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2nd CFP: IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)

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: December 23, 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 UMAP 2021: Second call-for-papers

by Oana Inel

--- Apologies for cross-posting --- ============================ Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research" Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online June 21-25th (tentative), 2021 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/ ============================ Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper due: January 24, 2021 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways. CONFERENCE TOPICS: ============================ We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions. Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Personalized Recommender Systems • Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto • Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web • Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen • Intelligent User Interfaces • Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Denis Parra • Personalized Social Web • Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang • Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning • Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis • Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy • Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand • Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. * Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper. IMPORTANT DATES ============================ Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper: January 24, 2021 Notification: March 8, 2021 Camera-ready: April 11, 2021 Video submission: May 5th, 2021 Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative) Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ORGANIZERS ============================ General chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Program chairs Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska RELATED EVENTS ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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[CFP] Special issue on ''Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction Development" (31 Dec 2020)

by Catia Prandi

Apologize for unintended cross-mailing. ************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************** ''Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction Development" Special issue of MPDI Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability>, Open Access Journal Link to the CFP: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Human_Computer_I… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Human_Computer_I…> This Special Issue will contribute to an integrated understanding of the relevance of HCI methodologies and practices in the design and development of sustainable infrastructures and tools, engaging communities and stakeholders, in critical initiatives to foster sustainable development. Contributors from different fields are invited to submit their articles on this topic, presenting how HCI researchers and practitioners can contribute to the broader research on developing sustainability. Guest editors: Catia Prandi, University of Bologna Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna ************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************** - Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2020 Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Please, feel free to contact: catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it <mailto:catia.prandi2@unibo.it> in case of interest. ****************************************************************************** _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Assistant professor (RTD A), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education * to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark • Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania/ *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 21*, 2020 • Notification to the authors: January 20, 2021 • Camera ready paper: February 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). This is a particularly pertinent moment of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic that still prevails with an enormous, still unmeasurable impact, on learning ecosystems. Papers that report on work that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world are specially welcome. This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome the submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2020. (video recording of SLERD2020 presentations and of the open debate are available though the ASLERD Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI-nIFxngonR7b3W4xSEpA/videos) ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. *Places for smart education* • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning • role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) • People in place centered design for smart education *People in place centered design for smart education* • general frameworks and methodological advancement • design, data and other relevant literacies • literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences • Supportive technologies and tools for smart education *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education/ • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • matthias [at] create [dot] aau [dot] dk • traian [dot] rebedea [at] cs [dot] pub [dot] ro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun 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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[CHItaly2021] - Call for Papers

by chitaly2021

[Sorry for multiple postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2021- Frontiers of HCI The Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 27 June - 29 June 2021 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI and SIGCHI Italy ================================================ [ Long and Short Specifications ] ================================================ Long papers should present original, substantially new research for CHItaly. They should place the work within the field of HCI and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for CHItaly and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and provocative research or novel applications, relevant for CHItaly. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. All submissions must be in English. Both types of papers are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee. Submissions must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera-ready version of the accepted papers. Inclusion in the main proceedings is conditional upon registration of the presenter within the recommended deadline. ================================================ [ Review Process ] ================================================ All long and short paper submissions will be reviewed by at least two PC members in a double-blind process. Reviewers will have three weeks to return their reviews. In case revisions are requested, acceptance is conditional to successful revision. Revised articles will be reviewed by the program and general chairs. Authors are allotted 10 days to submit their revisions. ================================================ [ Important Dates ] ================================================ February 22, 2021: Submission deadline April 9, 2021: Notification to authors May 3, 2021 : Camera ready version (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ [ Submission: how to ] ================================================ Submissions, in PDF format, must be submitted via Easy Chair (to open). ================================================ [ Long Paper Chairs ] ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it) ================================================ [ Short Paper Chairs ] ================================================ Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it) Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it) ================================================ We hope to meet you in presence at CHItaly 2021. Stay safe and healthy! Federica Caruso, Publicity Co-Chair CHItaly 2021

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[CFP] Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

by Luca Turchet

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

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ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2021 - CfP

by Cristina Gena

*** 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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Call for Participation HCSE 2020 Nov 30 - Dec 02 - ONLINE ONLY!

by Stefan Sauer

In the course of the latest developments of the COVID pandemic, the organizers of *HCSE 2020* have decided to hold the conference *completely virtual*. Full program available at http://www.hcse-conference.org. Participation is free of charge. Registration will be open soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HCSE 2020* Call for Participation 8th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering November 30th – December 2nd, 2020 (ONLINE ONLY!) http://www.hcse-conference.org HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/> in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-5/>. We aim at bringing together researchers and practitionersinterested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. In order to allow for participation from anywhere in the world, HCSE 2020 sessions will run from *13:00 h to 17:00 h CET (UTC+1*) only. HCSE 2020 will be held ONLINE as a *ZOOM meeting*. Access information will be provided to registered participants. HCSE 2020 presents *3 technical full papers and late breaking results sessions* and a *demonstrations and posters session*. Each session has a duration of 90 minutes. Technical sessions are dedicated to the following themes: * *User-Centred Design Approaches* * **Model-Based and Model-Driven Approaches** * ***Software Development Strategies*** All sessions will contain significant time for discussions and be chaired by a a session moderator. Please see the conference program <https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/hcse2020/program.html> for full details. The technical program will be accompanied by a *virtual social program* to meet and further discuss with the community. The selected papers have been peer-reviewed and will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCSseries. Participation in HCSE 2020 will be *free of charge*. However, *registration *is mandatory to participate and obtain the access information. Registration will be open soon. We hope to meet you online for HCSE 2020. Stay safe and healthy! Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carmelo Ardito, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany General Conference Chairs

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Call for Participation - The Academic Fringe Festival

by Sihang Qiu - EWI

The Academic Fringe Festival (TAFF) First edition on *Crowd Computing & Human-Centered AI* --- Apologies for cross-posting — Website: https://www.academicfringe.org/ * The Academic Fringe Festival is free of cost and open to everyone who is interested to participate. Let there be light! * ABOUT TAFF: ============================ The Academic Fringe Festival is an exciting concoction of invited talks and panel discussions around important themes of research and innovation in Computer Science. The series features prominent researchers and practitioners, whose work has made fundamental contributions in these fields. Calling this collection of academic events "The Academic Fringe Festival" is an ode to the story of the eight theatre companies which turned up uninvited at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 and performed on the fringe of the event. Over the years, such acts gained popularity and gradually snowballed into what is now the world's largest arts festival, the "Edinburgh Fringe Festival". Our aim is not to create the world's largest academic festival, but to create a forum for open, accessible, and inspiring dissemination of knowledge from renowned scientists across the globe. This first edition is on "Crowd Computing and Human-Centered AI". The unprecedented rise in the adoption of artificial intelligence techniques in many contexts is concomitant with shortcomings of such technology with respect to robustness, interpretability, usability, and trustworthiness. Crowd computing offers a viable means to engage a large number of human participants in data-related tasks and in user studies. In the context of overcoming the computational and interactional challenges facing the current generation of AI systems, recent work has shown how crowd computing can be leveraged to either debug noisy training data in machine learning systems, understand which machine learning models are more congruent to human understanding in particular tasks, or to advance our understanding of how AI systems can influence human behavior. INVITED SPEAKERS: ============================ - Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin / Amazon, 23 Nov 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland, 30 Nov 2020, 09:00 (CET) - Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Microsoft, 7 Dec 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Shamsi Iqbal, Microsoft, 14 Dec 2020, 16:00 (CET) - Edith Law, University of Waterloo, 22 Feb 2021, 16:00 (CET) - More speakers coming soon... REGISTRATION: ============================ Online registration is available now! There will be NO registration fees. Please use the following link to register: https://www.academicfringe.org/registration. ORGANIZERS: ============================ – Ujwal Gadiraju, General Chair – Jie Yang, General Chair – Oana Inel, Local Chair – Sihang Qiu, Local Chair

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