive): * IoT architectures for domain agnostic user-aware, self-aware, (semi-)autonomous edge-cloud continuum platforms, including proposals for novel decentralized topologies, ad-hoc resource federation, time-triggered behaviors * Foundations for next generation of higher-level (meta) operating systems facilitating efficient use of computing capacity across edge-cloud continuum * Resource aware AI, including frugal AI, bringing intelligence to the edge-cloud continuum platforms (and ecosystems) * Cognitive frameworks leveraging AI-techniques to improve optimization of infrastructure usage and services and resources orchestration * Efficient streaming Big Data processing within large-scale IoT ecosystems * Interoperability solutions for multi-user edge-cloud continuum platforms, capable of coping with systematically increasing complexity of connecting vast numbers of heterogeneous devices * Federated data spaces approach for improved data governance, sovereignty and sharing * Privacy, security, trust and data governance in competitive scenarios * CO2 footprint reduction and efficient use of green energy in edge-cloud continuum ecosystems * Practical aspects of resource orchestration within highly heterogeneous, large-scale edge-cloud continuum ecosystems * Intent-based networking and its application to IoT * Swarm intelligence for IoT-edge-cloud continuum Important Dates: * Paper submission: July 6, 2023 * Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2023 * Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2023 Paper preparation and submission: Paper should be six (6) pages in length and follow the instruction provided for the main Conference. The conference allows up to two additional pages for a maximum length of eight (8) pages with payment of extra page charges once the paper has been accepted. Organizers: * Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, and Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of technology and Systems Research Institute * Levent Gürgen, Kentyou, Grenoble, France * Carlos Palau, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia * Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences * Tarik Taleb,The University of Oulu and MOSAIC Lab, Oulu, Finland

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Workshops and Tutorials | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

***CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS – MUM 2023*** Deadline for Workshops and Tutorials: August 22nd, 2023 (AoE) **Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM DL** * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=workshops* * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2023) welcomes proposals for workshops. A MUM Workshop is a forum for attendees with shared interests to present, discuss, and develop new ideas around a specific theme or domain related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics. All workshops will take place on Sunday, the first day of the conference (Seminar rooms with equipment will be provided), on the 3rd of December. Because workshops are meant to encourage ideas exchange, we encourage proposals that go beyond being a mini-conference and that engage participants in hands-on activities and in discussion. We also encourage organisers to open the workshops to conference attendees without a workshop paper, but who would be interested in participating. All tutorials will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on the 3rd of December and you can choose between three formats: 90min, half-day, or full-day. If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>. *Important Dates* WORKSHOP AND TUTORIALS SUBMISSION: 22nd of August 2023, AoE WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL NOTIFICATION: 17th of September 2023, AoE *Recommended Timeline for Internal Workshops* WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: 28th of October 2023, AoE WORKSHOP NOTIFICATION: 11th of November 2023, AoE ** Submission Guidelines ** *WORKSHOPS* * Workshop proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references) * It should describe your goals for the workshop, how you plan to run the workshop, and any anticipated long-term outcomes that will impact the field. Additionally, include information on how you will publish your call and reach out to potential participants. * Workshop proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by experts in the field. * Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair. Please select Workshops and Tutorials track in EasyChair. * Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *TUTORIALS* * Tutorial proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), and include the following details: * Title * Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how they are relevant to the MUM community * Description of the tutorial activities * Short biography of the organisers * Proposed tutorial length (90min, half-day, full-day) * Room and material requirements * Maximum number of participants * Tutorial proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the tutorial. * Submissions will be juried by the tutorial chairs. Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair, please select Workshops and Tutorials track. Accepted tutorial proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *BEFORE THE CONFERENCE* *Organisers of the accepted workshops are responsible for the following tasks during the time leading up to the conference* * Announce/disseminate their Workshop: Organisers of an accepted workshop must set up and maintain their own website in which they provide further and updated information about their workshop. The workshop page will be linked to from the official MUM workshop site. * Solicit Submissions from Potential Participants: While some organizers may choose alternate formats, a position paper is generally 2-4 pages long and outlines the submitter’s view on the workshop theme and the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the topic. Proceedings of the workshop's submissions will be in charge of the workshop organizers. Commonly, the workshop's proceedings are included on each workshop's webpage. * Select Participants: Choose participants on the basis of position papers submitted and your goals for the workshop. * Workshop organizers and participants have to register for the conference. * Provide a Participant List: A list of confirmed participants should be sent to the Workshop & Tutorials Chairs (workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org). * Develop a final agenda of workshop activities. * Develop a plan for any follow-up activities. Link to submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Workshop Chairs * Philipp Wintersberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Thomas Kosch, HU Berlin All questions about submissions should be emailed to: workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>

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CFP: CUI 2023 Workshop on Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults

by Sayan Sarcar

Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults A workshop to held at the ACM SIGCHI CUI 2023 conference (Conversational User Interfaces) Call for Submissions and for Participation This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for Older Adults (OAs). We also aim to build research capacity by bringing together researchers and practitioners across several disciplines and industries who are actively working or having an interest toward understanding older adults’ use of and need for CUIs. We invite researchers from various fields to present their work on and collectively engage in synthesizing and collating findings from different disciplines, and to discuss barriers and approaches to designing CUIs that are usable, adoptable, personally, and culturally relevant to OAs. Given the nascent phase of this community, and our goal of encouraging a grassroots approach to defining this space, we welcome position papers, short research papers, or short expressions of interest relevant to the broad space of designing CUIs for OAs. There is no format for the expression of interest - those wishing to participate in the workshop without a submitted paper should simply contact the organizers via email indicating through a short paragraph their prior experience and/or interest as relevant to the workshop, alongside their professional website or scholar page. For those interested in submitting a formal paper, we welcome short papers describing e.g. a research study, a novel system, a new theoretical contribution, or position papers that highlight new or ongoing challenges in the field. Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline). Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website. We recommend papers to be no more than 4 pages long, following the CHI Extended Abstract format). Submissions, expressions of interest, and any other queries related to the workshop should be sent to: cui-oa2023(a)cs.toronto.edu Submissions will be reviewed according to the fit with the workshop topic and potential to contribute to the workshop goals. Alternate submission arrangements may be possible (such as the showcasing of papers previously accepted at other conferences). Workshop URL: http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023 -- Best Regards, Workshop Organizing Team

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Fourth Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Call for Participation *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. It is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the Steering Committee. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. UMAP 2023 will feature 104 technical presentations of various categories (main conference papers, large breaking results, demos and posters, etc.). The participants can also attend a number of workshops and tutorials. Finally, the technical program also includes 3 keynote speakers. More information can be found on the conference web site. Please note that the early registration deadline has been extended by one week to June 2.

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Subject line: VL/HCC 2023 call for posters (due June 28) and graduate consortium (due July 7)

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). ---------------------- We invite you to consider submitting work to our posters/showpieces and graduate consortium tracks: Posters and Showpieces Submission deadline: June 28, 2023 AoE The Posters and Showpieces track (called the “showpieces track” for short) offers an interactive opportunity to discuss recent research, experiences, challenges, ideas, prototypes, and accomplishments with the VL/HCC community. Formerly called “posters and demonstrations”, the category now includes posters, videos, downloadable apps, handouts, electronic devices, physical prototypes, or any other artifacts that facilitate meaningful interactions with other conference attendees. A broad range of topics are appropriate for showpieces. The following non-exhaustive list illustrates the possibilities: - Current research in progress. This might include: - Original or innovative technologies or prototypes that may or may not be accompanied by an evaluation - Short qualitative or quantitative studies - Reflections, provocations, or proposals about theory or methods - Results presented in the main VL/HCC conference - Results already presented at another conference or published in a journal - Existing commercial products and/or services - Efforts aimed at integrating research into education - Efforts aimed at commercializing research Showpieces can help accomplish many goals, such as: - Helping graduate student presenters to meet faculty from other universities - Building community interest in a novel way of approaching a research topic - Starting conversations that could lead to new collaborations - Demonstrating to industry sponsors that a specific line of research has practical applications - Showcasing products or services available for sale More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-posters-and-showpiec… Graduate Consortium Submission deadline: July 7, 2023 AoE The primary goal of this year’s event is to stimulate graduate students’ and other researchers’ thinking about “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code to empower users in creating software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This goal aligns with the theme of the 2023 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of VL/HCC are also welcome. Why You Should Participate - Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience - Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of experts - Meet other students working on similar problems - Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending VL/HCC (details below). Who Can Participate? The consortium is open to both Master’s and PhD students worldwide. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-graduate-consortium

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

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

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PhD student on AI and/or VR multimodal approaches for health - Expression of interest [Rome, Italy]

by Maurizio Mancini

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP We seek a 3-year, fully funded PhD student interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Health. The doctoral student will work on a newly funded Project at the Department of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome. The project is financed by the Italian Government under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and the Next Generation EU (NGEU). The Project is titled "Digital Driven Diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics for sustainable Health care" (D34Health)". The PhD research activity is in the framework of the Spoke 3 "AI & Advanced Diagnostics for the Digital Twins construction," specifically under the thematic line related to the "Digital Twins construction: Sensors and Wearable Devices". The Project aims to develop non-invasive data-driven approaches for predicting, monitoring, and finding treatments for common lifestyle-related diseases. It will leverage AI and/or VR multimodal approaches (such as the Digital Twin and/or data visualization/navigation in VR) to predict patients' prognostic and/or therapy response outcomes. The PHD student will work with an international team of researchers from various backgrounds (Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Psychology, Medicine). The Sapienza University of Rome is one of the most prestigious research institutions in Italy and Europe, located close to the Eternal City historical center. Background: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics/Biomedical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Human-Computer Interaction English fluency is a major requirement. Important: interested students pursuing their Master's Degree (i.e., those who did not get it yet) are eligible, assuming they will obtain their MD by the end of 2023. To express your interest in the position, send a single PDF file to Prof. Maurizio Mancini m.mancini(a)di.uniroma1.it containing: - CV - transcript of Master Degree's career - motivation letter - reference letter For any questions, contact Prof. Maurizio Mancini m.mancini(a)di.uniroma1.it Deadline: the expressions of interest are accepted until June 9th, 2023.

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Full and Short Papers | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR PAPERS - MUM 2023 *** Deadline for Full and Short Papers: 22nd of August 2023, AoE * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=papers * * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Vienna, Austria, December 3rd – 6th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. * Submission Guidelines and List of Topics * We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Prototypes and systems tackling relevant technical challenges * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, learning, entertainment, social networking, and advertising * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation * Fabrication and device prototyping Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair by August 22nd, 2023, AoE at the latest. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single-column Word Submission Template or the single-column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution, with 16 pages (excluding references) in single-column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single-column format being valued as short papers in past editions. * Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical, or methodological advances in the field. * Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work-in-progress reports. Instead, they should offer complete, rigorously developed work with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers. Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features experts from the previous edition and new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process. Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of a maximum of 6 minutes to support their submission. To ensure all reviewers can view videos, authors should use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. The bit rate of videos can be lowered to accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50 MB per file). Link to Submission System: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Important Dates * Submission: August 22nd, 2023 (AoE) Notification to authors: October 5th, 2023 Conference dates: December 3th - December 6th, 2023 * Technical Program Chairs * Pascal Knierim, University of Innsbruck Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland All questions about submissions should be emailed to: papers2023(a)mum-conf.org

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GENERAL '23 - CFP

by cfp

*** Apologies for cross postings *** *GENERAL Workshop @CHITALY 2023 - Call For Papers - *** DEADLINE June, 23 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on GENerative, Explainable and Reasonable Artificial Learning co-located with the CHITALY 2023, Italy Web: https://bit.ly/generalworkshop2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=general23 For any information: federico.torrielli(a)unito.it ========= ABSTRACT ========= The GENERAL workshop explores advances in General and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GGAI), including breakthroughs in areas like natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). It emphasizes the emerging capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) and promotes Human-Centered AIs with applications like ChatGPT and Midjourney. The workshop delves into generating human-like content across text and images, highlighting the creative, coherent, and unexpected properties of these AI models. A key aspect is AI explainability, focusing on understanding, explaining, and controlling the complexities of these AI systems in terms of fairness, accountability, and transparency. Additionally, it encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between fields like HCI, psychology, social studies, and the arts to enrich the understanding of AI's societal and cultural impacts. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ∑ GENERATIVE AI – Users perceptions of images, texts and sounds generated by Generative AIs – Machine Psychology – AI Assistants, Chatbots and Virtual Agents – Emerging properties of human-like intelligence in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) – Interfaces and techniques for interacting with Generative AIs – User studies on systems leveraging Generative AI ∑ AI EXPLAINABILITY TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY – AI explainability, transparency, and accountability in large-scale models – Human-machine cooperation ∑ ETHICS IN GENERATIVE AI – Ethical issues in Generative AI – Consequences of Generative AIs on individuals and societies – Safety and control mechanisms for large language models: analyzing and mitigating harms from generative AI like misinformation, biases, or synthetic media ∑ INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND AI COMMUNICATION – Emerging applications of AI and interdisciplinary research – Communicating the potential of AI to the general public and fostering public understanding. ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We accept two kinds of submissions: (A) Regular papers (up to 12 pages, including references) (B) Position Papers, Ongoing projects and Demos (5-8 pages + references) Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=general23 All submitted papers will be evaluated by two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance, and technical quality. Note that the references do not count toward page limits. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the submissions. We aim to publish all accepted papers in CEUR WS Proceedings, as a joint volume. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Early submissions are strongly encouraged. We adopt a rolling review system: early submissions will be immediately reviewed and the notification will be sent out approximately two weeks after the submission. * Paper submission final deadline: June 23, 2023 * Notifications to authors: July 14, 2023 * Camera-ready version deadline: July 21, 2023. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Federico Torrielli University of Torino, Italy Amon Rapp University of Torino, Italy Luigi Di Caro University of Torino, Italy

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Ph.D. scholarships (including HCI, VR, Serious Games, Persuasive Technology)

by Fabio Buttussi

The Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Udine, Italy, welcomes candidates applying for 12 three-year positions (10 of which are supported by scholarship). Applicants will focus their research project on topics that can be chosen in a wide range listed here https://www.dmif.uniud.it/en/phd-courses/iai/ The deadline for applications is June 22, 2023, at 14:00 CEST. Detailed instructions, as well as a link to the official call and application forms, are available here: ENGLISH VERSION: https://www.uniud.it/en/research/do-research/doctorate-res/ammissione/activ… VERSIONE ITALIANA: https://www.uniud.it/it/ricerca/lavorare-nella-ricerca/dottorato-ricerca/am… Prospective applicants can contact the coordinator for further details and/or one or more Ph.D. Supervisors for project-related questions. All contacts can be found on the Ph.D. website https://www.dmif.uniud.it/en/phd-courses/iai/phd-board/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabio Buttussi, Ph.D. Laboratorio di Interazione Uomo-Macchina (HCI Lab) Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche Università degli Studi di Udine Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCI Lab) Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Udine - Italy

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers

by amon rapp

========================================== *CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI* *- **https://chitaly2023.it/* <https://chitaly2023.it/> CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS ==================================================== GOALS AND TOPICS The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. A particular focus will be on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) and its applications to support humans, improve their performance as well as increase safety and trustworthiness. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. Students will be connected with a mentor that will provide more specific feedback on their research. ==================================================== PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users (https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt) is also available. Papers must: Identify a significant research problem in the field of HCI. Outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions. Describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far. Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally their contribution during the conference. ==================================================== MAIN DEADLINES (AOT) Submission deadline: May 31st, 2023 Notifications to contributors: June 30th, 2023 Camera-ready/final version deadline: July 15th, 2023 ==================================================== PAPER CHAIRS Giovanna Varni, University of Trento, Italy Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy email: dc(a)chitaly2023.it SUBMISSIONS Submit on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023

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[Save the date] UI Engineering Live Talks - Célia Martinie - May 26, 14:00 CET

by Davide Spano

Dear colleagues, we are starting a new activity at the IFIP WG 2.7/13.4: the UI-Engineering Live Talks. The group will organize a bimonthly webinar given by a group member or by an invited expert. Group members will participate in the online meetings, while the live stream on YouTube will be publicly available. Our group member Célia Martinie will give the inaugural talk on the 26th of May at 14:00 CET. We would be delighted by your participation. Title: Considering modelling techniques in HCI engineering education Speaker: Célia Martinie, IRIT, France Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/WKkEGSON1AM?feature=share Abstract: Teaching HCI requires to take into account the field’s diverse perspectives (e.g. interaction design, human factors, software development…), as well as its constant state of change (e.g. new contexts, new devices, new programming languages…). Teaching HCI engineering particularly focuses on preparing students to the design, development and implementation of usable and effective interactive computing systems. Amongst the engineering approaches that can be taught for that purpose, model-based techniques are interesting because they match the industry needs for techniques to develop usable and reliable interactive computing systems. Beyond this concrete motivation for teaching students how to build and use models, models are also interesting because they help students to reason and understand problems, and can even make them better at identifying and solving problems. However, students do not always understand the benefits of using modelling techniques, and can find them abstract, cumbersome and worthless to use. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the importance of teaching modelling for HCI engineering, especially in a context where new technologies and new methodology trends are continuously emerging. Several strategies can be envisioned to increase the involvement of students with modelling techniques and I will detail one possible strategy. -- [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 Website <https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 will host a number of workshops which will be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. eScience 2023 will host the following workshops: ● 1st Workshop on cItizeN Science engagemenT based on Ict soLutions (INSTIL 2023) http://www.instil-science.eu ● 3rd Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR 2023) https://error-workshop.org ● 3rd Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS 2023) https://sites.google.com/vols.utk.edu/rewords23/home ● 4th Global Research Platform (4GRP) Workshop https://www.theglobalresearchplatform.net ● IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4Health 2023) https://www.ai4health.icar.cnr.it ● Research Software Engineers in eScience: Sustainable RSE Ecosystems within eScience (RSE-eScience-2023) https://us-rse.org/rse-escience-2023/ KEY DATES ● Workshop papers submission deadline: Defined per workshop, not before end June 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: Defined per workshop ● IEEE proceedings camera ready: July 21, 2023 ● Workshop days: October 9-10, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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Last Call for Tutorials for MobileHCI 2023

by Dimitra ANASTASIOU

***Apologies for cross-postings*** Last Call for Tutorials for MobileHCI 2023 in Athens, 26-29 September Deadline: May, 26 MobileHCI tutorials are in-depth presentations of fundamental or state-of-the-art topics presented by researchers or practitioners within the field of MobileHCI, which is about effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. The tutorials empower attendees to learn new skills and offer possibilities to meet new people and discuss topics of shared interest. The scope for tutorials is broad and includes topics, such as new technologies, research approaches and methodologies, design practices, user/consumer insights, investigations into new services/applications/interfaces, statistics, and much more. Virtual or Augmented Reality, wearable computing, and generally applications with technology on the go in mind are highly recommended. The overall conference theme in 2023 is "Beyond morality: Ethics and action in MobileHCI"<https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/conferencetheme.php>, so we invite tutorials to discuss ethical aspects in their work, as part of their problem definitions, system design, experiment design, instrument and metric adoption and conclusions. In your proposal please include: * The title of the tutorial * Length of the tutorial (recommended at least one hour, three hours maximum) * Learning goals of the tutorial * The intended audience(s) of the tutorial * The covered topics and the depths to which you will cover them * Overview of the materials provided to the participants * A brief biography of the instructor(s) * Information on the delivery model of the tutorial (e.g., in presence or hybrid). A tutorial with physical presenter(s) is highly recommended. More information at: https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfortutorials.php Feel free to contact us for any questions and share this call with your network! Kind regards from Tutorial Organizers, Dr. Dimitra Anastasiou | Senior R&T Associate Project coordinator of ENRICH4ALL<https://www.enrich4all.eu/> (+352) 275 888 2838 | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitraanastasiou/> Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) 5, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux | L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette LIST.lu [cid:image001.png@01D98A4E.D91F9C70]<https://lu.linkedin.com/company/luxembourg-institute-of-science-and-technol…> [cid:image002.png@01D98A4E.D91F9C70] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRznhKNBzYDkB2dJWmTQfQ> [signature_1608235888] <https://twitter.com/LIST_Luxembourg> [cid:image004.png@01D98A4E.D91F9C70] <https://www.facebook.com/LISTLuxembourg/> [signature_347910317] <http://www.list.lu/>

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Posters and Demos

by amon rapp

CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS ==================================================== CONTRIBUTION TYPES Posters and demos provide a unique opportunity to share valuable new ideas, elicit feedback on early-stage work, and foster discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Demos also provide a space for researchers and practitioners to bring hands-on experiences to conference attendees. A poster is a concise report of recent findings or other innovative or thought-provoking work relevant to the CHItaly community. Appropriate submissions should be complete enough to contribute to the HCI knowledge and inspire future works, and must not have been presented elsewhere. Besides presenting the poster during the posters & demos session, authors will have the possibility to: preview their poster in a 1-minute slot within the plenary session; present their poster within the Metaverse session. Posters will be published in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, a special jury will check all the accepted contributions and the best posters will be awarded with a best-poster certificate. A demo is an interactive demonstration of a completed or ongoing research effort, in the form of software or any working prototype or technical solution of direct relevance to HCI. We welcome demos from students and researchers in all stages of their careers. We particularly encourage undergraduate students and authors of accepted full and short papers to contribute their demos. An appealing and innovative demonstration presents an opportunity to display further and disseminate your research and attract attendees’ participation. Note that demos must be about research: the track is not meant for presenting commercial products. Business-related visibility is achieved via sponsorship. Demos can have been presented elsewhere. Posters and demos will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. ==================================================== TOPICS In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit submissions related to the conference’s main topics: methods, approaches, and systems relating to the Human and the AI; innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, and; experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. You may refer to the main call for papers for a more detailed list of topics of interest. ==================================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The poster should have “Poster:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. Demo submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The demo should have “Demo:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. The submission must also outline how the authors plan to present their work, with a description of any special equipment for setup that will be required. All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM single column submission template, available for Word and LaTeX. Word template. Download and use the most recent Submission Template ( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…) from the ACM website ( https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a… ). LaTeX template. There are two alternatives: Download the Primary Article Template – LaTeX folder from the ACM website. The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX. Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template ( https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…). The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX ( https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow). For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website. Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=chitaly2023) by selecting the proper track (“posters and demos” submissions). ==================================================== PRESENTATION FORMAT At least one author of a demo or a poster must register to the conference. Authors will be assigned a time and location to present their posters and demos to CHItaly. Posters should include (1) the title, authors’ names, and affiliations, (2) a concise overview of the research, (3) clear illustrations of key aspects of the poster, and (4) a compelling visual design. Posters might also include QR codes to link to online materials (e.g., scenario videos, interactive prototypes). Demos will be presented according to the plan included in the related submissions. Posters and demos will also have a 1-minute presentation at the plenary session in addition to the dedicated sessions. The presentation must be supported by 2 slides: a title-slide and a slide with the content. ==================================================== MAIN DEADLINES (AOE) Submission deadline: June 20th, 2023 Notification: July 15th, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: July 31st, 2023 Deadline for sending the slides for the 1-minute presentation: September 15th, 2023 ==================================================== PAPER CHAIRS Anna Spagnolli (Università di Padova) Alberto Monge Roffarello (Politecnico di Torino) email: demo_poster(a)chitaly2023.it ==================================================== SUBMISSIONS Submit on EasyChair by selecting the “posters and demos” track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Industry Track - Call for Papers

by amon rapp

CHITALY 2023 TORINO INDUSTRY TRACK - CALL FOR PAPERS CHItaly 2023, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, will be held from 20th to 22nd of September 2023 in Torino. Beyond all other sessions, there will be an Industry session, in which are very welcome contributions from industry stakeholders, experts, professionals on topics that include but are not limited to: 1. Human Computer Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) effect on industry decision making and smart solutions deployment 2. Impact of HCAI on learning and organizational transformation 3. HCAI and automated processes and products 4. HCAI & User Experience 5. HCAI impact on industry sustainable and green innovation and growth 6. Long term impact of HCAI on manufacturing, mobility, tourism, health, security, and safety 7. Effects of economic/energetic crisis on HCAI activities in industries and vice versa 8. Quantification of Return of Investment of HCAI contributions into industry process and activities 9. Industry needs toward HCAI research 10. New ways of collaboration between industry and HCAI academic / research world 11. Needed human competences and digital/non digital assets to optimally integrate HCAI activities into industry processes 12. HCAI training needs & modalities in industry environment 13. HCAI experts’ professional growth opportunities within companies 14. Current industry process and needed changes to deeply integrating HCAI into product/process design and development 15. New perspectives of integration of HCAI activities into the product design & development SUBMISSION’S INSTRUCTIONS The required format for submissions are posters and demos. A poster is a concise report of recent findings or other innovative or thought-provoking work relevant to the CHItaly community. Appropriate submissions should be complete enough to contribute to the HCI knowledge and inspire future works, and must not have been presented elsewhere. Besides presenting the poster during the posters & demos session, authors will have the possibility to: - preview their poster in a 1-minute slot within the plenary session; - present their poster within the Metaverse session. Poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. A demo is an interactive demonstration of a completed or ongoing research effort, in the form of software or any working prototype or technical solution of direct relevance to HCI. An appealing and innovative demonstration presents an opportunity to display further and disseminate your research and attract attendees’ participation. Demos can have been presented elsewhere. Poster paper submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The paper should have “Poster:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. Demo paper submissions must be up to 2 pages (+1 for references), not anonymized. The demo should have “Demo:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title. The submission must also outline how the authors plan to present their work, with a description of any special equipment for setup that will be required. Demo papers will be published in the conference proceedings. All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM single column submission template, available for Word and LaTeX. Word template. Download and use the most recent Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…> from the ACM website <https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…> . LaTeX template. There are two alternatives: - Download the Primary Article Template – LaTeX <https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip> folder from the ACM website <https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>. The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX. - Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…>. The correct template for submission is single-column LaTeX. For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>. Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023> by selecting the proper track (“Industry” submissions). At least one author of a demo or a poster must register to the conference. Authors will be assigned a time and location to present their papers and demos to CHItaly. PRESENTATION FORMAT Poster should include (1) the title, authors’ names, and affiliations, (2) a concise overview of the research, (3) clear illustrations of key aspects of the poster, and (4) a compelling visual design. Poster papers might also include QR codes to link to online materials (e.g., scenario videos, interactive prototypes). Demos will be presented according to the plan included in the related submissions. IMPORTANT DATES Paper/Demo submission deadline: July 1st 2023 Notification: July 15th, 2023 Camera-ready deadline (strict): July 31st, 2023 Deadline for sending the slides for the 1-minute presentation: September 15th, 2023

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

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

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IEEE PICom 2023 - Call for Paper

by Andrea Vinci

* Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. * Call for Papers IEEE PICom 2023 The 21st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2023) Nov 13-17, 2023, Abu Dhabi, UAE Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/picom/index.html Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from artificial intelligence, nature-inspired computing, and social-oriented technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom-2023 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, novel designs, and test-environments or testbeds in the important areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. PICom 2023 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. =====================TOPICS===================================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Deep Learning and Deep Computation - Big Data and Smart Data - Brain-inspired Computing - Crowdsourcing and Social Computing - Collective Intelligence - Agent-based Computing - Ubiquitous Intelligence - Cyber-Physical Computing - The Internet of Things - Edge Intelligence - Embedded HW, SW and Systems - Pervasive Devices and RFIDs - Wearable Devices and Applications - Sensor Technology and Networks - Pervasive Networks/Communications - Edge and Fog Computing - Device Virtualization - Privacy, Security and Trust - Context-Aware Computing - Mobile Data Mining - Ubiquitous Data Mining - Activity Recognition - Intelligent Cloud Computing - Services for Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Smart Homes - Intelligent Social Networking - Pervasive Technologies for ITS - HCI for Pervasive Computing - Middleware for Pervasive Computing - Intelligent/Smart IoT - Programming Abstractions for IoT =====================RESEARCH TRACKS============================= The 2023 edition of IEEE PICom will be organized in research tracks. Therefore, papers should be submitted to a single track, the one that better fits their subject, from the following: Track 1: Computational Intelligence Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition Track 4: Smart Object, Environment, System and City =====================IMPORTANT DATES============================= Main Conference Papers Paper Submission Due: 1 July, 2023 Authors Notification: 15 September, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: 30 September, 2023 Submission Link : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dascpicomcbdcomcyber0 General Chair Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Program Co-Chairs Antonio Liotta, University of Bolzano, Italy Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023: Call for papers

by amon rapp

*** Apologies for cross postings *** *BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023 - Call For Papers - *** DEADLINE July, 18 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’23) Singapore, 18th-22nd September 2023 Web: https://behavrec.wordpress.com/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23 For any information: amon.rapp(a)unito.it ========= ABSTRACT ========= For solving a variety of personal and societal problems, changing human behavior is crucial. Persuasive and behavior change recommender systems are intentionally designed to provide users with suggestions on how to modify their behavior, habits, beliefs and opinions. Research in this area has advanced over the years attracting interest from both practitioners and researchers also due to the increasing availability of personal data, like medical records, physiological parameters, and psychological states, which may enable novel forms of tailored suggestions that can be delivered anywhere at any time, leveraging multiple technologies (e.g., natural language processing) and different devices (e.g., ambient, wearable and mobile devices). The BehavRec workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing open problems and innovative research approaches in this area. Some questions that motivate the workshop are: What kind of data should be used to design “persuasive” recommendations? How should they be delivered? What kind of strategies should be implemented to design timely and contextualized persuasive recommendations? What kind of theories should we rely on to design effective persuasive recommendations? How to support the user’s motivation and help them sustain the desired behavior in the long term? What contextual factors may affect the effectiveness of behavior change recommender systems and should be considered in design? This workshop will deepen the discussion of novel approaches and applications of recommender systems that might want to persuade users into taking beneficial actions in domains as diverse as health and wellness, safety and security, food and environmental sustainability, education and politics. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ∑ RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – Persuasive and Behavior change recommender systems – Health recommender systems – Food recommender systems – Recommender systems for education – Persuasive conversational recommender systems ∑ USER INTERFACES FOR PERSUASIVE AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – Visual interfaces – Context-aware interfaces – Ubiquitous, wearable and mobile interfaces – Conversational interfaces ∑ NEW APPROACHES TO DESIGNING AND DELIVERING PERSUASIVE RECOMMENDATIONS – Controllability, transparency, and explainability – Persuasive recommendation (e.g., argumentation-aware recommendation) – Cultural differences (e.g., culture-aware recommendation) – Context-aware recommendation – How to balance the cost and benefit of behavior change recommender systems – Challenges and limitations of implementing behavior change recommender systems ∑ ETHICS, PRIVACY AND THEORIES – Theories of behavior change and persuasion – How to develop ethical and privacy-sensitive behavior change recommender systems – Frameworks and models for developing personalized persuasive technology – Objective and subjective approaches to behavior change recommendations ∑ EVALUATION – Empirical studies and evaluations of recommender systems for behavior change – Evaluation methods and metrics (e.g., evaluation questionnaire design) – Case studies and examples of behavior change recommender systems – Success and failure stories with regard to behavior change recommender systems – Long-term evaluation and evidence of long-term effects of behavior change recommender systems. ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We accept four kinds of submissions: (A) Regular papers (5-12 pages + references - single-column CEURART style) (B) Position papers, Ongoing projects and Demos (5-8 pages + references - single-column CEURART style); (C) Journal papers (already published - 2 pages including abstract, highlights, and a pointer to the complete paper single-column CEURART style); (D) Manifestations of interest (max 2 pages including a bio of the participant and a brief statement about why they are interest in the workshop) Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23 All submitted papers will be evaluated by two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance, and technical quality. Note that the references do not count toward page limits. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the submissions. We aim to publish all accepted papers, except from the (C-D) submission type in CEUR WS Proceedings, as a joint volume. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. The templates and format instructions are available here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Early submission are strongly encouraged. We adopt a rolling review system: early submissions will be immediately reviewed and the notification will be sent out approximately two weeks after the submission. * Paper submission final deadline: July 18, 2023 (GMT) * Paper notification: August 18, 2023 (GMT) * Camera-ready version deadline: September 10, 2023 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Amon Rapp University of Torino, Torino, Italy Federica Cena University of Torino, Torino, Italy Christoph Trattner University of Bergen, Norway Rita Orji Dalhousie University, Canada Julita Vassileva University of Saskatchewan, Canada Alain Starke University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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[CfP] 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds - Pisa, October 26-27

by Luca Turchet

Dear list members, please find below the call for papers of the 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds. We are happy to announce that the program will include not only paper, poster, demo and tutorial presentations, but also two satellite events: - the 1st International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio - the 2nd International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing For both of them a separate call for papers will be circulated soon. The conference will be held in hybrid form. Best wishes Luca [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute] *4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds* Pisa, October 26-27, 2023 https://internetofsounds.net/is2_2023/ *Call for papers and demos* We are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2023). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and the Sound and Music Computing domains. The symposium will be hosted at the congress center “Ex Monastero delle Benedettine” in the city of Pisa, Italy, and will take place on the 26 and 27 of October 2023. The aim of the symposium is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of oral presentations, keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Networked music performances - Web Audio - Networked Musical XR - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Sound-based anomaly detection and sound-based predictive maintenance in networked settings - Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications - Ecoacoustics - Embedded audio - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - 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 - 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 and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - Sustainability and ethical aspects of the Internet of Sounds We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 10 pages), a poster paper (4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. LaTeX and Word templates are available: IEEE conference templates. <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> *Important dates* - Papers and demos submission deadline: July 15, 2023 - Author notification: September 1, 2023 - Camera ready due: October 1, 2023 - Registration deadline: October 1, 2023 - Symposium dates: October 26-27, 2023 *Satellite events* The program will include two satellite events: - the 1st International Workshop on Networked Immersive Audio - the 2nd International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing *Publications* The IS2 2023 proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE for publication. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa) - Gregorio Procissi (University of Pisa) - Nils Peters (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Fraunhofer IIS) - Sacha Krstulovic (Music Tribe) - Claudia Rinaldi (University of L’Aquila) - Benjamin Matuszewski (IRCAM) - Chrisoula Alexandraki (Hellenic Mediterranean University) - Luca Borgianni (University of Pisa) - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) *Sponsors* - ZTE - Italia <https://www.zteitalia.it/en/home/> - Vianova <https://www.vianova.it/> - Italtel <https://www.italtel.com/> - Cubitlab <https://cubitlab.com/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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[CFP] ACM GoodIT 2023 -- extended deadline for all the track: June, 1

by Catia Prandi

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === ACM GoodIt 2023 Call for Papers === ACM GoodIT 2023 will focus on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. ### Important Dates -> All tracks Submission extended deadline: June 1 -> Notification of acceptance: July 7th, 2023 ### Link http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/ ### Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. The latter is defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public, such as clean air, clean water, internet access, education, or healthcare. However, new media innovations and the proliferation of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good can now reflect global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration towards a positive societal impact. The conference will feature regular and special tracks papers, work-in-progress and PhD papers. ### Papers length * Full papers (main track and special tracks): papers must not exceed twelve (12) single-column pages, excluding references. Papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will likely be rejected. * Work in Progress Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed eight (8) single-column pages, excluding references. * PhD Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed five (5) single-column pages, excluding references. ### Publication of papers Submitted papers (in each of the special tracks) must be original works and must not have been previously published. They will be peer-reviewed (three reviews). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work in presence at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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[Deadline Extended]

by Davide Spano

TLDR: The submission deadline has been extended to May 30th ------------------- Call for Papers ------------------- HCI-E2: Workshop on HCI Engineering Education http://ui-engineering.org/activities/hci-engineering-education-2023/ Submission website: https://ise.di.uminho.pt/hci-e2/openconf.php In conjunction with INTERACT 2023 York 28 August - 1 September 2023 https://interact2023.org ---------------- Overview ---------------- The workshop aims at carrying forward work on identifying, examining, structuring, and sharing educational resources and approaches to support the process of teaching/learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineering. The widening range of available interaction technologies and their applications in increasingly varied contexts (private or professional) underlines the importance of teaching HCI Engineering but also the difficulty of taking into account changes and developments in this field in often static university curricula. Besides, as these technologies are taught in diverse curricula (ranging from Human Factors and Psychology to hardcore Computer Science), we are interested in what the best approaches and best practices are to integrate HCI Engineering topics in the curricula of programs in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Human-computer Interaction, Psychology, Design, etc. ----------------- Scope ----------------- Engineering interactive systems is a multidisciplinary endeavour positioned at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering, Usability Engineering, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and other disciplines. The Human-Computer Interaction Engineering (HCI-E) field is concerned with providing methods, techniques, and tools for the systematic and effective design, development, testing, evaluation, and deployment of interactive systems in a wide range of application domains. HCI techniques, methods and tools, as well as many other novel forms of interaction, involve aspects that need to be adequately addressed in the curricula of programs in HCI, Software Engineering and Computer Science. This begs the question of how best to address these topics in those curricula, and what the best approaches to address them are. When considering education about HCI Engineering, we need to think about who is being educated as there is likely to be different curriculum scope and educational methods for different types of learners. There are two main distinctions likely influencing these methods: - Technical vs non-technical. Students in Computer Science and similar areas are likely to be the main consumers of detailed HCI-E education. However, the creation of interactive applications “requires input from science, engineering and design disciplines” and multidisciplinary teamwork requires from participants an increased understanding and appreciation for other disciplines. It is also important for those who are likely to have a more interface design or user research role to able to appreciate the limits of technology and the potential impacts of architectural design choices. - Student vs practitioner. It is likely that the primary interest of many participants will be university education. However, developers are often involved in lively online discussions about different frameworks, and even in the use of monads in interactive JavaScript. Interaction Design Foundation courses attract tens of thousands of UX practitioners worldwide, evidencing the desire of on-the-job learning in both communities. ----------------- Audience ----------------- We would like to bring together experiences from people teaching HCI concepts impacting how we engineer interactive systems and from people working in HCI-E to identify topics and methods that should be included in teaching this subject. Besides the courses in HCI-E, interesting inputs may arrive from HCI courses outside the CS curriculum requiring to communicate engineering challenges, or from more general software engineering courses discussing aspects related to human factors. Hence, we will solicit contributions from the HCI-E-related communities, and we will be very interested in welcoming members of the educational community, for a fruitful discussion. ----------------- Goals ----------------- We identify two types of potential outcomes that could define the group activities during the workshop: Educational resources – One goal is to create a repository of educational resources for HCI-E including cases studies, projects and exercises. These educational resources need to be described in a common structure. The definition of this structure was started at the previous workshop. A goal of the workshop will be to extend and consolidate this structure as well as to describe these resources according to this structure. HCI-E Education Roadmap – Edited volume: Depending on the quality of the submissions and the workshop results, revised versions of the contributions will be published on an edited volume. Alternatively, we will produce a journal paper summarizing and consolidating the contributions, in the form of an HCI Engineering Education roadmap. ----------------- Submissions ----------------- Position papers (6-10 pages in Springer format) must report experiences related to HCI Engineering education. Submissions could report software engineering units including some aspects of HCI-E, curricula or teaching units dedicated to HCI-E, case studies/projects demonstrating aspects of HCI-E, evaluation of students’ skills related to HCI-E, training non-technical and mixed students in HCI-E, training appropriate aspects of HCI-E to professionals/practitioners, a new teaching modality promising for teaching HCI-E, introducing HCI-E into existing curricula, etc. Authors could also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Submission deadline: May 30th, 2023 Notification deadline: June 15th, 2023 Workshop: August Monday 28th or Tuesday 29th Deadlines are AoE. ----------------- Organizers ----------------- José C. Campos, University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC, Portugal Laurence Nigay, University Grenoble Alpes, France Alan Dix, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales, UK Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany Simone DJ Barbosa, PUC Rio, Brazil Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari, Italy -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 Website <https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies

by Emanuele Panizzi

Call for paper Workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies (at EICS 2023 conference) https://sites.google.com/view/engineering-is-ai/home Swansea, Tuesday 27th of June 2023 Deadline for submission: June 2nd, 2023 AoE via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eiseait2023 Submissions: up to 6 pages Springer LNCS format Post-workshop publication: Springer LNCS volume You are kindly invited to submit contributions to this workshop. The main goal of this workshop is to offer a platform for scientists who are interested in the design, development, evaluation, and use of interactive systems involving AI technologies. The first objective is to identify and gather information about knowledge and practice in the workshop’s domain: · Get an overview of current R&D practices (methods/notations/tools) to engineer usable interactive systems embedding AI technologies, as well as lessons learned and recommendations; · Get an overview of current R&D practices (methods/notations/tools) to architect usable interactive systems embedding AI technologies, as well as lessons learned and recommendations; · Identify a systematic approach for describing AI technologies and assessing their impact on properties such as users’ UX and systems’ usability; · Understand how the multiple stakeholders involved in interactive systems design and development identify properties, how they describe them, and how they assess their relative importance when they embed AI technologies (going beyond the classical UX and usability but also addressing performance, dependability, safety, ...); · Identify an engineering approach to find an equilibrium between (AI-based) automation and human interaction. The second objective is to elicit the main gaps in AI technologies which hinders their exploitation in the design and development of interactive systems, especially if a user-centered design process is followed. -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies

by Emanuele Panizzi

Call for paper Workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies (at EICS 2023 conference) https://sites.google.com/view/engineering-is-ai/home Swansea, Tuesday 27th of June 2023 Deadline for submission: June 2nd, 2023 AoE via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eiseait2023 Submissions: up to 6 pages Springer LNCS format Post-workshop publication: Springer LNCS volume You are kindly invited to submit contributions to this workshop. The main goal of this workshop is to offer a platform for scientists who are interested in the design, development, evaluation, and use of interactive systems involving AI technologies. The first objective is to identify and gather information about knowledge and practice in the workshop’s domain: · Get an overview of current R&D practices (methods/notations/tools) to engineer usable interactive systems embedding AI technologies, as well as lessons learned and recommendations; · Get an overview of current R&D practices (methods/notations/tools) to architect usable interactive systems embedding AI technologies, as well as lessons learned and recommendations; · Identify a systematic approach for describing AI technologies and assessing their impact on properties such as users’ UX and systems’ usability; · Understand how the multiple stakeholders involved in interactive systems design and development identify properties, how they describe them, and how they assess their relative importance when they embed AI technologies (going beyond the classical UX and usability but also addressing performance, dependability, safety, ...); · Identify an engineering approach to find an equilibrium between (AI-based) automation and human interaction. The second objective is to elicit the main gaps in AI technologies which hinders their exploitation in the design and development of interactive systems, especially if a user-centered design process is followed. -- Emanuele Panizzi Associate Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Last CFP: Special issue on "Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer be updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/design-education-for-hybrid-environments-pedagogies-frame…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Dina El Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Peter Scupelli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *May 20th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few decades, interactive technologies have become more and more embedded in and blended with our physical world. These technologies—mobile computing, AR and VR, interactive IoTs, tangible interfaces, and responsive architectures—are increasingly shaping our daily experiences in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities. We call these physical-digital spaces Hybrid Environments . As these technologies continue to transform the way we live, many new opportunities emerge for design education and practice. Within higher education, more and more programs aim to cross-train designers, architects, creative technologists, and artists to operate in these emerging terrains. This is a complex pedagogical practice. Designing for Hybrid Environments requires knowledge and training in the design of both physical environments and interactive technologies. Solutions cut across, and often operate at multiple, scales: from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. Consequently, the design of good physical-digital spaces must often bridge fundamental knowledge in design, architecture, art, interactivity, and computation. How are we meeting this emergent need? How do we educate cross-trained students to creatively respond and adapt to these complex design spaces? In this special issue, we invite design educators to share their pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. We hope to gather, reflect, and share valuable examples and instructional practices so that we might learn from one another and critically examine how to teach students to design Hybrid Environments. Ultimately, we seek to form a common understanding and begin building the foundations for design education in this emerging field. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Design Education for Hybrid Environments includes, but is not limited to: • Teaching for and within VR, AR, and XR technologies. • Teaching for interactive IoT, spatial computing, ambient media, and responsive architecture. • CAD and CAM tools to help conceive, represent, prototype, and test Hybrid Environments. • Theoretical frameworks and representational techniques to navigating scales of design —from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. • Cognitive approaches to explain and study reasoning, conceiving, and building Hybrid Environments. • Post-Pandemic Hybrid Environments, including telepresence, distributed spaces, and the temporality of experience. • Assessment and performance methods, including pilot studies, curricula, or cases of evaluating Hybrid Environments design and instruction. • Instructional experiences resilient to rapid change in technology infrastructures and toolsets. • Research methods supporting the design process and evaluation of Hybrid Environments. =========================================== /*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 ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Design Education for Hybrid Environments") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Design Education for Hybrid Environments/ • drosenb2 [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.60 • ‘SLE as engines of the twin transition’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children’ Guest editors: Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer ----------------------------------------------------------

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Last CFP: Special issue on "AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer updated from 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/ai-for-humans-and-humans-for-ai-towards-cultures-of-parti…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Renate Andersen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Vita Santa Barletta, University of Bari, Italy • Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway • Alessandro Pagano, University of Bari, Italy =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *May 20th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue is intended to explore the assumption (and to provide at least partial evidence) that the most successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems out there today are dependent on teams of humans, just as humans depend on these systems to gain access to information, provide insights and perform tasks beyond their own capabilities. An assumption that implies a confrontation between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD and a reflection on the role of HCD in the AI age. The issue, thus, is not intended to be focalized on the design of user interfaces of systems containing embedded AI features, per se; rather, it is expected to be grounded in research activities involving a broad spectrum of academic disciplines – from computer science to social science – that will critically analyze the interplay between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD, in order to investigate the impact on individuals, social groups, and society as a whole. In particular this special issue wish to explore the relationship between AI, aimed at replacing human beings, and Intelligence Augmentation (IA), focused on empowering human beings in their daily life and work. Balancing between these two perspectives means changing the research paradigm from traditional human-computer interaction, to designing the collaboration between humans and computers. This will foster creativity, meaningful work, intersubjectivity, and learning, and eventually improve the quality of life of individuals. However, a variety of issues and ethical problems need to be addressed in this new age – e.g., privacy intrusions, massive unemployment, knowledge and competence loss, lack of control, autonomous weapons, new research methods, etc. The guest editors encourage researchers to submit articles that will consider these aspects. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but not limited to: * AI and Human control: privacy and ethical issues * AI support in everyday work * Collaborative human-centered design * End-User Development for AI-based systems * Empirical evaluation of AI-based systems * Explainable AI through meta design * Human-centred AI * Learning analytics for teachers participation and learning effectiveness * Research methods in Human-Centered AI and Design =========================================== /*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 ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: AI for Humans and Humans for AI") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on AI for Humans and Humans for AI/ • renatea [at] oslomet [dot] no • vita [dot] barletta [at] uniba [dot] it • anders [dot] morch [at] iped [dot] uio [dot] no • alessandro [dot] pagano [at] uniba [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne • N.60 • ‘SLE as engines of the twin transition’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children’ Guest editors: Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer ----------------------------------------------------------

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HCSE@INTERACT 2023 Workshop - Call for Papers (Submissions due: May 30)

by Stefan Sauer

***** *Workshop date confirmed for August 29, 2023 ***** * * * **** Submission deadline extended to May 30, 2023 **** _Attending the HCSE@INTERACT 2023 workshop does not require paper submission/acceptance!_ If you only want to participate or present your work without submitting a paper, please contact the organizers! * * *(Apologies if you receive multiple e-mails on this subject via different channels!)* https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023 *Call for Papers* HCSE@INTERACT 2023 International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering Rethinking the Interplay of Human–Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in the Age of Digital Transformation organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 onMethodologies for User-Centered Systems Design atINTERACT 2023 <https://interact2023.org/> The 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction August 29, 2023 York, United Kingdom Theme The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by a process of technological transformation that is affecting the social structure across the globe. It has changed the way of shopping, of relating to others, of living. At the core of the process are technologies that generate important cultural impacts in our lives. In Europe, this process is differently named, depending on the different countries: digitisation, digital transformation, digital transition, etc. Here we call it digital transformation, but no matter how you name it, it has in fact revolutionized every market and company, as well as our life. We follow the definition by Gong & Ribiere (2020) that states that Digital transformation is “A fundamental change process, enabled by the innovative use of digital technologies accompanied by the strategic leverage of key resources and capabilities, aiming to radically improve an entity* and redefine its value proposition for its stakeholders.” (*An entity could be: an organization, a business network, an industry, or society.). Various technologies enable the digital transformation process: mobile and wearable devices, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Digital Twin, Cybersecurity. However, while introducing undeniable benefits, they also bring some important issues. This workshop is looking for contributions from various fields, with a focus on: * the domain of Internet of Things (IoT) and IoT devices that are becoming more pervasive and social * IoT also introduces issues from the cybersecurity perspective * The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human lives and the economywith the problem thatthe required computing power is high, there are worriesof how AI models predict the output, data privacy and securityetc * Digital Twin (DT) is another protagonist of the digital transformation process. It is a virtual replica of a real-world object that is run in a simulation environment to mirror its physical pendant, with digital and physical twins influencing each other including the ability to perform predictions. * benefits and issues of other technologies: usability of mobile and wearable devices, as well as of Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality; user awareness about the usage and the security of Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain. What emerges is that Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) is more relevant than ever. The interplay between Human–Computer Interaction and Software Engineering needs to be rethought and fortified for a rapid response to the evolution of technologies, while also considering aspects such as greater agility in service development, sustainability, ethical considerations, cybersecurity, user mindset and awareness, to name just a few. But also the approaches for addressing them have to be carefully considered. For example, some software development companies show an increasing interest in low-code development platforms to facilitate application development by domain experts without sophisticated software development knowledge, as a possible solution to the need of more agile, fast and also sustainable service development. Domain experts are, however, not trained in software development methods. This introduces a risk of domain experts creating unusable applications or exceeding the designated time frame of a project (or both). <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.kzuma82xxlaf> Objective In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2beyond the traditional themes of IFIP 13.2 workshops. Particularly, this edition promotes sharing of knowledge and experiences that address how to deal with the challenges of the digital transformation and its influence on human-centered socio-technical system design and development practices. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized atINTERACT 2015 in Bamberg, Germany <https://www.irit.fr/recherches/ICS/events/conferences/workshop-IFIPWG13.2-B…>,INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>,INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifip-wg-13-2-workshop-interact/home>, andINTERACT 2021 in Bari, Italy <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/>. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_iJ1JDR1kenC0> Target Audience and Expected Outcomes This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human–computer interaction from a user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on methods, processes and approaches for designing, building and testing interactive systems. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate how they rethought HCI’s and SE’s interplay in order to address aspects such as agile development, sustainability, ethical considerations, and cybersecurity. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. We are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools that combine human-centered design and software engineering practices. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_OX43lXt1eneG> Workshop Format This full-day workshopisin person only. Itisorganized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case st udies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshoponsite in person only. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2023 organizers. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_80> Submission Instructions In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages inSpringerLNCSformat <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report(practical) experiences related to research challenges and results on human-centered software engineering or user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on digital-transformation aspects and technologies (such as mobile and wearable devices, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Digital Twin, Cybersecurity) and their impact on software properties or software development practices.Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Submissions will be processed via the workshop web pages that will be managed by the workshop organizers at IFIP WG 13.2.Papers are submitted through theEasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2023>. Submitted position paperswill be reviewed byan international program committee comprisingthe organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position paperswill be made available through the workshop website.Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop.Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2023 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_94> Important Dates Deadline for submission: May 30, 2023 [extended!](May 8, 2023) Acceptance notification:June 7, 2023[extended!] (May 31, 2023) Final version of position paper: June30, 2023 Workshop date: August29, 2023 (confirmed) <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_104> Organizers Carmelo Ardito, UniversityLUM Giuseppe Degennaro, Italy Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.ubmtv0mjluv3> Contact Please write toorganizers(a)hcse-conference.org <mailto:organizers@hcse-conference.org>if you have any question. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_110> Venue The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August28– September1, 2023, inYork, United Kingdom. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2023.org/ <https://www.interact2023.org/>). * * **

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Call for Papers - Sustainable Human-Work Interaction Designs (SHWID) Workshop - Deadline Extension

by Élodie BOUZEKRI

############################################################# CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Sustainable Human-Work Interaction Designs (SHWID) https://hwid.unibs.it/events/SHWID/ Organized by WG13.6 on Human Work Interaction Design and WG13.10 on Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability Co-located with INTERACT 2023: 19th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human-Computer Interaction) of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) 28 August - 1 September 2023 - York, UK ############################################################# Theme: Sustainable HCI explores ways to design interactive systems in a more sustainable way and to make user behavior more sustainable. Social justice and equity aspects became emergent domains in HCI during the last decade. This workshop proposes to explore how HWID design methods and exemplary HWID designs can contribute to the implementation of environmental practices in the workplace, sustainable manufacturing processes, or socially fair systems and processes. This workshop aims to (a) investigate processes and methods for creating sustainable designs and workplaces, (b) collect case studies that analyze experiences with introducing and learning from sustainability at work, and (c) formulate a research agenda for future work on sustainable human-work interaction designs. -------------------------------------------------------------- Participants are asked to submit a position paper describing work on processes, methods, or results and evaluation of these to support (but not limited to): - Digital sobriety - Green IT - Slow design, craft design - Sustainable digitalization - Users' experience in sustainable environment - Engagement in environmental behavior - System-organization fit, organizational implementation, or benefits realization -------------------------------------------------------------- Participation and submission: Papers must be two- to four-page position paper formatted according to the INTERACT proceedings format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). We encourage both senior and early-stage researchers to submit position papers describing work in progress or completed research. Position papers must be submitted in PDF format (non-anonymized) in EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shwid2023. Submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers based on relevance, originality, significance, and quality. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop. In agreement with the authors, revised version of accepted position papers will be published in INTERACT Workshop Proceedings volume. -------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper submission deadline: May 16th, 2023 (extended) Paper notification of acceptance: May 29th, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop organizers: - Elodie Bouzekri (contact: elodie.bouzekri(a)estia.fr<mailto:elodie.bouzekri@estia.fr>) - Barbara Rita Barricelli - Torkil Clemmensen - Morten Hertzum - Masoodian Masood

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Call for Proposal - ACM CSCW 2023 Special Interest Groups (SIG)

by Sayan Sarcar

[Apologies for the cross-posting] Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2023—for the first time—will offer Special Interest Groups (SIGs) as another way for people from diverse backgrounds and interests to join together around shared research initiatives. SIGs enable conference attendees to meet informally about a common interest, which may include specific technologies, societal concerns, curious human behaviors or any other topic where there has been or could be CSCW research. A SIG can be an excellent space for dialog and may incorporate novel facilitation strategies, from group discussion to collective storytelling, roleplay, and even sketching activities to help SIG participants creatively engage with a topic. While CSCW 2023 will be a hybrid conference from October 16-18, the SIG sessions will all be facilitated in-person in Minnesota, USA. Submission Details SIG proposals must be submitted via the PCS system as a single PDF by May 11, 2023. Each submission must include a SIG Proposal (5-pages) as well as Supplementary Materials describing the facilitation strategy and requirements for the in-person session at the conference (2-pages). Accepted proposals will be published as Extended Abstracts in the Conference Proceedings. During the conference, CSCW will provide each SIG with a meeting space for 75-minutes and will help to advertise the meetings in various ways. - Online submission: PCS Submission System - Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) - Submission format: A proposal including references (maximum 5-pages) and mandatory supplementary material describing the SIG (2-pages). - Selection Process: Juried How have other academic communities engaged with the topic of your SIG? The SIG Proposal (5-pages) should clearly articulate a compelling reason for the SIG. Authors are strongly encouraged to describe the topic in a maximum of 20 primary references with approximately half of the references coming from ACM publications and the other half from sources beyond the ACM. This is not a hard rule as much as it is a challenge to seek out interdisciplinary opportunities for collaboration. Develop the proposal collaboratively with a group of people. While not strictly required, we prefer that proposals be authored by a minimum of two individuals representing at least two different organizations or communities. Clearly describe the activities you would like to facilitate during your SIG. The Supplementary Material (also mandatory) using the same template should be no more than 2-pages in length. Accepted SIGs will have a scheduled, 75-minute long session at the conference. After your SIG is accepted, we will notify you what technical support will be available. Rooms will be set up to facilitate discussion. The following details about the SIG session should be included in the Supplementary Material: (1) A brief description of the community (or communities) to which this SIG would be of interest and why it is of interest, (2) assumed attendee background, (3) the approach you will use for organizing and presenting the SIG, (4) an informal schedule of discussion topics, (5) your plan to attract a reasonable number of attendees, and (6) which organizer should serve as the primary contact. As you develop a plan for your SIG proposal, please pay attention to accessibility considerations. Follow recommendations found in the Guide to an Accessible Submission <https://sigchi.org/conferences/author-resources/accessibility-guide/>. If you have any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2023(a)cscw.acm.org <accessibility(a)chi2023.acm.org>. All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time - Deadline for submissions due: Thursday, May 11, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: Thursday, June 15, 2023 Selection process Although the process is highly selective, it does not necessarily follow a reviewing process by a committee, and authors should not expect to receive formal feedback on their submission other than the selection decision. Specifically, we will consider the following criteria: 1. Appeal to the community: Is the topic both timely and of wide enough appeal to attract a significant audience? At the same time, is the topic sufficiently focused to allow for productive discussion during the SIG meeting? Too narrow, and the SIG might attract too few people; too broad, and it is difficult for progress to be made in the relatively short duration of a SIG. 2. Format: Is the proposed format conducive to discussion and shared insight? Will it be possible to achieve its aims? SIGs are not workshops, nor project showcases, nor tutorials. 3. Diversity of perspective: It helps to be able to show that the SIG will be able to encompass a wide perspective, and that the organizers can accommodate and facilitate discussion across this breadth. Places to show this are in the description of the intended community, the assumed attendee background, and the home institutions and disciplines of the organizers. 4. Continuity: Does the SIG support the development of a longer term interest group, for example follow-on SIGs or other types of contributions at subsequent CSCW and other conferences? If the topic is a very recent or new one, or a revival of an old topic, then arguments will need to be made, to demonstrate that it is a topic that will persist, rather than simply being this year’s fashion. If the topic is a continuation of previous SIG(s), then it is necessary to present the latest developments of the topic and their projection into the future. 5. Anonymity: Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Submissions should NOT be anonymous. However, confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference, with the exception of title and author information which will be published on the website prior to the conference. Upon Acceptance of Your Submission The corresponding author of a conditionally accepted paper has to follow the instructions on preparing and submitting a final version by the Publication-Ready Deadline. If the authors cannot meet these requirements by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and may be required to remove the paper from the program. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to: pubs2023(a)cscw.acm.org. For more details, check the website: https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/submit-sig/ Thanks for your time and we hope to see you at CSCW 2023! Best, Brian McInnis and Sayan Sarcar sigs2023(a)cscw.acm.org

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MobileHCI 2023 - CFPs & Student Volunteers

by Carmen Santoro

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM MobileHCI 2023 The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction Athens, Greece September 26—29, 2023 https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS & STUDENT VOLUNTEERS MobileHCI conference brings together people from diverse areas and provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. The conference welcomes contributions that promote the exchange of ideas and rational discourse between academics, researchers, and industries all over the world. Please refer to https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023 for more details. ===================================== Demos, Tutorials, Panels, and Industrial Perspectives ===================================== Submission May 26, 2023 Notifications June 23, 2023 Camera-Ready July 7, 2023 Web (Demos): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfordemos.php Web (Tutorials): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfortutorials.php Web (Panels): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforpanels.php Web (Industrial Perspectives): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforindustpersp.php ========================= Late-Breaking Work ========================= Submission May 26, 2023 Notifications June 30, 2023 Camera-Ready July 21, 2023 Web (Late-Breaking Work): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callforlatebreaking.php ========================= Doctoral Consortium ========================= Submission June 23, 2023 Notifications July 7, 2023 Camera-Ready July 21, 2023 Web(Doctoral Consortium): https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/callfordoctoralconsortium.php ========================= Student Volunteers ========================= Lottery opens on May 1st, 2023 Lottery closes on July 1st, 2023 Notifications July 15th, 2023 Lottery site: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FNIiZHyeBRnAI7N1ElchZxKrFdCu_gHZKoUgyEF… * All deadlines are AoE If you have any inquiries, please feel free to send an email to the organizing committee https://mobilehci.acm.org/2023/committee.php We hope to see you this year in Athens!

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Life in Academia

by Gözel Shakeri

Dear all, We are excited to announce the 3rd season of Life in Academia <https://uol.de/en/media-informatics/teaching/courses/life-in-academia>. Join us for this online series of talks and engage with an absolutely brilliant array of experts and interested audiences in critical conversations around academia. Believing that academia is more than research results and publications, this seminar series offers a wide variety of impulses, empowering diverse voices. Life in Academia <https://uol.de/en/media-informatics/teaching/courses/life-in-academia> takes place this summer 2023 (May – July), *Tuesdays at 4pm CEST via Zoom*. We look forward to seeing you there! *Upcoming sessions: * *Decolonial Praxis as an Academic and Pedagogical Imperative - *09/05/2023 Rima Saini (Middlesex University London, UK) *Academia as a Masculinity Contest - *16/05/2023 Jennifer Berdahl (University of British Columbia, Canada) *Designing with menstruating bodies and doing feminist science - *23/05/2023 Nadia Campo Woytuk (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) *Power abuse in academia: problem description and suggestions for solutions - *30/05/2023 Jana Lasser (Graz University of Technology, Austria) *#IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan – Academic Precarity and Current Debates - *05/06/2023 Jennifer S. Henke (Greifswald University, Germany) *Community Service in Academia - *04/07/2023 Monica Pereira (Brunel University London, UK) We hope to see you there! Life in Academia members *Please join our mailing list <https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FhRwNL5…> to be updated on all our activities. * * * -- Gözel Shakeri (she/her) Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction If this email arrives outside your normal working hours, please don't feel obliged to respond. Fühlen Sie sich bitte nicht verpflichtet auf diese Email ausserhalb Ihrer regulären Arbeitszeit zu antworten.

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers

by amon rapp

CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS ==================================================== GOALS AND TOPICS The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. A particular focus will be on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) and its applications to support humans, improve their performance as well as increase safety and trustworthiness. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme. The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis. Students will be connected with a mentor that will provide more specific feedback on their research. ==================================================== PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users (https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt) is also available. Papers must: Identify a significant research problem in the field of HCI. Outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions. Describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far. Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings. Each author of an accepted paper will present orally their contribution during the conference. ==================================================== MAIN DEADLINES (AOT) Submission deadline: May 31st, 2023 Notifications to contributors: June 30th, 2023 Camera-ready/final version deadline: July 15th, 2023 ==================================================== PAPER CHAIRS Giovanna Varni, University of Trento, Italy Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy email: dc(a)chitaly2023.it SUBMISSIONS Submit on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023

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[CFP] ACM GoodIT 2023 -- call for all the tracks -> deadline: May, 15

by Catia Prandi

=== ACM GoodIt 2023 Call for Papers === ACM GoodIT 2023 will focus on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. ### Important Dates -> All tracks Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023 -> Notification of acceptance: July 7th, 2023 ### Link http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/ ### Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. The latter is defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public, such as clean air, clean water, internet access, education, or healthcare. However, new media innovations and the proliferation of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good can now reflect global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration towards a positive societal impact. The conference will feature regular and special tracks papers, work-in-progress and PhD papers. ### Papers length * Full papers (main track and special tracks): papers must not exceed twelve (12) single-column pages, excluding references. Papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will likely be rejected. * Work in Progress Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed eight (8) single-column pages, excluding references. * PhD Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed five (5) single-column pages, excluding references. ### Publication of papers Submitted papers (in each of the special tracks) must be original works and must not have been previously published. They will be peer-reviewed (three reviews). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work in presence at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Workshop Proposals - Deadline Extension

by amon rapp

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION (8 MAY, 2023) ==================================================== *CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI* *- **https://chitaly2023.it/* <https://chitaly2023.it/> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ==================================================== Date: 20 September, 2023 Location: Turin, Piedmont, Italy In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ==================================================== We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 15th Edition of the Biannual Conference (chitaly2023.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ( http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/), whose main theme is “Crossing HCI and AI”. CHItaly2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing and exploring emerging areas of research in HCI, in general, and HCAI (Human-Centered AI), in particular, with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the workshop proposal can focus on all aspects of HCI: * Crossing HCI and AI * Fundamentals of HCI * Interactive Environments * Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices * Applications of HCI Workshops in CHItaly are co-located events that are held the day before the main conference starts. They represent forums where specific topics relevant to CHItaly get discussed. ==================================================== WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ========================================================= Workshop proposals will be reviewed according to quality criteria, which consider the relevance of workshop proposals for CHItaly 2023, their potential of gathering quality contributions, and their review process. All workshops will be half-day. ==================================================== >Structure of the Proposal ==================================================== The workshop proposal should be organized as follows: - 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 a short bio) and main contact person - Motivation and objectives - List of topics - Target audience and expected number of attendees - Papers Review process (if any): the strategy used to collect contributions (such as online conference management systems or submitting by emails to the workshop chairs, etc.), minimum numbers of reviews, ... - Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …) - Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of papers, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …) - PC tentative list ==================================================== >Important dates for workshop proposals ==================================================== Submission deadline: May, 8 EXTENDED Review notification: May 16, 2023 Camera-ready for workshop summary: July 31, 2023 ==================================================== > TENTATIVE dates of the workshop review cycle ==================================================== Submission deadline for workshop papers: June 23, 2023 Report workshop status to chairs: June 26, 2023 Go/No-go Decision on Workshops: June 30, 2023 Notifications to authors: July 14, 2023 Camera-ready/final version deadline: 28 July 21, 2023 Workshop held: September 20, 2023 ========================================================= SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS ========================================================= Workshop proposals, in PDF format (no specific template is required), must be uploaded via Easy Chair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023) by selecting the Track “Workshop Proposals”. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals and 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 website 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. Finally, a paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later). ==================================================== WORKSHOP CHAIRS ==================================================== Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Università di Bari, Italy ( berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it) Giuseppe Sansonetti, Università Roma Tre, Italy ( giuseppe.sansonetti(a)uniroma3.it)

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

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

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Posizione aperta - professore II fascia @UniKore Enna

by Salvatore Sorce

Cari tutti, segnalo una posizione aperta per Professore di II fascia nel SSD ING-INF/05 presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore". Le attività di ricerca attualmente in corso riguardano applicazioni di IA, Speech Recognition, Cybersecurity e Human-Centered Design. Dal punto di vista didattico, la Facoltà eroga un corso di laurea triennale in Ingegneria Informatica (classe L-8), un corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria dell'Intelligenza Artificiale e della Sicurezza Informatica (classe LM-32), e un corso di dottorato di ricerca in Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Ingegneria (XXXVIII ciclo). A breve (entro luglio 2023) verrà inoltre realizzato un laboratorio scientifico-didattico di Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HC-AI) da 50 postazioni, con attrezzature all'avanguardia a supporto della ricerca sperimentale negli ambiti di cui sopra. Link al bando: https://unikore.it/lavorare-kore/decreto-presidenziale-n-166-2023/ Link didattica UKE: https://unikore.it/didattica/ Link ricerca e laboratori UKE: https://unikore.it/ricerca/ Contatti per ulteriori dettagli: - Marco Siniscalchi, marco.siniscalchi(a)unikore.it - Salvatore Sorce, salvatore.sorce(a)unikore.it Prego voler fare circolare l'informazione a chiunque ritenete possa essere interessato. -- Salvatore Sorce, PhD Professore Associato Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore" Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura Cittadella Universitaria - 94100 Enna

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

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

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

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CFP --> 4th International Forum of Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (NEMESIS’23) --> IEEE: #57573

by Jan Sawicki

CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Forum of Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (NEMESIS’23) Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023 https://fedcsis.org/sessions/css/nemesis Organized within FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573) Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions) KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; 70 punktów parametrycznych MEiN Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. ********************* Statement concerning LLMs ********************* Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work. ********************************************************************* Nowadays, information security works as a backbone for protecting both user data and electronic transactions. Protecting communications and data infrastructures of an increasingly inter-connected world have become vital nowadays. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of computer science, engineering, and information systems communities. Information security has some well-founded technical research directions which encompass access level (user authentication and authorization), protocol security, software security, and data cryptography. Moreover, some other emerging topics related to organizational security aspects have appeared beyond the long-standing research directions. The International Forum of Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (NEMESIS’23) as a successor of International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust (INSERT’19) focuses on the diversity of the cyber information security developments and deployments in order to highlight the most recent challenges and report the most recent researches. The session is an umbrella for all cyber security technical aspects, user privacy techniques, and trust. In addition, it goes beyond the technicalities and covers some emerging topics like social and organizational security research directions. NEMESIS’23 serves as a forum of presentation of theoretical, applied research papers, case studies, implementation experiences as well as work-in-progress results in cyber security. NEMESIS’23 is intended to attract researchers and practitioners from academia and industry and provides an international discussion forum in order to share their experiences and their ideas concerning emerging aspects in information security met in different application domains. This opens doors for highlighting unknown research directions and tackling modern research challenges. The objectives of the NEMESIS’23 can be summarized as follows: To review and conclude research findings in cyber security and other security domains, focused on the protection of different kinds of assets and processes, and to identify approaches that may be useful in the application domains of information security. To find synergy between different approaches, allowing elaborating integrated security solutions, e.g. integrate different risk-based management systems. To exchange security-related knowledge and experience between experts to improve existing methods and tools and adopt them to new application areas Topics Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Biometric technologies - Cryptography and cryptanalysis - Critical infrastructure protection - Security of wireless sensor networks - Hardware-oriented information security - Organization- related information security - Social engineering and human aspects in cyber security - Individuals identification and privacy protection methods - Pedagogical approaches for information security education - Information security and business continuity management - Tools supporting security management and development - Decision support systems for information security - Trust in emerging technologies and applications - Digital right management and data protection - Threats and countermeasures for cybercrimes - Ethical challenges in user privacy and trust - Cyber and physical security infrastructures - Risk assessment and management - Steganography and watermarking - Digital forensics and crime science - Security knowledge management - Security of cyber-physical systems - Privacy enhancing technologies - Trust and reputation models - Misuse and intrusion detection - Data hide and watermarking - Cloud and big data security - Computer network security - Assurance methods - Security statistics The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts, research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia regarding applications of networking technology. Submission rules: - Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions. Important dates: + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 7, 2023 + Author notification: July 11, 2023 + Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023 + Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023 NEMESIS Committee: https://fedcsis.org/sessions/nsa/nemesis/committee

1 year, 12 months

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Messaggio per i partecipanti in presenza a CHI2023

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Cari tutti, Come di consueto, ci fa piacere fissare un momento di incontro con i partecipanti del capitolo italiano a CHI2023. Ci incontreremo tutti nella hall del centro congressi, vicino al registration desk, per il coffee break delle 16 di mercoledì 26 aprile. Vi aspettiamo! Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

2 years

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Third Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Third Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

2 years

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HCSE@INTERACT 2023 Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering - Call for Papers (Submissions due: May 08)

by Stefan Sauer

*(Apologies if you receive multiple e-mails on this subject via different channels!)* https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023 *Call for Papers* HCSE@INTERACT 2023 International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering Rethinking the Interplay of Human–Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in the Age of Digital Transformation organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 onMethodologies for User-Centered Systems Design atINTERACT 2023 <https://interact2023.org/> The 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction August 28/29, 2023 York, United Kingdom Theme The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by a process of technological transformation that is affecting the social structure across the globe. It has changed the way of shopping, of relating to others, of living. At the core of the process are technologies that generate important cultural impacts in our lives. In Europe, this process is differently named, depending on the different countries: digitisation, digital transformation, digital transition, etc. Here we call it digital transformation, but no matter how you name it, it has in fact revolutionized every market and company, as well as our life. We follow the definition by Gong & Ribiere (2020) that states that Digital transformation is “A fundamental change process, enabled by the innovative use of digital technologies accompanied by the strategic leverage of key resources and capabilities, aiming to radically improve an entity* and redefine its value proposition for its stakeholders.” (*An entity could be: an organization, a business network, an industry, or society.). Various technologies enable the digital transformation process: mobile and wearable devices, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Digital Twin, Cybersecurity. However, while introducing undeniable benefits, they also bring some important issues. This workshop is looking for contributions from various fields, with a focus on: * the domain of Internet of Things (IoT) and IoT devices that are becoming more pervasive and social * IoT also introduces issues from the cybersecurity perspective * The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human lives and the economywith the problem thatthe required computing power is high, there are worriesof how AI models predict the output, data privacy and securityetc * Digital Twin (DT) is another protagonist of the digital transformation process. It is a virtual replica of a real-world object that is run in a simulation environment to mirror its physical pendant, with digital and physical twins influencing each other including the ability to perform predictions. * benefits and issues of other technologies: usability of mobile and wearable devices, as well as of Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality; user awareness about the usage and the security of Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain. What emerges is that Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) is more relevant than ever. The interplay between Human–Computer Interaction and Software Engineering needs to be rethought and fortified for a rapid response to the evolution of technologies, while also considering aspects such as greater agility in service development, sustainability, ethical considerations, cybersecurity, user mindset and awareness, to name just a few. But also the approaches for addressing them have to be carefully considered. For example, some software development companies show an increasing interest in low-code development platforms to facilitate application development by domain experts without sophisticated software development knowledge, as a possible solution to the need of more agile, fast and also sustainable service development. Domain experts are, however, not trained in software development methods. This introduces a risk of domain experts creating unusable applications or exceeding the designated time frame of a project (or both). <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.kzuma82xxlaf> Objective In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2beyond the traditional themes of IFIP 13.2 workshops. Particularly, this edition promotes sharing of knowledge and experiences that address how to deal with the challenges of the digital transformation and its influence on human-centered socio-technical system design and development practices. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized atINTERACT 2015 in Bamberg, Germany <https://www.irit.fr/recherches/ICS/events/conferences/workshop-IFIPWG13.2-B…>,INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>,INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifip-wg-13-2-workshop-interact/home>, andINTERACT 2021 in Bari, Italy <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/>. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_iJ1JDR1kenC0> Target Audience and Expected Outcomes This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human–computer interaction from a user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on methods, processes and approaches for designing, building and testing interactive systems. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate how they rethought HCI’s and SE’s interplay in order to address aspects such as agile development, sustainability, ethical considerations, and cybersecurity. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. We are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools that combine human-centered design and software engineering practices. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_OX43lXt1eneG> Workshop Format This full-day workshopisin person only. Itisorganized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case st udies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshoponsite in person only. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2023 organizers. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_80> Submission Instructions In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages inSpringerLNCSformat <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report(practical) experiences related to research challenges and results on human-centered software engineering or user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on digital-transformation aspects and technologies (such as mobile and wearable devices, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Digital Twin, Cybersecurity) and their impact on software properties or software development practices.Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Submissions will be processed via the workshop web pages that will be managed by the workshop organizers at IFIP WG 13.2.Papers are submitted through theEasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2023>. Submitted position paperswill be reviewed byan international program committee comprisingthe organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position paperswill be made available through the workshop website.Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop.Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2023 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_94> Important Dates Deadline for submission: May8, 2023 Acceptance notification:May 31, 2023 Final version of position paper: June30, 2023 Workshop date: August28 or 29, 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_104> Organizers Carmelo Ardito, UniversityLUM Giuseppe Degennaro, Italy Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.ubmtv0mjluv3> Contact Please write toorganizers(a)hcse-conference.org <mailto:organizers@hcse-conference.org>if you have any question. <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-interact2023#h.p_ID_110> Venue The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August28– September1, 2023, inYork, United Kingdom. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2023.org/ <https://www.interact2023.org/>). * * **

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