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Two PhD fellowships available at HIIS Laboratory, CNR-ISTI

by Fabio Paternò

We are looking for candidates for two three-year PhD scholarships that will be carried out at the at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) Laboratory at CNR-ISTI (http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/): One fellowship is associated with the PhD school at the Computer Science department of the University of Pisa (https://dottorato.di.unipi.it/) in the Human-Computer Interaction area, with preference for topics in the field of Methods and Tools for Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction. One fellowship is associated with the newly-established national PhD programme on Artificial Intelligence (https://www.phd-ai.it/) on the topic Human-centered automations in daily environments The HIIS Laboratory is a creative and multi-disciplinary interactive technologies research laboratory, with deep and extensive research collaborations, industrial partners, and a supportive working environment. Pisa is a lively small town located in Tuscany, near the coast, characterised by the presence of a rich research ecosystem (three Universities and many research centres) very active in the ICT area. We are therefore looking for deserving candidates. It is useful to have some programming knowledge, interest and passion for the considered topics, and to carry out research activities. The application procedure will be soon available. Applicants must have earned a master degree by the end of October 2021. For further information any interested potential candidate can contact fabio.paterno at isti.cnr.it

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I: SIGCHI Equity Talks: SIGCHI Across Chapters (May 27)

by Maristella Matera

FYI Cari saluti, Maristella Da: Neha Kumar <neha.kumar(a)gmail.com> Inviato: domenica 23 maggio 2021 02:54 A: Eunice Sari <eunice.sari(a)gmail.com> Oggetto: SIGCHI Equity Talks: SIGCHI Across Chapters (May 27) Dear SIGCHI chapters and friends, Our next SIGCHI Equity Talks session, titled SIGCHI Across Chapters, will be held on May 27, 11.30am GMT. It will be co-organized by Eunice Sari (VP for Chapters) and myself (VP at Large). In this roundtable session, we will discuss prior and ongoing efforts to support and promote chapters, and how these efforts might be further cultivated towards the success of SIGCHI as a global institution. Chapters are of varying sizes across the globe, and feature different emphases on research vs. practice, different sizes, and different challenges facing sustainability and growth. We invite participation from all chapters, in the hope that this discussion can help in brainstorming approaches to support greater learning and exchange across chapters. The questions we propose to address are as follows: Naming the Problem(s): What are the challenges that chapters find themselves facing in being a part of SIGCHI that SIGCHI could better address? Fostering Solidarity: What might a more inclusive, supportive infrastructure and culture within SIGCHI look like for supporting chapters? Identifying Nuance: What are some barriers chapters might face in this regard? How do these impact different chapters differently? Actions Towards Change: Where does the responsibility for change lie, and what actions can and should SIGCHI take to effect this change? Join us on Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/93907948324?pwd=SEsvZlUyakc1a1hUNnZ2K2czV2RJZz09 Ask questions on Sli.do: https://app.sli.do/event/owzhgesl Join SIGCHI's Discord server: https://discord.gg/nAYVdWSpgZ Read more about our Equity Talks here: https://medium.com/sigchi/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477 Please forward widely, and apologies for cross-posting! Thank you, Neha Kumar (SIGCHI VP at Large) & Eunice Sari (SIGCHI VP for Chapters)

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Invitation to submit to Special Issue on "VR, AR, and HCI" (MDPI Open Access Journal)

by Lammers, H.A.

Invitation to submit to Special Issue on "VR, AR, and HCI" (MDPI Open Access Journal) Dear Colleagues, We are in the process of putting together a Special Issue on "Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction" in collaboration with MDPI Open Access Journa (https://www.mdpi.com<https://www.mdpi.com/>). Details about the Special Issue can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/Virt_Reality The deadline for the abstract (title and short outline of the planned content) is July 31, 2021. We would like to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue and are looking forward to your contributions! Best regards Achim, Peter, and Gerrit ---- Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Peter Dannenmann, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Virt_Reality_horizontal_light.png]

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CHItaly 2021, July 11--13, Bolzano-online: keynotes, program, registration

by chitaly2021

Dear all, we are glad to announce the keynotes of CHItaly 2021, the hybrid program of the conference and how to register for it. --------------------------- KEYNOTES --------------------------- We are excited to present the two keynote speakers of CHItaly 2021 (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/keynotes.html): 1) Prof. Albrecht Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) will open the conference on July 12th, talking about "THE END OF SERENDIPITY: Will Artificial Intelligence Remove Chance and Choice in Everyday Life?"; 2) Prof. Paola Bertola (Politecnico di Milano) will close the conference on July 13th, talking about: "FASHION WITHIN THE BIG DATA SOCIETY: How can data enable fashion transition towards more meaningful and sustainable products?". --------------------------- PROGRAM --------------------------- The hybrid program includes a number of interesting events, besides its keynotes: presentations of long and short research papers, workshops, interactive experiences, the doctoral consortium, social events. For details, kindly refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/index.html The program will be completed in due time. Meanwhile you may want to reserve the following dates in your agenda for CHItaly 2021: from Sunday the 11th of July, early afternoon, to Tuesday the 13th of July at 22:00. --------------------------- REGISTRATION --------------------------- Given its hybrid nature, CHItaly allows for two types of participation: either physical or virtual. Furthermore, due to the current uncertainty concerning travelling regulations in Europe, CHItaly adopts a 2-step registration process. STEP 1). Attendees, willing to benefit from the early-bird rate, *must* register their intention to participate - either physically - or virtually by June 7 (strict). NOTA BENE: at least one author for each long/short research article, at least one workshop organiser and at least one interactive experience organiser are requested to register by June 7 (strict). After June 7, registrations will be considered late. STEP 2). Payments are purposefully delayed. They will be based on the Step-1 registration choice. The conference organisers will allow to modify a physical into a virtual fee in case of serious COVID-19-related reasons. Payments for both physical and virtual fees will close on June 30. No on-site registration will be possible. Please, refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/registration.html for up-to-date and detailed information as well as for registering for CHItaly 2021. We apologise for the delay of this communication, due to the complexity of ensuring compliance with the COVID-19 regulations in South Tyrol, Italy, and Europe. We are committed to providing you with a safe and entertaining environment and warmly invite you to attend in presence. Yours sincerely, CHItaly 2021 Organising Committee https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it

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CFP: IEEE/ACIS Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop. Extended deadline: May 22, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Please email your paper with the names and affiliations directly to the workshop organizer (miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca). Schedule Submission deadline: May 22, 2021 (extended deadline) . Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: June 10, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: July 10, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) Veronica Zammitto (UX consultant) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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cfp IFIP IoT 2021

by Fabio Paternò

Dear colleagues, Please find enclosed the call for paper or the 4th IFIP International Internet of Things (IoT) Conference going to be held from 4 5 November 2021 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We solicit submissions of full papers and poster presentations. Proposals for special sessions can be submitted via the special form on the conference website. Submitted full papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Poster presentations will have to be student papers. Accepted submissions will be presented at the conference and included in the post-conference edited book published in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT) series by Springer Nature. Authors can choose to publish their paper as an open access paper, for details contact Leon Strous. Proceedings will be submitted for indexing in SCOPUS and Web of Science. Previous editions are already indexed in SCOPUS. Selected papers will be eligible for a special issue in the Springer Nature Computer Science (SNCS) journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979) All papers must be written in English. Full papers should be at most 18 pages long in total including references and appendices. The paper should be intelligible without having to read the appendices. Poster presentations should be at most 4 pages. Submissions should not be anonymized. Authors must follow the Springer formatting instructions for the IFIP AICT series, see https://www.springer.com/series/6102. Each paper will receive at least 3 reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date and present the paper. Poster presentations will have to be presented by the student(s). Full paper due 15 June 2021 Notification of acceptance 31 August 2021 Deadline for final version 15 December 2021 For paper submissions go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipiot2021 For more information visit the conference website http://ifip-iotconference.org/ or contact Leon Strous (strous(a)iae.nl <mailto:strous@iae.nl> ), Srinivas Katkoori (katkoori(a)usf.edu <mailto:katkoori@usf.edu> ) or Luis Camarinha-Matos (cam(a)uninova.pt <mailto:cam@uninova.pt> )

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CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop, deadline: May 10, 2021

by Miguel Garcia

** Apologies for cross-posting CFP: Best Practices of Serious Games Testing workshop This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, stakeholders and students from development of serious games (video games with a purpose beyond entertainment, such as educational games), games user research, software engineering in game development, HCI and related areas. Following the spirit of the IEEE/ICIS conference, the workshop aims to discuss practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted on software and user testing and assessment of serious games, in the form of best practices. Suggested topics for the Workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: • Testing methodologies • Testing protocols in the COVID-19 pandemic • Remote testing • Experiences in applying software testing tools • Design and application of surveys and questionnaires • White-box testing • Usability testing • UX testing • QA testing • Playtesting • Presence testing • Engagement testing • Testing using physiological measurements • Formative/Summative evaluation and testing • AI-based testing • Assessment with immersive technologies • Knowledge retention and transferable skills tests/evaluation Participants in this workshop are welcome to submit 2-4 pages for short papers and 5-6 pages for full papers describing research and practical issues on serious game testing and assessment, including a list of 4 best practices. Each participant will present his/her own paper during the workshop. For each accepted paper, one full author registration is required. We encourage work-in-progress submissions as well as more mature work. This Workshop is part of the IEEE/ACIS 21st International Fall Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2021-Fall) October 13-15, 2021, Xi'an, China. Event web page: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Publications All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings, and will be submitted to be indexed by Scopus, EI, INSPEC and DBLP. The Organizing Committee will peer-review the submitted papers. Format Please write your proposal using the General IEEE conference paper format: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conferen… Schedule Submission deadline: May 10, 2021. Please send your submission to: miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Author notification: June 10, 2021 Final manuscripts (camera ready)/ registration due: July 10, 2021. Please consult the main Conference web page for registration: http://acisinternational.org/conferences/icis-2021-fall/ Workshop date: October 13, 2021 Awards The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. In order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the Workshop. For more information, contact the workshop chair: Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada miguel.garcia(a)algomau.ca Organizing Committee Bill Kapralos (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo (Ontario Tech University, Canada) Luis A. Castro (Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico) Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico) Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla (University of Colima, Mexico) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo (University of Colima, Mexico) -- Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, BEng, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Personal web page: http://people.algomau.ca/garcia/ Algoma University School of Computer Science and Technology Office: WW105G 1520 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 2G4

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Call for Submission - Special issue on Interface Design Challenges for Smart Control Room

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Call for Submission - Special issue on Interface Design Challenges for Smart Control Room https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Interface_Design Dear Colleagues, Control rooms for mission critical operations and monitoring networks have changed considerably over the years, relying today on smart technology able to better support human-machine allocation tasks and decision support activities. The working conditions of the control room operators are characterized by high cognitive workload in terms of user’ attention and decision processes both in daily routine and extraordinary/unexpected circumstances. For that reason, in addition to the security, resilience and reliability issues, control rooms also should be usable, being usability defined by ISO 9241-11 (2018) as "the extent to which a system, product or service can be used by specific users to achieve specific objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a given context". Usability is an essential property for understanding the uses and the place of users in smart control rooms. The adoption of appropriate user centered design methodologies for future intelligent control room interfaces is paramount to achieve system usability and guarantee or restore safe and efficient operations, in a variety of application fields, from emergency, to healthcare, to surveillance, to agriculture, to industry. Interface design for control rooms may raise challenges of potential interest for researchers working in a variety of areas, including computer-human interaction, organizational psychology and anthropology, big data management and information visualization, Internet of Things, geographical information systems, and software engineering. As such, the special issue invites submission on new and innovative research results and industrial experience papers in the area of interface applications for smart control rooms. We particularly encourage submission covering any aspects of the problem, including, but not limited to, the following topics of interest: - Context-Aware Behaviour in Smart Control Rooms; - Cooperative Interaction in Smart Control Rooms; - Multimodal/Multitouch Interaction for Smart Control Rooms; - Smart Control Rooms for Emergency Management; - Smart Control Rooms for Healthcare Management; - Smart Control Rooms for the Internet of Things; - Smart Control Rooms for UAVs, Drones and Robotics; - Assessment of multiple properties (such as usability, security, etc.) affecting the use of smart control rooms; - Visualization techniques for monitoring and analyzing data collected in control rooms. Genoveffa Tortora, Giuliana Vitiello, Marco Winckler, *Guest Editor* Deadline for manuscript submissions: *15 June 2021*.

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Associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Bergen, Norway

by Morten Fjeld

Dear Colleague, There is a vacancy for a permanent associate professor position in information science in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Application deadline: 1st June 2021 https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/203893/associate-professor-i… Morten Fjeld, PhD, Professor t2i Interaction Laboratory Web: http://t2i.se Mobile, S: +46 73 079 1186 Mobile, N: +47 55 58 41 41 Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen, Postbox 7802, N-5020 Bergen Web: https://www.uib.no/en/fg/interaction Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/my/mfjeld E-mail: morten.fjeld(a)uib.no Visit: https://www.uib.no/en/fg/interaction/map, 6th floor

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SIGCHI Development Fund & Co.

by Luigi De Russis

Care tutte, cari tutti, dall’anno scorso faccio parte di un comitato in seno a SIGCHI, il SIGCHI Development Fund (SDF) Committee. Il comitato si è occupato e si occupa di varie iniziative di supporto alla comunità globale intorno a SIGCHI, con un supporto che va da quello economico (per eventi virtuali, al momento) a quello più di rete/comunicazione, come il calendario degli eventi di interesse alla comunità HCI (https://sigchi.org/community/ <https://sigchi.org/community/>). Vi scrivo per due motivi, sperando che queste informazioni possano essere utili a qualcuno di voi: 1) Da una parte, per farvi conoscere le varie iniziative su cui questo comitato ha lavorato nell’ultimo anno, per le quali posso condividere in anteprima un breve video (5 minuti) che sarà usato per la Town Hall di CHI 2021: https://youtu.be/uwLUjGcWpIU <https://youtu.be/uwLUjGcWpIU> 2) Dall’altra, soprattutto nel caso in cui non foste a conoscenza di alcune tra queste iniziative, per invitarvi a partecipare e/o inviare qualche proposta. Per esempio, attraverso il SDF è possibile avere fino a 5,000 dollari a supporto di una grande varietà di eventi virtuali (https://sigchi.org/resources/sigchi-development-fund/ <https://sigchi.org/resources/sigchi-development-fund/>), mentre il Gary Marsden Travel Award (https://sigchi.org/awards/gary-marsden-travel-awards/ <https://sigchi.org/awards/gary-marsden-travel-awards/>) è stato recentemente aggiornato per supportare economicamente studenti e persone all’inizio della loro carriera a partecipare (anche virtualmente) a varie conferenze SIGCHI. Attualmente, entrambe le iniziative sono sempre aperte per ricevere nuove proposte e domande. Grazie e a presto! Cordialmente, Luigi --- Luigi De Russis Assistant Professor (RTDb) Department of Control and Computer Engineering Politecnico di Torino, Italy ph: +39 011 0907170, +39 331 2689895 e: luigi.derussis(a)polito.it w: http://elite.polito.it/people/derussis t: @luigidr

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