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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Long and Short papers deadline extension

by amon rapp

LONG AND SHORT PAPER DEADLINE EXTENSION ================================================ CHItaly 2023: Call for Papers [Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 20-22 September 2023 Location: from Turin to the World, using Metaverse https://chitaly2023.it/ ================================================ SPECIAL THEME: Crossing HCI and AI ================================================ Besides traditional HCI topics, CHItaly 2023 aims at debating the intersection of HCI and AI as an emerging field of research, devoted mostly to Intelligent User Interfaces, i.e., interfaces developed using the approaches from HCI and the tools from AI. In addition to consolidated HCI contributions, we solicit research on methods, approaches, and systems relating the Human and the AI, innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. ================================================ CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT PAPERS ================================================ We welcome research contributions in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in HCI. Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. All paper manuscripts undergo a selective review process. Accepted papers are invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS - pending approval), published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of top-quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special issues in international journals. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the conference is interested in all aspects of HCI: * Crossing HCI and AI * Fundamentals of HCI * Interactive Environments * Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices * Applications of HCI A more detailed list is available at https://chitaly2023.it/call_for_papers/ Submit on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023 Main deadlines: - Submission deadline: April 14th, 2023 (EXTENDED) - Review notification: June 8th, 2023 (EXTENDED) - Initial camera-ready submission: June 30th, 2023 - Final submission: July 31st, 2023 All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Papers Chairs Tania Di Mascio (Università dell’Aquila) Rosa Lanzilotti (Università di Bari) Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari) email: papers(a)chitaly2023.it

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[CFP][1 week left - extended] IEEE Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023)

by Giuseppe Caggianese

****** One Week Left - Abstract and Graphical Abstract Submissions Extended ****** Call for Papers Special Session on "eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications" Abstract Submission Deadline: April 7, 2023 (extended) ********************************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, There is only one week left to submit your work as an Abstract (1-2 pages) or a Graphical Abstract to the special session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” - https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17. Conference: IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) - October 25-27, 2023 - Milan - https://metroxraine.org/. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023. Best regards, Giuseppe Caggianese Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) https://metroxraine.org/ October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse0 - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: April 7, 2023 (extended) **NOTE: 1-2 pages abstract or a graphical abstract** Final Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2023 (extended) Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions about the special session, please feel free to contact us via email.

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Fifth Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with the international journal Future Internet (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet), published by MDPI. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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[CFP] ACM GoodIT 2023 -- call for all the tracks -> deadline: May, 15

by Catia Prandi

=== ACM GoodIt 2023 Call for Papers === ACM GoodIT 2023 will focus on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. ### Important Dates -> All tracks Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023 -> Notification of acceptance: July 7th, 2023 ### Link http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/ ### Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. The latter is defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public, such as clean air, clean water, internet access, education, or healthcare. However, new media innovations and the proliferation of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good can now reflect global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration towards a positive societal impact. The conference will feature regular and special tracks papers, work-in-progress and PhD papers. ### Papers length * Full papers (main track and special tracks): papers must not exceed twelve (12) single-column pages, excluding references. Papers with a length disproportionate to their contribution will likely be rejected. * Work in Progress Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed eight (8) single-column pages, excluding references. * PhD Tracks Papers: papers must not exceed five (5) single-column pages, excluding references. ### Publication of papers Submitted papers (in each of the special tracks) must be original works and must not have been previously published. They will be peer-reviewed (three reviews). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work in presence at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. _________________________________________ Catia Prandi, PhD. Senior Assistant professor (RTD B), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Second Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Second Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special issues that will be organised for BESC 2023. The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2 pages in length, and contain the following: (i) Title of the proposed Special Session. (ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers. (iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session. (iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale as to why it fits into the themes of BESC. (v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will undertake, if their proposal is accepted. E-mails for submission of Special Session Proposals: taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au / yuting AT zhejianglab.com IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Special Session proposals: 10 April 2023 • Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023 • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Workshop Proposals

by amon rapp

==================================================== *CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI* *- **https://chitaly2023.it/* <https://chitaly2023.it/> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ==================================================== Date: 20 September, 2023 Location: Turin, Piedmont, Italy In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI ==================================================== We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 15th Edition of the Biannual Conference (chitaly2023.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ( http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/), whose main theme is “Crossing HCI and AI”. CHItaly2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing and exploring emerging areas of research in HCI, in general, and HCAI (Human-Centered AI), in particular, with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the workshop proposal can focus on all aspects of HCI: * Crossing HCI and AI * Fundamentals of HCI * Interactive Environments * Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices * Applications of HCI Workshops in CHItaly are co-located events that are held the day before the main conference starts. They represent forums where specific topics relevant to CHItaly get discussed. ==================================================== WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ========================================================= Workshop proposals will be reviewed according to quality criteria, which consider the relevance of workshop proposals for CHItaly 2023, their potential of gathering quality contributions, and their review process. All workshops will be half-day. ==================================================== >Structure of the Proposal ==================================================== The workshop proposal should be organized as follows: - Workshop title - Workshop acronym (if any) - Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees, and links to the websites - List of organizers (with a short bio) and main contact person - Motivation and objectives - List of topics - Target audience and expected number of attendees - Papers Review process (if any): the strategy used to collect contributions (such as online conference management systems or submitting by emails to the workshop chairs, etc.), minimum numbers of reviews, ... - Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …) - Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of papers, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …) - PC tentative list ==================================================== >Important dates for workshop proposals ==================================================== Submission deadline: April 30, 2023 Review notification: May 16, 2023 Camera-ready for workshop summary: July 31, 2023 ==================================================== > TENTATIVE dates of the workshop review cycle ==================================================== Submission deadline for workshop papers: June 23, 2023 Report workshop status to chairs: June 26, 2023 Go/No-go Decision on Workshops: June 30, 2023 Notifications to authors: July 14, 2023 Camera-ready/final version deadline: 28 July 21, 2023 Workshop held: September 20, 2023 ========================================================= SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS ========================================================= Workshop proposals, in PDF format (no specific template is required), must be uploaded via Easy Chair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023) by selecting the Track “Workshop Proposals”. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals and 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 website 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. Finally, a paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later). ==================================================== WORKSHOP CHAIRS ==================================================== Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Università di Bari, Italy ( berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it) Giuseppe Sansonetti, Università Roma Tre, Italy ( giuseppe.sansonetti(a)uniroma3.it)

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CFP: HCI-E2: Workshop on HCI Engineering Education @ INTERACT 2023

by Davide Spano

------------------- Call for Papers ------------------- HCI-E2: Workshop on HCI Engineering Education http://ui-engineering.org/activities/hci-engineering-education-2023/ In conjunction with INTERACT 2023 York 28 August - 1 September 2023 https://interact2023.org ---------------- Overview ---------------- The workshop aims at carrying forward work on identifying, examining, structuring, and sharing educational resources and approaches to support the process of teaching/learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineering. The widening range of available interaction technologies and their applications in increasingly varied contexts (private or professional) underlines the importance of teaching HCI Engineering but also the difficulty of taking into account changes and developments in this field in often static university curricula. Besides, as these technologies are taught in diverse curricula (ranging from Human Factors and Psychology to hardcore Computer Science), we are interested in what the best approaches and best practices are to integrate HCI Engineering topics in the curricula of programs in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Human-computer Interaction, Psychology, Design, etc. ----------------- Scope ----------------- Engineering interactive systems is a multidisciplinary endeavour positioned at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering, Usability Engineering, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and other disciplines. The Human-Computer Interaction Engineering (HCI-E) field is concerned with providing methods, techniques, and tools for the systematic and effective design, development, testing, evaluation, and deployment of interactive systems in a wide range of application domains. HCI techniques, methods and tools, as well as many other novel forms of interaction, involve aspects that need to be adequately addressed in the curricula of programs in HCI, Software Engineering and Computer Science. This begs the question of how best to address these topics in those curricula, and what the best approaches to address them are. When considering education about HCI Engineering, we need to think about who is being educated as there is likely to be different curriculum scope and educational methods for different types of learners. There are two main distinctions likely influencing these methods: - Technical vs non-technical. Students in Computer Science and similar areas are likely to be the main consumers of detailed HCI-E education. However, the creation of interactive applications “requires input from science, engineering and design disciplines” and multidisciplinary teamwork requires from participants an increased understanding and appreciation for other disciplines. It is also important for those who are likely to have a more interface design or user research role to able to appreciate the limits of technology and the potential impacts of architectural design choices. - Student vs practitioner. It is likely that the primary interest of many participants will be university education. However, developers are often involved in lively online discussions about different frameworks, and even in the use of monads in interactive JavaScript. Interaction Design Foundation courses attract tens of thousands of UX practitioners worldwide, evidencing the desire of on-the-job learning in both communities. ----------------- Audience ----------------- We would like to bring together experiences from people teaching HCI concepts impacting how we engineer interactive systems and from people working in HCI-E to identify topics and methods that should be included in teaching this subject. Besides the courses in HCI-E, interesting inputs may arrive from HCI courses outside the CS curriculum requiring to communicate engineering challenges, or from more general software engineering courses discussing aspects related to human factors. Hence, we will solicit contributions from the HCI-E-related communities, and we will be very interested in welcoming members of the educational community, for a fruitful discussion. ----------------- Goals ----------------- We identify two types of potential outcomes that could define the group activities during the workshop: Educational resources – One goal is to create a repository of educational resources for HCI-E including cases studies, projects and exercises. These educational resources need to be described in a common structure. The definition of this structure was started at the previous workshop. A goal of the workshop will be to extend and consolidate this structure as well as to describe these resources according to this structure. HCI-E Education Roadmap – Edited volume: Depending on the quality of the submissions and the workshop results, revised versions of the contributions will be published on an edited volume. Alternatively, we will produce a journal paper summarizing and consolidating the contributions, in the form of an HCI Engineering Education roadmap. ----------------- Submissions ----------------- Position papers (6-10 pages in Springer format) must report experiences related to HCI Engineering education. Submissions could report software engineering units including some aspects of HCI-E, curricula or teaching units dedicated to HCI-E, case studies/projects demonstrating aspects of HCI-E, evaluation of students’ skills related to HCI-E, training non-technical and mixed students in HCI-E, training appropriate aspects of HCI-E to professionals/practitioners, a new teaching modality promising for teaching HCI-E, introducing HCI-E into existing curricula, etc. Authors could also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023 Notification deadline: June 15th, 2023 Workshop: to be announced Deadlines are AoE. ----------------- Organizers ----------------- José C. Campos, University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC, Portugal Laurence Nigay, University Grenoble Alpes, France Alan Dix, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales, UK Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany Simone DJ Barbosa, PUC Rio, Brazil Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari, Italy -- [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 Website <https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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Call for papers - VL/HCC 2023 - abstracts due April 21 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 **Call for Research Papers** IMPORTANT DATES - Abstracts only: April 21, 2023 - Submission deadline: April 28, 2023 - Rebuttal phase: June 5 - 9, 2023 - Notification: June 23, 2023 - Camera-ready: July 14, 2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). SCOPE AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). Empirical papers that validate current proposed solutions with rigorous scientific means (i.e., empirical studies, controlled experiments, rigorous case studies, etc.) are also welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visual languages: Novel visual languages, Design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages and applications, Development of systems for manipulating and interacting with diagrammatic representations - Human aspects and psychology of software development and language design, such as supporting inclusion and diversity in programming - End-user development: End-user development, adaptation and programming, Creation and evaluation of technologies and infrastructures for end-user development - Crowdsourcing design and development work - Representations: Novel representations and user interfaces for expressing computation, Software, algorithm and data visualization - Modeling: Model-driven development, Domain-specific languages, including modeling languages, Visual modeling of human behavior and socio-technical systems - Thinking more deeply about code: Computational thinking and Computer Science education, Debugging and program understanding, Explainable ML/AI If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contact” below). We welcome those new to the VL/HCC community to submit! SPECIAL EMPHASIS FOR 2023: Low-Code / No-Code Development This year’s special topic is “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code. This way, users are empowered to create software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that design, build, or evaluate any aspects of low-code and no-code solutions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of papers: - full-length research papers, up to 8 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements - short research papers, up to 4 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2023). To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Dates below). The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250 words. All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Note that some full paper submissions may be accepted as short papers if reviewers deem contributions to be comparable in size to a short paper. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded an archival contribution, should be submitted to the Posters/Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee in a double-blind review process. Authors will then receive the reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2023 and present the paper at the conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference. The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING We follow a double-blind reviewing process. Both authors and reviewers are expected to make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. In case of questions, please contact the Program Chairs. Authors should ensure that the submission can be evaluated without it being obvious who wrote the paper. This means leaving author names off the paper and using terms like “previous research” rather than “our previous research” when describing background. However, do not hide previous work – papers must still reference all relevant research using full (non-anonymized) citations, including the author’s own prior work, so that reviewers can evaluate novelty. Please reference your own prior work in the third-person just like you would do for any other related work (e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], … ” and instead write something like “As described by [10], …”). It is also important that authors specify all conflicts of interest with potential reviewers during the submission phase. Reviewers should not undertake any investigation that might lead to the revealing of authors’ identity. If identities are inadvertently revealed, please contact the Program Chairs. The Program Chairs will check all submissions for obvious signs of lack of anonymity and may ask authors to make changes and resubmit the paper within three days of the submission deadline. Only changes to resolve anonymity issues will be permitted. EVALUATION AND JUSTIFICATION Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased ease of use. However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the existence of a functioning prototype. Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers. CONTACT PC Co-Chairs: - Philip Guo (University of California San Diego, United States) - Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) - Contact email: vlhcc2023(a)googlegroups.com

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CFP: CoPDA 2023 - 7th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age

by Daniela Fogli

------------------- Call for Papers ------------------- CoPDA 2023 - 7th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: Artificial and/or Human Intelligence: Nurturing Computational Fluency in the Digital Age https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2023/ June 6th, 2023 - Cagliari, Italy In conjunction with IS-EUD 2023 (https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/) ------------ Overview ------------ In the Middle Ages, most people were dependent on “scribes”, who helped them to write down their thoughts, ideas, and stories, as well as to read the material written by other people. Many people today are in the same situation concerning digital media: they are unable to express themselves, explore problem spaces, and appropriate tools, and act as designers in personally meaningful activities. They must rely on “high-tech scribes”. This 7th edition of the CoPDA workshop series will explore new conceptual frameworks and innovative computational environments for supporting computational fluency allowing people to become independent of “high-tech scribes”. The workshop will be in continuity with the edition held in 2022 in Frascati (Rome) focused on the relationship between AI and Human-Centered Design. An important challenge for the researchers getting together in the workshop this year will be to explore the foundational idea(s) that these workshops have pursued and how they are related to each other. A particular objective of all previous CoPDA workshops has been to collectively identify important and interesting themes for future workshops and our hope and expectation is that this will happen again this year by exploring conceptual frameworks and socio-technical environments making Computational Fluency a desirable and reachable goal for all citizens. A student who has proficient skills in computational fluency would be able to use strategies together with the facts he or she knows how to identify a more challenging problem or another representation of the solution. This is a step beyond Digital Literacy, which focuses on mastering the tool in use (e.g.: keyboarding, surfing the internet, proficiency with digital environments for reading, writing, calculating, and communication), and beyond Computational Literacy, which focuses on solving known problems in efficient ways, including the use of coding. Digital Literacy and Computational Literacy (at least some parts) are a prerequisite for Computational Fluency, which emphasizes pursuing personal meaningful problems and shared meaningful activities. Computational Fluency shows mastery and appropriation of computational concepts by allowing one to address new and wicked problems in a creative manner. These abilities cannot be formally taught but can be nurtured, encouraged, and supported with socio-technical environments and education programs that foster reflection, creativity, and sharing. The workshop aims to discuss Computational Fluency in the Digital Age by considering several topics including (but not limited to): - Computational Thinking - Design Thinking - Printed Fluency - Digital Fluency - Human-centered AI (HCAI) - Explainability of AI-based decisions - Evaluation of AI-based systems - AI support in everyday work - ChatGPT: Promises and Pitfalls - Big data and privacy - Adaptive, Adaptable, and Context-Aware Systems - End-User Development and Meta-Design - End-User Development for AI-based systems - Design Trade-offs between AI and EUD - Distributed cognition - Cultures of participation - Multi-dimensional aspects of learning - Collaborative learning - Educational nurturing ---------------- Submissions ----------------- Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2023 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be collected and submitted for publication on CEUR-WS proceedings. -------------------- Important dates -------------------- - Apr 23rd, 2023: Submission deadline - May 4th, 2023: Notification of acceptance - May 15th, 2023: Camera ready - Jun 6th, 2023: CoPDA 2023 workshop ----------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------ Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy) Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) For any further information, please contact copda2023(a)easychair.org -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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Catia Prandi nominata nell'EC di SIGCHI

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Care tutte e cari tutti, Sono lieta di comunicarvi che la collega Catia Prandi, dell'Università di Bologna, è stata nominata membro dell'Executive Committee di ACM SIGCHI, col ruolo di AC for Volunteer Support. La presenza, all'interno dell'EC, di due membri del capitolo italiano di SIGCHI (vi ricordo che il collega Luigi de Russis è Vice-President for Finance), rafforzerà ulteriormente la nostra capacità di raccordarsi con la comunità scientifica internazionale e ci consentirà di cogliere interessanti opportunità di crescita. Congratulazioni, Catia, buon lavoro! Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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