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ACM IUI 2021: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (deadline extended)

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (deadline extended) In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com). The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 22, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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User-research vacancy

by De Angeli Antonella

Are you interested in research on participatory design, have excellent communication skills in English and Italian and a passion for social innovation? At the Human Technology Lab of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano we have a vacancy for a user-researcher to investigate the adoption of the immuni app in Italy and elaborate strategies to increase it. Interested in the position? Send an e-mail to antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it<mailto:antonella.deangeli@unibz.it> and to Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it<mailto:Maria.MenendezBlanco@unibz.it> to discuss possibilities. We want to hear both from post-doc researchers with experience on qualitative and quantitative research and from newly graduated MSc/MA students with knowledge on human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, communication, design or related fields. The position is initially offered for one year with possibility of extension subject to funding availability. PhD grants will be available for the Academic Year 2021-22 with a selection in July 2021. Kind regards, Antonella _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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[CFP] Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

by Luca Turchet

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

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UMUAI Special issue on Personalization and Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactive Communication

by Cristina Gena

UMUAI Special issue on Personalization and Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactive Communication The Journal of Personalization Research. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction *** Apologies for cross-postings** MOTIVATION AND SCOPE In order to make Human-Robot interactive communication socially acceptable, legible, and natural from the user’s point of view, it is of paramount importance to endow a robot with the ability to model the users’ preferences, needs, and motivations. Creating robotic systems capable of correctly recognizing, and consequently, modelling the human behavior and preferences is a very critical and challenging task, especially in the domain of assistive and social robotics and when working with vulnerable user populations. A robot should be able to cope with local uncertainties of the environment, variations of the human desires and motivations, and volatilities of the interaction itself. The embodiment condition of a robot requires the abilities to extract such relevant information from the interaction history but also from the indirect observation of the user. Thus, a user modeling component should cope with these challenging and evolving requirements. With respect to software agents, the embodiment condition requires also to consider the physical characteristics of the interaction, such as the user preferences regarding robot’s physical movements in the space (e.g., proxemics, speed, and trajectories). A personalized and adaptive interaction, differently from pure reactive strategies, strongly relies on the learning of such computational model of human behavior and on the integration of these into the decision-making algorithms of the robot. This includes also the possibility of endowing the robot with meta-cognition capabilities such as the capability of reasoning on the other individuals’ intentions, desires, and beliefs, as well as their internal states, personality, and emotions (often referred to as Theory of Mind - ToM). The ability of a robot to adapt its behavior according to social expectations, specific cultural norms, and possible individual preferences, will determine the success and large-scale use of such robotics application. This Special Issue aims at examining and promoting recent developments in the Personalized and Adaptive interactive communication in robotics, so providing to the UMUAI journal with a different perspective related to the specific characteristics of the interaction with a physical robot. The submitted papers will undergo peer review process before they can be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process. LIST OF TOPICS • Context and situation awareness for robots • User modelling for HRI • User cognitive state assessment and monitoring • Activity, intention, and emotion recognition • Engagement evaluation and re-engagement strategies • Adaptation in physical interaction • Personalized dialogue with robots • Socially Aware Navigation • Adaptive Task Planning • Cognitive Architectures and Theory of Mind for adaptive interaction • Reinforcement learning for robotic adaptation • Adaptation in multimodal interaction • Non-verbal social signals in adaptation • Affective and emotion-adapted HRI • Personalized Social Assistive Robotics • Performance evaluation for adaptive robotic behavior SUBMISSION Authors must submit an extended abstract via EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. It must be at most 3 pages long, not counting references, and formatted according to the journal template. The guest editors of the special issue will then screen all submitted extended abstracts and will invite authors of submissions that pass this screening to submit a full manuscript to be submitted via the journal’s submission system. UMUAI formatting guidelines are available here: http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions <http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions> The abstract submission needs to be done through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siumuai2020 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siumuai2020> After abstracts have been accepted, the final full submission needs to be done through the UMUAI journal submission system: http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257 <http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257> SCHEDULE Extended abstract deadline – November 1st, 2020 Deadline for abstract review - November 15th, 2020 Full Paper Submission – January 15th, 2021 First review notification – March 15th, 2021 Deadline for revised manuscript– June 15th, 2021 Final notice of acceptance/rejection – July 15th, 2021 Camera-ready Deadline – September 15th, 2021 Publication – October, 2021 GUEST EDITORS Silvia Rossi – University of Naples Federico II (Italy), silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Mariacarla Staffa – University of Naples Federico II (Italy), mariacarla.staffa(a)unina.it <mailto:mariacarla.staffa@unina.it> Maartje De Graaf – Utrecht University (Netherlands), m.m.a.degraaf(a)uu.nl <mailto:m.m.a.degraaf@uu.nl> Cristina Gena - University of Turin (Italy), cristina.gena(a)unito.it <mailto:cristina.gena@unito.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/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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Call for papers AIUCD 2021

by Maria Simi

Segnalo la Call For Paper della decima conferenza dell'Associazione italiana per l' Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale AIUCD 2021 – DHs for society: e-quality, participation, rights and values in the Digital Age Di interesse per la comunità di HCI-Italy è sicuramente la tematica “Tecnologie assistive per l’inclusione”. https://aiucd2021.labcd.unipi.it/en/home-english/ <https://aiucd2021.labcd.unipi.it/en/home-english/>

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Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023

by Axel Soto

Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 --------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference series sponsored by ACM (SIGCHI and SIGAI) and has been held annually since 1993 as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. To involve the greater IUI community in conference organization and better plan for the conference, we request proposals for hosting and organizing IUI two years ahead of time. We regularly rotate the conference locations to engage with IUI research communities around the globe. Below shows the location and time of the three most recently scheduled IUI conferences: IUI 2020 (cancelled) Cagliari, Italy March 17-20 IUI 2021 College Station, Texas April 13-17 IUI 2022 Helsinki, Finland March 22-26 Why host IUI? There are several benefits of hosting and organizing an IUI conference. First, conference hosts/organizers have an opportunity to publicize their work, build relationships, and interact with the international IUI community. Second, this is a great opportunity for the organizers/hosts to introduce their students and colleagues to the IUI community and help grow the community as a whole. Third, hosts/organizers can use the opportunity to build local IUI communities, connecting representatives from both academia and industries. Bid Requirements All proposals must be written in English with a readable font not smaller than 12 point and margins not less than one inch on all sides. The proposal should address each aspect outlined below but not exceed 15000 characters (approx. 5-6 pages). Based on the merits of the proposals and factors such as ensuring a diversity of conference locations, the board will choose the top candidates and then a finalist will be chosen and announced at IUI 2021. Please note that the bid requirements have been modified from previous years. Please read the requirements below carefully before writing up your bid. Hosts/Organizers The conference hosts/organizers should have knowledge of the IUI community, such as having attended and published regularly at IUI, and have experience with conference organization. One of the main IUI goals is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. For that reason, the bid proposal must suggest ONLY the conference general chairs. The IUI steering committee will work with the selected bid proposers on building the conference organizing team. We especially encourage that the key conference organizers consist of people from both industry and academia, representing both AI and HCI since the work presented at IUI is at the intersection of these disciplines. Please include short bios of the proposed conference general chair(s). Location Since IUI is an international forum, we expect that attendees will travel from different parts of the world to the conference location. It is important that the proposed location is conveniently located for all attendees to reach by available means of transportation. Time IUI conferences have been held at various times during late winter through early spring, most typically in March though earlier times will be considered. Your bid should include a proposed time with key dates (e.g., paper submission and notification). The choice of time should also take into account the weather conditions of the proposed location to avoid potential weather-caused travel delays and potential conflicts with other conferences and their submission deadlines. Please note that HRI 2023 will take place the week of March 20, 2023, and thus this week is not available for IUI 2023 bids. Virtual Attendance and the Impact of COVID-19 We hope that by the time of the 2023 conference that it will be possible to hold a physical conference similar to those held before 2020. Organizers should still prepare for decreased attendance and to offer virtual participation options for those who may not yet be comfortable traveling long distances. Conference Venue Please describe the proposed conference venue, including the following aspects: * Capacity. In recent years, IUI has typically had around 250 attendees, though IUI 2018 had a record high of over 350 participants and IUI 2019 had a similar number. No conference has been held since COVID, however current ACM recommendations are to anticipate a 30-40% decrease in attendance in the near term. IUI has typically taken place over four days, the first of which consists of workshops and tutorials hosted in parallel separate rooms (10-20 people). To encourage interaction among the attendees, during the main conference, it is also desirable to have additional space at the venue to put up IUI posters for the attendees to visit during coffee breaks. * Facilities. The venue should provide basic conference facilities, such as high speed internet access that can support the participants in parallel effectively and LCD projectors. * Location. The venue should be centrally located for attendees to reach quickly by ground transportation and have access to other amenities (e.g., restaurants). * Accessibility. The venue should be accessible to attendees with disabilities. * Reception and poster session dinner. Traditionally, IUI opens with a welcome reception on the night before the 1st day of the conference. The first night of the conference features a dinner reception with the poster and demo session. The location(s) of the receptions are not required to be co-located with the venue, however the location criterion above should still be used to minimize the travel for the attendees. * Social event. Traditionally, IUI has a social event + dinner on the second day of the main conference * Special events. Traditionally, during the conference the “test of time” paper award is given to the most influential IUI paper, which is accompanied by a plenary talk session for its authors. TiiS papers published in the last year are also integrated into the technical program, there is a “town hall meeting” where IUI community issues are discussed, and there is IUI steering committee lunch with current and upcoming conference and program chairs. These events need to be considered while planning the conference Accommodation Most attendees will need accommodation during the conference period. One of the responsibilities of the conference hosts/organizers is to locate and reserve a bulk of affordable lodging for attendees. Please describe the proposed accommodation options, including the price range of the hotel rooms and the distance to the main venue. Provisionary Budget Plan The proposal should also include a provisional budget, outlining the cost of major items, including the rental of the conference venue, cost/per person for the reception and banquet, and the estimated conference registration fee. Please consider including meals for participants in the budget, especially if there are limited food options near the conference venue. Important Dates Jan 8, 2021: Bids are due. Please submit your bid to steering-chair(a)iui.acm.org Feb 5, 2021: Notifications are sent to all submissions. For further information, please contact: jeff(a)jeffreynichols.com

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Deadline extension: Special issue on "Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing //========================================================= *Deadline extension: September 27, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call46 ========================================================= *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 27*, 2020 • Notification to the authors: November 10, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 20, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The shock caused by the pandemic on learning processes all around the world has no equal in the history of education. During previous pandemics the application of the social distancing has already led to the closure of schools but it was not possible to even imagine the continuation of teaching activities as it is happening in the present days, albeit within a virtual dimension. On average, in less than two weeks after the lock down all the actors of the educational processes - students, teachers and families - have been forced to use technologies that many of them would have never considered before as relevant for learning. In a short time, educational technologies that have always struggled to establish themselves as a significant support to the learning processes have become the standard. A so abrupt transition from physical to virtual has contributed to amplify the regret for the many opportunities lost in the past by several national and supranational educational systems in supporting and coordinating the development of technologies that could have generated a significant impact on the learning ecosystems. At the same time it has emerged the critical state of the tertiary education that has not been able to renew in depth pedagogical and didactic approaches to educate present and future teachers to significantly integrate technologies into traditional educational processes. Nonetheless, thanks to the many environments derived from the domain of the collaborative work, to the vast plethora of apps considered in the past as niche products, to the good will of many teachers, to a constant learning by doing (that in many cases has become a continuous field experimentation) schools and universities are accompanying their students towards the end of the school/academic year. This special issue aims at gathering the most significant studies and experiences that have been carried on during the pandemic period to make sure that at least a part of such body of knowledge will not be completely lost. We need them, and we need to reflect on them, hoping that they could guide us in the development of a new way of thinking about learning ecosystems and, more in general, about educational processes. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' includes, but is not limited to: • Research and case studies on organizational aspects • Research and case studies on didactic aspects • Research and case studies on monitoring and evaluation aspects and strategies • Research and case studies on the unconventional use of conventional technologies, or on the use of unconventional technologies to support educational processes • Research and case studies on the functional rethinking of physical or phygital places for learning • Research and case studies on the transformation of learning ecosystems and of the perceptions' of the main actors of the learning processes. • Future visions =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19/ • carlo [dot] giovannella [at] uniroma2 [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun ----------------------------------------------------------

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ACM IUI 2021: 2nd Call for papers

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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IxD&A Journal N. 44 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 - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *N. 44* *Regular papers* is 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. 44 - ToC* /** Preface**** **pp. 5 - 6** **Paula Alexandra Silva, Oksana Tymoshchuk, Denis Renó, Ana Margarida Almeida, Luís Pedro, Fernando Ramos* Understanding the role of digital communication and mediation strategies in community-led territorial innovation: a systematic review, *pp. 7 - 28//** **John M. Carroll, Sooyeon Lee, Madison Reddie, Jordan Beck and Mary Beth Rosson *Human-Computer Synergies in Prosthetic Interactions*, pp. 29 - 52//** **//ilker Erkan *Early Design Stage Analysis with Brain Imaging Method,* pp. 53 - 70//** ** Maka Eradze, María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Nikola Milikic, Mart Laanpere and Kairit Tammets *Contextualising Learning Analytics with Classroom Observations: A Case study*///, pp. 71 - 95/**** Donatella Persico, Flavio Manganello, Marcello Passarelli** **/**Participatory approaches to Learning Design: the gap between theory and practice**/, pp. 96 - 108** **Wolmet Barendregt, Sara Ekström, Svea Kiesewetter, Lena Pareto, Sofia Serholt *Demystifying Robots in the Co-Design of a Tutee Robot with Primary School Children*, pp. 109 - 128//** **/ /Agneta Gulz, Susanne Kjällander, Sofia Frankenberg, Magnus Haake *Early Math in a Preschool Context: Spontaneous Extension of the Digital into the Physical*, pp. 129 - 154//** **/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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IxD&A journal: new URL to submit papers and next deadlines.

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 - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This short message is to inform you that due to problems occurred, during the summer break, to the ojs management system used by the reviewing process of IxD&A Journal we had to upgrade it and now the system is available again at the following URL: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* **apologize for the inconveniences that may have been experienced by some of you** ======================================================== On occasion we remind you next journal deadlines: *September 2, 2020* special issue on '*Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19* <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call46>' focus session on '*Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4…>' Always active the open call for 2021 special issues and focus sections <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call2…> and the submission of regular papers (authors' guidelines <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7>). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last available IxD&A issue that can be downloaded: issue n.44 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…>. In preparation: issue n. *45* special issue on 'Designing for ownership in technology-enhanced learning (TEL): a core element for learners’ SRL and agency <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call45>' focus session on 'End-user development challenges for creative computing <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call44>'

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HCSE 2020: posters and demos submission is by Aug 31, 2020 - 8th Intl. Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering

by Carmelo Ardito

Dear colleagues, there is still time to submit posters and demos to HCSE 2020, the 8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering. Please see the *CfP* below for details and visit the conference *website* for further and updated information. http://hcse-conference.org/ Following current regulations in the Netherlands, the conference is still planned to be held physically in Eindhoven, November 30th to December 2nd, 2020. We are looking forward to meeting you at TU/e in Eindhoven for HCSE 2020. Please stay well and healthy! Best wishes, Regina Bernhaupt - Carmelo Ardito - Stefan Sauer General Organizers of HCSE 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *HCSE 2020* *Call for Papers* *8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering* *November 30th - December 2nd, 2020 - Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands* http://www.hcse-conference.org <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcse-c…> *HCSE*is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fifip-tc13.…>in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fifip-tc13.…>. We aim at *bringing together researchers and practitioners* interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: ●contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design ●design and architectural patterns for interactive systems ●involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the development process of interactive systems ●innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems ●integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes ●methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) ●models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems ●integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development ●socio-technical aspects of interactive software development ●software architectures for interactive systems ●rational design and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2020 welcomes contribution as *technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters*. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the *LNCS* series. In the present edition of *HCSE 2020* we are particularly interested in studies focused on *multi-stakeholder* concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective but on the systemic change level. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on *user interface properties *(such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among other) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a *user-centered development process*. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. *HCSE*welcomes the following types of contributions: ** ●Technical full papers(up to 20 pages - *SUBMISSION CLOSED*) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. ●Late-breaking results(up to 12 pages -*SUBMISSION CLOSED*) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. ●*Demonstrations and posters*(*5–8 pages, plus poster design draft*) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. *Submissions and Reviewing Process* Contributions should be sent via *EasyChair* (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse2020 <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed *double-blind*, demonstrations and posters *single-blind*. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. *Presentations* All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. *Proceedings* Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spring…>series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. *Important Dates* *Technical full papers, late breaking results* Submission: *July 6^th *, 2020 (*CLOSED*) Notification to authors: *August 24^th *, 2020 (*SENT*) Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 *Demos, posters* _Submission: __*August 31^st *__, 2020 (extended!)_ Notification to authors: *September 21^st *, 2020 Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 Conference dates: *November 30^th – ***December *2^nd *, 2020 *Organizers * *General Conference Chairs:* Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it Personal Home Page: http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/ardito.htm Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. 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ACM IUI 2021 - Call for tutorial proposals

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, Texas April 13-17, 2021 https://iui.acm.org/2021/ Tutorial co-chairs Osnat Mokryn, University of Haifa Vijay Drajanna, Sensel Emails: ossimo(a)gmail.com vijay.drajanna(a)gmail.com CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (emails above), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of tutorials, including but not limited to: - "Hands-on" or “project-centric” tutorials around a specific problem or topic. - Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc. Tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the tutorial chairs. We encourage you to consider virtual and semi-virtual options for the tutorial in the submission. The organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Tutorial organizers are also required to set up their own website with information about the tutorial and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to this website. PROPOSAL FORMAT Tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the LaTex sigconf template. The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. - Description of tutorial topic: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the tutorial is of particular interest. - Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Also please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the tutorial. -Tutorial format: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc. - Planned outcomes of the tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial. - Length: Half-day or Full-day. Please submit your proposal via https://new.precisionconference.com/ selecting the IUI 2021 Tutorials track. IMPORTANT DATES Discuss your topic with the workshop and tutorials chairs: ASAP Proposals due: 23 October 2021 Reviews Sent: Monday, 30 November 2021 Revised Proposal Submissions: 20 December 2021 Notifications to authors: Tuesday, 14 January 2021 Camera-ready for Tutorial summary: February 10, 2021 Tutorials held: 13 April 2021

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CFP: IoTSMS 2020 (*final deadline*: Sep 10, 2020), Paris, France

by Marco Guazzone

################################################################################ 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020 (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) ################################################################################ URL: https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2020/ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Date: *10 September 2020* *(firm and final deadline)* * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 * Camera Ready Submission: 1 November 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. TOPICS OF INTERESTS * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. GENERAL CHAIRS * Abdelhakim Hafid Senhadji, University of Montreal, Canada. * Francisco Falcone, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain. PROGRAM CHAIRS * Attila Kertesz <keratt(a)inf.u-szeged.hu> * Marco Guazzone <marco.guazzone(a)uniupo.it> ORGANIZATION CHAIR * Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA. * Yaser Jararweh, Duquesne University, USA. * Imad Saleh, University of Paris 8, France * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA -- Marco Guazzone, PhD Computer Science Institute, DiSIT University of Piemonte Orientale address: Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy phone: +39-0131-360484 web: http://people.unipmn.it/sguazt

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com). The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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Fwd: [Ercim-cnr] ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Call 2020 (2) - Application form open !

by Fabio Paternò

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Ercim-cnr] ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Call 2020 (2) - Application form open ! Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:01:13 +0200 From: Raffaella Casarosa <mailto:raffaella.casarosa@iit.cnr.it> <raffaella.casarosa(a)iit.cnr.it> To: ERCIM-CNR(a)isti.cnr.it <mailto:ERCIM-CNR@isti.cnr.it> Buongiorno, è con piacere che vi comunico che è aperta la call ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme la cui scadenza è fissata per il 30 settembre 2020. Principali temi di questa call sono: Computer Science, Information Technology, Applied Mathematics. Le borse di post dottorato avranno una durata di 12 mesi da usufruirsi in una delle istituzioni scientifiche associate al Consorzio europeo di ricerca ERCIM. La descrizione dettagliata del Programma è disponibile al seguente indirizzo : https://fellowship.ercim.eu/ Condizioni I candidati devono: *aver ottenuto un dottorato di ricerca nel corso degli ultimi 8 anni (prima della scadenza della domanda), o essere all'ultimo anno del lavoro di tesi, aver completato il dottorato di ricerca prima di iniziare la borsa di studio (verrà richiesta una prova). *completare, sottomettere l' application form e spedirlo tramite il sistema online: * CV dettagliato * lista delle pubblicazioni * due scientific papers in inglese * contact email di due referenti * iniziare la borsa di studio entro il 1 maggio 2021. Nel frattempo vi invio i miei più cordiali saluti, Raffaella Casarosa ERCIM Administrative Contact for CNR

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Reminder CfP: The online NordiCHI 2020 workshop on “Sharing & Cooperativism: Designing for Economies”

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, A gentle reminder to consider contributing to our online multi-disciplinary workshop on sharing and cooperativism. We invite scholars and practitioners with a background in design, computing, economics, sociology, anthropology, and beyond to submit a lightweight position paper/case study/design portfolio (1-4 pages) in relation to one of the workshop's themes (the CfP is below) within September 1, 2020. The workshop will be held online. The online NordiCHI 2020 workshop “Sharing & Cooperativism: Designing for Economies” aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working at the intersection of sharing, cooperativism, and design. By turning to sharing and cooperativism, we imagine building systems in relation to the wider social and political structures surrounding these concepts. Yet, in sharing and cooperativism, less emphasis is given to the possibilities that design can bring to the emerging interactions at the intersections of social, cultural, and economic issues. A progressive approach is needed to uncover the relationship of sharing and cooperativism to new design paradigms that allows us to move towards an alternative understanding of economies through design. Our aim is to ground this discussion through a design workshop that is well-aligned with the historical, political, and economic infrastructures in order to shape the relationship of design and economics in the context of sharing and cooperativism. We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, sharing, cooperativism, and economics on the workshop's thematic areas: (i) Local relational assets in sharing; (ii) Global sharing cultures; (iii) Design beyond markets for sharing and cooperativism. More details: https://sharingcoopnordichi2020.wordpress.com/theme HOW TO APPLY? To apply, please submit a short position paper (1-4 pages) in relation to one of the workshop's themes within September 1, 2020, by emailing it to sharingcoopnordichi2020(a)gmail.com<mailto:sharingcoopnordichi2020@gmail.com>. To promote broader participation from design practitioners, and community activists, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a short manifesto, or the like. KEY DATES Submission Deadline: September 1, 2020, 5pm PDT Notification: September 8, 2020 Workshop: October 25/26, 2020 Location: Online (the participation instructions will be communicated in October) ATTENDANCE Stemming from the NordiCHI steering committee decision, the workshop will take place online. The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to twenty participants. ORGANIZERS Özge Subasi, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Turkey Anton Fedosov, People and Computing Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland Oliver Bates, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK Airi Lampinen, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden Ann Light, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK; and K3, Malmo University, Sweden More details: https://sharingcoopnordichi2020.wordpress.com<https://sharingcoopnordichi2020.wordpress.com/> Questions? Drop us an email at sharingcoopnordichi2020(a)gmail.com<mailto:sharingcoopnordichi2020@gmail.com> Best regards, Anton on behalf of the workshop organizers. Anton Fedosov, Ph.D. People and Computing Lab (ZPAC) antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch> University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zürich Switzerland

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CfP - International Workshop on Multi-Scale Movement Technologies at ICMI2020

by volpe＠infomus.dist.unige.it

Apologies for cross-posting. Please share this CFP with your network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Multi-Scale Movement Technologies WEBSITE <http://www.casapaganini.org/workshop2020/call.html> The workshop will be held on October 25-29, in conjunction with <http://icmi.acm.org/2020/> ICMI 2020 (ACM ICMI 2020 International Workshop on Multi-Scale Movement Technologies, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands). This workshop aims at stimulating submissions on novel computational models and systems for the automated detection, measurement, and prediction of movement qualities from behavioural signals, based on multi-layer parallel processes at non-linearly stratified temporal dimensions. Contributions from computational models, multimodal systems, experiments on the above mentioned core topics, as well as application scenarios,including e.g., healing, therapy and rehabilitation, entertainment,performing arts (music, dance) and active experience of multimedia cultural content, are welcome. TOPICS Specific topics include but are not limited to the following: * Multi-layer and multi-temporal scale automated movement analysis and prediction * Cognitive models of segmentation * Multi-time multimodal systems * Multi-temporal scale automated movement segmentation * Multi-time models of entrainment and non-verbal social signals * Individual and group motor signature * Cognitive neuroscience models of movement perception and prediction * Applications in therapy and rehabilitation * Multi-temporal scale automated movement segmentation * Applications in performing arts * Applications in active experience of multimedia cultural content INVITED SPEAKER Beatrice de Gelder <http://www.beatricedegelder.com/> , University of Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Maastricht, The Netherlands DATES - Paper Submission: August 27, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance: September 17, 2020 - Camera-ready Submission: September 30, 2020 SUBMISSIONS Contributions will be accepted in the form of long papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages), or extended abstracts (2 pages) and will be selected through a blind peer-review process. Authors will be given 20 minutes to present long papers and 10 minutes for short papers. Abstracts will be presented during a shared poster session with other ACM ICMI workshops. Each author is only allowed to submit no more than 2 papers. Authors are invited to submit via EasyChair at the following link: <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=msmt2020> EASYCHAIR > CFP > MSMT2020 For long and short papers, please follow the guidelines available at: <http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors> ICMI.ACM.ORG For posters, authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (2 pages max. references included). WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS -Benoit Bardy, Euromov, University of Montpellier -Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London -Mårten Björkman, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden -Luciano Fadiga, CTNSC, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia -Antonio Camurri, Eleonora Ceccaldi and Gualtiero Volpe, Casa Paganini - InfoMus Contact Information: Eleonora Ceccaldi, <mailto:eleonoraceccaldi@gmail.com> eleonoraceccaldi(a)gmail.com The workshop is partially supported by the EU-H2020-FET Proactive Project GA824160 <https://entimement.dibris.unige.it/> EnTimeMent.

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Research Assistant Positions at i3lab-Politecnico di Milano

by Franca Garzotto

Dear colleagues We are looking to hire up to two Research Assistants ("Assegnisti di Ricerca") at i3lab (https://i3lab.polimi.it/) - Department of Electronics, Information and Bio-engineering, Politecnico di Milano. The research focuses on the topic of Multimodal Interaction, mainly (but not exclusively) for VR/AR/MR applications in the domains of health (cognitive rehabilitation) and tourism. Master Degree (Laurea Magistrale) in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering, or equivalent title, is a precondition to apply. Knowledge of Italian is not required. For more information, please refer to the call https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=3971&tx_wfqbe_pi1[ID]=9071<https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=3971&tx_wfqbe_pi1%5bID%5d=9071> (ITALIAN) https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=3971&tx_wfqbe_pi1[ID]=9071&L=1<https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=3971&tx_wfqbe_pi1%5bID%5d=9071&L=1> (ENGLISH) The submission deadline is September 1st. The employment start day is October 1st. Candidates can contact me for any further detail. Thanks for disseminating this call! Have a safe and relaxing summer Franca -- prof. Franca Garzotto i3Lab (Innovative Interactive Interfaces Laboratory) Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://i3lab.polimi.it ph: +39 02 23993505 email: franca.garzotto(a)polimi.it<mailto:franca.garzotto@polimi.it>

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Deadline extension: "Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities" - IxD&A Journal (focus session)

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ /========================================================= *Deadline extension: September 2, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4… ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia • Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia • Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 3, 2020 *(extended) • Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities. These films featured AR advertising and information holograms in public spaces, enabled by smart contact lenses and holograms. Currently however, AR has been introduced to public spaces in a number of interesting ways. For instance, Pokemon GO became a global phenomenon which resulted in people physically playing the game in urban spaces and caused ripple effects on the physical spaces people were playing in. Recent work has also shown that AR can have more engaging applications, in areas such as community engagement, personalised digital signage, in-situ visualisations, cultural heritage, and remote collaboration. On a consumer level, AR is most common on smartphones, particularly after the release of ARKit and ARCore - improving the functionality. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives. For instance, the Microsoft Hololens contains an array of sensor technologies giving it a sense of depth which allows it to place objects naturally in physical space. It has been successfully applied by planners to visualise underlying parts of the city in-situ. While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist - creating an augmented space. Therefore, this focus section builds on from our initial workshops with the goal of bringing together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: Augmenting humans in future cities Digital heritage and preservation Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects Perspectives from literature How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc) Remote collaboration The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities Smart cities with digital twin technologies =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "FS: Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the guest-editors below and mark the subject as: /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities / • callum [dot] parker [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • soojeong [dot] yoo [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • youngho [at] ce [dot] mokpo [dot] ac [dot] kr • waldemar [dot] jenek [at] hdr [dot] qut [dot] edu [dot] au -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' Guest editors: ASLERD with a focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun -----

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CFP: IoTSMS 2020 (*deadline extended*: Aug 20, 2020), Paris, France

by Marco Guazzone

################################################################################ 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020 (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) ################################################################################ URL: https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2020/ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Date: *20 August 2020* *(extended)* * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 * Camera Ready Submission: 1 November 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. TOPICS OF INTERESTS * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. GENERAL CHAIRS * Abdelhakim Hafid Senhadji, University of Montreal, Canada. * Francisco Falcone, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain. PROGRAM CHAIRS * Attila Kertesz <keratt(a)inf.u-szeged.hu> * Marco Guazzone <marco.guazzone(a)uniupo.it> ORGANIZATION CHAIR * Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA. * Yaser Jararweh, Duquesne University, USA. * Imad Saleh, University of Paris 8, France * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA -- Marco Guazzone, PhD Computer Science Institute, DiSIT University of Piemonte Orientale address: Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy phone: +39-0131-360484 web: http://people.unipmn.it/sguazt

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PhD Positions in VR/AR/XR available at the KU Leuven, Belgium (DL: 20 July)

by Adalberto Simeone

*Apologies for cross-posting* Deadline: 20/07/2020 We are looking to hire up to two new PhD researchers in the ARIA team (https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be) at the Department of Computer Science of the KU Leuven, in Belgium. The project focuses on the topic of “Cross-Reality Interaction”, i.e. how people in different immersive realities (e.g., VR, AR) or not immersed at all, can interact together. For more information, see the description at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55693016?hl=en&lang=en Knowledge of Dutch is *not* required to apply. Feel free to contact me to informally discuss this position and other opportunities (such as postdoctoral research through the Marie Curie scheme). -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me

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Webinar "Progetto WADcher: monitoraggio, accessibilità, servizi digitali" (16/07/2020, ore 12:00)

by parvaneh parvin

Cari, L’Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale, in collaborazione con il CNR, organizza un webinar dedicato a WADcher, un progetto europeo relativo al monitoraggio dell’accessibilità dei siti web e degli strumenti informatici. Il webinar ha l'obiettivo di illustrare lo stato di avanzamento del progetto WADcher (Web Accessibility Decision support tool for the assessment of compliance to standards and guideline), finanziato nell’ambito del framework europeo Horizon 2020. Il progetto si propone di fornire uno strumento integrato che consenta di individuare i punti di miglioramento dei siti web. Verrà anche presentato MAUVE++, uno strumento di validazione collegato a WADCHER, sviluppato dal laboratorio Human Interfaces in Information Systems del CNR-ISTI. L’evento è anche occasione per un confronto a più voci sui differenti paradigmi volti a migliorare la qualità dei servizi digitali per i cittadini, con particolare riguardo all’accessibilità. Con l’occasione invitiamo gli interessati a compilare un breve questionario (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBgdVqCoHtnyeV3dktVcQm1HyEPk2VbRf…) utile per capire le pratiche correnti su questi temi. Vi ricordiamo che l'orario per lo svolgimento del webinar è 16 Luglio 2020, dalle 12:00 alle 13:30 Cordiali saluti, -- Parvaneh Parvin, PhD Research Staff HIIS Lab - ISTI CNR parvaneh.parvin(a)isti.cnr.it

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Deadline approaching: ETIS 2020: European Tangible Interaction Studio

by Patrizia Marti

*Apologize for unintended cross-mailing* *ETIS 2020 - **Fourth European Tangible Interaction Studio* | 16-20 November, 2020 | Siena, Italy http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/ *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS* Tanja Döring - University of Bremen Stéphanie Fleck - University of Lorraine Marianna Obrist - University of Sussex Domenico Prattichizzo – University of Siena *CALL FOR PAPER* *S* University students, researchers and practitioners are invited to* propose a talk or a workshop about their research in the field of Tangible Interaction* including for example mixed/augmented reality, organic user interfaces, physical computing, wearables. Topics of interest of ETIS 2020 include the exploration of Tangible Interaction in various fields of application including, but not limiting to: - Food - Education - Cultural Heritage - Industry 4.0 - Health Short papers (2-4 pages including references) for oral presentation and workshop proposals have to be submitted to Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etis2020>. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM paper template and should not be anonymized. - Microsoft Word template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…> - LaTeX template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…> *We welcome submissions in the form of theoretical foundations and frameworks of Tangible User Interface (TUI); design guidelines and methods; prototypes, tools and toolkits for TUI; design cases, and TUI applications in different domains*. Submitted papers will be reviewed by ETIS Scientific Committee and selected by relevance with the proposed topics, quality of research, and potential to provoke discussions during the meeting. Selected papers shall be published on CEUR <http://ceur-ws.org/>, the free open-access publication service for scientific conferences and workshops. The *Best Paper Award* is sponsored by the MDPI Journal Future Internet <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet> with a 350 CHF honorarium and the publication of an extended version of the paper in a special issue that will be edited after the event. The winner will be selected by the ETIS scientific committee based on the paper’s novelty and quality of the research. The awarded winner will be announced during the ETIS closing session. *Important dates* The deadline for submission has been extended. The new important dates are as follows: Paper submission deadline: *July 20, 2020* Notification of acceptance: *September 21, 2020* Registration deadline: *October 5, 2020* ETIS workshop: *November 16 - 20, 2020* *Conference Venue* The conference will take place at the Santa Chiara Lab <https://santachiaralab.unisi.it/> of the University of Siena. Address: Santa Chiara Lab, University of Siena Via Valdimontone 1 - 53100 Siena (Italy) *For more information* For updated information about the event, program and invited speakers, submission procedures, and registration please visit the web site: *http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/ <http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/>* For more information, please contact the organizers: etis.unisi(a)gmail.com

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com). The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers [corrected dates]

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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IxD&A Journal N. 43 is now 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 - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *N. 43* /special issue /on "*Smart Learning Ecosystems - Design as cornerstone of smart educational processes and places*" (guest editors: /Carlo Giovannella, Stefania Manca/) 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. 43 - ToC* /** Preface **Carlo Giovannella and Stefania Manca** **pp. 5 - 7** **Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Ingrid Mulder, Nicola Morelli, Janice Pedersen* Hacking the hackathon format to empower citizens in outsmarting “smart” cities, *pp. 8 - 2*9*//** **Lars Schlenker, Carmen Neuburg *Third Teacher goes Raumwerkstatt - participatory planning processes to redesign physical learning spaces*, pp. 30 - 41//** **//Alessandro Luigini, Monica Parricchi, Alessandro Basso, Demis Basso *Immersive and participatory serious games for heritage education, applied to the cultural heritage of South Tyrol*, pp. 42 - 67//** ** Margarida M. Marques, Lúcia Pombo *Teacher readiness to adopt game-based mobile learning with augmented reality*///, pp. 68 - 85/**** Diana Saplacan, Jo Herstad, Zada Pajalic ** **/**Use of Multiple Digital Learning Environments: A study About Fragmented Information Awareness**/, pp. 86 - 109** **Nicolae Nistor, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu *Joining Informal Learning in Online Knowledge Communities and Formal Learning in Higher Education: Instructional Design and Evaluation of a Blended-Learning Seminar with Learning Analytics Support*, pp. 110 - 127//** **/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Deadline approaching: "Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities" - IxD&A Journal (focus session)

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4… ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia • Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia • Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *July 15, 2020* • Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities. These films featured AR advertising and information holograms in public spaces, enabled by smart contact lenses and holograms. Currently however, AR has been introduced to public spaces in a number of interesting ways. For instance, Pokemon GO became a global phenomenon which resulted in people physically playing the game in urban spaces and caused ripple effects on the physical spaces people were playing in. Recent work has also shown that AR can have more engaging applications, in areas such as community engagement, personalised digital signage, in-situ visualisations, cultural heritage, and remote collaboration. On a consumer level, AR is most common on smartphones, particularly after the release of ARKit and ARCore - improving the functionality. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives. For instance, the Microsoft Hololens contains an array of sensor technologies giving it a sense of depth which allows it to place objects naturally in physical space. It has been successfully applied by planners to visualise underlying parts of the city in-situ. While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist - creating an augmented space. Therefore, this focus section builds on from our initial workshops with the goal of bringing together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: Augmenting humans in future cities Digital heritage and preservation Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects Perspectives from literature How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc) Remote collaboration The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities Smart cities with digital twin technologies =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "FS: Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the guest-editors below and mark the subject as: /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities / • callum [dot] parker [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • soojeong [dot] yoo [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • youngho [at] ce [dot] mokpo [dot] ac [dot] kr • waldemar [dot] jenek [at] hdr [dot] qut [dot] edu [dot] au -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' Guest editors: ASLERD with a focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. 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Registration to the Workshop “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus”, July 7th 2020, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET)

by Cristina Gena

Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” July 7th 202o, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET) An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/> ========================================================== The Workshop will be held online. Participation is free, but registration is required. Interested people must register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8 <https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8> Details for connecting will be sent to the registered participants. ========================================================== PROGRAM 2:00pm. Welcome and introductory discussion. By M. Francesca Costabile, Maristella Matera, Ben Shneiderman 2:30pm. Panel 1: AI systems that have an impact on human beings. Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro Participants: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Tech) Federico Cabitza (Università di Milano Bicocca) Antonio Rizzo (Università di Siena) Alan Dix (Swansea University, Wales, UK) 4:30pm. Panel 2: The HCI competences the AI specialists should have in order to design AI systems that are beneficial to human beings. Moderator: Fabio Paternò Participants: Sharon Oviatt (Monash University, Australia) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) Lucio Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari, Italy) B.L. William Wong (Middlesex University London, UK) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Salvatore Andolina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fabio Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 6:00pm. Wrapping up: Final discussion, conclusions and follow up. By Cristina Gena and Genny Tortora ORGANIZERS M. Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari ALDO MORO Cristina Gena, Università di Torino Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (SIGCHI Italy Chair) Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno Massimo Zancanaro, Università di Trento and FBK (SIGCHI Italy Vice-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma Luca Console, Università di Torino Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Università di Roma Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze Rino Falcone, CNR-Roma Salvatore Gaglio, Università di Palermo Luciano Gamberini, Università di Padova Antonio Krüeger, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena Roberto Navigli, Sapienza Università di Roma Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma Sharon Oviatt, Monash University, Australia Francesco Ricci, Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Oliviero Stock, FBK ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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Registration to the Workshop “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus”, July 7th 2020, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET)

by Cristina Gena

Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” July 7th 202o, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET) An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/> ========================================================== The Workshop will be held online. Participation is free, but registration is required. Interested people must register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8 <https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8> Details for connecting will be sent to the registered participants. ========================================================== PROGRAM 2:00pm. Welcome and introductory discussion. By M. Francesca Costabile, Maristella Matera, Ben Shneiderman 2:30pm. Panel 1: AI systems that have an impact on human beings. Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro Participants: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Tech) Federico Cabitza (Università di Milano Bicocca) Antonio Rizzo (Università di Siena) Alan Dix (Swansea University, Wales, UK) 4:30pm. Panel 2: The HCI competences the AI specialists should have in order to design AI systems that are beneficial to human beings. Moderator: Fabio Paternò Participants: Sharon Oviatt (Monash University, Australia) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) Lucio Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari, Italy) B.L. William Wong (Middlesex University London, UK) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Salvatore Andolina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fabio Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 6:00pm. Wrapping up: Final discussion, conclusions and follow up. By Cristina Gena and Genny Tortora ORGANIZERS M. Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari ALDO MORO Cristina Gena, Università di Torino Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (SIGCHI Italy Chair) Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno Massimo Zancanaro, Università di Trento and FBK (SIGCHI Italy Vice-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma Luca Console, Università di Torino Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Università di Roma Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze Rino Falcone, CNR-Roma Salvatore Gaglio, Università di Palermo Luciano Gamberini, Università di Padova Antonio Krüeger, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena Roberto Navigli, Sapienza Università di Roma Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma Sharon Oviatt, Monash University, Australia Francesco Ricci, Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Oliviero Stock, FBK ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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CHItaly 2021: change of dates

by Melonio Alessandra

Dear HCI colleagues, we hope you are all fine. Considering the procrastination of a number of conferences due to the coronavirus pandemic and in order to avoid a potentially critical period (winter) for the conference, we have decided to postpone CHItaly 2021 from February to July 2021. Important dates will be communicated around September this year. Please refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/index.html for up-to-date information. In the meanwhile, take care and stay safe! With kind regards, Alessandra Melonio on the behalf of the CHItaly 2021 organising committee. ========================== 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 ========================== 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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[Conference] - International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020), Denmark

by Liya Mallory

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) September 26 ~ 27, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark https://dmse2020.org/ Scope & Topics International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Data mining and Software Engineering. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Data mining and modern software engineering concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of data mining and software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Advanced Topics in Software Engineering * Data Mining Applications * Computer Education * Data Mining in Modeling, Visualization, Personalization and Recommendation * Data Mining Systems and Platforms, Efficiency, Scalability and Privacy * Embedded System and Software * Foundations, Algorithms, Models, and Theory * Knowledge Processing * Knowledge-based Systems and Formal Methods * Languages and Formal Methods * Managing Software Projects * Mining Text, Semi-Structured, Spatio-Temporal, Streaming, Graph, Web, Multimedia * Multimedia and Visual Software Engineering * Quality Management * Search Engines and Information Retrieval * Software Engineering Decision Making * Software Engineering Practice * Software Maintenance and Testing * Software Process * Web Engineering * Web-based Education Systems and Learning Application Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed). Important Dates * Submission Deadline :July 11, 2020 * Authors Notification : August 20, 2020 * Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due : August 28, 2020 Contact Us Here's where you can reach us : dmse(a)dmse2020.org or dmsesecretary(a)gmail.com Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. Regards, Liya.

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Final Announcement: HCSE 2020 submission closes July 6th, 2020 - 8th Intl. Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering

by Stefan Sauer

Dear colleagues, regarding COVID-19 circumstances, keeping in mind the very interactive character of HCSE as a working conference and the strong community aspects of this meeting, we have decided to postpone HCSE and run it in the regular way as a physical meeting in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The new date will be *November 30 - December 2, 2020*. Hopefully by then, it will be possible and permitted to travel to the event for every participant and to hold the conference meeting. Due to this postponement we have re-opened and rescheduled the submission and reviewing process again. Thus, we give researchers and practitioners the chance to submit additional work. The new deadlines are the following: *Technical full papers, late breaking results* ------------------------------------------------------- _July 6, 2020 (extended!) Submission _ August 24, 2020 (extended!) Notification to Authors September 30, 2020 (extended!) Camera-ready due *Demos, posters* -------------------- _August 31, 2020 (extended!) Submission_ September 21, 2020 (extended!) Notification to Authors September 30, 2020 (extended!) Camera-ready due Please see the *CfP* below for details and visit the conference *website* for further and updated information. http://hcse-conference.org/ We are looking forward to meeting you at TU/e in Eindhoven for HCSE 2020. Please stay well and healthy! Best wishes, Regina Bernhaupt - Carmelo Ardito - Stefan Sauer General Organizers of HCSE 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HCSE 2020* *Call for Papers* *8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering* *November 30th - December 2nd, 2020 - Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands* http://www.hcse-conference.org *HCSE*is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/>in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-5/>. We aim at *bringing together researchers and practitioners* interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. Other topics of interest include: ● contributions to the theory and best practices of user-centered design ● design and architectural patterns for interactive systems ● involvement of end-users, clients and stakeholders in the development process of interactive systems ● innovative methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems ● integration of user experience (and any other user interface property) in development processes ● methods for designing, building and assessing interactive systems beyond the desktop (e.g. the living room, ubiquitous and multi-display, cockpits, etc.) ● models and model-based approaches for building interactive systems ● integration of multiple properties (e.g. usability, security, reliability, user experience, privacy, accessibility, etc.) in software development ● socio-technical aspects of interactive software development ● software architectures for interactive systems ● rational design and traceability of design choices. HCSE 2020 welcomes contribution as *technical full papers, late breaking results, demonstrations and posters*. All papers are peer-reviewed and selected contributions will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the *LNCS* series. In the present edition of *HCSE 2020* we are particularly interested in studies focused on *multi-stakeholder* concepts and how to cope with multi-stakeholders taking into account not only micro perspective but on the systemic change level. As in past editions, the focus of the working group is on *user interface properties *(such as usability, ux, privacy, trust, security, reliability, adaptability, among other) and how to design, develop and evaluate based on a *user-centered development process*. We are interested in understanding how different stakeholders and developers value diverse user interface properties and how they manage conflicts between them (when one property might degrade the value of another) on a systemic change level. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface properties and try to reveal their inner dependencies. We are particularly interested in the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with multiple properties that should be taken into account when developing interactive systems. *HCSE*welcomes the following types of contributions: * * ● *Technical full papers*(*up to 20 pages*) should describe substantial research contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results including validation of results. ● *Late-breaking results*(*up to 12 pages*) are short papers that present work in progress, new practice and experience reports containing good (and bad) practices and/or recent practical evaluations of methods, techniques and tools. ● *Demonstrations and posters*(*5–8 pages, plus poster design draft*) should present ongoing work and/or late-breaking results related to the use of innovative tools and cutting-edge systems not described in other paper submissions. Demonstration papers should provide description of tools including user tasks and evidence of use to end-users. Demo submissions should summarize the system’s significance and its performance and should either include screenshots or link to an online-accessible resource. The poster design draft should show the planned design and content of the poster that will be presented at the conference. Industry contributions to demos and posters are particularly welcome and highly encouraged. *Submissions and Reviewing Process* Contributions should be sent via *EasyChair* (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse2020). All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed *double-blind*, demonstrations and posters *single-blind*. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. *Presentations* All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. *Proceedings* Accepted contributions must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0>series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. *Important Dates* *Technical full papers, late breaking results* _Submission: __*July 6^th *__, 2020 (extended!)_ Notification to authors: *August 24^th *, 2020 Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 *Demos, posters* _Submission: __*August 31^st *__, 2020 (extended!)_ Notification to authors: *September 21^st *, 2020 Camera-ready due: *September 30^th *, 2020 Conference dates: *November 30^th – ***December *2^nd *, 2020 *Organizers * *General Conference Chairs:* Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * March 18-21, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Mar 18, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html. ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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PhD Positions in VR/AR/XR available at the KU Leuven, Belgium

by Adalberto Simeone

*Apologies for cross-posting* Deadline: 20/07/2020 We are looking to hire up to two new PhD researchers in the ARIA team (https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be) at the Department of Computer Science of the KU Leuven, in Belgium. The project focuses on the topic of “Cross-Reality Interaction”, i.e. how people in different immersive realities (e.g., VR, AR) or not immersed at all, can interact together. For more information, see the description at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55693016?hl=en&lang=en Knowledge of Dutch is *not* required to apply. Feel free to contact me to informally discuss this position and other opportunities (such as postdoctoral research through the Marie Curie scheme). -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me

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International EMPATHY workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems – Final Call for Contributions

by Andrea Mattioli

ACM AVI 2020 Workshop - Submission deadline extended to July 15th ** COVID-19 Information ** The current plan is to hold the workshop with participation in person. EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems www.empathy-project.eu/workshop/ September 29th, 2020 Island of Ischia, Italy OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES July 15th: Paper submission deadline July 20th: Paper acceptance notice July 24th: Camera-ready submission September 29th: Half-day workshop (morning) SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This workshop aims to serve as a venue for discussing ongoing research and sharing ideas for researchers and practitioners working on solutions to personalize the behavior of IoT ecosystems. We aim to encourage participation in order to have stimulating discussion from various perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited, to: - End-User Development (EUD) for IoT; - Interaction Paradigms for IoT; - Usability of IoT Systems; - Interface Design for IoT; - Intelligent Interface for IoT Systems; - Accessibility for IoT Systems; - Usable Privacy and Security in IoT systems - Personalisation and Recommendations for IoT. PARTICIPATION We invite submissions of two types: short papers (3-4 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages). Participants are asked to submit their paper describing their recent or future work in one of the areas indicated in the topics of interest. All submissions must be in the CHI Extended Abstracts format. Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2020). All papers will be reviewed by the organizers and by the program committee based on relevance and significance in order to provide constuctive comments to the submitters. Reviewing will be single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. ORGANIZERS - Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno - Cristina Gena, University of Turin - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI - Barbara Treccani, University of Trento

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