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[CHI 2023 WORKSHOP]: CfP for the workshop "HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures

by Eleonora Mencarini

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our one-day hybrid workshop on “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” at the upcoming CHI 2023 conference <https://chi2023.acm.org/>. As the climate crisis is turning into one of the most critical issues of our time, HCI researchers keep reflecting on the role their work can play in reducing the impact of adverse environmental changes. The HCI community has been addressing these changes and challenges from multiple angles - angles, which have several points of contact and would benefit from finding synergies. With this workshop, we aim to convene the CHI community to discuss how HCI can leverage its traditional skill sets and multidisciplinary influences to address climate change issues. Our full workshop proposal can be accessed here <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10aitYWEO3DryAPiRzPOuYAuuRYJsJ2gp?us…> . After the workshop, we will create a special issue in a journal to which we invite all the workshop participants to submit. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to):‬‬ - Communicating science - Data physicalization, visualization, sonification - Community engagement and activism - Policymaking - Envisioning future scenarios - Eco-social relations and climate justice - System thinking/interconnection of economic, social, and environmental dimensions - Interdisciplinarity and new competencies for HCI researchers - Post-human, more-than-human, diffractive and entangled views, theories, and practices HOW TO APPLY? Participants are invited to send a short paper (min. 2 - max. 6 pages) in the form of a research, reflection, pictorial, provocation, or design fiction using the ACM SIGCHI template (single-column) <https://chi2023.acm.org/submission-guides/chi-publication-formats/> via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hci4ch>. Submissions will be assessed by the workshop organizers based on their potential to spark interesting discussions. KEY DATES Submission opens: January 18, 2023, AoE Submission deadline: February 16, 2023, AoE Notification: March 1, 2023, AoE Workshop: April 28, 2023 ATTENDANCE The “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” workshop will be hybrid, participants can join online and at the CHI conference venue in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, FBK (Italy) Christina Bremer, Lancaster University (UK) Chiara Leonardi, FBK (Italy) Jen Liu, Cornell University (USA) Valentina Nisi, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Nuno Jardim Nunes, ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Robert Soden, University of Toronto (Canada) For further information, visit our website <https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/hci-climate-change/home>. If you have any questions, please drop an email at hci-climate-change(a)fbk.eu . Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures workshop organizers)

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Third Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos

by Announce Announcements

*** Third Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-late-breaking-results-and-demos/ Submissions due: April 24, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: April 24, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ● Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ● (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023. Late-Breaking Results ● Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ● (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ● LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column): ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… ● Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): ◦ https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… ● MS Word: ◦ https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos” track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ● Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ● Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ● Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany – SUNY, USA ● Contact: umap2023-lbr(a)um.org

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I: Call for CHI Workshop Papers - Socially Assistive Robots as Decision Makers: Transparency, Motivations, and Intentions

by Fabio Paternò

We would like to invite you to submit to the workshop surrounding socially assistive robots as decision makers <https://sites.google.com/view/sar-decision-making>, which will take place on Friday 28th April in Hamburg, Germany as part of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). *Socially Assistive Robots as Decision Makers: Transparency, Motivations, and Intentions* is a one-day hybrid workshop which is part of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2023. It aims to discuss challenges, current practices, and ethical implications of Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) decision-making. We welcome up to 4-page (excluding references) position or research contribution papers which address challenges within the theme of SARs that make decisions. Some example challenges are listed below. Authors may also indicate their background and motivations for attending the workshop, in addition to any research results. The papers should be in the CHI extended abstract format and be submitted through a Google Form. Papers will be reviewed according to suitability to the workshop to contribute to an interesting set of discussions by the participants. Papers will be selected to present a poster or short talk on the day of the workshop, and accepted papers will be invited to submit to arXiv. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. More information can be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/sar-decision-making - Which decisions should be made by the SAR and who decides this? - How should SARs transparently communicate when reasoning is based on complex processes? - How do SARs smoothly integrate into existing relationships in assistive scenarios to build trust with users? - What is the role of robot embodiment in communicating explanations? - How do SARs recover from unintended/incorrect actions through communication with the user? - How should SARs approaches be adapted for specific populations? - Should SARs that make autonomous decisions also have an explicit moral reasoning framework? *Important Dates (all deadlines are at 11:59PM AoE): * - Google Form Submission Opens:* Wednesday January 18, 2023* - Submission Deadline:* Thursday **February 23, 2023* - Notification of Acceptance: *Monday* *March 13, 2023* - Camera Ready Deadline:* Monday **March 20, 2023* *Organisers: * - *Emilyann Nault*, University of Edinburgh (UK) (*Main Point of Contact*) - *Carl Bettosi*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) - *Professor Lynne Baillie*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) (*Secondary Point of Contact*) - *Ronnie Smith*, University of Edinburgh (UK) - *Professor Maja Mataric*, University of Southern California (USA) - *Dr Vivek Nallur*, University College Dublin (IRL) - *Professor Manfred Tscheligi*, University of Salzburg (AUT) - *Dr Andreas Sackl*, Austrian Institute of Technology (AUT) - *Professor Fabio Patern *, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ITA) - *Scott MacLeod*, Heriot-Watt University (UK) - *Sara Cooper*, PAL Robotics (ESP) Please feel free to reach out to Emilyann (en27(a)hw.ac.uk) with any questions you may have. Kind regards, SARs: TMI Workshop Organizers

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CfP: CHIWORK 2023

by Marta Cecchinato

Apologies for cross-posting. CHIWORK 2023 Annual Meeting – Call for Papers Hybrid: In-person in Oldenburg, Germany, and online June 13-14, 2023 Advances in computing technology are rapidly changing the way we work. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a critical aspect of this ongoing change, as a way to support workers in successfully navigating rapidly changing working environments, which might include novel computing devices, interacting with AI agents, and the changing role of the human in work environments with increasing automation. The CHIWORK symposium began in 2021, bringing together experts from various disciplines through an online series of curated conversations, to build an understanding of how HCI will support work in the future. Alongside our ongoing conversation series, we are introducing a new annual in-person event. Peer reviewed publications presented at annual in-person meeting (June 2023) For the in-person meeting we are soliciting papers relevant to the topic of the conference, with various contribution types from a range of disciplines and perspectives, including the humanities, social sciences, design, computing, and engineering. Authors are invited to submit papers with a length that is commensurate to the contribution, but of at least 6 pages. We have removed the page limit to encourage comprehensive literature review and appendices for transparency. Papers should be formatted in accordance with the single-column ACM SIGCHI format<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fauthors.a…>. Papers should keep the identities of the authors hidden – please remove all identifying information from the text and metadata, and please cite your own work in the 3rd person. Papers will be peer-reviewed, receiving at least 3 reviews, and the selection process will follow a single decision meeting process. The proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. * Submission deadline for full papers: March 10, 2023 * Decision notification: April 17, 2023 * Final formatted version: May 12, 2023 * In-person (or, if needed, online) meeting: June 13-14, 2023 Submission platform Please submit your contributions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chiwork2023<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…> by the submission deadline. Contribution types As this community develops, we are looking forward to reviewing a range of paper types, which will all be included in our proceedings. We will accept the following types of contributions, each reviewed on its own merits: * Research Papers – describing novel previously-unpublished research, that will be reviewed based upon merits of rigor, originality, and significance. * Position Papers – presenting detailed and well researched essays about the future of work, including but not limited to the topics listed below, that will be reviewed based upon maturity of the insight, the substantial nature of the evidence provided from supporting literature, and the novelty of the contribution the position provides. * Design Fictions – unpacking and explicating the futures we should be aware of, which will be reviewed based upon the impact of the provocation they provide, and the discussion or debate that it enables. Artifacts of the design fiction should be included after the references as an appendix. * Systems/Demos – demonstrating specific examples of novel systems that have been built and might facilitate new ways of working, which will be evaluated based upon the novelty of the system and the implementation detail described in the paper. * Industry Case Studies – describing real examples of evolving practices in new forms of work, which will be evaluated based upon the practical insights these case studies provide, and their implications for the future of work. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Tools for remote work: working from home, working while commuting, and meetings with remote participants * New ways of getting work done: techniques for interleaving work; easy resumption, engagement, and disengagement; and incorporating well-being needs in productivity tools * Working and trust with AI and automation: techniques for cooperation and collaboration with AI agents, new tools for task automation, working in and with automated environments and entities including cars, drones, and robots; designing for fairness, transparency and dignity. * Technologies for the future of work: networking, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable devices, and human-robot collaboration * Supporting worker well-being and health: maintaining work-life boundaries, supporting physical movement, and facilitating work attachment and detachment, exploring how systems support or privilege well-being of workers in gendered, race-, caste- and class-informed ways * Designing for digital tools that are preparing the grounds for professional development and an adaptation to and development of individual skills * Matching and developing worker skills for job opportunities: assessing worker skills, matching existing skills to new job opportunities, platforms and peer-networks for learning new skills * Inclusion and accessibility: technology that is built for equality and technology that supports all abilities * Security and privacy: protecting work infrastructure from malicious actors and maintaining privacy while providing personalized support for work and well-being * Novel ways of measuring outcome: rewarding performance so that it takes into account an individual’s unique needs, incorporating well-being as an integral part of productivity, fostering and measuring creativity and innovation, and supporting self-reflection by workers * Tools and platforms for hiring and managing workers: new models for hiring, onboarding, and management; understanding and supporting freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, and gig work. * Societal impact: supporting decision-making for policy and regulation, integrating perspectives of workers, firms, governments, and communities; addressing the economics and resilience of individuals, communities, and society. Papers Co-Chairs: Thomas Ludwig<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcps.winem…> – University of Siegen, Germany Marta E. Cecchinato<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.north…> – Northumbria University, UK Assistant to the Paper Chairs: Lauren Scott<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaurensco…> - Northumbria University, UK For questions please email papers2023(a)chiwork.org<mailto:papers2023@chiwork.org> Best regards, Marta and Thomas. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any use, disclosure or reproduction without the sender’s explicit consent is unauthorised and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify Northumbria University immediately and permanently delete it. 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Deadline extension: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> February 20, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: link <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February**20*, *2023* *(extended)* • Notification to the authors: March 30, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half of May, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*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 -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction Design") 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: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Last Mile for Paper Submission

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Fourth Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** Fourth Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Third Call for Papers

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*** Third Call for Papers *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org *** Recipient of the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2023: Professor Enrique S. Quintana Ortí *** SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 17, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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*** Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ● Proposals due: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Workshop and Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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

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*** Last Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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