Dear list members,
The submission deadline for the Interactive Experiences at CHItaly is
approaching! We welcome prototypes and installations that explore,
represent, and challenge the frontier of HCI.
Please check further details and the submission options on our website:
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
And don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
All the best,
Seçil, Jennifer, and Maria
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In the last months, we have been shaping the Interactive Experiences track
at CHItaly'21. It is the first time the conference will be hosting this
track and we want it to be a venue for exploring, representing, and
challenging the frontiers of HCI through prototypes and installations. The
call for participation is now open and we thought it could be of interest
to some of the members of this list.
So, what could be an example of an Interactive Experience? A prototype of a
digital platform empowering grassroots, an interactive visualization of a
complex issue, an artistic experiment exploring more-than-human
interactions, a critical design artifact that challenges predominant
narratives of digital futures, and not only. If it sounds interesting,
check the details, submission options, and our fantastic committee on our
website:
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
We are hoping to safely welcome some of you to Bolzano (Italy) in July but,
in case it is not possible, online participation will also be available.
Submission deadline: 19th March 2021
*2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds*
*(part of Audio Mostly 2021 - Virtual conference)*
September 1-3, 2021.
< Apologies for cross-posting >
< Please distribute >
*Call for papers and demos*
After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the
community to submit to the 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of
Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field
positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and
Music Computing domains. The workshop will run virtually.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to
investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies
by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of
presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations,
demonstrations, as well as tutorials.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Wireless acoustic sensor networks
- Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks
- Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks
- Ecoacoustics
- Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks
- Smart Musical Instruments
- Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things
- Participatory live music performances
- Networked music performances
- Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things
- Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts
- Ubiquitous music
- Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds
- Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds
- Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications
- Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds
- Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds
- Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining
- Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases
- Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases
- Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications
We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8
pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max
2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage
the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work.
The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference (
https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference taking place
between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the workshop will have
access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly conference.
The paper templates are available at
https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/
*Important dates*
- Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021
- Author notification: June 15, 2021
- Camera ready due: July 15, 2021
- Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021
*Publications*
All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly
Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be
indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP.
*Awards*
The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best
Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student
paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a
full-time student.
*Organizing Committee*
- Luca Turchet (University of Trento)
- Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes)
- Chris Chafe (Stanford University)
- Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University)
- Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Paolo Casari (University of Trento)
*Sponsors*
- Elk (www.elk.audio)
- Orastron (www.orastron.com)
*Logistics*
Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/
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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
*** Apologies for cross postings ***
ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021)
June 21-25, 2020
co-located with UMAP 2021 (https://www.um.org/umap2021/) - Online from Utrecht, the Netherlands
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop
Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum/
Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM")
For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it<mailto:cataldo.musto@uniba.it>, marco.polignano(a)uniba.it<mailto:marco.polignano@uniba.it>
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full paper submission: March 26, 2021
* Paper notification: April 19, 2021
* Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021
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COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE
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The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a virtual conference. We are still figuring out all the details, which we hope to announce bit by bit during the next couple of months. Stay tuned for further updates.
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ABSTRACT
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Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks.
As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users’ right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model.
The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability?
Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent al-gorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems.
The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems.
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TOPICS
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Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
- TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES
- Scrutable User Models
- Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction
- Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies
- Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms
- DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS
- Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties
- Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews)
- Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information
- Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization)
- DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES
- Transparent User Interfaces
- Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies
- Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models
- EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY
- Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization
- Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms
- Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability
- Novel metrics and experimental protocols
- OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS
- Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems
- Privacy management of Personal and Social data
- Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions
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SUBMISSIONS
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We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models.
(A) Regular papers (max. 10 pages + references - single-column ACM format);
(B) Demo and Position Papers (max. 5 pages + references - ACM format);
Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM")
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality.
Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications.
The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column):
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…
* Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column):
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…
* MS Word:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…
Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (AoE).
All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there.
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ORGANIZATION
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Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy
Nava Tintarev - Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Oana Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy
Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen
*** Apologies for cross postings ***
PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online
https://patch2021.di.unito.it/
Abstract and Topics
Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be
again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH)
research and personalization research. For those using any kind of
technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance
the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing
together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects
of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of
mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance
the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a
multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research
directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical
cultural heritage collections and in CH sites
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Ambient Cultural Heritage
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Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites
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Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
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Creativity and collaboration support in CH
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Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants
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Recommendation strategies for CH
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Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH
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NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH
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(User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections
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Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation
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Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
(including CH)
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Long term personalization in CH
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IoT and Cultural Heritage
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Human-Robots adaptation in museums
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3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage
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Context-aware information presentation in CH
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Interactive user interfaces for CH applications
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Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
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Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences
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Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives
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Community mapping for CH information sharing
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Conversational agents for CH
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Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
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Remote access to CH
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Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Motivation
Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for
personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this
topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and
learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites
are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor
can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009),
visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a
combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context
and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized
support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes.
However, personalization brings two main challenges:
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Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous
visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only
once, or they interact with digital services anonymously?
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Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide
an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH
visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from
previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web?
Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support
can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH
experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in
urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer
places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be
preserved and valued.
Submissions
Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references;
Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 pages excluding references.
Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.
Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included
in the submissions.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM
publications. The templates and instructions are available here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021.
An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it
introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.
There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all
the workshop papers will be published.
Important dates:
March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
Workshop organizers
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it
Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it
Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel,
tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il
Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it
George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr
Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com
Program Committee
Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece
Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy
Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy
George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece
Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK
Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy
Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy
Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy
Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel
Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece
Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel
Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel
Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel
Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy
Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy
Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy
Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy
George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece
Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy
Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy
Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece
Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece
Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel
Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy
Call For Papers: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation
during Pandemics In conjunction with the ACM International Conference
on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021)
The GoodIT conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS, the Association for
Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society.
The conference focuses on the application of IT technologies to social
good.
The Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during
Pandemics focuses on new data technologies based on artificial
intelligence, data governance, machine learning, natural language
processing, and social network analysis to aid experts in analyzing
large volumes of social media data in order to detect fake news,
misinformation, and disinformation. A number of open challenges need
more investigation from the research community, such as recent trends
in composing information disorder by combining false and real content,
the mechanisms that drive fake content diffusion during pandemics, how
to differentiate fake content from personal viewpoints, why people
tend to believe fake content and make decisions based on it during
pandemics, and what are the different motivations behind the
dissemination of fake content. Fact-checking and claim verification
are two important strategies that are worth incorporating in the
automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after
pandemics.
************ Key Dates ************
Papers Submission Due: May 1, 2021
Authors Notifications: June 22, 2021
Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2021
GoodIT 2021: September 09-11, 2021
************ Important Links ************
Special Track Website: https://aitdmp.conceptechint.net
Submission Link: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com/
************ Submission Guidelines ************
All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process.
The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors
can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures,
bibliography, etc.
Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column
including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format.
Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form.
Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template No changes to
margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by
the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.
ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative
authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. The ACM
LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors
at: www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official
Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special
issues associated with the conference are being organized.
************ Topics ************
Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in
various topics related to rumors, fake news, misinformation, and
disinformation during and after pandemics, are invited, with special
emphasis on novel techniques and tools for automated tackling and
curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. Topics include
(but are not limited to):
-AI approaches for the detection of online influence and manipulation
-AI approaches to identify misinformation and disinformation campaigns
-AI approaches for spotting misinformation and disinformation spreaders.
-Social media mining for automated detection of misinformation
propagation and disinformation circulation
-AI approaches for automated identification and verification of claims
-AI approaches for intention detection for misinformation and
disinformation contents
-AI approaches for credibility assessment of Social media sources
-AI approaches for fake news curtailment, filtering and prevention.
-AI approaches for analysis/detection of distributed and
multi-platform misinformation and disinformation disseminations
-AI approaches for predicting the Impact of misinformation and
disinformation during pandemics
-New datasets and evaluation methodologies to aid in automated
detection and analysis of misinformation and disinformation content in
social media channels
**********The Conference Sponsored by**********
Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on
Computers & Society http://www.sigcas.org/
/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/
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*CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC VIDEO *
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*6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional
Development - SLERD Reload**
**Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the
pandemic.*
*June 24-25, 2021*
/*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/
slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/>
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Deadline for video submission: *April 30, 2021
call for scientific video contest
<http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/>
* *=========================================================
*
**
Videos offer a dynamic way to communicate any kind of content and are
used especially by young generations to share ideas, connect and
discuss. Even in the academic sector, scientific video documents are an
emerging way to communicate concepts and research results and might
become in the near future an excellent alternative to scientific papers.
With this call – which is targeting Ph. D students, graduate students
(within 2 years after the graduation), students with research
fellowships, master's degree students– we aim to explore this new
scientific communication channel.
Candidates are invited to submit a scientific video document (max.
duration 3 mins.), where they are expected to elaborate on the notion of
“smart learning ecosystem” in the context of their research (what's a
smart learning ecosystem?) and present their contribution to the field
(what are you doing to further develop the notion?).
Videos should be creative and lively objects, similar to ‘elevator
pitches’. Nonetheless, while answering to the above mentioned questions,
you should keep your video a “scientific communication document”, thus
following - as far as this is possible in 3 mins - a “scientific format”
(for example stating your research questions, mentioning the methods,
describing your results).
IMPORTANT: If you need support and/or want to learn more about how to
produce a scientific video document, we invite you to participate in one
short free-of-charge workshop“HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH VISIBLE”.
See thefull text of the call
<http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/>, for more
information about the workshop and how to register.
A Jury will select a maximum of 6 videos as finalists for presentation
at the conference during a dedicated session. Finalists will be invited
to participate in the session and their contribution to the discussion
will also be taken into consideration by the Jury for the final awarding.
A maximum of 3 “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”will be awarded with a
certificate issued by ASLERD, as well as with a prize as it follows:
*
500 € for the 1st prize·
*
300 € for the 2nd prize·
*
300 € for the 3rd prize.
The 3 best videos will be uploaded on the ASLERD website/YouTube channel.
The Jury reserves the possibility to award special mentions.
*Important dates:*Video submission: 30thApril, 2021Notification to
candidates: 31stMay, 2021Participation by finalists in the live session
at the conference and prize awarding: possibly 25thJune, 2021 (to be
confirmed).**
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Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning
Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration
<http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>
See ASLERD website for
Request of membership, membership fees and legal
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Carissimi,
Porto all’attenzione di tutti una iniziativa promossa dal SIGCHI Executive Committee: una serie di panel che affronteranno questioni diverse relative alla comunità del SIGCHI. Trovate sotto maggiori dettagli sugli argomenti che saranno affrontati e le informazioni per partecipare.
Il primo panel si svolgerà questo lunedì, 8 Marzo. Luigi De Russis sarà uno dei panelists!
Cari saluti,
Maristella
From: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>>
Subject: SIGCHI Equity Talks, starting March 8th!
Date: 1 March 2021 at 23:09:37 CET
To: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG<mailto:SIGCHI-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG>
Reply-To: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>>
Dear SIGCHI members,
In coming weeks, we'll be hosting a series of Equity Talks. You can find the details in our living blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477>. You are all invited to join in, ask questions, to listen, and to share. These are roundtable sessions that will be recorded, captioned, summarized, and uploaded onto SIGCHI's YouTube channel. We trust that they will help in better understanding our community, leading to more equitable futures for SIGCHI overall.
The upcoming three (of more) sessions are as follows:
ET#1: Being Global (Zoom<https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/91783833909?pwd=c09YdlFrRk4vcjNGeEZoRmRDR05ZQT09>/Sli.do<https://app.sli.do/event/bpnebm84>)
March 8th at 11.30am EST | 4.30pm GMT | 10pm IST
March 9th at 1.30am JST
ET#2: Making SIGCHI Accessible
March 18th at 12pm EDT | 4pm GMT | 9.30pm IST
March 19th at 1am JST
ET#3: Reviewing & Mentorship
March 31st at 4.30pm EDT | 8.30pm GMT
April 1st at 2am IST | 5.30am JST
Check our blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477> for more information/updates! Those of you who would call in if not for inconvenient times, please accept our apologies in advance.
Looking forward!
Neha Kumar & Shaowen Bardzell (VPs at Large)
Adriana S. Vivacqua & Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (ACs for Equity)
Stacy Branham & Soraia Prietch (ACs for Accessibility)
Theresa Tanenbaum (VP Publications)
On behalf of the SIGCHI Executive Committee
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to open the call for papers in our workshop on transferable UX at the upcoming ECSCW’21. We hope that you can consider participating.
The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services”<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html> aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working on conceptualization, maintenance, and preservation of transferable UX artifacts within their organizations.
In this workshop, we aim on synthesizing the challenges and highlighting opportunities of transferring UX insights while developing multiple products and services. We ask: “How can we depart from a paradigm of designing a single product and turn to the holistic UX design approach at work?” Instead of focusing on a product, we call UX researchers, designers, experts and practitioners, to center on an ecology of artifacts, e.g. a portfolio. This, in turn, may help to improve existing work environments and to develop novel integrated work environments, where many actors need to effectively coordinate their actions using a myriad of tools. That change, ultimately, may lead not only to improved quality of work and create pleasurable experiences for the end-users, but also establish a ground for successful company-wide collaboration when it comes to preserving and transferring UX insights and rules.
We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, enterprise architecture, product/portfolio management, and agile software development to create a UX research agenda for designing integrated digital work environments, unpacking development, users, and change perspectives to aid establishing long-living UX practices that extend across projects and overtime.
More details: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html
HOW TO APPLY?
To apply, please submit a position paper (2-4 pages, template<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/>) explaining your interests and experience in transferable UX in relation to the workshop theme<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021/ws-theme.html> in PDF format by April 9, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch . To promote broader participation from UX design practitioners (e.g., UX researchers, UX designers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Enterprise Architects, Human Factors Specialists), and design leaders, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a case study, or the like.
KEY DATES
Submission deadline: April 9, 2021, AoE
Notification: April 30, 2021
Workshop: June 8, 2021
ATTENDANCE
The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to twenty participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for conference attendees.
ORGANIZERS
Anton Fedosov, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Boos, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland
Susanne Schmidt-Rauch, evux AG, Switzerland
Jarno Ojala, Vincit Oyj, Finland
Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France
If you have any questions, please drop us an email at transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch
Best regards,
Anton Fedosov, Ph.D.
People and Computing Lab (ZPAC)
antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch>
antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/>
University of Zurich
Department of Informatics
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Switzerland
To whom it may concern:
I am Giulia Staggini, an Italian PhD student at the University of Genoa
and, together with my colleague Rita Cersosimo, I outlined a Workshop
"VR-Island" that has been selected for CHitaly 2021, a computer-human
interaction conference. Our Workshop is about the application of immersive
reality input (both AR and VR) to language teaching with a special focus on
special educational needs, students with dyslexia, students in special
contexts (e.g: migrants, prisoners, people with chronic deseases...).
Interdisciplinary papers with various approaches and perspectives are
welcome. If you're interested in participating, I invite you to submit your
abstract.
You can find any detail, clicking here:
https://easychair.org/cfp/VRISLAND1-VirtualRealitySpecialLanguageNeeds?remi…
If you need more info, please contact me.
Thank you in advance for your attention.
Best regards,
Giulia Staggini
Care/i,
è con tristezza che vi segnalo la morte di Gregorio Convertino , persona italiana molto attiva nel
settore HCI, che poi ha fatto molte esperienze all'estero, era UX Research Manager a Google nella
Bay area https://www.gregorioconvertino.com/
Fabio