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

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:CC8EEEC9-C61F-49D4-B3AB-C88A7D95CEB7@zyxel.com]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Following the successful initiative from previous years, the International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2021 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals. The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference. Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2021 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings. [cid:ECA3A5FB-BB61-41AD-B6FE-A4C1930C3AC6@zyxel.com]<http://www.springer.com/> Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management). For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 9, 2021 * Workshop papers submission deadline: April 30, 2021 (recommended) * Workshop camera-ready papers: June 28, 2021 (mandatory) Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers. The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information: * Workshop title * Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information * Workshop description and topics * Relevance of the workshop to the conference * Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable) * Program Committee members (tentative) * Estimated number of submitted papers * Draft CFP Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> (Subject: MIS4TEL 2021 Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:BDF9E2A4-EF03-44F6-8C6E-E7A115985F05@zyxel.com] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it/> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. 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CfP: CoPDA 2021 "Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI?"

by Barbara Rita Barricelli

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

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

by Davide Spano

Apologize for cross posting. ======= DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31th ========== The EICS’2021 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and studies in the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering field. DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research goals as well as intermediate results, and to discuss them with leading experts in the field as well as with peers. Students can be in intermediate or advanced stages of their research, but should not have completed their work yet, and should thus still be able to take into account feedback from the DC. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide PhD students with the opportunity to: - Receive constructive feedback and advice on their research, - Meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Human Computer Interaction Engineering field, - Interact with other PhD students and exchange ideas and suggestions among participants, - Discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues, - Present their work as a poster at the EICS’2021 conference. A submission consists of a short paper (max 4 pages standard ACM SIGCHI format (2020), references excluded), a free-form CV of the PhD candidate and a draft poster. Submissions must be submitted using the PCS system by the deadline (see the firm deadline below). Papers suitable for (virtual or presence) demonstration at the conference should also submit a supplementary video of the system in action. The submission should not be anonymous and must: - identify a significant problem in the field of research, - clearly formulate the research question, - outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions (main related works) - present clearly (preliminary) ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far, - describe the research methodology that is applied or planned, - make explicit the current status of the doctoral work (e.g. when research started, how long to reach the end, papers already accepted) - outline the expected contributions to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Submissions must be made through the PCS system by the deadline (see the Important dates section below). In addition to the DC chairs, additional leading experts will be invited to the DC to discuss the participants' research DC participants will have their registration fee waived. The SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) program also be of interest to help covering traveling expenses. For more information about this grant and for applying online, please visit: https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/gary-marsden-student-d… . # Important dates Submission deadline: Friday, March 12, 2021 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications: April 16th, 2021 Camera Ready: April, 30th, 2021 # Doctoral Consortium Chairs Regina Bernhaupt (Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) dc2021(a)eics.acm.org -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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Call for papers | MIST4TEL'21 | 6-8 Oct 2021 | Salamanca (Spain)

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:838C96DE-19CE-4F70-A539-FDF4701B03D8]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 10th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field. MIS4TEL 2021 will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference<http://www.paams.net/>. TOPICS Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL * AI technologies and tools for TEL * Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems * Knowledge representation, reasoning and management systems for TEL * Natural language systems for TEL * Recommendation, personalisation and adaptation in TEL systems * Social networks for TEL * Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL * Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL * Smart solutions or environments for TEL * Wearable technologies for TEL * Robotics for TEL * Virtual reality environments for TEL * Games for TEL or gamified TEL * Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments * Making and fabrication for TEL Learning analytics for TEL * Big data and data visualisation in TEL * Learning analytics for curriculum design * Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience * Learning analytics for predicting behaviour * Learning analytics for designing learning interventions * Learning analytics for stakeholders Methodologies and experiences for TEL * Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL * Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling in TEL * Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL * Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems * Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL * Methodologies for informal learning for TEL * Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium and large companies * Methodologies, tools and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL * Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL * Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from MIS4TEL will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals. [cid:38148EC3-5410-4C81-AF10-E84EA5738157] <http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2255-2863/index> To Be Updated COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Fernando De la Prieta University of Salamanca Spain TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Rosella Gennari Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Marco Temperini Sapienza University, Rome Italy PAPER CO-CHAIR Tania Di Mascio University of L'aquila Italy Pierpaolo Vittorini University of L'aquila Italy GENERAL CHAIR Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca Spain PUBLICITY CHAIR Federica Caruso University of L'aquila Italy Nestor Dario Duque Mendes National University of Colombia Colombia Alessandra Melonio Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza National University of Colombia Colombia WORKSHOP CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova Comenius University of Bratislava Slovakia Elvira Popescu University of Craiova România TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS CHAIR Cesar Alberto Collazos Universidad del Cauca Colombia INVITED SPEAKERS [cid:DF9CE750-056E-4B8A-BDD8-2B9904813ACD] Yves Demazeau Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France) FORMAT All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (Main track and Workshops), including figures and references: Microsoft Word Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip> Latex Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/templates/ProcSci_TeX.zip> SUBMISSION All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2021<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> conference management system. [cid:D1A76C26-D19D-484B-94E7-284ED38C6DD3]<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series<http://www.springer.com/series/11156>. [cid:4EC0A648-78AB-40CB-8BAF-470828C5B668]<http://www.springer.com/> ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings<http://www.webofknowledge.com/>, EI-Compendex<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/content/compendex>, DBLP<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/>, SCOPUS<http://www.scopus.com/>, Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/> and Springerlink<https://link.springer.com/> ** IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 30th April, 2021 7th June, 2021 28th June, 2021 6th-8th October, 2021 www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:E2353C4A-AF8F-4684-87E7-F356DA6FDCBE] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. Sollten Sie diese Nachricht irrtümlich erhalten haben, bitten wir Sie, diese zu vernichten ohne sie zu kopieren oder an Dritte weiterzuleiten. Auch bitten wir Sie, uns darüber unverzüglich in Kenntnis zu setzen. Danke. Ai sensi del Regolamento UE 679/2016 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate ed a uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invitiamo ad eliminarlo senza copiarlo e a non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Grazie. According to the Regulation EU 2016/679, you are hereby informed that this message contains confidential information that is intended only for the use of the addressee. If you are not the addressee, and have received this message by mistake, please delete it and immediately notify us. In any case you may not copy or disseminate this message to anyone. Thank you.

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ACM UMAP 2021: Final Call for Demo and LBR Papers

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Final Call for Demo and LBR Papers Important Dates • Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 26, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2021 • Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2021 • Conference: June 21-25, 2021, online from Utrecht, the Netherlands Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2021 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 26th, 2021. Submission formats For more details, see below! Demonstrations • Max. 3 pages + max. 1 additional page for references • (Required) unpublished page describing how they would present the demo virtually and/or in person • (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system • Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a virtual demo + poster at the conference Late-Breaking Results • Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references • (NEW: required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on • Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a virtual poster at the conference Submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Demonstrations Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 3 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2021. Given uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this extra page should also describe if/how the demo can be presented in a virtual setting (e.g. with a video or a live link to the system). Late-Breaking Results Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as (in-person and virtual) posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2021. Submission and Review Process Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Papers (demo and LBR) must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): • LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… • Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… • MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2021 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP 2021 Demo and LBR”). The review process will be single-blind, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Publication and Presentation Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA • Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

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

by Carmelo Ardito

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

by Cristina Gena

DEADLINE EXTENDED ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 2, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ****************************************************************************************** All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *March 31, 2021* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Collaborative multimedia applications in technology* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48>* * **Guest Editors: **• César A. Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia • Freddy Paz, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Perù • Habib Fardoun, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain & King Abdulaziz University. Saudi Arabia** **The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted Collaborative multimedia applications in technology includes, but is not limited to: Frameworks and Methodologies for Collaboration Collaboration Enabling Technologies Architectures & Design of Collaboration Systems Platforms, Artifacts and Tools for Collaboration Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms Interfaces for Collaborative Work Intelligent, Autonomous and Multi Agents in Collaboration Cognitive and Psychological Issues in Collaboration Virtual Communities and Communities of Practice Group Characteristics and Social Factors Ontologies and Ethnographic Approaches Human-machine Collaboration and Interaction Awareness in Collaboration Systems Contextual and Situation-based Collaboration Visualization of Collaborative Processes & Applications Privacy-preserving Collaboration Grid and Cloud-based Collaboration Environments** **and Focus Section on* **Design during and for Pandemics *http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48fs <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4…>* * **Guest Editors:** • Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, University of Gothenburg, Sweden • Guido Giunti, University of Oulu, Finland and TU Delft, Netherlands Are you working in the research or industry fields related to HCI, Interaction Design, Health Informatics, Health and Wellbeing, Information Processing Sciences, and Industrial Design? Then it is vital to contribute to this focused issue with your experiences on: how the COVID-19 influenced the way you work with users of technology how the pandemic influenced your designs different type of designs you develop to support people during a pandemic e.g. HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 prevention and management to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2008 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 31, 2021* (extended) • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end of May, 2021 ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NEWS: Extended Deadline! Due to several requests, papers are now due by* April 2, 2021.* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. For those using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009), visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes. However, personalization brings two main challenges: - Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only once, or they interact with digital services anonymously? - Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web? Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be preserved and valued. Submissions Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Important dates: April 2, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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

by Giovanni Semeraro

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

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

by Eleonora Mencarini

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

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

by Maria De Marsico

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing / ========================================================= *EXTENDED DEADLINE**--> **March 31, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ - mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com *========================================================= SLERD 2021 *will feature:* keynotes *by:* • Inger Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24* */Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place/* • Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) – June 24* */Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective/* • Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25* */Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach/* * * the *Student Scientific Video Contest* ** call for contributions <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> ** with the award of the “*BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”* (three prizes: 500,00 €, 300,00 €, 300,00 € and free participation to the conference) * * ** two Open Debates <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> – June 25 – on *• Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* ** *• ***Towards Learning Ecosystems Based on Competences: the promise of the micro-credentials** and a Satellite Event <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem”* *orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership *SLERD 2021* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) * /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * • general frameworks and methodological advances • design, data and other relevant literacies • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**31, 2021 (extended)* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages). Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021 ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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[Reminder] Call for Participation - Interactive Experiences at CHItaly

by María Menéndez-Blanco

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

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

by Luca Turchet

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

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Second Call for Papers ExUM@UMAP 2021

by Oana Inel

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

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

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. For those using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Conversational agents for CH - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009), visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes. However, personalization brings two main challenges: - Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only once, or they interact with digital services anonymously? - Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web? Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be preserved and valued. Submissions Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Important dates: March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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

by Chilean Scholar

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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I: Equity Talks #1: On Being Global

by Maristella Matera

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

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

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, We are happy to open the call for papers in our workshop on transferable UX at the upcoming ECSCW’21. We hope that you can consider participating. The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services”<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html> aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working on conceptualization, maintenance, and preservation of transferable UX artifacts within their organizations. In this workshop, we aim on synthesizing the challenges and highlighting opportunities of transferring UX insights while developing multiple products and services. We ask: “How can we depart from a paradigm of designing a single product and turn to the holistic UX design approach at work?” Instead of focusing on a product, we call UX researchers, designers, experts and practitioners, to center on an ecology of artifacts, e.g. a portfolio. This, in turn, may help to improve existing work environments and to develop novel integrated work environments, where many actors need to effectively coordinate their actions using a myriad of tools. That change, ultimately, may lead not only to improved quality of work and create pleasurable experiences for the end-users, but also establish a ground for successful company-wide collaboration when it comes to preserving and transferring UX insights and rules. We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, enterprise architecture, product/portfolio management, and agile software development to create a UX research agenda for designing integrated digital work environments, unpacking development, users, and change perspectives to aid establishing long-living UX practices that extend across projects and overtime. More details: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html HOW TO APPLY? To apply, please submit a position paper (2-4 pages, template<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/>) explaining your interests and experience in transferable UX in relation to the workshop theme<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021/ws-theme.html> in PDF format by April 9, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch . To promote broader participation from UX design practitioners (e.g., UX researchers, UX designers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Enterprise Architects, Human Factors Specialists), and design leaders, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a case study, or the like. KEY DATES Submission deadline: April 9, 2021, AoE Notification: April 30, 2021 Workshop: June 8, 2021 ATTENDANCE The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to twenty participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for conference attendees. ORGANIZERS Anton Fedosov, University of Zurich, Switzerland Daniel Boos, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland Susanne Schmidt-Rauch, evux AG, Switzerland Jarno Ojala, Vincit Oyj, Finland Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France If you have any questions, please drop us an email at transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch Best regards, Anton Fedosov, Ph.D. People and Computing Lab (ZPAC) antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch> antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/> University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zürich Switzerland

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Call for papers: VR-ISLAND WORKSHOP, CHitaly 2021

by Giulia Staggini

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

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Gregorio Convertino

by Fabio Paternò

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

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

by Cristina Gena

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 26, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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

by Maurizio Mancini

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

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

by chitaly2021

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

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1st Call for papers PATCH@UMAP 2021

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online and in Utrecht, The Netherlands. https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. For those using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Conversational agents for CH - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009), visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes. However, personalization brings two main challenges: - Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only once, or they interact with digital services anonymously? - Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web? Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be preserved and valued. Submissions Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references; Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021. An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Important dates: March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com Program Committee Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy

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

by Gennari Rosella

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

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Invito partecipazione indagine università

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium

by Oana Inel

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

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I: SIGCHI 2021 award winners

by Maristella Matera

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ - mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= Deadline for paper submission: *March 15, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= * *SLERD 2021* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD>/./ * Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD 2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively attend it physically or virtually. If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the previous 2020 SLERD *SLERD 2021*will feature: ** *keynotes* <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/keynotes/> by***• Inger Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24**Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place***• Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) – June 24**/Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective/***• Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25**Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach the *Student Scientific Video Contest* ** call for contributions <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> with the award of the “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS” (prizes: 500,00 €, 300,00 €, 300,00€ and free participation to the conference) an Open Debate – June 25 – on *Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* and as Satellite Event <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem”* *orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership *SLERD 2021* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. /*Short Intro*/ In 2020 the pandemic has affected the learning processes all over the world and learning ecosystems have reacted showing different degrees of resilience and promptness with emergence of similarities, differences and inequalities. Among the similarities, a tendency of the individuals to remain in a comfort zone and a general unpreparedness to operate in a full virtual space. Suddenly the two dimensions that characterizes the smart learning ecosystems - physical and virtual - started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur - processual, social, individual - to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Some scholars refer to an age characterized by a so-called “new normality”. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are already changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities?/ Smart /referred to /learning ecosystems,/ in ASLERD and SLERD contexts, does not simply means “technology enhanced”. The smartness is a more complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players operating in the ecosystems and is affected by the improvement of any relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning, especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation. Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they are not a “sine qua non”. The achievement of the learning ecosystems’ smartness is a process that need a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) * /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * • general frameworks and methodological advances • design, data and other relevant literacies • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**15, 2021* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages). Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021 ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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I: SIGCHI 2021 award winners

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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EICS 2021 Tech Notes CfP

by Davide Spano

[Apologizes for cross-posting] The Tech Notes track focuses on exclusively strong technical engineering contributions. EICS Tech Notes are 6-page papers (excluding the reference list) that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work, including (but not limited to): - Infrastructures and architectures (high-level toolkits, frameworks, networking infrastructures, the big systems picture) - Technical realizations of specific interaction techniques (e.g., sensing & recognition, computer vision implementations, rendering pipelines) - Engineering of physical interactive systems (e.g., toolkits for physical computing or fabrication, hacking or modding of machinery for interactive purposes) - Computational constructs (e.g., optimization methods, mathematical modelling of HCI systems, model-driven UI design) - Specification and verification (e.g. language representations for HCI, formal approaches, optimization methods, semantic models, testing / checking interactive systems) Tech notes can be submitted through the Precision Conference System: <https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi> https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Important Dates - Submission deadline: 12/03/2021 - Notifications: 16/04/2021 - Camera-Ready: 30/04/2021 Content Tech Notes is a venue created to elaborate on the technical aspects of research work, which would typically only be a short part of a longer article. The presented research can be related to previous publications, however, the tech note should present additional technical details and reflections that are not covered in the original publication(s). Authors are encouraged to refer to previously published research papers and elaborate on technical components or discuss specific technical implications of their previous work. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. The focus lies specifically on elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system. They do not include formal evaluations or user studies. Format Tech Notes are published as a 6-page paper in the standard ACM SIGCHI format <https://sigchi.org/templates> (excluding references). In line with recent policies by ACM regarding publishing software and data artifacts in the ACM Digital Library (https://www.acm.org/publications/artifacts), authors are strongly encouraged to provide supplemental material. This could include additional diagrams detailing the technical contribution, (online) demos, links to source code repositories, videos, or example applications. We suggest, wherever applicable the paper to be accompanied by a (max) one-minute video presenting the technical contribution. The URL of the video must be mentioned in the paper itself. We also highly encourage authors to share a public repository of their software. Tech Notes Chairs - Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock - Javed Khan, Eindhoven University of Technology technotes2021(a)eics.acm.org Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between Tech Notes, Full Papers and Late-Breaking Results? EICS Tech Notes are not journal articles that describe the full cycle of a research project (concept, implementation, evaluation, reflection), but are focused technical engineering research contributions. Tech Notes do not require a formal evaluation nor an in-depth reflection on related work, but can focus on very specific implementation details that are novel and interesting to the EICS community. Thus, the reflection of the related work should target in clarifying the technical novelty of the Tech Note. EICS Tech Notes do not describe work-in-progress, as they require a novel technical contribution to be finalized and completely described within the space of the Tech Note. They are more similar to a traditional four-page note than to a work-in-progress extended abstract. Late-Breaking Results are intended for eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, that can benefit from discussions with colleagues in the EICS community. Why should I submit an EICS Tech Note? EICS Tech Notes aims to be the primary submission venue for impactful technical engineering work. EICS Tech Notes is a high-quality engineering venue that is complementary to the main research-oriented track at EICS. It shows new and exciting technical work of high relevance to the community. The best Tech Notes will be awarded with the Tech Note Award. EICS Tech Notes provides a platform to publish and present detailed technical engineering aspects of HCI research. We specifically encourage authors of previous papers to elaborate on technical challenges, technical innovations or frameworks / systems / approaches / toolkits / algorithms that enable them to conduct novel HCI research. How are EICS Tech Notes disseminated? EICS Tech Notes get a presentation slot at the conference and will be published as 6-page papers in the ACM Digital Library (excluding the reference list). How are EICS Tech Notes reviewed? EICS Tech Notes will be reviewed by an international committee of leading experts within the technical HCI, engineering and interactive systems communities. Because there is a difference in scope between tech notes, full papers, and late-breaking results, reviewers will use specific criteria to identify high-quality tech notes, including technical novelty, research impact, and the potential to enable new HCI innovations. -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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

by Anton Fedosov

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

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Fwd: Agenda Now Online!

by Massimo Zancanaro

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

by Davide Spano

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

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

by Davide Spano

Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals has been extended to February 10th. ----------------------- apologies for cross-posting ------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finteract2…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. INTERACT workshops provide a one-day or two-day forum for participants to compare their experiences and explore research issues or topics of special interest to the HCI community. Workshop proposal submissions are accepted via PCS by February 10th. Further information on the workshop proposals and workshop organization can be found on the INTERACT 2021 website: https://www.interact2021.org/tracks/workshops.php Workshops will take place on 30 and 31 August 2021, immediately preceding the main conference. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir and Davide Spano INTERACT 2021 Workshops co-chairs workshops[at]interact2021.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org Keep updated through our socials: https://www.facebook.com/Interact2021 https://twitter.com/INTERACT2021 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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Fifth International Summer School on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

by De Angeli Antonella

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

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

by chitaly2021

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

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Demo and LBR Papers

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Demo and LBR Papers Important Dates • Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 26, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2021 • Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2021 • Conference: June 21-25, 2021 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ACM UMAP 2021 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2021 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 26th, 2021. Submission formats For more details, see below! Demonstrations • Max. 3 pages + max. 1 additional page for references • (Required) unpublished page describing how they would present the demo virtually and/or in person • (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system • Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a (potentially virtual) demo + poster at the conference Late-Breaking Results • Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references • (NEW: required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on • Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings • Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference Submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Demonstrations Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 3 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2021. Given uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this extra page should also describe if/how the demo can be presented in a virtual setting (e.g. with a video or a live link to the system). Late-Breaking Results Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as (in-person and virtual) posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2021. Submission and Review Process Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Papers (demo and LBR) must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): • LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… • Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… • MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2021 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP 2021 Demo and LBR”). The review process will be single-blind, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Publication and Presentation Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. Due to the uncertainties regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the poster session may be partially or fully virtual. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA • Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria— Apologies for cross-posting —

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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium

by Oana Inel

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

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

by Paolo Buono

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

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MobileHCI 2021 - Cfp

by anna spagnolli

(Apologies fro cross-postings) The MobileHCI Conference Series (http://mobilehci.acm.org/2021/) has shaped research, development and practice in services used on mobile or within mobile contexts for over two decades now. Our interpretation of mobility is inclusive and broadly construed. We welcome contributions related to any aspect of mobile HCI technology, systems, devices, techniques, experience, application, methods, tools, theories, and new perspectives. The conference theme in 2021 is “Mobile Apart, Mobile Together.” Technological advances allow us to bridge a potential geographical distance in a digital fashion, thereby bringing us closer together while being physically apart. These opportunities and interactions are extremely valuable - not only for families living apart, but in particular during an extraordinary situation, such as the Corona-pandemic in 2020, where many started working from and/or on the go. With advances in multisensory and multimodal interactions, this is no longer limited to screen-based interaction. MobileHCI 2021 embraces this expanded horizon, and invites submissions and contributions that reflect the strength of mobile technologies of bringing people together while being apart. Submissions dates Submissions will be managed through Precision Conference (PCS). Submission deadline: February 4, 2021 (anywhere on earth) Reviews sent to authors: March 19, 2021 Revise and Resubmit deadline: April 19, 2021 Conditional acceptance notification: May 17, 2021 Camera ready version: May 31, 2021 Suggested Topics Systems and Infrastructure. The design, architecture, deployment, and evaluation of systems and infrastructures that support development of or interaction with mobile devices and services. Devices and Techniques. The design, construction, usage, and evaluation of devices and techniques that create valuable new capabilities for mobile human-computer interaction. Applications and Experiences. Descriptions of the design, empirical study of interactive applications, or analysis of usage trends that leverage mobile devices and systems. MobileHCI for social good. Using mobile HCI to address societal challenges of our times such as health care, mobility, sustainability, social engagement, and civic engagement. Methods and Tools. New methods and tools designed for or applied to studying or building mobile user interfaces, applications, and mobile users. Theories and Models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clearly motivated relevance to the design or study of mobile human-computer interaction; taxonomies of design or devices; well-supported essays on emerging trends and practice in mobile human-computer interaction. Provocations and new Perspectives. Well-argued and well-supported visions of the future of mobile computing; non-traditional topics that bear on mobility; underrepresented viewpoints and perspectives that convincingly bring something new to mobile research and practice. Situation with Coronavirus/Covid-19 Because of the evolving situation with covid-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, Mobile HCI will be held virtually. Revisions The editorial board members will make decisions for any submitted papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejected. These notifications are sent to authors on March 19 2021. If the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will have a revision cycle within the current to address these changes, from March 19 until April 19, 2021. After the revised paper is submitted on April 19, the final decisions will be sent to authors on May 10. If the initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in the following round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that the same primary and secondary Board Members are assigned to continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major revisions" will not submit on the revision deadline on April 19, but in the next full review cycle for the following MobileHCI 2022. This is to allow extra time in case the authors need to perform significant new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is possible. Paper Length and Format Important: This year, MobileHCI will be using the new ACM Master Article Templates and Publication Workflow! The complete instructions can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Word users can submit their initial documents in a simplified single-column format which is then converted to the final formatting only if the paper is accepted. LaTeX users should use the latest template on that same web page (please use the manuscript template [sample-manuscript.tex]). Note that we will provide instructions on word/character count in the near future. However, as a guidance, the final 2-column papers should be between 6 and 10 pages long. For checking the length of your paper you can either use an older 2-column template or have a look at the ACM website: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. At the very bottom there is a rough estimation of word counts and estimated page count. Paper length during the submission stage will not be handled as strictly as for previous MobileHCI conferences, but if your paper gets accepted we might request that you need to shorten it. Authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution. References are not included in the paper length. Reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a submission relative to its length, so papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will be rejected. Shorter, more focused papers (akin to Notes or Short Papers in previous years) are encouraged, and will be reviewed appropriately. Papers need to be anonymised for blind review. We use a relaxed model that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. However, you do need to completely remove identifying information from the title/header/acknowledgements area of the paper, and also make sure that it does not appear in the document’s meta-data. Citations to your own previous work do NOT need to be anonymised, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account. However, you should refer to your prior work in third person. As an ACM conference, MobileHCI papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. Presentation at the Conference Upon acceptance, you have to present your paper at the conference. At least one author of each paper must register. The exact talk duration will be determined when the program is finalised. Paper Chairs (program2021(a)mobilehci.acm.org) Anne Roudaut, University of Bristol, UK Sebastian Boring, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark Kent lyons, Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA -- ******************************* Anna Spagnolli Ph.D. Associate professor Dept of General Psychology & Human Inspired Technology Research Centre Università degli Studi di Padova via Venezia 8, 35121 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8276644 fax: +39 049 8276600

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Deadlines approaching / Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 2nd Call for Long and Short Research Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by Gennari Rosella

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

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

by chitaly2021

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

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

by Luca Turchet

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

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

by Luca Turchet

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

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IxD&A Journal N. 46 is available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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

by Oana Inel

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

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