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

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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Deadline approaching: INTERACT 2021 - 18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Call for Papers

by Paolo Buono

INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021) Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online June 21-25, 2021 https://www.um.org/umap2021/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1). Workshop Format 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 Instructions for Proposers Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows: • Workshop title and acronym • Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events • Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest • Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time • Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions • Intended audience and expected number of participants • List of (potential) members of the program committee • Requested duration (half day or full day) • Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual) • When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics Submission and Review Process Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> 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. Schedule • Proposal submission: January 15, 2021 • Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021 • Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021 • (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021 • (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021 • (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021 • (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021 • Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021 • Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Important Dates: Proposals due: January 15, 2021 Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021 Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. Information about Hybrid Conference Format ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1). Tutorial Topics 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, human-robot interaction 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 Instructions for Proposers 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. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: • Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum) • Tutorial description: • learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021 • targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills • a brief outline of the tutorial structure • Information about potential practical sessions • Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours) • Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions • Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual) • Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience Submission and Review Process Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org> All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are: • ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research • clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description • organization, as appearing from the outline • background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics Timeline • Proposals due: January 15, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021 • Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021 • Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021 Proceedings and Registration Policy A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration. Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria dietmar.jannach(a)aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED (JAN 15) - ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CFP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 15, 2021 Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, held (online) in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 - April 13-17 - Virtual Conference Website: http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. TOPICS The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC) * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) * Adaptation strategies for social HRI * Machine learning for social robots * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: * Full papers (6 pages excluding references) * Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned * Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University * Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> IMPORTANT DATES * Submission date: Jan 15, 2021 (extended) * Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 * Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 * Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing //========================================================= *Extended Deadline is approaching: *//**January 11*, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *January 11, 2021* (extended deadline) • Notification to the authors: January 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 15, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. *Places for smart education* • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning • role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) • People in place centered design for smart education *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <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: Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun with a focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics" Guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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EICS 2021 Call for Papers (Round 3)

by Davide Spano

Apologies for cross-posting. EICS 2021 : Engineering Interactive Computing System The 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 8-11 June, 2021 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands https://eics.acm.org/eics2021/ Keynote Speakers: Rick Kazman and Albert Ali Salah EICS 2021 is the thirteenth international conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all processes at any stage of the development life-cycle (requirements, specification, validation and verification, testing, deployment, maintenance). Any of the following topics of interest may be addressed as long as their engineering contribution is made explicit and highlighted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS EICS 2021 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. The Conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from: Design, HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Modelling, Programming. Submissions are invited that advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: Modeling,Specification and Analysis * Modelling and analysis of interaction and interactive systems (including user interface) * Requirements engineering for interactive systems * Specification of interactive systems (methods, principles and tools) * Software architectures for interactive systems * Formal methods within interactive systems engineering * Certification issues of interactive systems Methods, Tools, and Processes * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems (e.g., API usability, interaction-driven API design) * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Processes for engineering interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Design and engineering issues in interactive data-driven systems Applications and integrations * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, tangible, touch and multitouch input, voice, gesture, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, machine learning, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems, etc.) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, military) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS Topics described above may be described in contributions of one, or more, of the following types: * Proof of Concept - demonstration of the applicability of an approach/tool/method/architecture/framework/design space * Case Study - collect detailed project data to demonstrate the benefits/shortcomings of the approach/artefacts used. May include datasets derived from the study. * Comparative Study - monitor several projects to collect data on impact of the technology/method * Formal Analysis - uses a formal analysis method or tool to analyse an artefact, e.g formal proof, model-driven approach, graph-based approach, user, UI and/or interaction modelling. Applying an approach. * Theory/Formal Method - describes a new method/engineering approach for addressing research questions in EICS. * Literature Review/Survey - Evaluate published studies that analyse the behaviour of similar methods/tools. Systematic mapping, systematic literature review etc. * Experiment - perform a qualitative/quantitative analysis of a project/artefact. A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300960. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS EICS papers are now published as articles in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (EICS series) <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J1598&picked=prox>, Vol. 7, Issue EICS. Paper submissions still follow the normal conference review process, but this process is iterated multiple times per year. Submissions to this venue should present original and mature research work. There are no length restrictions on papers, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. Papers may be accepted after submission and review, or recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions should indicate the type and topics of the contribution from the lists above so that the paper will be reviewed according to the criteria given above. Submissions which do not match the above topics and types of contributions will be desk-rejected. More information about the next PACM-HCI (EICS series) review and publication process can be found at http://eics.acm.org/pacm. Papers should be written in the ACM format, see: https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/author-guidelines Upcoming deadlines for full papers to be presented at EICS 2021 are (AoE-Anywhere on Earth): - EICS 2021 round 3: Submission deadline February 19th, 2021 - Final Decision and Notification to Authors April 16th, 2021 Submissions can be made through http://new.precisionconference.com Further information about EICS 2021 can be found here: https://eics.acm.org/2021 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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INTERACT 2021 -18th IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Call for Papers

by Paolo Buono

----------------------- apologies for cross-posting ------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems. Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are available in the Springer Digital Library. We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the following tracks: Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021* - Full Papers (abstract due by January 20th, 2021) - Workshops Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021* - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of the international program committee. INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy. The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference. Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France) [General Co-Chairs] Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) - Deadline extension

by Axel Soto

Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2021/home 13 April 2021, Virtual Important Dates (submission deadline extended): Submission deadline: January 6, 2020 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 31, 2021 Final manuscript due: February 15, 2021 Workshop: April 13, 2021 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2021/). The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize the data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating the user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop a common set of design principles for this type of systems across platforms, contexts, users and applications; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. – interactively modelling the user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – interaction degrees of freedom. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization evaluation of interactive systems for exploratory search and data analytics. Metrics for explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile) , dparra[at]ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: -full papers (up to 8 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters -extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM sigconf format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida21

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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

*** Apologies for multiple-posting *** Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) April 13, hosted online held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021 The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html <http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html>). The contributions can be: Full papers (6 pages excluding references) and Short papers (4 pages excluding references), including substantial work-in-progress, perspective papers, and lessons learned; and Challenge, Position, and Demo papers (2 pages excluding references), describing research challenges in theory or practice, defining new promising research directions, and demonstrating innovative software prototypes. Manuscripts must be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2021>) by December 23rd, 2020. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. The reviewing process will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. Accepted contributions will be published in a joint volume of dedicated workshop proceedings. The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. For more information visit our website at http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2021.di.unito.it/> ************Important Dates************** Submission date: Dec 23, 2020 Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021 Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021 For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2021@easychair.org>> Best Regards, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended)

by Axel Soto

Request for Proposals — Bid on ACM IUI 2023 (deadline extended) --------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference series sponsored by ACM (SIGCHI and SIGAI) and has been held annually since 1993 as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. To involve the greater IUI community in conference organization and better plan for the conference, we request proposals for hosting and organizing IUI two years ahead of time. We regularly rotate the conference locations to engage with IUI research communities around the globe. Below shows the location and time of the three most recently scheduled IUI conferences: IUI 2020 Cagliari, Italy March 17-20 IUI 2021 College Station, Texas April 13-17 IUI 2022 Helsinki, Finland March 22-26 Why host IUI? There are several benefits of hosting and organizing an IUI conference. First, conference hosts/organizers have an opportunity to publicize their work, build relationships, and interact with the international IUI community. Second, this is a great opportunity for the organizers/hosts to introduce their students and colleagues to the IUI community and help grow the community as a whole. Third, hosts/organizers can use the opportunity to build local IUI communities, connecting representatives from both academia and industries. Bid Requirements All proposals must be written in English with a readable font not smaller than 12 point and margins not less than one inch on all sides. The proposal should address each aspect outlined below but not exceed 15000 characters (approx. 5-6 pages). Based on the merits of the proposals and factors such as ensuring a diversity of conference locations, the board will choose the top candidates and then a finalist will be chosen and announced at IUI 2021. Please note that the bid requirements have been modified from previous years. Please read the requirements below carefully before writing up your bid. Hosts/Organizers The conference hosts/organizers should have knowledge of the IUI community, such as having attended and published regularly at IUI, and have experience with conference organization. One of the main IUI goals is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. For that reason, the bid proposal must suggest ONLY the conference general chairs. The IUI steering committee will work with the selected bid proposers on building the conference organizing team. We especially encourage that the key conference organizers consist of people from both industry and academia, representing both AI and HCI since the work presented at IUI is at the intersection of these disciplines. Please include short bios of the proposed conference general chair(s). Location Since IUI is an international forum, we expect that attendees will travel from different parts of the world to the conference location. It is important that the proposed location is conveniently located for all attendees to reach by available means of transportation. Time IUI conferences have been held at various times during late winter through early spring, most typically in March though earlier times will be considered. Your bid should include a proposed time with key dates (e.g., paper submission and notification). The choice of time should also take into account the weather conditions of the proposed location to avoid potential weather-caused travel delays and potential conflicts with other conferences and their submission deadlines. Virtual Attendance and the Impact of COVID-19 We hope that by the time of the 2023 conference that it will be possible to hold a physical conference similar to those held before 2020. Organizers should still prepare for decreased attendance and to offer virtual participation options for those who may not yet be comfortable traveling long distances. Conference Venue Please describe the proposed conference venue, including the following aspects: * Capacity. In recent years, IUI has typically had around 250 attendees, though IUI 2018 had a record high of over 350 participants and IUI 2019 had a similar number. No conference has been held since COVID, however current ACM recommendations are to anticipate a 30-40% decrease in attendance in the near term. IUI has typically taken place over four days, the first of which consists of workshops and tutorials hosted in parallel separate rooms (10-20 people). To encourage interaction among the attendees, during the main conference, it is also desirable to have additional space at the venue to put up IUI posters for the attendees to visit during coffee breaks. * Facilities. The venue should provide basic conference facilities, such as high speed internet access that can support the participants in parallel effectively and LCD projectors. * Location. The venue should be centrally located for attendees to reach quickly by ground transportation and have access to other amenities (e.g., restaurants). * Accessibility. The venue should be accessible to attendees with disabilities. * Reception and poster session dinner. Traditionally, IUI opens with a welcome reception on the night before the 1st day of the conference. The first night of the conference features a dinner reception with the poster and demo session. The location(s) of the receptions are not required to be co-located with the venue, however the location criterion above should still be used to minimize the travel for the attendees. * Social event. Traditionally, IUI has a social event + dinner on the second day of the main conference * Special events. Traditionally, during the conference the “test of time” paper award is given to the most influential IUI paper, which is accompanied by a plenary talk session for its authors. TiiS papers published in the last year are also integrated into the technical program, there is a “town hall meeting” where IUI community issues are discussed, and there is IUI steering committee lunch with current and upcoming conference and program chairs. These events need to be considered while planning the conference Accommodation Most attendees will need accommodation during the conference period. One of the responsibilities of the conference hosts/organizers is to locate and reserve a bulk of affordable lodging for attendees. Please describe the proposed accommodation options, including the price range of the hotel rooms and the distance to the main venue. Provisionary Budget Plan The proposal should also include a provisional budget, outlining the cost of major items, including the rental of the conference venue, cost/per person for the reception and banquet, and the estimated conference registration fee. Please consider including meals for participants in the budget, especially if there are limited food options near the conference venue. Important Dates Jan 29, 2021 (Extended): Bids are due. Please submit your bid to steering-chair(a)iui.acm.org Feb 26, 2021 (Extended): Notifications are sent to all submissions. For further information, please contact: jeff(a)jeffreynichols.com

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